1963 US Army Vietnam War Armor Operations ... - Survival Books

WWW.SURVIVALEBOOKS.COMSection II. MARCHES6. Movement Terms n. March Discipline. Observance and enforcementof the rules governing a unit on thea. Arrival Time. The time at which the head rhof the column arrives at a designated point.o. Road Movement Graph. Time-spaced diab.Clearance Timne. The time at which the gram used in planning and controlling marches,tail of a column passes a designated point. both road and foot, and in preparing or checkc.Close Column. A column in which each ing road movement tables.vehicle is closed to safe driving distance behind p. March Order. An operation order issuedthe preceding vehicle. Armor units in close by by a commander to to give instructions for for acolumn normally use a density of approxi- marchmately 30 vehicles per kilometer, with an intervehiculardistance of 25 meters per vehicle. q. Road Movement Table. A composite listshowing the general organization and timed.Control Vehicle. The vehicle traveling at space schedule for a march movement. It isthe head of a column and setting the speed of enerally published as an annex to an operathecolumn to maintain the prescribed rate of ion order.march.r. March Unit. A unit or group of units thate. Critical Point. Point on a route of march moves or halts at the order of a single comwheredifficulties in executing a march are mander. A platoon, company, or similar oranticipated.ganization normally forms the march unit. Af. Density. The average number of vehiclesor persons occupying 1 kilometer of road space.serial is made up of one or more march units.5. Open Column. A column in which disg.Distance. The space between units, meas- tances between vehicles are increased to acuredfrom the rear of one unit to the front ofthe following unit in the column, expressed incomplish greater dispersion. Armor units inopen column normally use a density of approximetersor kilometers.mately 15 vehicles per kilometer or greater ifh. Guide. A person who leads a unit or conditions require when marching at an intervehicleover a predetermined route or to aselected area, or a person posted along thevehicular distance of 50 meters per vehicle.t. Quartering Party. A variable group ofroute of march to direct traffic.persons representing each unit in the marchi. Infiltration. Movement of vehicles, singlyor in small groups.column. It is dispatched before the main bodyto reconnoiter and plan for the occupation ofj. Intervehicular Distance. The space be- the new area. It may post guides to direct ortween vehicles measured from the rear of one lead elements of the main body.vehicle (including towed load if any) to front u. Rate of March. The average marchingof the following vehicle in the column. It is speed in kilometers per hour, including schedexpressedin meters.uled halts.k. Start Point (SP). Point (e.g., a cross- v. Release Point (RP). A location at whichroads) at which a foot march or motor movementis formed, without halting, by the suctheunits of a march column revert to controlof their respective commanders.cessive arrival of the units that make up the w. Road Space. The length of roadway, incolumn.kilometers, occupied by an element of the1. Light Line. A theoretical line on the march column.ground beyond which vehicles moving to the x. Serial. One or more march units, preferfrontat night are required to use blackout ably with the same march characteristics,markers, or beyond which vehicles moving to placed under 1 commander for march column.the rear are required to operate with driving A battalion normally forms a march serial.lights on.y. Strip Map. Sketch of a route of march.m. March Column. The elements using the It may or may not be drawn to scale, but shouldsame route for a single movement.include identifying landmarks (that is, towns,228 AGO 139A