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Security Operations<br />
Figure 4-2. Example of a DRT repositioning the screen by continuous marching<br />
Bounding<br />
4-49. <strong>Reconnaissance</strong> units use bounding techniques while conducting a screen in order to maintain<br />
protection of a moving maneuver force. Bounds may be alternating or successive. <strong>Dismounted</strong><br />
reconnaissance troop platoons using bounding techniques will often bound by OPs in order to maintain the<br />
screen while keeping up with the protected force. While not often employed by dismounted reconnaissance<br />
units, motorized units may bound by larger units such as platoons.<br />
Bounding by OPs<br />
4-50. This technique is appropriate when the main body is moving slowly, contact is possible, and<br />
maximum security is required. Bounding OPs alternately will disrupt the integrity of the platoons as OPs<br />
bound to their next position. Bounding OPs successively is easier for the platoons to control.<br />
4-51. The troop initially deploys platoons abreast. Each platoon then either alternately bounds its rearmost<br />
OP around or to the rear of the forward OP to assume a new position along the screen line (see Figure 4-3)<br />
or has its OPs bound successively along the screen line (see Figure 4-4). The number of OPs on the screen<br />
line at any given time can be reduced as two or more may be bounding at any given time. The protected<br />
force’s rate of advance determines this. Ground-based sensors and SUASs can be employed to mitigate the<br />
challenges encountered when bounding OPs.<br />
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