NTTP 3-20.6.29M Tactical Boat Operations

Tactical Boat operations

Employment of high-performance, highly maneuverable, armed boats using advanced tactics

Tactical Boat

specifically configured, highly maneuverable watercraft that is typically armed with crew served weapons (CSW) and crewed by personnel specially trained for high-speed maneuvers. These boats are primarily designated for combat or security missions?

Anti-terrorism

Defensive measures to reduce vulnerability to terrorist attack?

Counterterrorism

Offensive measures to prevent, deter, and respond to terrorism?

USCG

What is the nation's lead maritime law enforcement (MLE)

Maritime Interception Operations (MIO)

A peacetime measure under international law designed to enforce embargoes sanctioned by the United Nations Security Council, national authority, or other regional organizations?

Naval Coastal Warfare

What forces are primarily employed for expeditionary operations?

Six (6)

The IBU is deployable unit that has ____ air-deployable shallow-draft, high-speed tactical boats for conducting waterborne surveillance, interdiction, HVA escort, and CMT operations?

Three (3)

Each mobile security detachment (MSD) is equipped with ___armed, 25 foot tactical boats for conducting surveillance and interdiction operations?

No

Are MSD's trained for offensive operations, urban operations and VBSS?

1. Mission Analysis
2. Course of action (COA) development
3. COA war gaming
4. COA comparison and selection
5. Plan development
6. Transition

Six steps of the planning process?

Joint Operation Planning and Execution System (JOPES)

What established format and content requirements for plan and order development commonly used by U.S. military services?

-situation
-mission
-execution
-admin and logistics
-command and signal

What is SMEAC?

An operations order (OPORD) or a fragmentary order (FRAGORD)

Commanders and their staffs use the six-step process to develop what?

-Begin planning
-arrange for reconnaissance and coordination
-make reconnaissance and update intel
-complete the plan
-issue the order
-supervise

What is BAMCIS

METT-TC
-Mission
-Enemy
-Terrain and weather
-Troops
-Time Available
-Civilian Considerations

During the begin planning phase of BAMCIS, you can estimate the situation based on what?

Inspections, rehearsals and final instructions

During the supervise phase of BAMCIS, what does the patrol leader responsible for?

Operations and area familiarization

When a tactical boat unit first enters and operational area, and before its first mission, it should conduct what?

Tactical Boat Coxswain

Who has the ultimate responsibility for the safety and proper employment of the craft and crewmembers consistent with USN, USMC, and USCG regulations, SOPs, and doctrine, including the employment of crew served and personal weapons aboard the craft?

Radar

What is used to locate surface contacts, especially those beyond visual range of lookouts and low-flying aircraft?

Thermal Imager

What enables personnel to see heat signatures of objects, people, and other sources?

Traveling

Technique used when speed is necessary and contact with a threat is not likely?

Traveling over-watch

Technique used when contact with a threat is possible?

Bounding over-watch

Technique used when contact with a threat is expected?

Tactical halt technique i.e. herringbone

Technique used by tactical boats traveling in column formation to establish security during a deliberate halt or immediate action response?

Defense in depth

What is using multiple layers of zones, coordinated use of various assets including sensors, and the coordinated efforts of air, land, and sea forces?

To retain operational capability and mission functionality while providing the greatest level of protection to HVA's

What is the primary objective of a security zone?

Extends at 1,000 yards/meters from the HVA

Reaction zone

Extends at least 1,000 yards/meters from the outer boundary of the reaction zone away from the HVA

Intercept zone

The outermost security zone for HVA protection and extends to the reach of organic and inorganic sensors

Assessment zone

500,100

The naval vessel protective zone (NVPZ) is a ___yard regulated area of water, including a ___yard exclusion zone, surround large USN vessels.

The Posse Comitatus Act (PCA) (18 USC 1385)

Prohibits the willful use of the US army, US navy and US Air Force to enforce local, state, and federal laws unless otherwise authorized by the Constitution or an Act of Congress?