Platoon Attack Deliberate - pt1 #miltok #army #tactical #militarylife #fyb

Captain Justin Dalyone here, and today what I want to talk about is Platoon Attack. The reference for today that we're going to be using is the Ranger Handbook, TC3-21.76 from 2017. Okay, so one of the most basic missions that we do is Platoon Attack. One thing that I want to do to separate this from a raid or an ambush is they're much more different in the fact of what we're typically trying to accomplish. So in a raid, we're always trying to kill, capture, destroy, something, and then move, and leave the objective very quickly. A lot of times because due to the nature of that type of assault, it is behind enemy lines trying to disrupt or do something behind enemy lines. Ambush is similar where ambush is very enemy focused, where we're trying to kill someone on a road or some type of linear feature or some kind, and then remove ourselves from that area as well. We're not trying to stay, we're not trying to seize terrain, we're trying to do something to do stuff of action on the enemy and then leave. Platoon Attack is different in the fact that typically not always, but typically what we're trying to do with Platoon Attack is we're trying to seize some type of piece of terrain or something important that the enemy has, some type of key terrain. So whether we're trying to attack in order to seize an airport, which I'm saying see, track to seize an airport in order to deny something or we're trying to attack to seize a hilltop or attack to seize a city. Okay, typically when we're attacking the enemy isn't a prepared defense and we're trying to remove the enemy from a location and take that as far as ourselves. So that is the main difference. Again, raid, we're in, we're out, attack, we're in, and we're holding. It's a key objective that we must keep and maintain and retain in order to gain a competitive advantage over the enemy. All right.