Training - Patrol React to Contact Drills

Breaking down react to contact drills into bite-sized training segments, each formation should be repeated for basic left/right/front/rear. What this looks like is form up into your four-man fire teams, have the TL pass the hand signal for the given formation, form the formation, then have TL call out a contact direction. The team will then rewind and repeat for all of the four directions. Run this for each formation.

What you will get out of this is a feel for strength/weakness of the various formations, what it feels like to have to get on line.

• Line
• File
• Staggered Column
• Wedge / Diamond
• Echelon