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Mine Countermine Operations and Combat Engineer
Mine Countermine Operations and Combat Engineer Author:Department of Defense A great value! Two military manuals combine into one book. If you purchase both books separate you will pay more for the books plus shipping cost. Mine Countermine Operations: Provides United States (US) armed forces with tactical, technical, and procedural guidance for conducting mine and countermine operations. It applies to all elements of... more » the combined arms team for maneuver and engineer staff planning and coordination. The manual is presented in three parts-mine operations, counter operations, and special-mining operations. The guidance provided focuses on individual skills of emplacing and removing mines, team and squad tasks, platoon and company organization and planning, and battalion/task force (TF) organization and coordination for successful obstacle reduction and breaching operations. Combat Engineer: Battlefield Operating Systems (BOS) as a framework: * Intelligence. * Maneuver. * Mobility and survivability. * Fire support (FS). * Air defense (AD). * Combat service support (CSS). * Command and control (C2). Each BOS is not discussed in detail. Instead, they are used to outline considerations for how the engineer platoon supports the total combined-arms (CA) effort. The bulk of the platoon's missions concentrates on mobility, countermobility, and survivability operations in support of the mobility and survivability BOS. However, the platoon leader and sergeant must have an understanding of the role their platoon plays in supporting all the BOS. More importantly, the platoon leader and sergeant must understand the impact of all the BOS on platoon planning, preparation, and execution.« less