Force Protection Operations

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Force Protection Operations

• March OPD

React to Unexploded Ordinance Hazards
AWT 093-401-5040
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Purpose

• The purpose is to familiarize leaders with
  force protection tactics, techniques, and
  procedures which have been successful in
  Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.

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Agenda

• References
• Force Protection Operations TTP
• Summary and Review
• Conclusion

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References

• CALL 03-20 FM 4-01.011
• FM 7-98 FM 3-21
• FM 71-1 FM 3-19.4

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Force Protection Operations

• Security Operations
• Checkpoint Operations
• Explosive Hazards
• Convoy Operations
• React to Unexploded Ordinance Hazards
• AWT 093-401-5040

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Explosive Hazards

• Unexploded Ordinance (UXO) and Improvised
  Explosive Devices (IED) that have failed to
  function as designed
• UXO and IED that have failed to detonate by
  design (for example area denial munitions, land
  mines, and booby traps)

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Explosive Hazards

• Three steps to take in reacting to UXO/IED
• Recognize the explosive hazard
• React to the explosive hazard
• Report the explosive hazard

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Explosive Hazards

• Improvised Explosive Devices (IED)
• Package type
• Vehicle borne
• Suicide bomber

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Methods of Activation

• Command activation--by radio, electric leads,
  pull wire/mechanical strikers.
• Action by the subject/target--trip wire, pressure
  device, light sensitive device, electric.
• Time delay--clock, burning fuse, chemical delay,
  atmospheric pressure

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Suicide Vest
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Partially Detonated IED
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IEDs in OIF/OEF
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Pepsi Can IED
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Saddam Poster IED
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More IEDs
Car Alarm
D Cell Batteries
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IEDs in OIF/OEF
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IMPROVISED EXPLOSIVE DEVICE (IED)TACTICS,
TECHNIQUES PROCEDURES (TTPs)
The Basic No Frills IED Attack
Direction of Traffic
Mil/Civ Convoy
IED Placed on Shoulder
Median Strip
Median Strip
Median Strip
Typical Iraqi 4 lane highway
Variation IED Placed in the Median Strip
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IMPROVISED EXPLOSIVE DEVICE (IED)TACTICS,
TECHNIQUES PROCEDURES (TTPs)
The Broken Down Vehicle IED Attack
Direction of Traffic
Stopped fake Broken Down vehicle
canalizes military traffic into close proximity
to IED
Median Strip
Median Strip
Median Strip
IED
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IMPROVISED EXPLOSIVE DEVICE (IED)TACTICS,
TECHNIQUES PROCEDURES (TTPs)
The Fiendishly Clever IED Attack
Lead vehicle sees fake IED and stops. The convoy
stops behind it. Real IEDs on flanks of stopped
convoy are then command detonated
Direction of Traffic
Easily seen Fake IED
The Real IEDs Daisy Chained Together
Visible Wires
Median Strip
Median Strip
Median Strip
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Ambush Technique
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Result of IED/Ambush
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Chechnya IED
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Chechnya IED
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Chechnya IED
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Chechnya IED
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Chechnya IED
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What Can You do to Mitigate Threat?

• Keep Alert Make yourself a Hard Target
• Be Prepared for IED Attack Followed by Ambush
• Be and Appear Vigilant
• Personnel Who Look Ready to Fight Back Make Bad
  Targets
• Bad Guys Wait for the Next Convoy

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What Can You do to Mitigate Threat?

• Maintain Convoy Speed when Possible
• Maintain vehicle dispersion
• Be Extra Cautious at choke points-Iraqi Vehicle
  Breakdowns-Bridges, one way roads, traffic jams,
  sharp turns, etc
• If Something Causes the Convoy to Stop, Watch
  Your Flanks for IEDs (Post Ops)

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What Can You do to Mitigate Threat?

• Vests and Helmets Save LivesWear Them!
• Ballistic Glasses Save Eyesight
• Wear Earplugs-Prevents damage to eardrums

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What Can You do to Mitigate Threat?

• Rehearse Actions on Contact for an IED
• Get Out of the Kill Zone Fast
• Do NOT Approach the IED
• Soldier was Killed Doing this when the IED was
  Command Detonated as the Soldier Inspected It

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Summary

• The purpose has been to familiarize leaders with
  force protection tactics, techniques, and
  procedures which have been successful in
  Afghanistan and Iraq

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• Look Hard, Be Hard

This is about shifting the mindset of soldiers
from identifying what they do as a soldier- -
Im a cook, Im an infantryman, Im a postal
clerk - - toward I am a warrior when people
ask what they do for a living.
BG Benjamin Freakley
Commander
U.S. Army Infantry Center
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Conclusion

• U.S. soldiers can use the lessons learned in
  Afghanistan and Iraq to successfully secure fixed
  sites, deter and prevent terrorist attacks, and
  save lives.

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• QUESTIONS?

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