Army Basic Leader Course (BLC) - (W) Team and Squad Movement
Effective land navigation requires understanding your starting point, carefully planning your path, maintaining your direction during movement, and identifying your destination upon arrival. These steps help ensure accurate and safe movement in unfamiliar terrain.
What are the four steps to land navigation?
Know where you are
Plan the route
Stay on the route
Recognize the objective
Key Terms
What are the four steps to land navigation?
Know where you are
Plan the route
Stay on the route
Recognize the objective
Five Principles of Patrolling
Planning
Reconnaissance
Security
Command/Control
Common Sense
Three Squad Formations
Column
File
Line
What are three methods of (squad) movement and why they are used?
Traveling - Speed
Traveling Overwatch - Contact Likely
Bounding Overwatch - Contact Imminent
Danger Areas
Open Areas
Roads/Trails
Villages
Enemy Positions
Minefields
Rivers/Streams
Wire Obstacles
Two Fire Team Formations
File
Wedge
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
What are the four steps to land navigation? | Know where you are Plan the route Stay on the route Recognize the objective |
Five Principles of Patrolling | Planning Reconnaissance Security Command/Control Common Sense |
Three Squad Formations | Column File Line |
What are three methods of (squad) movement and why they are used? | Traveling - Speed Traveling Overwatch - Contact Likely Bounding Overwatch - Contact Imminent |
Danger Areas | Open Areas Roads/Trails Villages Enemy Positions Minefields Rivers/Streams Wire Obstacles |
Two Fire Team Formations | File Wedge |
What is a danger area? | Any place where the enemy may easily observe your element |
Who is responsible for recon of the far side of a danger area? | Element leader |