Basic Combat Skills 1

Lesson topics include: 

• Combat organizational requirements and procedures necessary to perform as a member of a fire team in defensive combat operations and for receiving and interpreting a five-paragraph order; 
• Preparing a fire team plan, the mission of organic weapons, and procedures for use of grenades, pyrotechnics, and claymore mines in a defensive tactical environment;
• Identifying mines and booby traps and applying effective countermeasures; 
• Basic communication operator functions and how to perform military map reading;
• Types, procedures, and missions of reconnaissance, security patrols, and convoys;
• The six articles of the Code of Conduct and the information required to apply the Law of Armed Conflict; 
• Procedures for processing known or suspected enemy personnel; 
• Procedures for performing first aid techniques, field sanitation, and personal hygiene; and 
• Procedures necessary to perform as a fire team member in civil disturbances and to implement antiterrorism measures. 

Training Period: 5 Days.