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Jungle Operations International Course – Guidelines to Candidates Jungle Warfare, an Efficient Test! Page Jungle Operations International Course – Guidelines to Candidates ANNEX E ± STUDENTS'S PREPARATION FOR THE DOCTRINAL INTERACTION GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR THE STUDENTS'S PREPARATION ± CIOS 2019 The Doctrinal Interaction will take place on 03 (three) distinct days, and each day a specific block of issues will be dealt with in the jungle environment. During the selection process, still in the country of origin, the future student should receive, through the Military Attaché of his country, the subjects that will be addressed in the Doctrinal Interaction. Each subject contains requests with questions that must be answered and presented by the student in the Doctrinal Interaction. The requests, requisites, maps, letters and information required to resolve the requests are contained in the body of this document. Each student must answer all the questions of the requests in a single document in the ".doc" format and also in a single file in the ". ppt" format. These filesmust be recorded in a flash drive or CD ± Rom and brought to CIGS with the student. A military from the Doctrinal and Research Division will collect the files on the first day of the Mobilization Week at CIGS. During the Doctrinal Interaction each student should present the answers to the questions as follows: - On the 1st day the student will have 30 min to present the requests 1, 2, 3 and 4. - On the 2nd day the student will have 30 min to present 5, 6, 7 and 8. - On the 3rd day the student will have 30 minutes to present the requests 9 and 10. To perform the presentations, each student will receive from CIGS the following means: - ".ppt" file produced by the student himself; - a white board with colored pens for various explanations; - an enlarged map, identical to each request, so that the military can show their maneuvers; - a computer with a multimedia projector, so that the student can project his presentation. Jungle Warfare, an efficient test! Page |48 Jungle Operations International Course – Guidelines to Candidates PROBLEM SITUATIONS FOR THEDOCTRINAL INTERACTION DAY 1 -MILITARY SITUATIONS IN JUNGLE OPERATIONS You belong to 1st Jungle Infantry Company, deployed in GREEN SECTOR. Your battalion is presently performing operations in that area. Your platoon has 30 men and is located at PB (Platoon Base). Requirement 1 ± LAND NAVIGATION You have received a mission to conduct a Patrol moving from PB to P4 through the dense forest. a. Organization How are you going to organize your squads to navigate to P4, passing through P2 and P3? b. Navigation How are you going to plan your route to go there? c. Equipment Which materials would you take with your team to help you to make a good navigation? Requirement 2 ± TRACKING TECHNIQUES Your platoon is located in P4. After checking all the area and secure your position, one squad/section has found some materials nearby such as: used bonfire, cigarette butts, and pieces of foreign uniform, medicines residues and footprints. Before you contact your Coy Base to report this event, you need to collect and analyze all evidences: a. Strength How would you estimate the strength of the group that has stayed in that area? b. Direction What are your procedures to find out the direction that shouldthey have taken? c. Tracking methods How are you going to track the group? Requirement 3 ± FIRST AID Your platoon has sent the report to your Coy Base and carried out a Recon Patrol to track the group until P5. 200 meters before arriving to P5, your men listened a call for help coming from the bushes. After establishing all the standard procedures to secure the perimeter, your 1st Squad reached the site and found two wounded: a foreign soldier with an external bleeding in the chest and a civilian woman with broken leg, apparently tied to a improvised explosive device. a. Describe the actions that you would take (sequence) to deal with this situation. b. How to find out the type of injuries that they have? c. What type of Aid Kit are you going to use to solve this issue? d. How are you going to carry them till the evacuation point in the dense forest? Jungle Warfare, an efficient test! Page | 49 Jungle Operations International Course – Guidelines to Candidates Requirement 4 ± AIR MOBILE TECHNIQUES Your Battalion started Casualty Evacuation (CASEVAC) procedures after your report. The Operations Officer informed that the Air mobile Squadron will provide you a HM-2 Sikorsky Black Hawk and a HM-1 Eurocopter Phanter to extract your platoon and the wounded persons. a. Describe the characteristics of a suitable extraction point in this case (dense forest). b. Explain the types of extraction that could be done to evacuate the casualties and the troops. c. Choose two possible extraction points with the rectangular/Cartesian coordinates, explaining why they are suitable locations. d. Describe how are you going to establish communication with the helicopter, organize the loading plan and designate to the crew the extraction point. - ªSELVA!º Jungle Warfare, an efficient test! Page | 50 Jungle Operations International Course – Guidelines to Candidates AREA OF OPERATIONS ± DAY 1 Jungle Warfare, an efficient test! Page | 51 Jungle Operations International Course – Guidelines to Candidates DAY 2 - MILITARY SITUATIONS IN JUNGLE OPERATIONS Your battalion is currently conducting operations in YELLOW SECTOR. Your company is operating against insurgents and you have been tasked to conduct reconnaissance in the jungle,rivers and streams of the sector. The battalion reports approximately 20 to 25 insurgents in the area. Your platoon has 30 men and received, to carry out these tasks, 03 boats (capacity for 10 men each). Requirement 5 ± RIVER NAVIGATION Your platoon is located at PB (Platoon Base). You have received a mission to conduct a Recon Patrol moving from P1 to P2by boat at 4 pm. The platoon will navigate in rivers and streams. a. Organization How are you going to organize your men to navigate to P2? b. Planning How are you going to plan your route to go there? c. Navigation Which techniques would you use to carry out a good water navigation? Requirement 6 ± WATERCOURSE CROSSING At 3 am, your troop received a mission to infiltrate till P3 after crossing a stream (50 m length, 10 m depth). From P3, your Platoon will cross ªIgarapé Mainazinhoº(800m length, 30 m depth) using watercourse crossing techniques to rendezvous with a Special Force Detachment at P4. a. How are you going to cross the stream with your platoon? b. Which procedures should you take before crossing the stream? c. How are you going to organize your platoon to cross ªIgarapé Mainazinhoº? d. How are you going to navigate during the crossing and provide your security as well? Requirement 7± WEAPONS, AMMUNITION AND SHOOTING In contact with SF, your platoon received new information regardinga group of four insurgents located at P5. Your mission is to neutralize the insurgents in their hideout using all your weapons. a. How are you going to deploy the light/ heavy machine guns,individual/support weapons of the squads/sections to get more effectiveness to neutralize the area? b. Describe how to plan and coordinate effectively the enemy targeting and the platoon firing. c. How would you control the consumption of ammunition during the attack? d. How to perform a quick distribution of ammo during the firing? Jungle Warfare, an efficient test! Page | 52 Jungle Operations International Course – Guidelines to Candidates Requirement 8 ± AIR MOBILE TECHNIQUES After neutralizing P5, you have made two prisoners. During the preliminary interrogation, you've got sensitive information regarding a hideout utilized as a meeting point for the insurgency leaders at P7. The battalion requests a Recon of the area of P7 with maximum secrecy using helicopters to infiltrate the troops. You must also take the prisoners to the BattalionCommand Post (BCP). Your platoon cannot cross the line P6 with the helicopters and all the terrain features are dense forests. The Intelligence Officer provides you a HM-2 Sikorsky Black Hawk and a HM-1 Eurocopter Phanter to infiltrate your platoon and extract the prisoners with a security team (provided by you). a. Organize your loading plan to transport all persons for both missions. b. Which air mobile technique would you use to infiltrate through ªIgarapé Maináº? c. What are the security measures to coordinate the action and keep the surprise during the infiltration? ªSELVA!º Jungle Warfare, an efficient test! Page | 53 Jungle Operations International Course – Guidelines to Candidates AREA OF OPERATIONS ± DAY 2 Jungle Warfare, an efficient test! Page | 54 Jungle Operations International Course – Guidelines to Candidates DAY 3 - MILITARY SITUATION IN JUNGLE OPERATIONS 1. Your battalion is presently performing operations in BLACK SECTOR . ALFA Company is gathering information about enemy forces and BRAVO Company is performing tactical missions to destroy or neutralize insurgents in the area of operations. 2. The battalion reports approximately 40 to 45 insurgents in the area and also conventional forces of country ªXº (squad level) performing raids inside our territory (crossing the international border). There are civilians in the villages and along the main rivers and streams. 3. Both companies received some support elements to carry out their tasks: 08 boats (capacity for 10 men each), 02 HM-2 Sikorsky Black Hawk, 02 HM-1 Eurocopter Phanter and 02 HA-2Eurocopter Tiger. Each Company can also support all platoons with one small drone. 4. The map of the Area of Operations of your battalion is attached in page 3 and Intelligence photos in page 4. Requirement9±RECONNAISSANCEPATROL You belong to ALFA Company . Your platoon has 30 men and is located at PB 1(Platoon Base No 1) and today is D minus 4.
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