Opord

Situation

Enemy forces have successfully ambushed and isolated a Marine Light Armor Recon unit in the city. The enemy is employing a range of tactics, including roadblocks, ambushes, and snipers, with reports of infantry and light vehicles in the area. Expect increased enemy activity in high-rise buildings and fortified positions.

The enemy's strength is unknown, but they are using urban warfare tactics and asymmetric warfare methods, including IEDs, RPGs, and machine gun fire.

The enemy's goal is to prevent the isolated Marine unit from receiving reinforcements or being extracted, and they are willing to use force to achieve this.

The Marine Light Armor Recon unit is currently under fire in the city center, surrounded and cut off, with reported casualties on the ground.

Area of Operation (AO):

Forces in Play:

Opfor:

• Various Insurgent Groups (3CB MIddle eastern insurgents/MIlitia)
• Iraqi MIlitary (3CB Takistan Army)

Most Likely Course of Action:
OPFOR aggresses the Marines position from the East with light vehicles and infantry, and the possibility of armor support. Potential for light flanks without full encirclement.

Most Deadly Course of Action:
OPFOR commits flanking maneuvers while BLUFOR is engaged to the east. Performs encirclement, pinning BLUFOR on the marines location and engages with indirect fire.

Civilian Considerations:
Leaflets have been dropped, 90% of civilians have evacuated.

Blufor:

• Taskforce Tekashi
• RCT 6 (RHS USMC)
• RCT 9 (RHS USMC)
• 1st Recon BN (RHS SOCOM)
• Kurdish Freedom Alliance (3CB Kargizstan Royal Gaurd)
• Taskforce Gundam
• 17th Ranger Battalion
• 3ID (RHS US ARMY D)
• ZEON(PSI)

Greenfor:

• n/a

Engagement Criteria:

Engage any armed individual.

Mission:

Execution:

The 17th will be pushing through the city to reach the isolated marine position. Upon arrival, hardpoint the marines position to provide security while supporting elements within the 17th recover the bodies of injured and killed marines and their damaged vehicles. The primary objective is to ensure the recovery of the full marine group and their assets. Further opportunities for aggression may present themselves after the completion of the primary objective is complete.

Objectives:

• OBJ BLUEJAY
  • Convoy command: Ken
  • Convoy speed: 35
  • Distance: 50
  • Staggered
• Reach the marines location and establish a defensible position to protect the evacuation efforts
• Convoy parameters
• OBJ CARDINAL
• Complete the evacuation of all wounded and dead, as well as the damaged vehicles

• Protect the compound containing the marines forces
• Gather bodies of marines via body bags in the evacuation vehicle

• Tow damaged marine vehicles back to the repair point (will be dictated at mission time)
• Utilize a gunship to protect BLUFOR units on the ground
• Provide JIP service from the airbase into the AO

CONOP:

• Phase 0: PreOp 1730 CST

  • COs/XOs finalize remaining details if any
  • NCO meeting to disseminate plan
  • Slotting

• Phase I: Brief 1900 CST

  • BCO will give final overview and expectations
  • COs will brief vehicle commanders and squad leaders of final tweaks and expectations/needs

• Phase II: Prep 1905 CST

  • Alpha organizes teams and prepares kits
  • Echo loads and stages vehicles prior to mount

• Phase III: OBJ BLUEJAY step off 1915

  • Step off all vehicles to the obj location
  • Establish a defensive perimeter and repel hostile forces around the marines position to prevent further losses

• Phase IV: OBJ CARDINAL

  • Complete the evacuation of all damaged vehicles
  • Complete the evacuation of all wounded and KIA marines

• Phase V: Continuing aggression

  • If conditions allow, utilize the temporary tactical advantage of our deployment to press and eliminate targets of opportunity further East of our primary AO.
  • Gunship will be responsible for scouting these heavily fortified locations and providing intelligence to facilitate an assault.

• Phase VI: RP/AAR

  • All units prepare for debrief.

Imagery:

Timeline (in CST)

Command and Signal

Long Range Frequencies:

• Command 45
• RTO 45, 35
• Alpha Lead 40
• Flight Lead 45, 30
• Pilots 30, 35
• Echo Lead 45,80
• RRC 69
• Convoy 50

Nonverbal Coordination:

• Green: This is used to mark friendly positions on the field.
• Blue: Marking suitable locations for Landing Zones.
• Red: This is used for marking enemy positions for all units to reference.
• Yellow: This is used to inform friendly forces that Immediate medical support is needed.
• Purple: This color represents a friendly position with enemy units danger close, Anyone outside of 100 meters away from the smoke should be assumed hostile.
• Orange: This tells anyone in the air that a friendly unit is in desperate need of resupply.

Call signs for Supports:

Ground

• M1165A1 Humvee = "Dagger"
  
• M1117 ASV = "Tanto"
  
• M1132 Stryker = "Katana"
  
• Badger IFV = "Rapier"
  
• M2A3 Bradley = "Sabre"
  
• M1A2 Abrams = "Claymore"
  
• Rooikat 120 = "Gladius"
  
• M142 HIMARS = "Halberd"
  
• M109 Paladin = "Glaive"
  
• Mk6 Mortar Team = "Hammer"
  
• 105mm Howitzer = “Mailman”

Naval

Available Assets:

• M1A2 Abrams
• MRAPs
• M113 medevac

• MH-6M
• AC-130
• AH-64