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I was reading a U.S. Marine AAR report following the Battle of Fallujah. It identified several techniques and lessons learned from urban operations conducted in Iraq. Take a look.
“Techniques:
Techniques that individual Marines need to be taught and practiced are the following:
1. Pieing off all danger areas. Even before entry into a room as many danger areas as possible should be pied off leaving only one or two corners that need to be cleared. Don’t blindly rush into a room, especially if the door is opened.
2. Using the buddy system. Two Marines always peel off the stack, never one.
3. Picking up uncovered danger areas, including when opening doors to furniture when it can fit a man inside.
4. Clearing obstacles, such as furniture.
5. Prepping rooms with grenades.
6. If the room is too small for two Marines or not enough Marines are clearing the house to hold security on all the danger areas, the two-man turns around and covers the rear of the Marine clearing the room.
7. Moving stealthily through a structure even with broken glass on the ground.
8. Making a stealth entry with NVG’s and PEQ-2’s.
9. Making breaching charges and placing them on the locking points of different types of doors.
These are just some of the techniques that need to be practiced and passed on to younger Marines.
Tactics:
Initiative based tactics (IBT) should be taught. There are four rules of IBT. They are the following:
1. Cover all immediate danger areas.
2. Eliminate all threats.
3. Protect your buddy.
4. There are no mistakes. Every Marine feeds off each other and picks up the slack for the other. Go with it.
Every Marine needs to understand and memorize the rules governing IBT. These rules should not only apply to MOUT, but all small unit infantry engagements. Rule number four must be pounded into the squad. There are no mistakes when clearing a structure in combat, only actions that result in situations; situations that Marines must adapt to, improvise, and overcome in a matter of seconds.”
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“Techniques:
Techniques that individual Marines need to be taught and practiced are the following:
1. Pieing off all danger areas. Even before entry into a room as many danger areas as possible should be pied off leaving only one or two corners that need to be cleared. Don’t blindly rush into a room, especially if the door is opened.
2. Using the buddy system. Two Marines always peel off the stack, never one.
3. Picking up uncovered danger areas, including when opening doors to furniture when it can fit a man inside.
4. Clearing obstacles, such as furniture.
5. Prepping rooms with grenades.
6. If the room is too small for two Marines or not enough Marines are clearing the house to hold security on all the danger areas, the two-man turns around and covers the rear of the Marine clearing the room.
7. Moving stealthily through a structure even with broken glass on the ground.
8. Making a stealth entry with NVG’s and PEQ-2’s.
9. Making breaching charges and placing them on the locking points of different types of doors.
These are just some of the techniques that need to be practiced and passed on to younger Marines.
Tactics:
Initiative based tactics (IBT) should be taught. There are four rules of IBT. They are the following:
1. Cover all immediate danger areas.
2. Eliminate all threats.
3. Protect your buddy.
4. There are no mistakes. Every Marine feeds off each other and picks up the slack for the other. Go with it.
Every Marine needs to understand and memorize the rules governing IBT. These rules should not only apply to MOUT, but all small unit infantry engagements. Rule number four must be pounded into the squad. There are no mistakes when clearing a structure in combat, only actions that result in situations; situations that Marines must adapt to, improvise, and overcome in a matter of seconds.”
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