Opord

Situation

After deliberations from higher ups, it has been decided that the 17th Ranger Battalion will move in and perform a surprise beach landing before the AAF knows what hits them. We will secure a foothold on the peninsula and take control of a small airstrip to be used for future missions. Friendly air assets will be performing SEAD to enable us to resupply our troops and to move friendly assets in for the main push. Securing the towns around the airfield as well as the main city of Pyrgos will give us a strong standing point to launch into further operations. Friendly RRC elements have confirmed that enemy presence on the beach is light and the go ahead for an assault has been given.

Area of Operation (AO):

South-Eastern peninsula of Altis

Forces in Play:

Opfor:

AAF Infantry, Mechanized, and Armoured units.

AAF Artillery/Mortars

AAF Anti-Air Systems

AAF Air Force

Blufor:

17th Ranger Battalion

Friendly NATO forces

Civilian Considerations:

Civilians have not been informed of the invasion nor given an order to evacuate. There will be a heavy civilian presence in the AO. Take care not to injure any or damage any infrastructure.

Engagement Criteria:

Enemies will have light support on the beachhead due to not knowing where we’d land from, air assets will successfully perform SEAD, and we will move through the garrisoned towns.

Enemy forces will be heavily entrenched with machine guns and artillery trained on the beach, shelling and shooting our forces before we land. Enemy anti-air will be too close for friendly assets and shoot them down with ease and we will be unable to bring larger equipment from the USS Justen to the mainland making the push on the towns extremely difficult. They will fight to defend their homeland.

Any forces who are in the AAF outfit and are shooting back are cleared to be killed. Only return fire or ensure that it is 100% hostile before shooting as we must take care not to damage civilian relations.

Mission:

Execution:

A joint mechanized and infantry assault with supporting friendly assets will perform a beach landing to allow for resupply and further assets to be moved in. Afterwards, we will move onto the towns.

Objectives:

Secure the beachhead.

Secure the surrounding towns and the airfield.

Secure Pyrgos and the surrounding area.

CONOP:

Phase 0:

Phase I: Brief
- All units will stand by for briefing

Phase II: Prep
- Alpha will ingress to the beach via RHIBs
- Echo mortar teams will provide smoke cover and shelling of enemy positions on the beach if necessary.
- Echo ground assets will airlifted closer to the beach, potentially airdropped into the water depending on enemy anti-air assets at the time.
- Echo air assets will take off and immediately perform SEAD. Priority targets are the 2K22 Tunguska as well as 2x ZSU-23-4 near the beach.

Phase III: Secure the beachhead
- Once the beachhead is secure, Alpha will pull security and resupply. They will be given MRAPs for convoy movement.
- Echo ground assets will be fully delivered and ready to mobilize.
- Echo air assets will continue to perform SEAD on other AA targets near the AO.
- Echo artillery will be moved to the beach for future use if necessary.

Phase IV: Move to the airfield
- Echo ground will attach to Alpha squads and move towards the Airfield and 2 surrounding towns.

Phase V: Move to Pygros
- A convoy will be performed to move to Pyrgos. Clearing any towns along the way and securing the area around Pyrogs. Once this is complete, we will have a good foothold.

Phase VI: RP/AAR
- All units prepare for debrief.

Imagery:

Timeline (in CST)

6:45pm: Organize units, and kit up

7:00pm: Operation Brief

7:15pm: Operation Start

10:30pm: All OBJ cleared, prepare for AAR.

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:

Airframes:

MH-6M Transport = "Mako"

AH-6M Attack = "Harpy"

OH-6M Scout = "Spectre"

CH-47F Chinook = "Pelican"

MH-60M (DAP) = "Rattler"

UH-60M Transport = "Griffin"

UH-60M Medical = "Guardian"

Blackfish (support) = "Pegasus"

Blackfish (attack) = "Manticore"

AH-64D Apache = "Reaper"

A-10 Warthog = "Banshee"

A-29 Super Tucano = "Kestrel"

F-22A Raptor = "Dragoon"

F-35A Lightning II = "Bushi"

C-17 Globemaster III = "Atlas"

C-130J Super Hercules = "Spire"

AC-130U Spooky II = "Hydra"

AH-1Z Viper = "Jaguar"

UH-1Y Venom = "Tiger"

CH-53E Super Stallion = "Leviathan"

Ground

M1165A1 Humvee = "Rambler"

M1117 ASV = "Goblin"

M1132 Stryker = "Boxer"

Badger IFV = "Raider"

M2A3 Bradley = "Sabre"

M1A2 Abrams = "Cerberus"

Rooikat 120 = "Rooikat"

M142 HIMARS = "Sunderer"

M109 Paladin = "Recurve"

Mk6 Mortar Team = "Hammer"

M119A2 Howitzer = “Mailman”

Naval

MK.V SOC = "Viking"

Speedboat Minigun = "Axe"

RHIB = "Hatchet"

Available Assets:

Ground

6x Badger IFV

4x M1245 CROWS MK19 MRAP

4x M1245 CROWS M2 MRAP

1x M1078A1R SOV M2

3x M119A2 Howitzer

Naval

8x RHIB Gunboat

Airframes

1x F/A-18F Super Hornet

2x CH-47F Chinook

2x MH-6M Little Bird

2x V-44 Blackfish