Essay On Military Patrol

Prepper Journal: Patrolling Once the SHTF

The military will tell you that a patrol is an organization and is not a mission, so a patrol is a noun, and not a verb. A patrol is typically an independent organization put together for a specific purpose.

Military patrols might be organized to gather information on the enemy or more specifically designed to engage the enemy. However, before engaging anyone, a patrol would likely have intelligence on hand that was gathered from previous patrols.

There is Safety in Numbers

As a Prepper you may want to organize a patrol to move safely through an area for example, but before marching off, you have to establish who the leader is and secondary leaders.

The leader directs the patrol and assigns duties/tasks based on individual skills and training. The patrol leader will be

The patrol must be able to provide its own security, navigate through unfamiliar terrain, and provide emergency first aid to anyone injured and be able to communicate, with command and control, and to record/gather information so it can be analyzed later.

Everyone must know established hand signals and be aware of any ad hoc signaling procedures established for a specific assignment. As a Prepper, intelligence gathering would likely be the main objective in most cases, but your patrol would have to be prepared for virtually any situation to include engaging others.

You cannot just wander willy-nilly, rattling gear, smoking cigarettes or even eating, there is a direction the patrol moves in whether you know the final destination or not. Distances must be maintained from others in the event of an attack. This prevents one hand grenade or other explosive devices from injuring the entire patrol, and distance from others may make it more difficult for a sniper to engage targets as