Breaking Contact

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Breaking Contact

• B Trp 7-10 CAV 4ID
• Reference Material
• FM 3-20.98 Chapter 5
• SGT Sears, Adam

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• Mounted and Dismounted

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RISK ASSESSMENT
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• Tasks Utilizes your units METT-TC with your
  OPORD and rehearsals with Battle Drills

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• Conditions While on Dismounted or Mounted
  operations you are attacked by a superior force
  where the Team Leader is forced to with draw his
  team to a safer location or rally point utilizing
  his team and other assets on hand if available

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Breaking Contact

• Standards To train leaders and soldiers to know
  their role in this maneuver to help prevent
  further lose of soldiers and equipment by using
  all assets effectively

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Breaking Contact

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Breaking Contact (Front)
• 3 Australian Peel Method (front rear)
• 4 Australian Peel Method (left and right)
• 5 React to Air Attack
• 6 React to Indirect Attack
• 7 React to Sniper
• 8 Freeze
• 9 Questions

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• Introduction
• Missions are usually planned for expected types
  of contact and the amount of assets that youll
  need. But sometimes the enemy will expect your
  course of action and bring more to the battle
  than you or your unit expects. Thats why Battle
  Drills incorporates Breaking contact drills.

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• BATTLE DRILLS
• Well-rehearsed battle drills are critical to the
  success of a
• dismounted team. The team is lightly armed with a
  limited supply of
• ammunition and can expect little or no fire
  support. If indirect fires are
• precoordinated, they should be maximized while
  breaking contact. An
• immediate suppression fire mission on a near
  target from the target
• overlay may support the team breaking contact
  then, once in a covered
• and concealed position, adjusted fire missions
  may be executed against
• the enemy. Indirect fires should be considered
  whenever breaking
• contact, emphasizing the need for thorough fire
  support planning.

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• The team breaks contact as soon as possible
  because it lacks the
• assets to stay and fight. METT-TC determines
  which drill is executed.

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• Break Contact (Front)
• The team executes fire and movement by two- or
  three-man
• teams until contact with the enemy is broken.
  When contacted from the
• front, the senior observer and another observer
  return fire with one full
• magazine each. An observer and the team leader
  move to a position to
• provide support for the withdrawal of the senior
  observer and observer.

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• Once the senior observer and observer have fired
  a complete magazine,
• team leader and observer begin firing, covering
  the withdrawal of the
• senior observer and observer to the next firing
  position. The process of
• fire and movement continues until contact is
  broken. RTO can place Claymore if time allows
  and in hand for quick set up.

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• The Australian peel is a method to break contact
  from the front
• or rear. This technique, which should be executed
  as a battle drill, is most
• effective while the team is in a file formation,
  where the vegetation is
• dense, or during limited visibility. The second
  through the sixth team
• members take one or two steps to the left or
  right, depending on the
• terrain. One member at a time passes back through
  the formation

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• Front Contact. When contact occurs from the
  front, the first
• member fires a full magazine (automatic or
  burst). Every other member
• does the same, one at a time. Each member waits
  until the member in
• front of him is even with him or on his left or
  right before firing a weapon.
• Individuals move straight back through the inside
  of the formation,
• avoiding masking the fires of the members
  providing covering fire. The
• assistant team leader or the last member throws a
  hand grenade
• (fragmentary). During limited visibility, the
  battle drill may be executed
• without firing weapons. In this event, the battle
  drill is still executed in
• the same sequence. Upon completion of the first
  iteration, the team can
• emplace a Claymore mine with a time-delay fuze to
  slow the enemy. The
• team initiates fires only if it has been
  compromised. If the enemy element
• breaks contact and ceases fire, the team should
  cease fire immediately to
• prevent revealing their new position.

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• Rear Contact. If contact occurs from the rear,
  the Australian
• peel technique is executed in the reverse
  sequence. The first member is
• the last to throw a hand grenade (fragmentary).
  Once the drill is
• completed, the team moves to the designated rally
  point.

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• Rear Contact. If contact occurs from the rear,
  the Australian
• peel technique is executed in the reverse
  sequence. The first member is
• the last to throw a hand grenade (fragmentary).
  Once the drill is
• completed, the team moves to the designated rally
  point.

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• Break Contact (Left or Right)
• If a patrol finds itself in a threat ambush, it
  must get out of the
• kill zone or face destruction. Team members in
  the kill zone, without
• order or signal, immediately return fire, throw
  smoke, and move quickly
• out of the kill zone by the safest route.

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• There is no set procedure for this each man must
  decide the best way for
• his situation. For inferior-sized enemy force, a
  team may assault through
• a near ambush. Soldiers not in the kill zone fire
  to support the
• withdrawal or hasty assault of the men in the
  kill zone.

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• REACT TO AIR ATTACK
• The first soldier who hears or sees an aircraft
  signals, FREEZE.
• The first soldier who sees an attacking aircraft
  alerts the patrol
• AIRCRAFT, FRONT (LEFT, RIGHT, OR REAR). Each
  soldier hits the
• ground, using available cover, and returns fire.

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• Between attacks, the
• team should seek better cover and concealment. If
  the team leader wants
• the team to move out of the area, he gives the
  clock direction and
• distance.

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• REACT TO INDIRECT FIRE
• Upon receiving indirect fire, the team deploys
  and takes cover. If
• more rounds impact, the team leader gives the
  clock position and the
• direction and distance to move. The team
  consolidates while moving or at
• a distance given by team leader. The team may
  elect to move to the last
• rally point or as otherwise directed by the team
  leader.

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• REACT TO SNIPER FIRE
• 5-88. If the patrol comes under sniper fire, it
  immediately returns fire
• in the direction of the sniper. The patrol then
  conducts fire and maneuver
• to break contact with the sniper.

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• FREEZE
• This immediate action drill is used when a
  patrol, not yet seen by
• the threat, observes the threat and does not have
  time to take any other
• action. All patrol members remain still until
  signaled to continue or take
• another action as directed.

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Summary

• These lessons were from typically sceniors from
  FM 3-20.98. Remember different environments, man
  made objects and weather will all have impacts on
  your mission. If you take casualties will have
  to incorporate that in your Breaking Contact
  Procedures.

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QUESTIONS