Soldiers Pocket Book

SOLDIERS POCKET BOOK

SOLDIERS POCKET BOOK

ISBN 978-1-874528-12-8

352 pages of detailed information for todays modern soldiers

Sample page 1 - Fieldcraft

Sample page 2 - In the field

Sample page 3 - Weapons

Sample page 4 - Vehicles

Soldiers Pocket Book

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Contents

Introduction

  • What's this book all about?
  • The British Soldier, Robustness
  • Respect, Values / Standards of the Army
  • Brief Histroy of the British Army
  • Why do Regiments have Colours
  • Why do British Regiments wear berets?
  • Drill, Discipline
  • Support Agencies/Charities

Chapter 1 - Military Law & Code of Conduct

  • Changes in Military Law - New Tri-Service Legislation
  • Introduction of the Armed Forces Act 2006
  • How does it affect Service Personnel
  • Service Police Codes of Practice

Chapter 2 - Fieldcraft

  • Be Fit
  • Prepared and Ready
  • Organisation of the Infantry Battalion (Bn)
  • Breaking up the ground
  • Section Formations
  • Hand signals
  • Camouflage and Concealment
  • Movement in the field
  • Judging Distances
  • Range Cards
  • Fire Control Orders
  • Fire and manoeuvre
  • Types of Fire Control Order
  • Rates of Fire
  • Sentry Duty
  • Your senses, Sound
  • Aims of Patrolling
  • Battle Procedure
  • Section Battle Drills,
  • Section Battle Drill No 1
  • Fieldcraft - In the Field
  • Multiple Uses
  • Gloves
  • Changing socks
  • Woolly hat and gloves
  • Wet/Dry Drills
  • In Your basha
  • Basha Strings
  • Stowing your basha
  • Living in your basha
  • Pee Bottles
  • Packing your bergen
  • Grab bag
  • smock and trousers
  • Admin bag
  • Belt Kit
  • Scoff / Rats / Scran
  • Head torches
  • Camel backs
  • Swedish hood
  • Dropping you Bergen
  • Remain Tactically aware
  • Putting on your Goretex
  • Kip mat
  • Cooking in the field
  • Knives and Blades
  • Hard Routine
  • Eat before you fight
  • Mosquito kit

Chapter 3 - Medical & First Aid

  • Introduction
  • Assessing the scene/situation
  • Primary Survey
  • Catastrophic external haemorrhage
  • Airway
  • Breathing
  • Recovery Position
  • Basic Life Support
  • Secondary Survey
  • Trauma
  • Blast Injury
  • Injury Classification
  • Quaternary or miscellaneous
  • Blunt Trauma
  • Penetrating Trauma
  • Shock
  • Burns
  • Hypothermia
  • Hyperthermia
  • Fractures
  • Seizures
  • Mental Health
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Casualty positions
  • Your First Aid Kit
  • Survival Kit
  • Your Main Medical Kit

Chapter 4 - Signals

  • Introduction
  • Voice Procedure (VP)
  • General Points on the net
  • Phonetic Alphabet
  • Code words
  • Radio Appointment Titles
  • Aids To Accuracy
  • Discipline
  • Types Of Call
  • Sending A Message
  • Offers
  • Corrections And Repetitions
  • Prowords
  • Reports And Returns
  • PRC 343 PRR

Chapter 5 - Intelligence

  • Military Intelligence
  • Intelligence Cycle
  • On Operations
  • Intelligence Brief
  • Reporting
  • Description of Vehicle (SCRIM)
  • ISTAR
  • Working with an Interpreter

Chapter 6 - Weapons

  • M40 Super 90 Combat Shotgun
  • SA80 / LSW / UGL
  • Minimi Light Machine Gun (LMG) 5.56 mm
  • Heavy Machine Gun (HMG)
  • General Purpose Machine Gun (GPMG)
  • Grenade Machine Gun (GMG)
  • L16A2 81mm Mortar
  • ILAW
  • NLAW
  • Javelin
  • LASM (Light Anti-Structures Missile)

Chapter 7 - Marksmanship

  • Marksmanship
  • Basic Close Combat Role
  • Grouping and Zeroing
  • Elementary and Advanced
  • Application of Fire
  • Annual Combat Marksmanship Test
  • Transition to Live Firing Tactical Training
  • Live Firing Tactical Training
  • The Group
  • The Marksmanship Principles
  • Zeroing
  • Marksmanship Abbreviations

Chapter 8 - Sniper

  • Role and Tasks of the Sniper
  • Background
  • Sniper (Number One)
  • Sniper (Number Two)
  • Principles of Employment
  • Mobility
  • Uses in phases of war
  • Training
  • Sniper Marksmanship
  • Marksmanship Principles
  • Methods of determining wind direction
  • Wind
  • Operational Stalking
  • The Crack Thump Method
  • Observation Procedures
  • Maintaining Observation
  • Summary

Chapter 9 - Map Reading

  • Introduction - Mapcraft
  • Care of Maps
  • Reliability of Maps
  • Marginal Information
  • The Grid System
  • Four and Six Figure References
  • The light weight Silva Compass
  • North Point
  • Angles between North Points
  • Bearings - Types of Bearings
  • To Take a Magnetic Bearing
  • To take a Grid Bearing
  • Converting a Grid Bearing to a Magnetic Bearing
  • Understanding and interpreting Contours
  • Spot Heights and Trig Points
  • More about Contours
  • Know your Contour Patterns
  • Scales and Measuring Distance
  • Finding True North from the Sun using a watch
  • Night March
  • Setting the Compass for Night March
  • Prismatic Compass
  • Finding True North
  • Route Cards
  • Terms used in Map Reading
  • Global Positioning Systems (GPS)

Chapter 10 - Vehicles

  • Jackal 2,Coyote TSV
  • Husky TVS
  • Land Rover Snatch 2
  • Warrior
  • Stormer
  • Saxon
  • Spartan
  • Panther
  • Scimitar CVRT
  • Vector
  • Mastiff
  • Viking BVS10
  • Warthog
  • Bulldog FV430
  • WMIK

Chapter 11 - Aircraft

  • The Boeing AH-64 Apache
  • Lynx
  • The Puma
  • Gazelle
  • The Boeing
  • CH-47 Chinook
  • The Merlin HC3
  • Wildcat AH Mk1 (Future Lynx)

Chapter 12 - Heavy Weapons

  • AS90
  • L118 Light Gun
  • GMLRS (Guide Multiple Launch Rocket System)
  • The LIMAWS (R)
  • Starstreak High Velocity Missile
  • Rapier

Chapter 13 - Mines

  • Why mines?
  • Legacy Munitions
  • Mine types
  • Directional AP mine
  • PFM-1 "Butterfly Mine"
  • AT mines
  • Warning Signs
  • Absence of the normal
  • presence of the abnormal
  • Improvised explosive device

Chapter 14 - Physical Training

  • Before you start training
  • Start off easy
  • Components of fitness
  • Training intensities
  • Setting goals
  • Aids to Motivation - Staying on track
  • Motivation magnets
  • Injury prevention
  • Nutrition
  • Warming up
  • Warming down
  • Training Programmes

Chapter 15 - Adventurous Training (AT)

  • Introduction
  • The Country Code
  • Ropes and belays AT activities
  • Knots and there uses
  • A rope
  • The Spanish Windlass
  • Lashings
  • Shear Legs Lashing
  • Discipline of Personal Health and Hygiene
  • Taking care of your feet
  • The Correct Fitting of Walking Boots
  • Reducing Injuries to Feet
  • Drying in the field
  • Changing Clothes
  • Food Considerations
  • Water
  • Siting of your Latrine
  • 72hr Medikit
  • Emergency Messages
  • Waiting for help to arrive
  • Summary of what not to do
  • Go fly - a Survival Kite
  • Cooking in the field
  • Soldiering Principle
  • Things to think about with an open Fire
  • Improvised shelters
  • Improvised Basha

Chapter 16 - Personal Security

  • Disclosure of information
  • Electronic Security
  • Leave/Holiday
  • Vehicle Security
  • Internet/Social Networking
  • Social Networking
  • Foreign travel
  • Pre holiday
  • During Travel

Chapter 17 - Method of Instruction

  • Brilliant instructors
  • The Lesson Plan
  • Phase 1: The introduction 10%
  • Phase 2: The Development 80%
  • Questions
  • The P's

Chapter 18 - Abbrevations

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