{"id":71915,"date":"2023-12-29T11:00:07","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T17:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=71915"},"modified":"2023-12-29T06:48:22","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T12:48:22","slug":"assessing-the-effects-of-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/29\/assessing-the-effects-of-fires\/","title":{"rendered":"Assessing the Effects of Fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-71916 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Suppress-Fire-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Suppress-Fire-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Suppress-Fire-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Suppress-Fire-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Suppress-Fire-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Suppress-Fire-850x566.jpg 850w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Suppress-Fire.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vs-training.com\/2023\/12\/29\/assessing-the-effects-of-fires\/\">Assessing the Effects of\u00a0Fires<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Anyone who has ever done any sort of small-unit tactics training can remember \u201ccovering\u201d a buddy while they move.\u2002This is good to learn, but there can be a bit of misunderstanding as to what actually constitutes \u201ccovering fire\u201d or \u201csuppression\u201d.\u2002Just because you are putting rounds downrange does not necessarily mean that you have \u201ccovering fire,\u201d and assessing the effects of fires is a very important skill for any rifleman, but especially\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vs-training.com\/2022\/09\/30\/the-team-leader\/\">team leaders<\/a>.<\/h2>\n<h2><strong>Defining Some Terms<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2>Before I explain how this is done, it is first necessary for me to define some terminology to avoid confusion going forward.<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h2>Fire: The act of putting rounds or ordnance downrange in order to create a desired effect.\u2002Can be pluralized (e.g. \u201cfires\u201d) when referring to the actions of a unit firing several weapons at once.<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2>Effective fire: Fire that is accurate enough and heavy enough to have an effect on the element being fired upon (forcing them to take cover, stop\/slow movement, or take casualties).<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2>Suppression: The result of effective fires on an element that prevents them from moving, shooting back, or otherwise doing their jobs for fear of getting hit\/killed.<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Okay, now that we\u2019ve squared away the jargon, let\u2019s discuss the effects of fires.<\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/vs-training.com\/2023\/12\/29\/assessing-the-effects-of-fires\/\">RTWT.<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-71837 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Grounded.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1007\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Grounded.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Grounded-300x295.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Grounded-768x755.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Grounded-850x836.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assessing the Effects of\u00a0Fires &nbsp; Anyone who has ever done any sort of small-unit tactics training can remember \u201ccovering\u201d a buddy while they move.\u2002This is good to learn, but there can be a bit of misunderstanding as to what actually constitutes \u201ccovering fire\u201d or \u201csuppression\u201d.\u2002Just because you are putting rounds downrange does not necessarily mean&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5581,3786,5445,2280,13969,5477,14216,5513,5479,1307,4479,4333,5673,5594,2004,5944,401,1893,1894,17,1895,10,404,405],"tags":[16957,9057,5809,16956,7402,9773,219],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71917,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71915\/revisions\/71917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}