71-CO-8514 OPFOR Fix

Status	Approved 25 Feb 2010
Effective Date:	11 Nov 2016
Task Number:	71-CO-8514
Task Title:	OPFOR Fix
Distribution Restriction:	Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
Destruction Notice:	None
Foreign Disclosure: FD1 -	This training product has been reviewed by the training developers in coordination with the HQS TRADOC DCS G2 FDO foreign disclosure officer. This training product can be used to instruct international military students from all approved countries without restrictions.

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Conditions

The OPFOR is conducting operations independently or as part of a larger element or force and receives an operation order (OPORD) or fragmentary order (FRAGORD) with a mission task, purpose, and intent. The order includes all applicable overlays and/or graphics. Task organization provides the combat power capabilities to accomplish a mission task that may require a situational breach. The OPFOR has communications with higher , adjacent, subordinate, and supporting elements. Friendly force and enemy coalition forces, noncombatants, government agencies, nongovernment organizations, and local and international media may be in the operational environment (OE). The OPFOR is not constrained by standardized Rules of Engagement (ROE) and does not necessarily comply with international conventions or agreements on the conduct of warfare. Some iterations of this task should be performed in MOPP 4. This task should be trained under IED Threat conditions.

Standards

The OPFOR conducts the fix task-drill in accordance with (IAW) TC 7-100.2 and/or TC 7-100.3, the order, and/or higher commander's guidance. The OPFOR, IAW the mission order, conducts the fix task-drill to support accomplishing the commander’s mission, acts rapidly to prevent enemy movement, maintains OPFOR freedom of movement and/or maneuver, and retains the tactical initiative. The OPFOR continues the mission.

NOTE

TADSS and Materiel Items quantities are based on an armor company headquarters with two armor platoons, one IFV platoon and one dismounted infantry platoon to replicate non-conventional threat. Adjust as needed based on the force size and type of unit used to replicate the OPFOR

NOTE

The Objective Task Evaluation Criteria Matrix is provided for reference only. Operational and Training Environments will be IAW the BLUFOR Commanders training plan and guidance.

NOTE

Access the Virtual OPFOR Academy at https://tbr.army.mil for electronic copies of OPFOR doctrine, references, Decisive Action Training Environment (DATE), and instructional and immersive videos on conducting this task. 

Live Fire Required

No

Objective Task Evaluation Criteria Matrix

Plan and Prepare			Execute						Assess
Operational Environment		Training Environment (L/V/C)	% of Leaders Present at Training/Authorized	% of Soldiers Present at	External Eval	% Performance Measures 'GO'	% Critical Performance Measures 'GO'	% Leader Performance Measures 'GO'	Task Assessment
BDE & Above
Dynamic and Complex (All OE Variables and Hybrid Threat)	Night	Operational Environment variables and OPFOR use of L/V/C are executed IAW BLUFOR	>=85%	>=80%	Yes	>=91%	All	>=90%	T
			75-84%			80-90%		80-89%	T-
Dynamic and Complex (All OE Variables and Single Threat)			65-74%	75-79%	No	65-79%			P
	Day		60-64%	60-74%		51-64%	<All	<=79%	P-
Dynamic and Complex (<All OE Variables and Single Threat)			<=59%	<=59%		<=50%			U

Remarks

None

Notes

None

Safety Risk

Low

Cue

None

DANGER: Safety briefings should alert users to the possibility of personal injury or damage to equipment that may result from long-term failure to follow correct procedures.
WARNING: Safety briefings should alert users to the possibility of immediate personal injury or damage to equipment.
CAUTION: None

Performance Steps and Measures

NOTE: Assess task proficiency using the task evaluation criteria matrix.

NOTE: Asterisks (*) indicate leader steps; plus signs (+) indicate critical steps.

STEP/MEASURE	GO	NO-GO	N/A
Plan
+ 1. Plan
+ a. Identify reconnaissance and surveillance objectives for collection and analysis in support of AOR situational awareness and situational understanding requirements.
+ b. Identify elements and/or forces that are to be fixed in support of the mission.
+ c. Collect current information on enemy element-force capabilities and limitations, locations, and other operational environment information.
+ d. Analyze action and enabling functions that must be performed to achieve mission and collective drill success for a fix drill.
+ e. Determine the functional tactics to be applied by action, enabling, and support elements.
+ f. Identify task organization requirements for elements-forces by function IAW TC 7-100.2/ TC 7- 100.3.
+ g. Determine how functional elements act or enable security tasks, fix the designated enemy element and/or force, other offensive actions, combat support and combat service support, and/or transition to other tasks-subtasks.
+ h. Identify time constraints and/or restrictions on accomplishing the mission and supporting requirements of a fix task-drill.
Prepare
+ 2. Prepare
+ a. Provide situational understanding of the enemy and operational environment from current reconnaissance, surveillance, and intelligence reports.
+ b. Report regular, periodic, and/or unexpected information updates in a timely manner to satisfy the commander’s critical information requirements and mission intent.
+ c. Task organize elements-forces by function IAW TC 7-100.2/TC 7-100.3 that provide capabilities to fix enemy.
+ d. Coordinate the integration of available RISTA assets for continuous and overlapping coverage of designated areas, zones, routes, and/or special objectives in the AOR, and zone of reconnaissance responsibility (ZORR).
+ e. Conduct counterreconnaissance actions that prevent enemy situational understanding of OPFOR intentions and/or offensive actions.
+ f. Tailor elements capabilities considering anticipated complex terrain, survivability measures, and camouflage, concealment, cover, and deception (C3D).
+ g. Conduct mission and task rehearsals of action and enabling elements-forces, and the action subtasks to fix an enemy element-force.
+ h. Coordinate for required direct and indirect fires.
+ i. Coordinate and prepare to emplace selected countermobility obstacles in conjunction with concealment, camouflage, cover, and deception actions.
+ j. Confirm redundant command and control (C2) communication requirements and capabilities.
+ k. Execute information warfare (INFOWAR) in support of offensive actions.
Execute
+ 3. Prevent Movement
+ a. Confirm current enemy conditions at the enemy location, and/or direction and speed or tempo of movement-maneuver of enemy elements-forces to be fixed.
+ b. Coordinate with friendly elements-forces in adjacent AORs to ensure overlapping coverage of zones of reconnaissance responsibility (ZORRs) and provide early warning of enemy activities and/or operational environment conditions that can impact on fix task-drill.
+ c. Conduct counterreconnaissance tasks to destroy or defeat enemy security elements that can influence fix task-drill.
+ d. Detect enemy elements-forces along ground or air avenues of approach in the vicinity of enemy to be fixed that can influence success of the fix task-drill, and coordinate to disrupt, delay, or deny access of those enemy elements-forces to assist the fixed enemy.
+ e. Maintain contact with the enemy to be fixed with observation and/or technical sensor reconnaissance and surveillance means to sustain current situational information.
+ f. Emplace selected stationary countermobility obstacles in conjunction with concealment, camouflage, cover, and deception actions.
+ g. Position a reserve element for rapid movement-maneuver, on order of the OPFOR commander, to support the mission.
+ h. Conduct undetected movement by action and enabling element(s) to occupy simple battle position(s) and/or support locations for security tasks and the fix drill.
+ i. Execute actions that convince the enemy commander-leader that he cannot move from the present location.
+ j. Execute information warfare (INFOWAR) in support of the fix drill that convinces the enemy commander-leader to not move from the present location.

+ 4. Execute Fix
+ a. Provide security for action and enabling element(s) that execute the fix drill.
+ b. Engage enemy elements-forces with direct and indirect fires in the fix location or kill zone.
+ c. Suppress and/or neutralize enemy elements-forces in the fix location or kill zone.
+ d. Execute selected mobile countermobility obstacles in conjunction with direct and indirect fires and obscuration.
+ e. Conduct INFOWAR perception management activities to convince the enemy commander- leader that he cannot move or decides not to move from the present location.
+ f. Employ, when appropriate, INFOWAR electronic warfare activities to block or disrupt enemy command and control in support of fixing the enemy element-force.
+ g. Employ, when appropriate, relevant population in the target area to physically block, contain, or disrupt an enemy element-force in support of fix.
+ h. Deny enemy elements-forces freedom of movement and maneuver in a designated location or kill zone for specified period of time.
+ i. Achieve the fix purpose that can include an intent to contain, isolate, suppress, neutralize, interdict, defeat, and/or destroy selected enemy elements-forces.
+ 5. Continue Mission
+ a. Report regular, periodic, and/or unexpected information updates in a timely manner to satisfy the commander’s situational awareness and situational understanding requirements.
+ b. Execute tasks with stay-behind elements, when required, that can include but is not limited to: surveillance, disrupt, delay, suppress, neutralize, defend, defeat, and/or destroy tasks.
+ c. Report reorganization and combat effectiveness of OPFOR elements-forces.
+ d. Recommend if current tactical conditions require an adjustment to the time and/or tempo for current and/or subsequent mission tasks.
+ e. Continue the mission.
Assess
+ 6. Performance Measures
+ a. Reconnaissance identifies enemy to fix - (Yes/No)
+ b. Counterreconnaissance actions effective - (Yes/No)
+ c. Report timely reconnaissance-intelligence update - (Yes/No)
+ d. Deception actions are effective - (Yes/No)
+ e. To select fix actions/method - (Time)
+ f. To position action and enabling elements - (Time)
+ g. To isolate enemy - (Time)
+ h. To execute fix actions - (Time)
+ i. Elements achieve fix task - (Time)
+ j. Report effective fix of enemy - (Yes/No)
+ k. Friendly forces available to continue mission - (Percent)
+ l. Recommend if mission task requires adjustment - (Yes/No)
+ m. Continue mission - (Yes/No)

TASK PERFORMANCE / EVALUATION SUMMARY BLOCK
ITERATION	1	2	3	4	5	M	TOTAL
TOTAL PERFORMANCE MEASURES EVALUATED
TOTAL PERFORMANCE MEASURES GO
TRAINING STATUS GO/NO-GO

ITERATION

1 2 3 4 5 M

COMMANDER/LEADER ASSESSMENT

T P U

Mission(s) supported:

None

MOPP 4

Sometimes

MOPP 4 Statement

OPFOR will conduct operations in an NBC environment based on the training objectives established by the BLUFOR Commander.

NVG

Sometimes

NVG Statement

OPFOR will conduct night time operations based on the training objectives established by the BLUFOR Commander.

Prerequisite Collective Task(s)

None

Supporting Collective Task(s)

None

OPFOR Task(s)

None

Supporting Individual Task(s)

None

Supporting Drill(s)

None

Supported AUTL/UJTL Task(s)

None

TADSS

TADSS ID	Title	Product Type	Quantity
T 20-008	PM-50 Pistol	DVC	2
T 20-018	SVD Sniper Rifle	DVC	2
T 07-115	Machine Gun, PKM	DVC	0
23-96	M1A1/A2/System Enhanced Package (SEP) Tank, (MILES XXI)	DVC	10
23-102/B	Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (MILES), (SLM), RPG7 VISMOD	DVC	10
T 07-116	Pistol, Makarov, Plastic	DVC	0
GTA 08-11-014	Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (MILES) Casualty Cards	GTA	6
L 20-STAR-S	OPFOR Vehicle Marker (Star) SM	TA	36
L 20-STAR-M	OPFOR Vehicle Marker (Star) Med	TA	6
L 20-STAR-L	OPFOR Vehicle Marker (Large)	TA	40
L 30-06S-FSH	OPFOR Uniforms Small	TA	33
L 30-06M-FSH	OPFOR Uniforms MED	TA	69
L 30-06L-FSH	OPFOR Uniforms Large	TA	33
23-23	M2K Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System 2000 (MILES 2000) M24/M40 Sniper Weapon System Kit	DVC	6
23-25	M2K Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System 2000 (MILES 2000) M240 Machine Gun Kit	DVC	10
23-92	Main Gun Signature Simulator (MGSS) (MILES 2000)	DVC	10
23-95	M2A2/M3A3 Bradley Fighting Vehicle, (MILES XXI)	DVC	8
T 20-005	RPG7 Anti Grenade Launcher with Round	DVC	10
T 07-117	Pistol, Tokarev	DVC	0
23-85	Soft Cap Man Worn Laser Detector (MWLD) (MILES) PR0 Model	DVC	153
T 20-006	AK-47 Assault Rifle Model	DVC	16
23-22	M2K Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System 2000 (MILES 2000) M249 Squad Automatic Weapon Kit	DVC	6
23-26	M2K Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System 2000 (MILES 2000) M2 Machine Gun Kit	DVC	18
23-67	Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System Individual Weapons System (MILES IWS) M16/M4 Rifle Kit, Instrumental	DVC	113
23-94	MILES XXI (STRYKER) Common Kit	DVC	0
T 20-007	RPK Squad Machine Gun	DVC	2
23-106	Instrumentable Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (I-MILES) Tactical Vehicle System (TVS)	DVC	18

Equipment (LIN)

LIN	Nomenclature	Qty
No equipment specified

Materiel Items (NSN)

NSN	LIN	Title	Qty
1305-00-008-8894		Cartridge, 7.62 Millimeter Blank, Single Round: M82 (DODIC:A112)	320
1330-00-219-8511	J79681	Grenade, Hand, HC Smoke: AN-M8 (DODIC:G930)	12
1305-00-005-8005		Cartridge, 5.56 Millimeter Blank, Single Round: M200 (DODIC:A080)	8400
1005-01-480-0289		Chamber, Blank Firing: Machine Gun, 7.62MM, M240B	8
1005-00-118-6192		Firing Attachment, Blank Ammunition: Rifle, 5.56 MM, M16, M16A1	42
1370-00-752-8124	T56265	Simulator, Hand Grenade: M116A1 (DODIC:L601)	108
1005-21-912-8997		Firing Attachment, Blank Ammunition: M249 SAW	6
1005-01-091-7510	F87237	Firing Attachment, Blank Ammunitin: M19 for Caliber .50 M2 Machine Gun	10
1330-00-289-6852	J79133	Grenade, Hand, Red Smoke: M18 (DODIC:G950)	6
1330-00-289-6851	J77626	Grenade, Hand Green Smoke: M18	6
1330-00-289-6853	J79818	Grenade, Hand, Violet Smoke: M18 (DODIC:G955)	6
1330-00-289-6854	J79955	Grenade, Hand, Yellow Smoke: M18 (DODIC:G945)	6
1305-01-078-4879	D31944	Cartridge, Caliber .50 Blank: M1E1 (DODIC:A598)	2000
1005-00-893-0902		Firing Attachment, Blank Ammunition, M14 Rifle	6
1305-00-166-6371		Cartridge, 7.62 Millimeter Blank, Linked: M82 (DODIC:A111)	1600

Environment

Environmental protection is not just the law but the right thing to do. It is a continual process and starts with deliberate planning. Always be alert to ways to protect our environment during training and missions. In doing so, you will contribute to the sustainment of our training resources while protecting people and the environment from harmful effects. Refer to the current Environmental Considerations manual and the current GTA Environmental-related Risk Assessment card. Consult range control office for specific environmental considerations for the training area(s) being used.

Safety

In a training environment, leaders must perform a risk assessment in accordance with ATP 5-19, Risk Management. Leaders will complete the current Deliberate Risk Assessment Worksheet in accordance with the TRADOC Safety Officer during the planning and completion of each task and sub-task by assessing mission, enemy, terrain and weather, troops and support available-time available and civil considerations, (METT-TC). Note: During MOPP training, leaders must ensure personnel are monitored for potential heat injury. Local policies and procedures must be followed during times of increased heat category in order to avoid heat related injury. Consider the MOPP work/rest cycles and water replacement guidelines IAW FM 3-11.4, Multiservice Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures for Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical (NBC) Protection, FM 3-11.5, Multiservice Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures for Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Decontamination.

Supporting References

Step Number	Reference ID	Reference Name	Required	Primary
	TC 7-100	Hybrid Threat	Yes	Yes
	TC 7-100.2	Opposing Force Tactics	Yes	Yes
	TC 7-100.3	Irregular Opposing Forces https://armypubs.us.army.mil/doctrine/DR_pubs/d r_aa/pdf/tc7_100x3.pdf	Yes	Yes
	TC 7-100.4	Hybrid Threat Force Structure Organization Guide	Yes	Yes
	TC 7-101	Exercise Design	Yes	Yes