RECCE Patrol
types of RECCE patrols
- medium
- close
- long range
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medium RECCE
- drive in go out
- Birgade Asset
- aka as mounted recce)
close RECCE
- infantry
- battle group
- go out
- long range RECCE
- pathfinder
- SPEC FOR
- jump out go out
weather
- the more miserable the weather the more information there is too gain by doing a patrol
- adverse weather conditions compel people to hibernate and retreat
- it also causes them to get sloppy and lazy and make mistakes
- it also delays timings and disorganizes operations
- it preoccupies adversaries physically as well as mentally and decreases their vigilance
RV'S
- crash RV
- initial RV
- Objective RV
Eyes on objective
- do not do clover leafs if not necessary
- patrol must be able to see 80% of target
- trade offs between distance, security, and vitalness of passing information up to higher
roles
- sketcher, note taker
5 point contingency plan
- route
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