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Harbour Area Drills

Harbour Area Drills. A Harbour area is a position established to provide safety during an extended halt . Reasons for Harbour area: Avoid detection Lie up whilst recce is made in detail Form a base for operations Provide an RV for entry into enemy territory.

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Harbour Area Drills

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  1. Harbour Area Drills

  2. A Harbour area is a position established to provide safety during an extended halt. • Reasons for Harbour area: • Avoid detection • Lie up whilst recce is made in detail • Form a base for operations • Provide an RV for entry into enemy territory. • Provide safety during administrative halt. ie eat, sleep etc

  3. A Common type of Harbour Area • Triangular Pattern • Ensures all round defence • Sentries positioned on corners • Ease of command with HQ in centre • Ease of use due to simple lay out

  4. Procedure for Patrol Harbour • Selection • Occupation • Clearance Patrols • Sentries • Work Routine • Stand To

  5. Selection • Commander chooses an area that is/has: • Easily defended • Dense vegetation to provide cover • Away from civilian areas • Near to water • Reasonable entry/exit routes • Good communications • Avoid: Obvious positions, Roads, Wet areas, Slopes

  6. Occupation • Flight stops short and conducts snap ambush • Commander, Section Commanders & Runner recce area. • Commander chooses corners & sets up perimeter wire. • Runner returns with 1IC to get Flight. • Flight enters at corner and each section is positioned by their IC.

  7. Clearance Patrols • Each Section sends out 2IC + 2men from nearby corner (not their LSW gunner) • Walk to edge of visibility the walk across their arc. Then walk back in via their LSW gunner. • Look for: • Streams/rivers • Obstacles • Possible ERV sites • Possible enemy attack routes • Signs of enemy activity

  8. Sentries • Posted beyond limit of noise of Harbour Area • One sentry per section • Sentries return to section via LSW position if enemy attacks • Communication line between sentry and LSW • Sentries only posted during work routine • At night sentries are double staggered at LSW point.

  9. Work Routine • Preparation of stand-to-points, construction of shell scrapes • Preparation of a path to allow silent movement at night • Communications cord laid from sentry point to LSW. LSW to IC. IC to Flight HQ • Positioning of shelters over shell scrapes at last light, taken down before first light.

  10. Stand To • Stand-to is a period of complete alertness throughout the patrol • It marks the change from Day/Night routine. • The external sentry is recalled for Stand To.

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