WAR USMC’S NEW GUIDE FOR MITIGATING SIGNATURE UNDER UAS (OP Aug 2020)

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USMC’S NEW GUIDE FOR MITIGATING SIGNATURE UNDER UAS
Posted by NC Scout | Aug 5, 2020 | NC Scout, Tactical | 9 |

“TO BE DETECTED IS TO BE TARGETED IS TO BE KILLED.”
The Marine Corps has published a new SOP for mitigating the small unit signature under Unmanned Aerial Surveillance (UAS). The first section should sound awfully familiar to anyone who’s been in the Scout Course:

ALL unit SOPs and camouflage TTPs CONFORM to the following Camouflage Fundamentals:

1. DISPERSE into multiple small elements. This is the most important step. BE indistinguishable—unable to be identified as different—IOT avoid being targeted. ASSUME you are being watched. DISPERSE individuals, vehicles, and positions irregularly. DISPLACE often.

2. PICK a concealed site. CONFORM to terrain. FIND low dead ground and micro-terrain, behind hills, tucked against the shadows of buildings, or under trees. In the city, move inside a building.

3. OPERATE at night. Camouflage discipline includes light discipline. TRAIN in night operations, with NVGs, lasers,and camouflage ghillie blankets. OPERATE in rain, fog, wind, and dust when UAS cannot fly. OPERATE at dawn or dusk when shadows are long, sun glare is high, and thermal crossover masks your heat signature. KNOW the daily light levels.

(NOTICE IT DIDN’T SAY WHITE LIGHT AT NIGHT? – NCS)

4. CAMOUFLAGE people, positions, and equipment. BLEND with your background. Camouflage discipline includes light discipline, heat discipline, noise discipline, trash discipline, and movement discipline. Minimize lights. Mask engines,heaters, and generators. Silence all equipment. Leave NO trash behind, especially dunnage. Control convoy movements.

Again, it should sound familiar. If you’re planning on working either with a limited or no support network, then you should have this guide damn well near memorized. And if you’re not training on camoflage, concealment, quiet movement, tracking and countertracking, then you’re not training in small unit tactics. Period.

Download and print it out.

 

[night driver]

I note an absolute expectation to pack out your shit.

Leave NO trash behind, especially dunnage.

 

[BadMedicine]

what do you consider "dunnage" in a war/field scenario?

Dunnage around the construction site is left over/ scrap wood materials... often the larger 4x4s and pallets up-cycled to keep other pallets/ loads off of the ground..


in war...broken twigs/ grass/ disturbed vegetation? TIA!

 

[Millwright]

This is great SOP for ground pounders, but armor creates mud...lots of mud...in quantities that defy the laws of physics.

Move a platoon of tracks across a field wet with dew and at least one will end up buried to the top of the idler wheels.

 

[bobfall2005]

Humm

 

[Turret Buster]

This is great SOP for ground pounders, but armor creates mud...lots of mud...in quantities that defy the laws of physics.

Move a platoon of tracks across a field wet with dew and at least one will end up buried to the top of the idler wheels.

Yup. And then the following recovery operation will destroy the remaining country side for decades to come.

 

[SSTemplar]

That sounds like gorilla warfare and marines are the take the beach take names and kick ass type of fellows. Of course I may just be getting old.

 

[mistaken1]

Go go guerilla

 

[Groucho]

Once they're done with their fancy landing craft, the Marines are grunts like the rest of us. Drill Sergeant told us that the dirt was our best friend. It was our lover. We would learn to hug it and dig holes and get into it. (he was much more graphic) Later on, we always made certain we policed up everything before resuming patrol. Cigarette butts went in our pockets. C-rat cans were crushed and put into our packs wrapped in a towel. No, we didn't pack our our crap. We buried it and put leaves and such over.

 

[1eagle]

Dunnage also includes empty ammo cans, packing material etc. that would collect around a mortar pit or machine gun.

 

[LightEcho]

This is a new video on camouflage that takes into account the use of thermal technology both in war and civilian applications. It is about camouflage- as this older thread intended. I thought it could be helpful to others here. I downloaded it for my use, so I wanted to share with others.

This video is to get thinking about how to become grey in a tactical sense. You may not think this is practical now, but if you have any physical capability and desire to remain free and alive another day, you may pick up something in this that will help you to survive. We don't have to live forever, but just one more day. Remember that- just one more day.



video runtime 1hr:06min

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fbKZze_J4c

 

[Dennis Olson]

Please post why you resurrected a two year old thread.

 

[LightEcho]

Please post why you resurrected a two year old thread.

Huh??? You don't like new information posted on a topic? If I made a new thread, the question would be: why did you use a new thread?

 

[Dennis Olson]

Here’s the deal. In recent months we’ve had many people resurrect threads that are two, three, even ten years old. Often, what they post has little to do with the subject of the original thread. So about six months ago, I asked those who resurrect those threads (like you did here) to add a bit of explanation as to why they did so rather than post a new thread.

Please follow through and provide a brief explanation. (And “cuz there was new info” ain’t it.)

Thanks.

 

[LightEcho]

Dennis- this is a new video on camouflage that takes into account the use of thermal technology both in war and civilian applications. It is about camouflage- as this older thread intended. I thought it could be helpful to others here. I downloaded it for my use, so I wanted to share with others.

 

[Dennis Olson]

Perfect! Would you mind adding it just above the vid?

Note the thread title. See the:

“(OP Aug 2020)” on the end?

EVERY SINGLE TIME a thread gets resurrected, I have to add something like that to the end of the title. Why? If I don’t, people read the OP as CURRENT, and start replying to the OP as if it’s a brand new thread. That’s because people simply don’t look at the post date. (Did you before you resurrected it?)

So - if *I* have to add that damn suffix to every resurrected thread, YOU (along with everyone who resurrects a thread) can bloody well take two minute to explain why. That way, when people get to the end of the thread, they see the comment, which causes them to look at the OP post date.

See how this goes?

I knew you would..

 

[night driver]

That's S2 Underground's how to not get seen in the dark as you are WAY too hot to hide vid. DAMN good info they JUST released this week.

 

[Pinecone]

Thanks for resurrecting this thread. I missed it the first time and appreciate the opportunity to read through the manual. Saved to my hard drive now. I'll watch the video, too. DH and I were talking about thermal camouflage last week. Just cuz!

 

[mistaken1]

Dennis- this is a new video on camouflage that takes into account the use of thermal technology both in war and civilian applications. It is about camouflage- as this older thread intended. I thought it could be helpful to others here. I downloaded it for my use, so I wanted to share with others.

Thanks for posting.

 

[LightEcho]

We are in a very scary age of technology. Years ago I figured a way to block a thermal signature was as simple as using a corrugated cardboard shield. The problem obviously is it does not do well with rainy / wet environments and it still has an easy view if the shape is not broken up. In a pinch, think about how a gillie suit works. If you apply some texture to a foam (or painted cardboard) board and break the shapes, you can make yourself smaller thermally to sky viewers. And you need to have handles or ways to attach these without contact to the board so there is no heat transfer to the visible surface. A wide hat-like structure that lets your skin breath and air convection happen is good. It is harder for thermal sights to see heated gases. A hard surface or thick dust shows up because of emissivity- emitting the radiation (heat signature).

Consider also how the infrared light is reflected from such a shield from the inside. It can light up the ground if that surface is reflective. Consider also how a shelter needs to be double blocked from any reflected heat/light energy.