2/1/A-CO, 1-2IN - Alpha Company, First Platoon, Second Squad

Present outside of combat unit

N/A

Objectives

• Comms discipline and procedures;
• Contact reports;
• Formations and movement on formations;
• Bouding movement and support by fire.

Accidents

N/A

Areas of Strength

• Good learning experience for the squad;
• All proposed topics were covered in classroom sections and applied on dry runs e live fire exercices;
• Team has the great habit of discussing and expanding over the concepts learned and do reviews after each run of the exercises.

Areas of Weakness

• Despite the team knowing how to perform most procedures and commands, the basics procedures like reacting to enemy contact and bounding movement aren't executed on "automatic" or as a second nature.

Suggested Improvements

• Keep drilling fundamentals and the most used Battle Drills until they are "hard coded" into the team's behavior. The team is having a good learning experience with detailed class room sections and repetitive drills designed to work very specific aspects with a discussion of what went wrong and what was done properly after every run. This method seems to be more a efficient learning tool if compared to the usual model of doing a class room section and then do a "mini-mission" that tries to force the team to use the topics discussed on the first part of the drill.

Mission Summary

Overall Sentiment

POSITIVE