Sniper operators surveillance course
Course training statement: “To teach sniper commanders & soldiers the skills & knowledge in order to conduct tactical sniper surveillance tasks, gathering detailed intelligence on enemy forces from both rural & urban environments”
Course description: “The course teaches the students the tactics, techniques & procedures (ttps) associated with the planning, conduct and execution of a sniper surveillance task. It covers receipt of operational orders, mission protocol (roc), delivery of patrol orders, task conduct, intel gathering & post intelligence collation within a variety of tactical scenarios”
Course title: Sniper operators surveillance course
Qualification: Sniper surveillance operator
Course duration: 4 weeks
Teaching periods per day: 8
Length of teaching period: 40 minutes
Practical field exercises: Yes
Course entry standards: Qualified basic sniper
Block syllabus:
- Sniper surveillance ops and its effect joint integral effects operations & istar
- Introduction to patrolling
- Ops rural environment
- Ops urban environment
- Ops – disrupted environment
- Sniper hides
- Obstacle crossing
- Tactical pauses
- The rv system csars and dars
- Sniper surveillance patrol orders
- Patrol report writing
- Revision logging and reporting
- Fortified ops
- Hard routine
- Agent contact
- Ctr of an op position
- Contact drills
- Tactical pauses and short halts
- Harbours and troop link-up drills
- Lups
- Close target recce
- Practical patrolling
- Practical op construction
- Practical contact drills
- Practical construction fortified ops
- The mission planning room and battle procedure
- Cacheing
- Cacheing practical
- Sniper fire plans & live fire from sniper hides
- The co-ordinated sniper volley
- The sniper surveillance matrix
- Sniper surveillance patrol estimate
- Sponsoring beach-head landing points/dops/lups
- Tactical helicopter landing sites (hls)
- Application of the rv system
- Finding and fixing target locations
- Ctr op position
- Routine in the op
- Logging and reporting, panoramic sketching, target indexing, detailed sniper range cards
- Recovery of cache
- Ctr hls
- Ctr target
- Night stalk & night standing ops (nsops)
- Post task procedure & immediate tactical back-briefs
- Sniper surveillance patrol orders
- Delivery of sniper orders
- Sniper surveillance patrol estimate construction
- Routine in the op
- Logging and reporting, panoramic sketching, target indexing, detailed sniper range cards
- Weapon hides
- Tactical exercise – rural
