Tactics & Battle Drills
Squad and platoon battle drills, animated step by step — react to contact, break contact, ambushes, bunkers, trenches, rooms, and breaches. Written and illustrated by an infantryman who has trained them, not just read about them.
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Battle Drills 1 & 2: React to Contact & Squad Assault
The foundation of infantry combat — react to contact and the squad assault, animated step by step.
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Battle Drill 3: Break Contact
Return fire, smoke, and bound back by teams until contact is broken.
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Battle Drill 4: React to a Near Ambush
Return fire, get on line, and assault through the kill zone.
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Battle Drill 5: Knock Out a Bunker
Suppress, smoke, flank, and finish the bunker.
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Battle Drill 6: Enter and Clear a Room
Stack the wall, pie the door, points of domination.
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Battle Drill 7: Enter and Clear a Trench
Enter the trench, clear each leg, own the intersections.
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Battle Drill 8: Breach an Obstacle (SOSRA)
Suppress, obscure, secure, reduce, assault — the full breach sequence.
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Battle Drill 9: React to Indirect Fire
The call, the clock direction, the distance, and the sprint.
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Battle Drill 10: React to a Chemical Attack
Mask in 9 seconds, give the alarm, MOPP up, decontaminate.
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