Straight from the FM 3-23.30: 1-7. SMOKE HAND GRENADES “Smoke hand grenades are used as ground-to-ground or ground-to-air signaling devices, target or landing zone marking devices, or screening devices for unit movements. Smoke hand grenades are ignited by pulling the safety pin and releasing the safety lever. After the safety pin has been pulled, the […]

Rendering a narrow road difficult to impassible with the use of the surrounding woodland can be good to know although you may never use it.  In the advent of some unforeseen doom and gloom it is a good bet that many will take to the hills and forests for shelter and sustenance.  If enemies foreign […]

Vintage photograph depicting an American soldier running for cover while under fire in a Vietnamese city. Time for another except from the Soldier’s Manual of Common Tasks, Warrior Skills, Level 1.  Have you ever gone paintballing in the woods with people who have no tactical training of any sort?  You may have noticed their inability […]

Let’s start with a quick history lesson.  Have you ever hear the term “smoking lamp’s out”?  This term is derived from the age of sail.  While the classic image of the crusty old sailor with a pipe in his mouth seems synonymous with man-of-wars; there were strict regulations on when you could and could not […]

There you are on an LP/OP (listening post/observation post), or just scouting around in your AO (area of operation); you have some kind of radio devise and you see baddies, how do you call it up? I’d like to recommend the classic SALUTE report: size, activity, location, unit/uniform, time, equipment.  Follow the power point and […]

I have a unique cultural tie to Denmark, not only because I was born there, but because of the great accomplishments of many of my predecessors.  I want to share some reasons of which Denmark found itself defenseless, and some stories passed down from my Oldefar (great grandfather).  The Danish underground had been very well […]

Any time you set up a guard post, LPOP, or fighting position it is absolutely necessary that those who take your place know where there sectors of fire lie and what is in front of them and how far.  This stands especially important if your replacement is jumping into a fighting position in the middle […]