Technical b r Report - International Military Testing Association

previously mentioned. In addition to being equipped with radios in order
to make the situations play realistically and to assess casualties,
control personnel have responsibility for recording product outputs for
each of the individual particfpancs. The con;roller keeps track of who
scored what kills or was kill4 wfth rifle fire, cho threw grenades or
was killed by grenades,, who called in artillery or was killed by artillery
fire, who employed booby traps, mints or claymores, and who was killed
by these devices. The mechanisms developed for keeping track of this
information rely primarily on the USC of the identifying numbers on each
individual’s helmet. Points are accumulated for each individual on the
basis of the number of kills that he has scored, plus a factor added
for the degree of success nchiavcd by this unit. The unit score fs
determined on the basis of a set number of points for achieving the
objective,. iess a set number of points for each casualty incurred. The
individual scores are then lo&cd with a factor based upon unit success.
At the present time, both the defense and the offense are being scored
simultaneously. Therefore, the degree of success of one is diminished
by the score of the other.
There are, of course, many chance factors operating in an individual’s
score, just as in combat there are many chance factors operating to affect
one’s Rortality. A man can get killed by his own squad members, hc can
be killed by an ill-launched grenade which happens to bounce off a tree
back into his own position, or by calling artillery fire on himself.
Some of these are his errors,sone are the errors of others. To overcome
these chance fat tors , repetition. of testing is employed. Going through a
I
/
365
.: _.
r