Section Battle Drills
• What is a Section Battle Drill ?
• It is the movement of a section of
troops in to a position to enable
them to attack the enemy
successfully
• To help us remember the process to
initiate a Section Battle Drill,
The mnemonic
• PREWAR
Is used
P. R. E. W. A. R.
P
Preparation
For Battle
• Preparation Battle
• The mnemonic PAWPERSO is used
• P Protection, Sentries, Cover, Camouflage, Alarms.
• A Ammunition Supply, Reserves.
• W Weapons Distribution, Checking, Preparation.
• P Personal Camouflage, Hygiene, Food and Water.
• E Equipment, Scales required, Distribution.
• R Radios, Communications, Rehearsals.
• S Specialist equipment, Ropes, Night vision.
• O Orders, O’ group Timings.
•R
• Reaction to effective
Enemy Fire
• Effective Enemy fire is
considered to be rounds falling
in or around your location that
could or have caused injuries.
• The reaction is: -
• On the Command TAKE COVER
• DASH
• DOWN
• CRAWL
• OBSERVE
• SIGHTS
• FIRE
At this time a sit rep is sent informing higher command of
the location of the contact. A typical sit rep would be
“zero, alpha 1, contact grid 123456 wait out”.
•E
• Enemy Location
•As part of the reaction to effective enemy
fire the section will all be observing the
ground in an attempt locate the enemy
position.
•There are three methods used to locate
the enemy position, these are: -
• i. Observation: -
• All members of the section are to
observe and if they see the enemy they
must let the other section members
know. This would be done using a Fire
Control order.
•
ii. Fire into likely cover: -
•The Section commander will
indicate, using fire control orders,
individuals or groups to fire into
likely enemy locations.
• iii. Draw the enemy fire: -
• Two men will be sent forward by the
section commander in an attempt to
entice the enemy to fire upon them. All
other members of the section are to
observe likely cover attempting to
observe muzzle flashes or smoke.
• If none of these methods work then the
patrol continues as normal to its
objective.
•W
• Winning the
Firefight/Suppressing
the Enemy
• Once the enemy have been located the
section commander instructs the section 2i/c
to carry on whilst he asses the situation. The
2i/c will instruct the section using fire control
orders to fire upon the enemy position. The
idea is to stop the enemy firing whilst the
assault is carried out.
• There are three rates of fire that can
be used. They are: -
• Deliberate 10 Rounds per minute.
• Rapid 30 Rounds per minute.
• Snap 3 – 5 Rounds per minute.
•A
• Assault/fight Through
•The section commander will have
made his appreciation of the situation
whilst the section is suppressing the
enemy. The assault can take the form
of a frontal assault or left/right
flanking.
• A typical assault is carried out in the following
manner: -
• Charlie fire team is the assault group and
Delta fire team provides covering fire. Charlie
fire team will move forward towards the
enemy position dropping off the LSW gunner
and one rifleman to give further covering fire.
• All movement by any fire team must be
covered by fire from the other.
• As the Assault is made the fire support team
must fire across the objective for as long as
possible,
• It then switches its fire to prevent any friendly
casualties.
• Watch out for any Enemy interference from
the flanks.
• The section commander and the one
remaining rifleman (known as the
grenadier) move forward towards the
enemy position. The grenadier throws in
a grenade and as it goes off he is up and
on top of the position firing in a full
magazine of ammunition.
• At the moment the grenade explodes all
other members off the section are up
and moving towards the enemy position.
They all move along the route taken by
the assault group. This is known as the
proven route.
•R
• Reorganisation
• The mnemonic GASCARD is used.
• G Groups must travel in using the proven route.
• A All round defence
• S Sit rep/ search team
• C Casualties
• A Ammunition states (recharge magazines)
• R Redistribute (specialist equipment off casualties)
• D Dig/Deploy (dig if remaining in the position.
Deploy if directed to carry on with task)
