Pillar 03 of 04 · Tactics
Patrolling & Battle Drills
Patrolling and battle drills, animated step by step — establishing an objective rally point, react to contact, break contact, ambushes, bunkers, trenches, rooms, breaches, indirect fire, and chemical attack. Written and illustrated by an infantryman who has trained them, not just read about them.
- 10Battle drills
- 20Tactics pages
- ZeroPaid rankings
// 01 · Squad & platoon
The Ten Battle Drills
10 drillsEvery drill in order, each with its own step-by-step simulator. The pictures are frames from the drills themselves.
// 02 · Team to platoon
Patrolling
5 pagesHow the patrol moves, halts, crosses and beds down.
Movement Formations & Techniques
Every fire team, squad and platoon formation drawn one Soldier at a time, and traveling, traveling overwatch and bounding overwatch animated with the real distances.
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Establish an ORP: The Objective Rally Point
The security halt, the leaders recon, the triangle, the count in and out, occupation by the numbers — the full platoon ORP sequence, with the doctrine behind every step.
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NEWOccupy a Patrol Base
The combat football, the leader’s recon, the LP/OP at the 90° turn, occupation by squad through the 6, and R&S one team at a time.
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Crossing a Linear Danger Area (LDA)
Halt short of the road, walk the security in, pick the crossing point, clear the far side to depth, cross in one lane and count them across.
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Cross an Open Danger Area
The box method and the contour method for bypassing a small open area, and the bounding overwatch cross when it is too large.
Run the walkthrough →// 03 · Platoon
Offensive Operations
3 pagesFrom the line of departure to the withdrawal back to the rucks.
NEWPlatoon Movement to Contact
Bounding overwatch across the LD, contact, guns up as the base of fire, the bold flank, shift and lift fire, and the red-white-blue withdrawal.
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NEWConduct an L-Shaped Ambush
The leader’s recon out of the ORP, security isolating the kill zone, the claymore initiation, assault through and lift fire, search, and the choke-point withdrawal.
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NEWConduct a Platoon Raid
The leader’s recon, security isolating the objective, the AT4 and the guns initiating from support, the breach, clearing building by building, and the phased withdrawal.
Run the walkthrough →// 04 · Individual skills
Soldier Tasks
2 pagesThe individual skills behind the collective tasks.
Call for Fire: Teacher and Simulator
Twelve interactive lessons, then a simulator that hands you a randomised target on a 1:50,000 map, reads your radio traffic back, and grades every call against ATP 3-09.30.
Learn it, then run a mission →
NEWHow to Pack a Ruck: Layer by Layer
The MOLLE II Large Rucksack with both sustainment pouches and the waist pack, packed in a seventeen-step cutaway, with the weight standards from ATP 3-21.18 and the gear for each layer.
Pack it with me →// Keep going
The Other Pillars
Pillar 01Gear & Kit Reviews
Boots, rucks, plate carriers, and field kit that actually holds up.
6 guides →
Pillar 02Fitness & Training
AFT and CFT standards, rucking, and prep for Ranger and Sapper.
6 guides · 3 free tools · 1 custom program →
Pillar 04Career & Schools
MOS selection, Guard vs Active, ROTC and SMP, schools, and pay.
9 guides · 1 free tool →Don’t Miss the Next Drill
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- 5 lift days · 3 run days per week, supersets for 45-minute sessions
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- Hybrid framework — strength, conditioning, and recovery, balanced
- Built around real soldier schedules — unit time, school, family
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