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captain justin de leon here and today

what i want to talk about

is platoon attack the reference for

today that we're going to be using is

tc3-21.76

from 2017. okay so one of the most basic

missions that we do is platoon attack

um one thing that i want to do to

separate this from

a raid or an ambush is they're much more

different than the fact of

what we're typically trying to

accomplish so in a raid we're always

trying to

kill capture destroy something and then

move and leave the objective very

quickly all right

a lot of times because due to the nature

of that type of assault

it is behind enemy lines trying to

disrupt or do something behind enemy lines

lines

ambush is similar where we're trying to

typically ambush is very enemy focused

where we're trying to kill someone on a

road or some type of linear you know

feature of some kind

and then remove ourselves from that area

as well we're not trying to stay we're

not trying to seize terrain

we're trying to do something do some

action on the enemy and then leave

all right platoon attack is different in

the fact that

typically not always but typically what

we're trying to do with platoon attack

is we're trying to seize some type of

piece of terrain or something important

that the enemy has

some type of key terrain so whether

we're trying to attack in order to seize an

airport i should say you see track to

seize an airport in order to deny

something or

we're trying to attack uh to seize a hilltop

hilltop

or attack to seize a city okay typically

when we're attacking the enemy is in a

prepared defense

and we're trying to remove the enemy

from a location

and take that as our for ourselves all

right so that is the main difference

again raid

we're in we're out attack we're in and

we're holding

all right it's a key objective that we

must keep and maintain and retain

in order to you know gain a competitive

advantage over the enemy

all right so for a platoon attack we're

still going to occupy our orp

as usual all right so let's just go over

real fast we still got our four squads

and we have our assault our correction

i'm sorry

we have our weapon squad where our 240

bravos are

so that's the squad those are the the

makeup of the platoon all right those

are the squads that make up the platoon

all right so we're going to start as if

we've already made it to our

orp so here we've got our orp 12

6 security is going to be in the center

preparing for that leader's recon

all right and then we're going to have

a1 on the side

and a2 on the side all right and now

we're preparing many weapons and

equipment for our leaders recon

the biggest thing that we're doing here

is we're trying to organize ourselves

into what we need to do

in order to uh accomplish this objective

all right so over here

we have let's say we're trying to seize

a hilltop

say this is key terrain and we need to

seize this hilltop

you know in order to have a competitive

advantage on the enemy so all right i'll

call this

okay so as we

begin our um leaders recon what we need

to look at is

who do we need on this leader's recon so

let's look at our leaders recon so this

is going to be a little bit different

than some of the other ones because

one of the things that's different about

a platoon attack is we're required to

have an assault

and a support position however we're not

required to have security

now we can use security positions if necessary

necessary

but we're not required so oftentimes

that gives us an extra squad to utilize

during the attack so on our leaders

recon we will have the pl

of horses rtos with them we'll have all

all right we'll have our alpha team

leader which is also our point man

all right and lastly we need to have an

and typically that's going to come from

our security squad all right

so this element will move out all right

and the platoon sergeant

will count them out with the medic and

we'll move towards our objective

and just like always we'll establish

all right typically when we're

establishing our release point what we

want to do first is call a seals halt

okay because what we want to do is we

want to make sure that no enemy is in

the area

all right biggest thing is we also might identify

identify

if the enemy is on the hilltop that

we're trying to seize all right

um and so the quickest way to find the

enemy or to

identify there in the area is doing that

seal salt where we stop look listen smell

smell

we're also trying to confirm that no

enemy is following us

on this movement all right once we've

done our seals halt we've confirmed our

release point

now the pl and the sno team are going to

move forward

and do the first thing on our leader's

recon which is pinpoint the objective

all right so they will move forward

they will pinpoint the objective meaning

they get eyes on it okay

they're gonna get eyes on that objective

and they're gonna establish an sno position

position

all right so one thing is release point

is typically out of sight

but it's within sound you can hugely

hear it the sno

is within sight and within sound so once

we pinpoint the objective

i'm going to place my sno team which

typically what i'm going to do is i'm

going to have an automatic rifleman

and a rifle and sorry a grenadier

all right someone that can affect this

objective and the reason is

is because as i go and continue now to

do my leaders recon

if i were to get compromised i want to

be able to have this team over uh was

over as overwatch

so if i get compromised on this

objective and begin taking fire from the enemy

enemy

they can open up and suppress the enemy

position while i bound and

break contact all right so i want some

type of firepower here

all right so once they're placed i'll

leave them a five-point contingency plan

all right just like i left the platoon

sergeant here i don't think i mentioned

that but

you're obviously going to leave your

five-point contingency plan and he's

going to disseminate to the rest of the platoon

platoon

okay so yeah while this is going on all

right the platoon sergeant he's

disseminating that five-point

contingency plan in the form of agawa

he's also working on a potentially a

ruck plan he's also

improving security doing sector sketches

all that good stuff

to make sure that this is being managed

correctly all right

so once i'm done with the sno i move

back to the release point i'm going to

pick up my squad leaders

and now we're going to go and start our

reconnaissance okay again this is where

differences is between a raid i'm not

required to actually put out security

you know if i was concerned if there was

a road here

moving up to the objective and there's a

enemy position over here that could

reinforce the objective

i might want to have security to provide

early warning but the difference is

is that on a raid or an ambush i isolate

the objective

because i don't want people to move in

and out i want to isolate

because i'm going to go in do something

and then i leave all right

the difference is here now i'm trying to

seize this hilltop i'm trying to seize it

so in reality people get hung up

sometimes with

destroying the enemy do i care if the

enemy stays here

um do i care if the enemy let's say the

enemy is right here i know i'm using

greenish i'm using red

if the enemy's here do i care if he

withdraws off the objective

and gives me the hilltop no i don't care

at all

my goal is not to destroy the enemy now

i might have to

uh destroy the enemy in my pro in the process

process

of uh achieving my my my mission but my

mission is to seize the hilltop

okay so i'm not worried about isolating

the subject necessarily i might be

worried about reinforcements coming

but the goal is i don't care if people

withdraw because i'm just trying to

seize the hilltop

all right so security is not absolutely necessary

necessary

to set up to isolate okay

so i'm going to begin my leaders recon

and we're going to do this just like we

do any other recon

where i'm going to cloverleaf around the

objective and i'm going to identify

my different uh my different um you know

points so

you know all me and all the squad

leaders as the pl we're clover leafing

and we're going to find we want to put

our support by fire

and we're going to fully you know

recon that area and what that means is

i'm going to have

myself and the weapon squad leader we're

going to get down on the ground we're

going to make sure that we lay on the

ground and look where the two guns are

going to go the

two 240s ensure that they have clear

fields of fire

ensure that it's set up correctly that

he can control both the guns

ensure that he can shoot onto the

objective where i need to and then what

i'm really going to do is the pl is i

need to make sure

that at this position all my squad

leaders are there

all squad leaders are there and they

begin their coordination okay i've got

lots of squads to work with this time

i've got a1 a2 and i've got my security

squad that's a little bit

freed up okay so a lot of times i'm

going to make sure

that they all understand there what this

view looks like from the support by fire position

position

and ensure that they can see how the

guns are going to be able to shift fire

and what they're going to shift from and

so typically what i'm going to do here

then too

is i'm going to have them together

create my trps

all right trp1 let's say let's say

there's trp2 right here

and trp3 and this is going to help you

know conduct fire control measures on

the objective

where initially i could have gun 1

firing in between trp 2 and trp1

and i could have gun 2 here and then

when it's time to shift fire gun 1 can

just shift

up here and can stop firing here all

right the point is is i want to start

figuring out those trps right away so

that everyone can see it from the

support position

and they understand what it looks like

all right once that's complete

i'm then going to go you know through oh

and these guys will actually come out of the

the

release point i'm going to come out of

the release point and find my assault position

position

where i want to assault from all right

and this is probably where i'm at least

going to have a1 assault leader

squad leader but then i'm going to have

everyone else here to see so they can

see what it looks like okay

um it depends what i want to do for this

mission it depends what i expect the

enemy to see

different ways to use these these uh

these methods so

i might have a salt one here and i might

have assault two short

quickly behind them ready to follow and

assume so maybe assault two

will be out of the fight originally but

as assault one moves up and begins their assault

assault

i might have assault two standing by

ready to go

all right who knows what might happen is

i might on this objective there might be

barbed wire

and i might need assault one to go up

and do a breaching operation which i'm

not going to go in detail on

uh but do social and do a breaching

operation and once assault one is done

with that breach

then assault two actually goes through

and exploits

and continues the assault through there

might be a lot of different things that i

need to do but i'm gonna have to confirm

or deny it on this objective so

right now what we'll do is we'll work

under the assumption that there is

an obstacle here meaning the enemy has

put up

triple scr uh let's say triple strand c

wire i'll mark it in green

triple strand c wire a with a plan right

now is a1 is going to go move up

they're going to cut a hole in that c

wire all right they're going to exploit

our correction they're going to make

that breach and then the salt 2 is going

to be the one that actually

moves through and assaults through the

objective all right so we have to be

very careful especially with our fire

control measures up here

and then what we'll decide is for now

the remainder security squad will stay

back at the orp

with the rucksacks ready to move forward

and reinforce when necessary

okay so once we've decided all this and

we understand how the trps are going to

work for a1 and

uh and the support okay once we feel confident

confident

we can then move everyone back to the

release point

all right give the sno all right a

five-point contingency plan

and let them know hey what i need to

know is i need to know if anything

changes on the objective

all right um so they move back and go

into the platoon

goes get back to the platoon starting

position starting counts us in and now

we're ready to start moving forward

okay so we're going to move forward and

then occupy these positions

all right so we're gonna let the sno

position know hey we're moving in

and at this time once we move in and we

actually occupy these objectives

the sno can turn around but main thing is

just like any other mission we're gonna

move to this release point

all right and then the main element

that's going to move in first

is going to be their support by fire and

typically our psg is going to move in

with our support for fire and again the

reason we always establish support by

fire first is because

one it takes time to put these guns on

the tripod so i'm gonna put

one 240 up on bipod looking over the objective

objective

and i'm going to be working the other

one putting it on tripod once the other

one's on tripod it's got its metal the

metal figured out

then i'm going to put my other one on

tripod and once they're both squared away

away

up on the objective focus between the

trps then

it's now time for a salt to move in

position so i'll salt one move into position

position

and again this is kind of like terrain

would be a little different but

assault two is behind assault one ready

to move in as well

all right so that's how we need to move

in support and then assault

and again the reason and then another

reason is is that if assault who's

probably moving in closer to the objective

objective

if they were to get compromised all

right and begin to take fire

immediately the support by fire can open

up begin to suppress the enemy

and we can move right into the operation itself

itself

okay and then like we talked about

back here security is staying at the orp

and maintaining the rucks back at the rp

all right

one thing that we need to do is we

always need to make sure security

understands what their planning

priorities are

meaning they're kind of in reserve so

what are the things that we might use

them for

we might use them to continue the

assault position all right we might use

them to bring forward our rucksacks once we've

we've

taken this terrain because we can't

leave it once we've taken it we might

use them

to exploit the enemy and follow and

assume him if he if he withdraws

we might have some ops sent out right

away that we might want to set up because

because

one thing that we got to think about is

the moment we take this terrain it's

probably the key to rain meaning

it has a marked advantage for whoever

owns it whether it's us

or the enemy if we take this terrain

what should we expect right away

we should expect a counter attack at

least very shortly after so we have to

once we

once we seize this and establish

security we have to move into a hasty

defensive posture

and so we might push security forward

right away and put ops out in front of

us to

identify any enemy now moving in okay so

um that'll come in later but the point

is is now we're set up all right and

we're going to initiate

just like we always would okay support

by fire is going to initiate on this objective

objective

and again we'll probably have both guns shooting

shooting

in between these two trps and a1 is

begin going to begin to move forward

all right and once it's time from a1 to

go ahead and begin their breach

we're probably um going to shift fire

with these guns and now all

guns are focused between trp two and three

three

okay we're going to do a breaching

operation which i'm going to be making in

a separate video about once this breach

all right a1 is going to secure the near

side of the breach

and they're going to secure the far side

and then a2

is going to push through all right and exploit

exploit

through the breach all right so now a2

gets online

and actually begins to assault through

this objective and take this hilltop

all right and what's going on now is

we're likely calling a

shift or a lift fire or cease fire and

all the guns are seizing

seizing the shoot on the objective okay

the biggest thing that we got to worry about

about

again we did a lot of coordination when

all squad leaders were here

all squad leaders are here is how are we

calling the lift and shift fire okay

are we using radio comms are we yelling

are we using whistles

are we using you know other methods

whatever the method might be

star clusters whatever method you have

you just need to make sure that it's codified

codified

throughout so everyone understands

what's going on and when these are going

to be called

and these guys cannot continue their

assault until they've confirmed

that the firing has stopped and they've

confirmed that these guys are tracking hey

hey

uh we're we're on ceasefire

okay and then these guys will assault

through the objective

a2 assaults all the way through the

objective and once they get to their loa

they call loa

again loa is a deliberate call we're not

just calling it to call it

okay we are calling it for a specific reason

reason

all right so it needs to be at least 35

meters past

and it has to be at a cover to conceal

position all right has to be there

all right and so once we've called l

away all right

now we can move the support as well all

right oftentimes

we don't want our guns to just charge

through the objective but the point is

is that

we need to have someone move through

this as well so it might be a1

way

and get online here a1 might call it

away and the 240s

might move through and join a1 okay but

the point is is

this isn't exactly the same as a squad

attack where our support by fire

is just going to pick up and assault

through i don't want to assault through

an objective

with my 240s all right now if the

objective is clear and it's just time

for them to move through and get online

that works but essentially what i would

do is this guy these guys that were

breaching here

all right they just get online what's

left of them because they might have

things with casualties

and they get online here so now i

basically have pretty good far side security

security

looking out this way this is kind of

getting messy

okay so now we've got good security with

a2 and a1 over here

all right and then our guns have moved

through as well and now what we need to

do is establish 360 security

so we're going to fan out all right and

ensure we got security this way

ensure we got security this way and then

really sno

is covering rear security and this time

our security uh squad begin to move

forward and plug in the holes as well

wherever we want them and again

they might be moving to ops on the outside

outside

they also might be bringing the rucks

forward for the whole platoon thank you

for bringing the whole rucks up

okay but the point is is once we

establish security that is the first

thing we have to do we got to establish some

some

type of security where we get 360. it

doesn't have to be a perfect

circle but it has to we have to be have

360 security in some way

all right so accomplish that and then

once we accomplish that we can start

working our special teams

so again the first thing we're going to

do is epw

all right now again what we need to do

first is we need to

clear every single epw there's going to

be a lot of dead bodies on this

objective likely

but we need to clear them all right then

we can start to search them and the

reason is is

until we clear them and ensure that they

have no no there's no potential danger

from them

we can't start working on our friendly

casualties we can't start working on

aiden litter

until we confirm the enemy is dead and

the reason is is because if we have a

friendly casualty on the ground

and we start attending to them before

the enemy is neutralized

that person that's doing the attending

becomes a target

and we can't take more casualties by

helping casualties

before before the enemy is neutralized

the quickest way that you can help your buddies

buddies

is kill the enemy neutralize the enemy

and then you can focus on this

all right once the epw is conducted and cleared

cleared

all right we're doing aiden litter and

we're calling up any nine line medevac

requests that we need to do anything

like that

okay and like we did we planned this

well and so we probably have hlz's

around the area that we can go to

and we can medivac these guys out or if

there's a road in the area we can do do

a ground kazabek

and get get our casualties out right the

point is is we now have to maintain this hilltop

hilltop

we occupied it or we seized it for a

reason and the reason is

because it's key to rain so we need to

keep it with all the fire power they got

all the combat power we have

until we're relieved once we leave then

we can move out but right now

that's going to be our main goal is to

retain that and so the next step

once we do epw and litter is now we need

to start

hastily preparing a defense and start

turning that defense now

slowly over time into a deliberate

defense until we're relieved

because the whole point is we expect

that the enemy's going to counter attack

us at some time

again with an attack we're season

terrain for a reason

all right it's key to rain likely and

we're gonna be able to use it for future operations

operations

okay all right so we just have to start

moving our things around

start moving our guys around start doing

lace reports start

looking at liquid ammo casualties

equipment to ensure everything's good

and then obviously we gotta call higher

all right and let them know that we've

achieved we've uh we've seized this objective

objective

and we are preparing a hasty defense for

future operations okay

and that's where the platoon sergeant

he's working these in litter but he's

also working cross-leveling ammo

cross-living water you know getting

ready all right the biggest thing that

you have to fight is once you

attack and seize an objective is

complacency all right get your soldiers

out of mind said hey

we just won this battle hey man the

battle ain't over we could

we should be expecting that enemy

counter attack and we can't get complacent

complacent

we gotta start worrying about that right

away okay

okay um this is essentially what a

platoon attack looks like

it's not incredibly difficult it's

really the same as a squat attack

but you have more elements to work with

you've got the a1 the a2 again

you might not have to do a breach your

a2 might be able to be an extra reserve

you might really only need two

squads to conduct this operation or you

might have a

full squad size element on the objective

and you want a1 and a2

you know side by side here's a2 down

here to

do a full clearance of this objective

whatever you might need

i think is don't don't get overwhelmed

by having additional squads

having additional men to do things is a

good problem all right but use them wisely

wisely

all right give them a job even these

guys back here guarding the rucks

securing the rucks

and being a um you know and being a

reserve ready to get employed in the

fight how you see fit

that's still a job all right don't just

say hey just sit there and hang out

everyone can you have a job everyone can

be used uh to make your mission more

effective okay

all right again i hope this was helpful

uh platoon attack is a great mission

um and it's typically it's it's how we seize

seize

objectives in the real army and my name

is captain justin de leon

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