Bøger af Ranger Training Brigade

This February 2011 edition is the most current, fully revised and is currently in use. In this handbook you will find tactics and techniques used by Army Rangers. This handbook offers the techniques and tactics that make U.S. Army Rangers the best soldiers in the world. These highly trained, easily deployable, and widely skilled infantrymen specialize in airborne assault, raids, recovery of personnel and equipment, and airfield seizure, among other difficult and dangerous missions. Now, in this recently revised edition of the U.S. Army Ranger Handbook, you can get the latest info on everything from understanding the basics of Army operations and tactics to discovering what makes a soldier with good leadership qualities and character. Although primarily written for Rangers and other light infantry units, it serves as a handy reference for all military units, covering how infantry squad- and platoon-sized elements conduct combat operations in varied terrains. this guide provides modern soldiers with best training possible and effectively combines the lessons of the past with important insights for the future to help make army leaders the absolute best they can be. This handbook provides squad and platoon leaders with the roles, tactics, knowledge, and operational requirements to employ combat multipliers in a combat environment. SH 21-76.

This is a larger format reference, desk copy edition of the bestselling pocket edition. New, fully revised 2010 edition of the official issue United States Army Ranger Handbook. The chapters are structured as follows (subjects in brackets are just examples of some of the many issues and lessons covered in the chapters) : Leadership; Operations; Fire Support (including risk estimate distances, close air support, close combat attack aviation etc.) ; Communications (military radios, antennas etc.); Demolitions (explosives, detonations, safe distances etc.) ; Movement (formations, fundamentals, tactical marches, movement during limited visibility, danger areas etc.) ; Patrols (reconnaissance, security, ambushes, debriefs etc.) ; Battle Drills (react to visual, IED, or direct contact; how to enter and clear a room, entering trenches, reacting to indirect fire etc.) ; Mountain Engineering (training, organization, rescue equipment, anchors, knots, belays, climbing commands etc.) ; Machine Gun Employment (specifications, classes, offensive and defensive use, control, ammunition planning etc.) ; Convoy Operations (planning, truck movements) ; Urban Operations (perspectives, organization, principles, rehearsals, close quarters combat etc.) ; Waterborne Operations (rope bridge, poncho watercraft etc.) ; Evasion / Survival (escape, camouflage, survival kits, navigation, traps and snares, shelters, fires etc.) ; Aviation (pickup and landing zones, air assault formations, attack helicopters, utility helicopters etc.) ; First Aid (lifesaving measures, care under fire, breathing, bleeding, shock, abdominal injuries, burns, poisonous plant identification, foot care, litter, hydration, medevac etc.). Appendices detail resources and quick reference cards. Extensive glossary and index included. Illustrated throughout.