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To defend against: Use these defense measures:
Hit and run attacks • Continually review intelligence; brief staff and supervisory
personnel on possible attacks. Go over defense plans.
FM 42-414
• Plan illumination of the area to eliminate the element of surprise.
Refer to FM 21-60 for details on using illuminating grenades, flares,
and expedients.
• Detail night relief procedures; vary passwords.
• Set up night patrols. Vary schedules and patrol routes.
• Set up roving guards, particularly in the maintenance areas and
around the supply tent where weapons and ammunition are stored.
• Set up checkpoints.
• Vary locations of OPs, LPs, and weapons.
• Stress light and noise discipline.
• Stress the importance of reporting possible intelligence
information and reporting it accurately. Detail reporting procedures in TSOP.
Ambushes of patrols • Prior to the move, brief personnel on the tactical situation.
and the unit during
moves to new sites • Review defense tactics and signals with troops
• Require all personnel to be armed and able to return maximum
volume of fire from positions in vehicles.
• Strengthen vehicles with sandbags.
• Have vehicles in the kill zone attempt to drive through the area
while passengers return fire.
• After moving to a point that can be defended, personnel should
set up a perimeter defense.
• Depending on the situation and terrain, have vehicles that have
not entered the kill zone to disperse in staggered form (oddnumbered
vehicles to the left, even-numbered vehicles to the right) and seek
cover. Personnel should then dismount and take up firing positions.
Table 1-6. Ground attack defense measures (continued)
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