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FM 21-75 Combat Skills of the Soldier

FM 21-75

Combat Skills of the Soldier

Army · FM · Aug 1984 · 249 pages

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Cover gives protection from bullets, fragments of exploding rounds, flame, nuclear effects, and biological and chemical agents. Cover can also conceal you from enemy observation. Cover can be natural or man-made. Natural cover includes such things as logs, trees, stumps, ravines, and hollows. Manmade cover includes such things as fighting positions, trenches, walls, rubble, and craters. Even the smallest depression or fold in the ground can give some cover. Look for and use every bit of cover the terrain offers. In combat, you need protection from enemy direct and indirect fire. To get this protection in the defense, build a fighting position (man-made cover) to add to the natural cover afforded by the terrain.

DesignationFM 21-75

EditionAug 1984

StatusSuperseded

Pages249

FunctionCBRN

CollectionRecent Archive

References 15

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