Mission Time

Preparing for our mission to patrol routes in our assigned AO. The team loads their gear, prepares the crew serve weapons, conducts radio checks, conducts rehearsals and battle drills, does PMCS on the vehicles, and conduct PCI's and PCC's. Then the team SP's to conduct the mission. Successful mission preparation and rehearsals will ultimately lead to a successful mission. During a recent mission my platoon rehearsed TCP's several times and executed it perfectly in the field. An OPFOR mortar team on a gator caught sight of our Flash TCP just in time to turn around, the two guntrucks assigned as chase vehicles gave chase but unfortunately couldn't hit the offroad trails which the mortar team escaped on. But OPFOR had a weapons stash in the area and kept persistantly attacking our five guntrucks and running away. Hit and run tactics. We setup an ambush and chased the OPFOR away for good. We then continued our patrol and investigated and cleared several structures in the area. Overall it was a successful mission because noone was killed or injured, in play or otherwise.