text: Appendix H
  Battle Drills
  A battle drill is a collective action executed by a platoon or smaller element without
  the application of a deliberate decision making process. Well-rehearsed battle drills
  are critical to the success of a LRS team. LRS teams are lightly armed, with limited
  amounts of ammunition, and normally have no immediately available fire support.
  Teams only have resources for basic life-saving first aid in the event of casualties. A
  LRS team might only get one chance to defeat or disengage from an enemy force.
  Therefore, it is critical all team members respond instantly and instinctively when in
  contact. The team must rehearse battle drills thoroughly before actual enemy contact
  is made. LRS team battle drills are a supplement to ARTEP 7-1-DRILL.
  BREAK CONTACT
  H-1. A team should break contact as soon it can, since it lacks the capability to stay and fight. The team
  fires and maneuvers in two- or three-Soldier groups. Team members can use fragmentation or smoke
  grenades to cover their withdrawal, continuing until they successfully break contact. Doing so could
  require repeated bounds. After breaking contact, the team consolidates at a rendezvous or rally point and
  reorganizes.
  PRINCIPLES
  H-2. General principles for breaking contact include--
  • Maintaining a high initial volume of fire to kill or suppress the enemy.
  • Using smoke to screen movement. Hexachloroethane (HC)smoke is best, but white
  phosphorous (if available) kills, wounds, and screens.
  • Dually priming Claymores (one command-detonated fuse or one timed fuse from 45 seconds to
  2 minutes) and preparing them for immediate deployment. This can be integrated into a
  rucksack destruction plan.
  • Rehearsing "man down" (wounded) actions.
  • Rehearsing “RTO down” vital communication retrieval actions.
  H-3. Following the successful execution of the break contact battle drill, the team leader uses
  METT-TC to determine the next action of the team.
  INITIAL CONTACT
  H-4. When the team makes initial contact, all team members seek cover and concealment. Each Soldier
  makes every attempt to avoid masking the fires of other team members. The lead element (first, second,
  and third Soldiers), deploy and take cover within a few steps of their original locations, and lay down a
  base of fire. The trail element (fourth, fifth, and sixth Soldiers) deploy at the assistant team leader's
  command. He calls left or right, depending on the direction of enemy contact and the location of the lead
  element. The team deploys roughly on line, and starts firing. This lead element then bounds back
  (Figure H-1 and Figure H-2).