71-CO-8512 OPFOR Situational Breach

Status	Approved 25 Feb 2010
Effective Date:	11 Nov 2016
Task Number:	71-CO-8512
Task Title:	OPFOR Situational Breach
Distribution Restriction:	Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
Destruction Notice:	None
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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 situational breach actions 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, coordinates reconnaissance, surveillance, intelligence and target acquisition (RISTA) actions to accomplish the commanders    security requirements, acts to rapidly isolate, secure, and penetrate an obstacle, and continues the momentum of movements and maneuver. 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. Collect current information on enemy element-force capabilities and limitations and other operational environment information.
+ c. Analyze action and enabling functions that must be performed to achieve mission and collective drill success for a situational breach.
+ d. Determine the functional tactics to be applied by action, enabling, and support elements.
+ e. Identify task organization requirements for elements-forces by function IAW TC 7-100.2/ TC 7- 100.3.
+ f. Determine how and when functional elements act or enable security tasks, offensive actions, combat support and combat service support, and/or transition to other tasks-subtasks.
+ g. Identify time constraints and/or restrictions on accomplishing the mission and supporting requirements.
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 typically include security, support, breach, assault, and reserve.
+ 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 element subtasks in the transition and rapid momentum of the breaching element and the assault element.
+ h. Confirm redundant command and control (C2) communication requirements and capabilities.
+ i. Execute information warfare (INFOWAR) in support of offensive actions.
Execute
+ 3. Isolate
+ a. Infiltrate security elements to conduct reconnaissance of obstacles.
+ b. Conduct counterreconnaissance to destroy or defeat enemy security elements.
+ c. Report when a practical bypass exists to obstacles.
+ d. Provide early warning of enemy actions that can influence the situational breach.
+ e. Detect enemy forces and prevent them from contacting the enemy near the breach site.
+ f. Deny the enemy freedom of movement and maneuver along ground or air avenues of approach that can reinforce the enemy at the breach site or interfere with the tasks of the breach and/or assault elements. As required—ambush, block, canalize, contain, delay, destroy, disrupt, fix, suppress, neutralize, interdict, and/or isolate.
+ g. Prevent the enemy from gaining further information.
+ h. Execute information warfare (INFOWAR) in support of the situational breach.
+ i. Position a reserve element for rapid movement-maneuver, on order of the OPFOR commander, to support the mission.
+ j. Obscure the breach site and surrounding terrain from enemy visual and technical observation.
+ k. Conduct direct and indirect fires and information warfare (INFOWAR) to suppress and/or neutralize designated targets.
+ l. Initiate breach element actions at the breach point.
+ 4. Secure
+ a. Target enemy elements in vicinity of the breach site.
+ b. Neutralize enemy defending the breach site.
+ c. Continue direct and indirect fires to suppress designated targets.
+ d. Coordinate obscuration of breach site and surrounding terrain to prevent enemy visual and technical observation.

+ e. Report progress as each obstacle is reduced.
+ f. Lift and/or shift fires as the breach element progresses through the obstacles.
+ g. Report the initial passage lane marked and secure.
+ h. Call forward the assault element to continue the attack momentum.
+ 5. Penetrate
+ a. Guide the assault element quickly through the marked passage lane.
+ b. Support the rapid advance of the assault element and follow-on elements through the passage lane.
+ c. Report when trail element of the action element has exited the far side of passage lane.
+ d. Inform follow-on elements of any enemy explosive obstacles marked and bypassed along passage lane.
+ e. Seize or secure objective beyond passage lane exit.
+ f. Report status of casualties and location of friendly element casualty collection point in vicinity of passage lane.
+ 6. Continue Mission
+ a. Continue rapid forward momentum of elements to assigned objective or objectives.
+ 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. Inform follow-on elements of any situational countermobility obstacles emplaced during the breach to protect the passage lane and route or axis of advance.
+ d. Recommend if mission task requires adjustment.
+ e. Coordinate for logistics linkup points for combat support (CS) and combat service support (CSS) in support of rapid offensive momentum and objectives.
+ f. Recommend if current tactical conditions require an adjustment to mission actions.
+ g. Report accomplishment of subsequent mission task or tasks.
Assess
+ 7. Performance Measures
+ a. Reconnaissance identifies obstacles to breach - (Yes/No)
+ b. Confirm no timely bypass to obstacles (Yes/No)
+ c. Counterreconnaissance actions effective - (Yes/No)
+ d. Report timely reconnaissance-intelligence update - (Yes/No)
+ e. Deception actions are effective - (Yes/No)
+ f. Conduct of covert breach not feasible - (Yes/No)
+ g. Position action and enabling elements - (Time)
+ h. Isolate breach site from enemy - (Yes/No)
+ i. Obscure breach site - (Time)
+ j. Suppress and fix enemy in breach site vicinity - (Yes/No)
+ k. Report initiation of breach - (Yes/No)
+ l. Neutralize enemy defending breach site and secure - (Yes/No)
+ m. Penetrate obstacle and seize or secure objective - (Time)
+ n. Mark passage lane for follow-on elements - (Yes/No)
+ o. Report breach complete and onward maneuver - (Time)
+ p. Follow-on elements complete lane passage - (Time)
+ q. Reserve remains an uncommitted element - (Yes/No)
+ r. Friendly forces available to rapidly continue mission - (Percent)
+ s. Recommend if mission task requires adjustment - (Yes/No)
+ t. Elements achieve mission task - (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
23-106	Instrumentable Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (I-MILES) Tactical Vehicle System (TVS)	DVC	18
L 30-06L-FSH	OPFOR Uniforms Large	TA	33
L 30-06M-FSH	OPFOR Uniforms MED	TA	69
23-22	M2K Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System 2000 (MILES 2000) M249 Squad Automatic Weapon Kit	DVC	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
23-85	Soft Cap Man Worn Laser Detector (MWLD) (MILES) PR0 Model	DVC	153
23-92	Main Gun Signature Simulator (MGSS) (MILES 2000)	DVC	10
23-95	M2A2/M3A3 Bradley Fighting Vehicle, (MILES XXI)	DVC	8
23-96	M1A1/A2/System Enhanced Package (SEP) Tank, (MILES XXI)	DVC	10
T 20-005	RPG7 Anti Grenade Launcher with Round	DVC	10
T 20-006	AK-47 Assault Rifle Model	DVC	16
T 20-007	RPK Squad Machine Gun	DVC	2
T 20-008	PM-50 Pistol	DVC	2
T 20-018	SVD Sniper Rifle	DVC	2
T 07-115	Machine Gun, PKM	DVC	0
T 07-116	Pistol, Makarov, Plastic	DVC	0
T 07-117	Pistol, Tokarev	DVC	0
GTA 08-11-014	Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (MILES) Casualty Cards	GTA	6
23-67	Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System Individual Weapons System (MILES IWS) M16/M4 Rifle Kit, Instrumental	DVC	113
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
23-94	MILES XXI (STRYKER) Common Kit	DVC	0
23-102/B	Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (MILES), (SLM), RPG7 VISMOD	DVC	10
L 30-06S-FSH	OPFOR Uniforms Small	TA	33
23-26	M2K Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System 2000 (MILES 2000) M2 Machine Gun Kit	DVC	18

Equipment (LIN)

LIN	Nomenclature	Qty
No equipment specified

Materiel Items (NSN)

NSN	LIN	Title	Qty
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
1370-00-752-8124	T56265	Simulator, Hand Grenade: M116A1 (DODIC:L601)	108
1305-00-005-8005		Cartridge, 5.56 Millimeter Blank, Single Round: M200 (DODIC:A080)	8400
1005-00-118-6192		Firing Attachment, Blank Ammunition: Rifle, 5.56 MM, M16, M16A1	42
1330-00-289-6852	J79133	Grenade, Hand, Red Smoke: M18 (DODIC:G950)	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
1005-01-480-0289		Chamber, Blank Firing: Machine Gun, 7.62MM, M240B	8
1305-00-008-8894		Cartridge, 7.62 Millimeter Blank, Single Round: M82 (DODIC:A112)	320
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
1330-00-289-6851	J77626	Grenade, Hand Green Smoke: M18	6
1330-00-219-8511	J79681	Grenade, Hand, HC Smoke: AN-M8 (DODIC:G930)	12
1305-01-078-4879	D31944	Cartridge, Caliber .50 Blank: M1E1 (DODIC:A598)	2000

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