Tuesday 8 February 2011

SECTION LEADING: THE CORE OF COMBAT

Delta has put together the first in a series of documents detailing the different team roles within CTB. The first up is the Section Leader.

"Being the section leader gives you tremendous power yet vast responsibility. Your team is relying on you more than you are on them. Your role is the father of the group. You are making decisions for them to action. While they trust that your decisions will help them see the end of the fight, you must trust yourself that you have given sufficient thought to what you want them to do. The following is a basic guide to how a section leader can get the most out of his team. It will outline two type of actions, offensive and defensive, each with their own unique ideas and uses. It will also attempt to cover the finer 
points of section operations, that sometimes get overlooked, such as logistics and forward-planning."


You can read the whole article here: Section Leading: The Core Of Combat

Monday 7 February 2011