text: Team Operations
  Supervise and Inspect Soldiers
  4-36. The team leader and the assistant team leader supervise the team throughout the preparation to
  ensure timely completion of all required tasks. They inspect to ensure that--
  • The team takes only the equipment required for the mission.
  • All equipment is functional, complete, secured, and evenly distributed.
  • Resupply bundles and packages meet SOP criteria.
  • Cache meets SOP criteria.
  • Insertion vehicle and aircraft preparation meet SOP criteria.
  Check the Communications Equipment
  4-37. Under the guidance of the team leader, the RTO checks all communications equipment on a
  distant BRS (HF and UHF TACSAT). They also check--
  • Internal communications with all VHF frequency modulation (FM) communications
  equipment. Unserviceable and inoperable equipment is reported to the communications
  NCOIC.
  • For all radios, frequencies are confirmed with the frequency manager, and, if needed, more
  frequencies are requested.
  Rehearse Mission
  4-38. After briefing the OPORD, the team leader conducts rehearsals. This includes inspecting
  personnel and equipment. During the rehearsal, the team wears the full uniform and carries all
  mission-essential equipment. The unit conducts detailed, full force rehearsals, because the team needs
  them to reinforce complex procedures. Terrain and conditions should, as much as possible, replicate
  those expected for the actual operation. Detailed rehearsals can include transportation and OPFOR, and
  as many contingencies as can be anticipated. The team simulates casualties among key personnel, with
  other team members assuming their duties. Leaders continually ask team members to answer
  mission-specific questions. Sand table briefings, a map study, and photograph examinations should
  complement all rehearsals. At a minimum, during hasty planning, the team should rehearse actions in the
  objective area (entering; maintaining; and sterilizing the hide, surveillance, and communication sites).
  Otherwise, rehearsals should cover as much as possible the following, also shown in Table 4-3.
  • Off-loading and assembly procedures at points of insertion.
  • Movement formations.
  • "Lost-man" drill.
  • Security halt procedures.
  • Actions at possible danger areas.
  • Reaction drill for aircraft flyover (friendly or enemy).
  • Countertracking techniques.
  • Actions on enemy contact such as chance, near/far ambush, sniper, air attack, indirect fire, flares.
  • Loading procedures at the extraction site.
  • Special actions (as required), and use of new or unfamiliar equipment.
  • Procedures for emplacement and recovery of a cache.
  • Actions at recovery points or contact points.
  • Actions in the absence of a communications plan.
  • Communications during scheduled windows and initial entry.