MO Militia Training Guidelines

  1. Command and Organization
    1. Mobilization/Alert Readiness
    2. Learning the Alert System and implementing it
    3. Evacuation routes/rally points
    4. Emergency mobilization
    5. Task Organization (4-18 man element)
  2. Movement Techniques/Small Unit Tactics
    1. Low/high crawl
    2. File, wedge, staggered column, echelon left/right
    3. Rushes over open ground
    4. Deliberate Danger Area Crossing
  3. Communications
    1. Hand and arm signals
    2. Basic radio operating
    3. COMSEC/SITREP/SALUTE
  4. Individual Camouflage
  5. Basic First Aid/CPR - Red Cross Certification
    1. Evaluate a casualty
    2. Prevent/treat for shock
    3. Clearing obstruction from throat
    4. Treat/prevent heat exhaustion and frostbite/hypothermia
    5. Treat burns
    6. Put on field dressings
    7. Apply dressing to an open chest, head, or abdominal wound
    8. Splint a fracture
    9. Perform CPR
    10. Transport a casualty
    11. Basic sanitation, preventive medicine, and health maintenance
  6. Noise, Litter, Light Discipline
  7. Basic Emergency Preparedness
    1. Water storage
    2. Hygiene/sanitation
    3. Food storage
    4. Medical supplies
  8. Basic Survival Skills
    1. Identify wild foods in A/O
    2. Identify poisonous plants/snakes in A/O
    3. Locate and purify drinking water
    4. Build a fire
    5. Snare/trap wild game
    6. locate and construct a field expedient shelter
  1. Individual Skills
    1. 5 paragraph OPORD: SMESC
    2. Troop leading procedure
    3. 5 point contingency plan (GOTWA)
    4. METT - TC
    5. OCOKA
    6. 9 line medevac
  2. Small Unit Tactics
    1. Immediate action
      • move under direct fire
      • react to indirect fire
      • react to contact
      • break contact
      • react to ambush, near/far
      • react to flares
    2. Movement
      • traveling
      • traveling overwatch
      • bounding overwatch
      • open area bypass/contour
      • clearing ORP
  3. Perform reconnaissance
  4. Selection and construction of individual fighting position
  5. Set up patrol base camp
  6. Basic land navigation
    1. orient/determine location on map by terrain association
    2. measure distance
    3. determine direction with/without compass
    4. shoot an azimuth and calculate the back azimuth
    5. identify topographic features/symbols on map
  1. Small Unit Tactics
    1. Close Quarters Battle (CQB)
      • room clearing with a team
      • building clearing with a squad
      • dynamic entry
  2. Clearing a vehicle
  3. Operating a vehicle checkpoint/roadblock
  4. Movement
    1. basic convoy principles
    2. mounted operations
  5. Patrol base operations
  6. Long range reconnaissance and patrol (LRRP)
    1. extended operations with limited food
    2. operation in extreme weather conditions
    3. escape and evasion