text: Chapter 3
  Table 3–1. Screen movement methods, continued
  Methods Characteristics Advantages Disadvantages
  Successive • Main body is moving slowly. • Most secure • Execution takes the
  bounds • Conducted by platoon, method. most time.
  company, or troop. • Maintains • Unit is less secure
  • Contact is possible. maximum when all elements
  surveillance. are moving
  • Conducted simultaneously or
  in succession. • Maintains unit simultaneously.
  integrity. • Simultaneous
  • Unit should maintain an air
  movement may
  screen during ground
  leave temporary
  movement.
  gaps.
  Continuous • Main body is moving • Observation • Least secure
  marching relatively quickly. posts displace method.
  • Performed as a route quickly.
  reconnaissance. • Maintains unit
  • Enemy contact is not likely. integrity.
  • Unit should maintain an air
  screen on the flank.
  Figure 3–19. Screen movement methods