2003 US Army BRADLEY GUNNERY 503p.pdf - Survival Books

FM 3-22.1(3) All individual soldiers should receive MILES casualty cards. These cards willreplicate casualty status during live-fire tasks when penalties are imposed. Only vehiclecommanders, gunners, and drivers should receive return-to-duty cards for safe movementof vehicles.(4) Friendly targets should be incorporated into the scenario.(5) Unit SOPs should be given to the evaluators for implementation into theevaluation.(6) The firing platoon's company commander should follow the platoon for C2.Simulating radio traffic enhances the effects of the tactical scenario. Companycommanders receive all platoon reports and issue instructions and FRAGOs based on theestablished scenario.(7) Target presentations occur based on the platoon's tactical employment. Theplatoon should react to rather than anticipate target presentations.d. Targetry. All targets are constructed IAW Chapter 5 of TC 25-8.(1) BFV Target Engagements. (Chapter 8.)(2) Rifle Infantry Weapons.(a) ATGM and Bunker Target Engagements. Vehicle targets are shown the same asdescribed for BFVs. RPG or ATGM teams are no more than three E-type silhouettesplaced in line, in depth, or in a wedge formation, no more than 5 meters apart or 10meters in depth (Chapter 5).(b) Infantry Rifle Squad and Trench-Line Target Engagements. Realistic arraysinclude no more than 7 and no fewer than 4 E-type silhouettes placed in a linear or wedgeformation. They are spread up to 5 meters apart, but the whole target array fits in an areaup to 30 meters wide by 20 meters deep. For example, 14 troop targets equal two separatedismounted squad targets.(c) Substitutions. If range facilities cannot support an HE area target, the leader cansubstitute three HE point targets. Each firing vehicle is presented no more than twotargets for each engagement, except for the A3, which can have three.(3) Minimum Required Targets. Figure 9-11 shows the minimum required targets.TARGETMINIMUM TARGETSAP Point 24HE Area 2HE Point 18Coax Area 6Coax Point 4Infantry Targets 112TOW 1Figure 9-11. Minimum required targets.e. Ammunition. DA Pam 350-38 dictates ammunition allocations (Figure 9-12). Itfully resources platoon practice and qualification for BFVs. It resources dismountedweapons based on squad and platoon LFX allocations. If resources are available and extratargets are added, platoons will receive additional ammunition based only on allocated9-24