Tropico Thunder event: OP Order

1. Situation
a. Enemy situation
i. Strength: estimated light infantry platoon plus of army regulars. I expect them to be armed with RPG’s, LMG’s, and HMG’s.
ii. Maneuver: The enemy is in a defensive posture, I expect them to remain in their defensive positions and maneuver their reserves for strengthening existing positions or counterattacking our breakthroughs.
iii. Fires: enemy fires’ capabilities are unknown. Since the enemy has not yet used their Fires, I do not expect them to have more than Mortars and if so they will appear in limited form.
iv. Intelligence: Enemy should be unaware of upcoming offensives.
v. Command and Control: Expect the enemy to be well prepared therefore expect them to maintain command and control throughout the fight.
vi. Air defense: The enemy has deployed his AA units to the northwest side of the island. But the continued presence of HMG’s will render the airspace to our West contested.
vii. Mobility and Counter mobility: Since the enemy is largely Light infantry I do not expect them to be more than Foot mobile, possible that they will be assisted by motorized units for increased mobility later. Since the enemy has had a lot of
prep time I do expect the enemy to have Barbed wire and similar counter mobility measures in place.
viii. Sustainment: enemy has limited service and support, expect them to only operate on a one day supply, with no expectations of resupply within 24 hours.
ix. Most likely Course of action: the enemy will stay in his defensive positions and fight from there. He will most likely not commit any reserves to reinforce his positions.
x. Most dangerous course of action: the enemy fights from his defensive positions, with initial ambushes and in depth defenses. The enemy will bring in additional reinforcements, to prevent our break through. In worst case they will be able to bring
in fire support to hamper our movement.
b. Friendly situation:
i. Higher unit mission: Defeating the enemy by seizing Tropicavilles port and using it to establish a Beachead to reinforce our units and completely destroy the enemy on the island.
ii. Higher units intent: CO intents for us to achive our objectives through a combination of speed and minimal casualties.
iii. Task and purpose of Adjacent units: to out North Friendlies are engaging the enemy to our north and pushing west as we speak. Their resupply hinge on us achieving our objective.
2. Mission

a. Our platoon is to assault and secure tropicaville NLT 0000L, in Route we are to secure Djobadob and CEMTEX ville.

3. Execution

a. Concept of the Operation:
The concept of this mission is to Secure the port facilities of tropicaville. We will achieve this by engaging the enemy using our dedicated fire support, and the firepower and mobility of our vehicles. We will be taking each objective individually with the end state being 360 perimeter around each objective.

b. Maneuver plan:

we will conduct this assault in 2 phases:
phase 1
Preparation
movement to assault positions
Assualt on Djobadob
Reorganizing in Djobadob
phase 2
Movement to Tropicaville
Tropicaville assault
Tropicaville reorganization.

Preparation: here squadleaders will spend no more than 5 minutes getting their fireteams sorted and ensuring that squad SOP’s are met. This phase will also include a Radio check to my RTO.

Movement: here the FO and Scout team will be moving to OP Dagger at grid () where they will get eyes on town and identify threats (HMG’s and RPG’s) that the sniper team will prepare to engage. The FO will prepare fire missions on fortified enemy positions. The platoon will move mounted onto Grid () where 1. Squad and 3. Squad will dismount 4 a fireteam and sweep the jungle while moving to their Firing positions. End state for Movement phase is the platoon on line formation with eyes on Djobadob.

Assualt: As movement phase ends the FO Should be ready to commence prepatory fires and will engage as many targets as possible, as artillery stats landing the Snipers will engage enemy heavy weapons. When platoon is set the platoon will open fire on the town and ensure that enemy targets are suppressed. Once initial firefight is won, 1. And 2. Squad will assault the south side of town. 1 squad will breach and secure Compund 1-1 while 2. Squad will secure compound 1-2. Once they are in position 3. Squad will mount up and move to breach compound 1-3 and while 1-3 is being secured 4. Squad will mount up and move to breach and secure compound 1-4.
Reorganization: will be done from compunds, 360 security will be established and CCP will be set up, at that time casevac will do a pickup and treatment of wounded and once we have been reinforced we will commence phase 2

Phase 2

Movement: the platoon will Mount up and move to designated OP’s where the FO and sniper will ID major threats and prepare measures for neutralizing those. Meanwhile the PL will conduct leaders Recon on Cemtex ville and Tropicaville.
Assualt : will be 2 part.
Part 1 will be 1. Squad and Weapons squad providing overwatch and support fire. While 2. And 3. Squad conducts a mounted assault on Cemtexville. There they will reorganize and call for medevac if needed.


Part 2
2. and 3. Squad will continue their assault west to tropica ville and secure a foothold on the East side of town. When that has been achived 1 squad will move to the East side of town, and join a westbound assault, following the axis of advance assigned.
4. Squad will stay on over watch in order to counter enemy reinforcements.
Reorganization: Once assault is complete the platoon will reorganize around the town in a manner depending on casualties sustained.

c. Fires:
Purpose of fires, is to suppress the enemy’s ability to stop our assault, through prepatory fires and on call fire.
Furthermore the purpose of fires is to illuminate the mission area during fighting or observations on the CO’s request.
d. Restrictions to fires: Danger close only with PL or 2IC permission. Civilians should have been evacuated by now and are therefore not a concern.
e. Priorities of fire: All requests for fire shall go through the FO. FO shall prioritize calls for fire coming from CO first then 2IC, all other calls of fire are up to FO to determine based on target description.
Target priority: armed Vehicles and Heavy weapons are priority, secondary are fortified enemies.
f. Additional details will be handled in briefing
4. Sustainment
a. Support concept:
no expectation to resupply before our objectives are secure
b. Medevac: Facilitated by Helo, we will have a designated Helo C/S Prowler 1 to provide Medevac. Prowler 1 is carrying Archangel 3, a PJ team who will assist with medevac and treatment.
c. Casevac: When you have casualties, stabilize them and get them in your vehicles and continue fighting, send a Casualty reports to 2IC when he needs it, don’t spam him with people needing morphine.
d. CCP’s: 2IC will designate CCP’s. CCP’s should if possible have adjacent LZ’s to ease Medevac.
5. Command and Signals
a. Succession of command: PL, 2IC, 1. SL, 2. SL, 3. SL, 4. SL,

b. Callsigns:
Platoon Boxer 2
1. Squad: Boxer 2-1
2. Squad: Boxer 2-2
3. Squad: Boxer 2-3
4. Squad: Boxer 2-4
2IC: Boxer 2-5
PL: Boxer 2-6
PL RTO: Boxer 2-6’R

Medvac pilot: Prowler 1
PJ Team: Archangel 3
Scouts: Stalker 1
FO: Thor
FO RTO: Thor’R
FDC: Hammer

c. Nets:

We will operate 2 nets:
CH 1: platoon net, will contain following Callsigns
1. Squad: Boxer 2-1
2. Squad: Boxer 2-2
3. Squad: Boxer 2-3
4. Squad: Boxer 2-4
2IC: Boxer 2-5
PL: Boxer 2-6
PL RTO: Boxer 2-6’R
FO RTO: Thor’R
Medvac pilot: Prowler 1
PJ Team: Archangel 3
Scouts: Stalker 1

Channel 2: Firesupport net will contain the following callsigns:
FO: Thor

FDC: Hammer
Comms between CH 1 and CH 2 will be handled by the FO’s RTO.
My RTO is cleared to join the Fire net for high priority hails.
Prowler 1 will report to 2-5 when on station on CH 1. 2-5 will then send his 9- line request for medevac or provide Prowler with additional instructions. Archangel and Prowler shall keep comms on platoon net on a minimum and utilize their 343 radios for comms when possible.

Internal platoon comms (343):
CH 1: 2-1
CH 2: 2-2
CH 3: 2-3
CH 4: 2-4
CH 5: 2-5, 2-6, 2-6’R, Thor, Thor’R
CH 6: Stalker, (Thor, Thor’R (alternate))
CH 7: Prowler 1, Archangel 3
CH 8: Hammer