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Breakdown of the Infantry Medical (Combat Medic section) ✔✔ 15 combat medics (dispersed between the manuver companies) Name some Force Multipliers ✔✔Appropriate gestures Proper greetings How to show respect What is deemed disrespectful Role of women within the culture What is considered sacred How to ask for things Eye contact (remove sunglasses) Medical Planning Factors ✔✔Maintain a medical presence with the Soldier Maintain the health of the command Save lives Clear the battlefield of casualties Provide state of the art medical care Ensure early return to duty
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What are EEFIs ✔✔Essential Elements of Friendly Information "what I DO NOT want the enemy to know" Intelligence ✔✔The related tasks and systems that facilitate understanding of the enemy, terrain, weather, and civil considerations. Movement and Maneuver ✔✔The related tasks and systems that move forces to achieve a position of advantage in relation to the enemy. Fire Support ✔✔The related tasks and systems that provide collective and coordinated use of Army indirect fires, joint fires, and offensive information operations. Protection ✔✔The related tasks and systems that preserve the force so the commander can apply maximum combat power. Sustainment ✔✔The related tasks and systems that provide support and services to ensure freedom of action, extend operational reach, and prolong endurance. Mission Command ✔✔The related tasks and systems that support commanders in exercising authority and direction.
- Supervises the command & personnel security programs Intelligence Training
- Prepares the command intelligence training plan and integrates intelligence, counterintelligence, operational security, enemy, and IPB S3 functions ✔✔Training
- Prepares and supervises the execution of training within the command Operations & Plans
- Prepares, coordinates, authenticates, and distributes the command SOP, OPLAN, OPORD, FRAGOs, and WARNOs to which other staff sections contribute Force Modernization S4 functions ✔✔Logistical operations & plans Supply Maintenance Transportation Coordinates Mortuary Affairs Activities
G5 functions ✔✔-Overseeing operations beyond the scope of the current order (such as the next operation or the next phase of the current operation)
- Developing plans, orders, branches, and sequels
- Conducting military deception planning Developing policies and other coordinating or directive products, such as memorandums of agreement S6 functions ✔✔Signal Operations
- Managing radio frequency allocations
- Recommending command post locations within the battlespace (based on terrain) Automation - manages employment of hardware / software and coordinates LAN configuration Information Security - Manages Commo Security (COMSEC), automation security, and information security G8 functions ✔✔Establishes and implements command finance operations policy Responsible for those operational financial management tasks supporting the theater
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The CTCP provides supplies, services, maintenance, & medical aid forward to the companies Battalion Aid Station What does FTCP stand for? ✔✔Field Trains Command Post What is at the FTCP? ✔✔HHC Commander provides Mission Command Provides supply, distribution and maintenance to their maneuver battalions where is the FTCP ✔✔FTCP is located in the BSA What is a FSC and where is it? ✔✔Forward Support Company located near the CTCP tasked organized to support a maneuver battalion, however it falls under the Brigade Support Battalion
What does the FSC do ✔✔FSC Commander provides mission command over field feeding, water, bulk fuel, general supply, ammunition, and field maintenance. Brigade Support Battalion (BSB) ✔✔Provides Tactical Sustainment for a BCT Supply and Distribution Maintenance (vehicles, weapons, electronics, etc.) Medical (Role II Medical Treatment Facility) One Forward Support Company per maneuver battalion What can the Sustainment Brigade do ✔✔Supply (Food, Water, Fuel, Ammo, construction material, vehicles/weapons, etc.) Maintenance (vehicles, weapons, communication equipment, etc.) Transportation (provides trucks to move supplies & soldiers)
How is an OPORD made ✔✔Each staff section does their part of the order, guided by the Commanders Intent Define Mission Command ✔✔the exercise of authority and direction by the commander using mission orders to enable disciplined initiative within the commander's intent to empower agile and adaptive leaders in the conduct of unified land operations Plans and Orders ✔✔Focus subordinates' activities Provide tasks and activities, constraints, and coordinating instructions Encourage agility, speed, and initiative Convey instructions in a standard, recognizable, clear, and simple format What are the types of Combat orders ✔✔Strategic plans: cover the overall conduct of a war Operational or campaign plans: cover a series of related military operations aimed at accomplishing a strategic or operational objective Tactical plans: cover the employment of units in operations When does the OPLAN become the OPORD ✔✔when the commander sets an execution time What are the 3 types of orders ✔✔OPORD - directive from CDR to coordinate execution of an operation. 5 paragraph format
WARNO- preliminary notice of a mission, issued as soon as mission is received FRAGO- timely changes to existing orders, follows 5 paragraphs What are the 5 paragraphs of the OPORD ✔✔Situation Mission Execution Sustainment Command and signal What is included in the Situation paragraph ✔✔Area of Interest Area of Operations
- Terrain
- Weather
- Enemy Forces
- Friendly Forces (includes mission and intent 1 and 2 levels up AND missions of adjacent units)
- Civil considerations
- Other agency
- Attachments and Detachments
- Assumptions Done by S
What are the parts of each Phase in the Concept of Operations ✔✔-Decisive (gaining and accomplishing current ops)
- Shaping (prepping for future ops)
- Sustaining (maintaining current ops) What is included in the Scheme of Maneuver ✔✔Scheme of:
- Recon/Surveillance
- obscuration (smoke)
- mobility/counter mobility
- intelligence
- fires
- protection
- stability ops
- assessment What are CCIRs ✔✔Commanders Critical Information Requirements
- the stuff you'd wake the commander up to tell them
- "what do I need to know to win" What is in the Sustainment Paragraph ✔✔Logistics (done by S4)
- maintenance
- supply
- distribution Personnel (done by S1)
- strength maintenance
- finance, religious, and legal support Army Health Support System (done by MEDO)
- evacuation
- hospitalization What is in the Command and Signal Paragraph ✔✔Command
- location of commander
- succession of command
- liaison requirements Control
- command posts
- required reports
- signals (includes Challenge and Password) What are the types of attachments ✔✔Annexes (each war fighting function has an annex) Appendixes
On Order ✔✔A mission which the force will accomplish at a later time, in the 2nd paragraph of the OPORD Be Prepared ✔✔A mission which the force may accomplish at a later time; next in priority to any on order mission for planning Destroy ✔✔Physical destruction over psychological destruction Defeat ✔✔Occurs when an enemy force has temporarily or permanently lost the physical means or the will to fight. May or may not entail the destruction of any part of the enemy force Psychological over physical destruction Screen ✔✔•To provide early warning for the main body by maintaining contact with the opposing force •Does not become decisively engaged (loses the ability to maneuver) •Normally within indirect fire support range of the main body force Guard ✔✔To prevent ground observation, direct fire, or surprise attack on the main body force
Can accept decisive engagement Rectangle OR Circle ✔✔friendly Diamond ✔✔enemy Square ✔✔neutral Quatrefoil ✔✔unknown or pending, usually sea or air assetts Solid Line VS Dotted Line ✔✔Solid- present Dotted- planned/suspected Air assault Infantry Platoon ✔✔ How many medical functional areas are there ✔✔10, all are interwoven and are controlled by Medical Mission Command Health Service Support (HSS) ✔✔all the support and services done by AMEDD to promote patient wellbeing. includes:
- medical logistics (includes blood services)
- medical laboratory services Army Health System (AHS) ✔✔all encompassing term that describes both the HSS and FHP aspects of AMEDD support Roles of Medical Care ✔✔Role 1: batallion aid station and below Role 2: batallion aid station, small ho Role 3: Combat support hospital Role 4: CONUS or OCONUS hospital What's at a Role 1 ✔✔BATTALION LEVEL
- immediate lifesaving measures
- CLS
- buddy aid/self aid
- EMT/AMT
- medic, PA
- Medical evacuaiton
- combat stress
What is at a Role 2 ✔✔BRIGADE LEVEL
- x-rays
- dental support
- short term patient hold (72 hours)
- physcial therapy
- packed red blood cells
- advanced trauma management
- medical logistics
- medical evac What is at a Role 3 ✔✔- hospitialzation
- resuction
- intial wound surgery
- postop treatment
- clinical srevices
- pharamacy
- medical regulating What is at a Role 4 ✔✔-CONUS or OCONUS safe haven
- definitive care
- full hospitalization capabilities
