personnel qualification standard (pqs) - I Marine Expeditionary ...

116 Tactical Measures
Time
Note the time of sighting the aggressor unit.
Equipment
Determine the type of equipment that the aggressor unit has available.
o Describe small arms.
o Describe automatic weapons.
o Describe indirect support weapons.
o Describe direct support weapons.
o Describe armored vehicles.
o Describe personnel carriers.
o Describe NBC equipment.
Salute Report Format
Description Message
S Size of enemy unit “Line Alpha - Platoon Minus”
A Activities of the enemy
“Line Bravo - Moving South, On Road, In
Column”
L Location (6 digit grid coordinates) “Line Charlie - 947859
U
Unit markings (signs or symbols,
uniform worn, vehicle identification).
“Line Delta - Red Patches”
T
Time of sighting (date-time group, local or
Zulu/Greenwich Mean Time).
“Line Echo - 150930Z MAR 92”
“Line Fox - 25 Rifles, 3 L including their
E Equipment carried by the enemy,
weapons.Antiarmor Rockets, 2 Lt
Machine Guns”
116.4 Discuss the criteria for selecting a helicopter landing zone.
Selection of Landing Zones (LZ)
LZs are selected during planning between the helicopterborne unit commander
(HUC) and the assault flight leader (AFL) in coordination with the intelligence
officer (S-2). The selected LZs are approved by the MAGTF commander or
mission commander. Regardless of whether the site is a LZ or pick-up zone
(PZ)—
o The ground chosen must support the safe landing of helicopters.
o The selected site should be identifiable from the air.
o The enemy situation must be such that the site can be secured without
undue interference from enemy fires.
Each helicopter requires a different size LZ/PZ, and each area needs to be on level
ground. Lighting conditions also affect the size of the LZ for each helicopter:
daylight zones should be 100 feet larger than the diameter of aircraft rotor blades
and night zones should be 150 feet larger than the diameter of aircraft rotor
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