Training for the Civilian Self-Defense Group
Sept 18, 2014 8:36:26 GMT -5
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Post by Diz on Sept 18, 2014 8:36:26 GMT -5
There has been much discussion on the Mosby thread concerning training that is mission-specific for our needs. So I wanted expand on that a little here. What everyone of you needs to do is sit down first and decide what are your Missions?
For example, ours are:
1) Retreat Security
2) Security Patrolling
3) Recon/Ambush Patrolling
As you can see these are three concentric circles or layers around our retreat. The first concerns securing the actual perimeter. The second concerns roving patrols just outside this line. The third deals with patrols that push our surveillance out as far as possible, and perhaps engages the opfor to disperse and slow them down, if in fact they are heading our way.
Once you decide WHAT you're doing, you need to figure out HOW to do it. This is called the Mission Essential Task List (METL).
Again, ours are:
1)Basic Individual Skills
2)Basic Team Skills
3)Advanced Individual Skills
4)Advanced Team Skills
These break down into individual skill sets. For instance, under Basic Individual Skills, you might include physical fitness, weapons training, camouflage, clothing, and equipment, movement techniques, etc. Basic Team skills would be patrolling skills, such as individual job assignments, movement order, sector of scan, H&A signals, halts, danger areas, actions on contact, etc. Advanced Individual Skills might include Land Nav, Combat Medicine, combatives, precision shooting, comms, etc. Advanced Team Skills would include longer range recon or ambush patrolling, and QRF skills.
Basically everything you need to know to support the 3 main missions.
Added to that, you need a Retreat Defense SOP, as a written guide for how you will accomplish these things on a daily basis. For instance, what kind of perimeter security will you mount (CQ, sentries, OP/LP's, roving patrols), where will they be located, how do they communicate, and what are the procedures for rotating personal through the positions. All the little nick-nook details that you need to figure out to pull this off. The duties of the CQ, sentries, OP/LP's, the Quick Reaction Force. Also your patrolling SOP should be covered in depth. The SOP will give you guidelines, to remind and reinforce what you've been trained to do. And more importantly, it sets the actual requirements for each duty that must be performed. This will obviously be very specific to your situation.
Our Retreat SOP is a work in progress right now. I will help you build yours but will not publish mine.
So in essence, sit down and figure out what it is you are likely to have to do, and how you will go about doing it. Then everything will start making more sense, as what does and doesn't apply to you, from all the info available out there.
For example, ours are:
1) Retreat Security
2) Security Patrolling
3) Recon/Ambush Patrolling
As you can see these are three concentric circles or layers around our retreat. The first concerns securing the actual perimeter. The second concerns roving patrols just outside this line. The third deals with patrols that push our surveillance out as far as possible, and perhaps engages the opfor to disperse and slow them down, if in fact they are heading our way.
Once you decide WHAT you're doing, you need to figure out HOW to do it. This is called the Mission Essential Task List (METL).
Again, ours are:
1)Basic Individual Skills
2)Basic Team Skills
3)Advanced Individual Skills
4)Advanced Team Skills
These break down into individual skill sets. For instance, under Basic Individual Skills, you might include physical fitness, weapons training, camouflage, clothing, and equipment, movement techniques, etc. Basic Team skills would be patrolling skills, such as individual job assignments, movement order, sector of scan, H&A signals, halts, danger areas, actions on contact, etc. Advanced Individual Skills might include Land Nav, Combat Medicine, combatives, precision shooting, comms, etc. Advanced Team Skills would include longer range recon or ambush patrolling, and QRF skills.
Basically everything you need to know to support the 3 main missions.
Added to that, you need a Retreat Defense SOP, as a written guide for how you will accomplish these things on a daily basis. For instance, what kind of perimeter security will you mount (CQ, sentries, OP/LP's, roving patrols), where will they be located, how do they communicate, and what are the procedures for rotating personal through the positions. All the little nick-nook details that you need to figure out to pull this off. The duties of the CQ, sentries, OP/LP's, the Quick Reaction Force. Also your patrolling SOP should be covered in depth. The SOP will give you guidelines, to remind and reinforce what you've been trained to do. And more importantly, it sets the actual requirements for each duty that must be performed. This will obviously be very specific to your situation.
Our Retreat SOP is a work in progress right now. I will help you build yours but will not publish mine.
So in essence, sit down and figure out what it is you are likely to have to do, and how you will go about doing it. Then everything will start making more sense, as what does and doesn't apply to you, from all the info available out there.
