This revised manual has been prepared to serve as a single source reference document for Lance battalion operations and training. It is a how-to-train and how-to-fight manual to be used by all levels of command from corps to the platoon. The manual sets forth doctrine pertaining to the organization, tactics, tech- niques, and procedures used by the Lance battalion in combat and establishes guide- lines for training the battalion in peacetime to meet its combat requirements. A principal theme that pervades this manual is that the Lance battalion is a corps weapon by which the commander can influ- ence the battle by nonnuclear and/or nuclear fires. Accordingly, chapter 6 emphasizes a range of considerations involved in the employment of the weapon system at corps level.
DesignationFM 6-42
EditionDec 1980
StatusSuperseded
Pages250
FunctionFires
EchelonBattalion
CollectionRecent Archive
Public domain (U.S. Government work)