military continues to field new technol ogy in an effort to defeat IEDs.
The enemy continues to evolve rapidly in Afghanistan. This supplement presents effective ways for units to employ the latest RC vehicles and other support equipment in Afghanistan. Afghanistan is much different from Iraq in both terrain and threat. This Afghanistan Route Clearance Supplement describes the latest tactics the insurgents use and the actions the platoon-level route clearance packages take to mitigate these tactics. The EHCC chose to consolidate critical information in order to help future OEF deploying units, specifically RC-focused units, to develop training plans and prepare for their missions in Afghanistan. During this time, the IED threat increased greatly, and insurgent actions evolved to a much more sophisticated level. For ten months, the EHCC’s mobile obser vation team obser ved Task Force Workhorse, the 201st Engineer Battalion, Kentucky National Guard, while it cleared the roads of Afghanistan. This handbook supplement, authored by the 766th Explosive Hazards Coordination Cell (EHCC) during Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) 08-09, is a guide for RC operations in Afghanistan. Although engineer units shoulder much of the burden for this task, RC is a mission that all units should understand and be able to execute with availabl e resou rces. Throughout Iraq and Afghanistan, units must clear roads of obstacles, primarily improvised explosive devices (IEDs), to allow freedom of movemen t for frien dly forces and the local populace. Route clearanc e (RC) is a criti cal mission for U.S. To allied and coalition personnel: This information is furnished with the understanding that it is to be used for defense purposes only, that it is to be afforded essenti ally the same degree of security protect ion as such information is afforded by the United States, and that it is not to be revealed to another country or international organization without the written consent of CALL. UNCLASSIFIED, For Official Use Only ” paper products a nd electronic media will be shredded or d estroyed u sing ap proved paper shredders or CDROM destroyers. AR-25-1,, Army Knowledge Management and Information Technol ogy, paragraph 6-4 n (2) (b) and DOD Web Site Adminis trati on Policy and Proced ures (), Part II, paragraph 3.6.1 require appropriate mechanisms to protect sensitive information. UNCLASSIFIED, For Official Use Only ” documents to Department of Defense (DOD) Websites that do not restrict access to authorized personnel. Regulations strictly forbid posting CALL “U.S.
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