Contact!: A Tactical Manual for Post Collapse Survival by Max Velocity

Author:Max Velocity
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf, azw3
ISBN: 9781478106692
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2012-07-02T06:00:00+00:00

Figure 7 - Route Blocked – REVERSE

Note: The depiction of the Counter Attack (CAT) or rear chase vehicle dismounting and providing fire support for the extraction is an option not described in the outline above. It is an option which you may decide to employ depending on the drills you develop.

Vehicle Immobilized: In this situation a vehicle in the convoy has sustained damage in a contact and becomes immobilized in the killing area. For the purposes of this drill the assumption is the worst case: complex ambush. It would be ideal in a post-event situation to have run-flat tires so that if your tires get shot out, you can keep going. With run flat tires, it is possible for a vehicle to sustain significant damage while remaining mobile: in this case, if the vehicle can limp out of the killing area, it should keep going so that ideally the convoy can rally at a safer location “off the X” rather than stopping within the potential complex ambush. A sense of urgency and fast action is the key to this drill. Ideally, when a vehicle is immobilized, the vehicle to the rear of it becomes a rescue vehicle. This is faster. If the rear vehicle is immobilized, then the vehicle in front will have to reverse back to it. Because you will likely not be in armored vehicles, and therefore your rescue vehicle is not effectively shielded from enemy fire and is very vulnerable, then there are two variants to this drill. One involves a rescue vehicle and the other involves those in the immobilized vehicle fighting out under covering fire. If one of your protected vehicles is immobilized, then the crew will largely be non-combatants and thus you will be limited to using the rescue vehicle approach to go in and get them out. Steps using a rescue vehicle:

1) “CONTACT, DRIVE, DRIVE, DRIVE”.

2) Return fire if possible, PID enemy.

3) Initial Contact Report: voice radio.

4) Reports from vehicles. Example:

“Vehicle 2 immobilized”

“Roger, vehicle 3 assist”

“Vehicle 3 assisting”

5) Evacuation vehicle pulls up next to the immobilized vehicle. If contact is initiated mainly to one side, then pull up on the opposite side to gain maximum protection from the immobilized vehicle.

6) Other vehicles take up cover positions and return fire to PID enemy, as necessary. Throw smoke as appropriate.

7) Evacuation vehicle leaves a space between the two vehicles wide enough for both vehicles to be able to open their doors.

8) Evacuation vehicle crew takes up cover positions. Driver remains in the vehicle. One person assists the crew of the immobilized vehicle (can call for more assistance if there are serious casualties).

9) Personnel, weapons and equipment rapidly “cross decked” into the evacuation vehicle. Personnel accounted for.

10) All vehicles “DRIVE, DRIVE, DRIVE”. An option is to blow vehicle horns as a signal that cross decking is complete, to recall all cover personnel and get everyone mounted up and mobile.

11) Evacuation vehicle sends update.

12) CLS treat casualties on the move: tourniquet “high & tight”.

13) Rally if necessary in a secured location.

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