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Home on the Range

TDG #11-2

The mission of your patrol is to interdict any insurgent forces or their supplies transiting your AO and to confiscate any caches of arms or equipment discovered in order to deny this region to the enemy as a sanctuary or supply source. Requirement In a time limit of 20 minutes, indicate what

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Misleading Future Marine Tacticians?

Some further thoughts on TDGs

[...] is it not the case that at this instant devoting time to work out whether "at the end of the day" six stone walls will have been breached by Marine assault amphibious vehicles and two buildings will have sustained heavy damage from 12.7mm machinegun fire from the enemy on Hill 2 is a total

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Tax Trouble

TDG #11-1

In the middle of your area a French and British nongovernmental organization (NGO) has been distributing food, blankets, and fresh water to those whose homes have been destroyed as a result of the invasion and occupation. Through manipulation of the French and British, they have convinced them to

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Dilemma at Styx River Bridge

TDG #10-12

You are the Platoon Commander, 1st Platoon (Reinforced), Bridge Company, 8th Engineer Support Battalion. While no one has claimed responsibility for the bridge destruction, it is widely believed that elements of the Tajik clan who live north and east of the city center destroyed the bridge in a

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Fight for Rahadnak Valley

TDG #10-11

(See map.) He also reminds all of his leaders to be vigilant of the mood of other clans and to take every advantage to both defeat the Americans and increase our own numbers and supporters. Based on previous experience, the Americans usually follow the same pattern, encircling the village with some

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‘Cordon and. . . .’

TDG #10-10

[...] after successful arms interdiction in the area, organized guerrilla groups ignited an active campaign against coalition forces and inflamed tribal unrest throughout the valley. The company scheme of maneuver calls for two platoons to encircle the village, one from the west and the other from

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“What now, Staff Sergeant?”

TDG #10-9

[...] after successful arms interdiction in the area, organized guerrilla groups initiated an active campaign against coalition forces and inflamed tribal unrest throughout the valley. The company scheme of maneuver calls for two platoons to encircle the village, one from the west and the other

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Rahadnak Valley Search

TDG #10-8

[...] after successful arms interdiction in the area, organized guerrilla groups ignited an active campaign against coalition forces and inflamed tribal unrest throughout the valley. In order to maximize the "shock and awe" and speed of your mechanized unit, you decide on a simple, though

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What Now, Lieutenant . . . I Mean, Sergeant?

Generational adjustments to decisionmaking

In an operational environment defined by the distribution of forces, with platoons responsible for geographic areas that companies or battalions would have covered in previous years, enlisted leaders at the squad level need to have tactical decisionmaking and critical thinking skills in order to

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On Watch

TDG # 10-7

You are the S-3A (assistant operations officer) and battalion watch officer (as well as battalion landing team (BLT) training officer and education officer) of BLT 2d Battalion, 1st Marines, 1 1 th MEU. Acting on intelligence from a local tribe, the BLT commanding officer (CO) has tasked Echo

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Shaping Actions

TDG # 10-6

Recently the MEU has been focusing on the southern sector of the area of operations intercepting arms and explosives flowing from Pakistan into Afghanistan through the mountains of tribal Pakistan into the Tora Bora region. Acting on intelligence from a local tribe, Echo Company, a helicopterborne

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