TYPES OF INFANTRY
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Combat Missions you will see in the Infantry:
Movement to contact - an offensive operation designed to gain initial ground contact with the enemy or to regain lost contact.
Attack - Offensive action characterized by movement supported by fire. Examples of attacks are:
- Hasty Attack: An offensive operation for which a unit has not made extensive preparations. It is conducted with the resources immediately available in order to maintain momentum or to take advantage of the enemy situation.
- Deliberate Attack: An attack planned and carefully coordinated with all concerned elements based on thorough reconnaissance, evaluation of all available intelligence and relative combat strength, analysis of various courses of action, and other factors affecting the situation. It is generally conducted against a well organized defense when a hasty attack is not possible or has been conducted and fails.
- Spoiling Attack: A limited objective attack made to delay, disrupt, or destroy the enemy's capability to launch an attack.
Raid - An operation, usually small scale, involving a swift penetration of hostile territory to secure information, to confuse the enemy, or to destroy his installations. It ends with a planned withdrawal upon completion of the assigned mission.
Ambush - A surprise attack by fire from concealed positions on a moving or temporarily halted enemy.
Reconnaissance - A mission undertaken to obtain information by visual observation, or other detection methods, about the activities and resources of an enemy or potential enemy, or about the terrain characteristics of a particular area.
Defense - A coordinated effort by a force to defeat an attacker and prevent him from achieving his objectives. Typical defense missions are:
- Defend in Sector: A mission which requires a defending unit to prevent enemy forces from passing beyond the rear boundary of the sector, while retaining flank security, and ensuring integrity of effort within the scheme of maneuver.
- Defend a Battle Position (BP): A mission which places a unit in a BP to concentrate its fires, to limit its maneuver, or to place it in an advantageous position to counterattack.
- Defend a Strong Point: A mission which implies retention of the position at all costs. Repeated assaults must be expected and repelled.
Security Operations - Those operations designed to obtain information about the enemy and provide reaction time, maneuver space, and protection to the main body. Security operations are characterized by aggressive reconnaissance to reduce terrain and enemy unkowns, gaining and maintaining contact with the enemy to ensure continuous information, and providing early and accurate reporting of information to the protected force. Types of security operations are:
- Screening Force: Maintains surveillance, provides early warning to the main body, impedes and harasses the enemy with supporting indirect fires, and destroys enemy reconnaissance elements within it's capability.
- Guard Force: Accomplishes all the tasks of the screening force. Additionally, prevents enemy ground observation of and direct fire against the main body. Reconnoiters, attacks, defends, and delays as necessary to accomplish its mission.
- Covering Force: Accomplishes all the tasks of the Guard Force and Screening Force. Additionally, operates apart from the main body to develop the situation early and deceive, disorganize, and destroy enemy forces.
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The total Infantry Force currently consists of 160 Infantry Battalions. 71 of these Infantry Battalions are active duty units stationed within the Continental United States (CONUS), and Outside the continental US (OCONUS); there are also 88 National Guard and 1 Reserve Infantry Battalions.
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