OAKOC is an acronym used in terrain analysis. It is used for describing the military aspects of a piece of land in a way that clearly identifies the locations necessary to defend or seize a particular area.

METT-TC is a mnemonic that stands for six factors: mission, enemy, terrain, troops, time, and civilians. It’s used primarily by the U.S. Army as a framework to aid its warriors in analyzing a situation, prioritizing key aspects, and then planning accordingly to achieve success.

Avenues of approach are classified by type (mounted, dismounted, air, or subterranean), formation, and speed of the largest unit that can travel along it.

Cover is protection from the fire of hostile weapons. Concealment is protection from observation or surveillance from hostile air and ground observation, but not from hostile fire.

Cover and concealment are best when used together. Cover can also provide concealment, so that is where you want to be. If you are not in a good position to defend yourself or from which to fight, you need to move to a covered position that will allow you to do that.

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.

“Cover is protection from the fire of hostile weapons. Concealment is the protection from observation…” Good cover will ideally reduce the available space for an attacker to make contact with weapons (firearms or otherwise).

Natural concealment is provided by the surroundings and needs no change such as bushes, grass, and shadows. b. Artificial Concealment. Artificial concealment is made from materials such as burlaps or nets or from natural materials such as bushes, leaves, and grass moved from their original location.

Cover is a concrete wall while concealment is darkness. The concrete wall will stop most small arms fire. Darkness will allow you to hide but it will not stop anything. Cover may be used during a shots fired deadly force encounter to prevent you from getting shot.

Camouflage, concealment and deception techniques are used to hide, blend, disguise or disrupt the appearance of military targets. Camouflage involves disguising an asset and can be carried out by draping nets over equipment or painting disruptive patterns on an installation to make it blend into its surroundings.

Camouflage uses concealment and deception to promote our of- fensive or defensive action, to surprise, to mislead the enemy, and to prevent the enemy from inflicting damage. Concealment includes hiding from view, making hard to see clearly, arranging obstructions to vision, deceiving, and disguising.

trying to do an exercise with some mates remember hearing about it before but can’t find any evidence of them if you know please give me a hand 🙂 Shine, shape, silhouette, sudden movement, shadow, spacing, straight lines? That’s 7.

The Universal Camouflage Pattern (UCP), also referred to as ACUPAT (Army Combat Uniform Pattern) or Digital Camouflage (“digicam”), is currently used by the U.S. Army. U.S. Army: Units deployed in Afghanistan use MultiCam instead, known as OCP pattern.

But anyway no it’s not. It is used frequently by the United States Marine Corps however the only Sailors in the US Navy that wear this camo are corpsmen, chaplains, and religious program specialists.

A combat uniform, field uniform, battledress or military fatigues, is a casual type of uniform used by military, police, fire and other public uniformed services for everyday fieldwork and combat duty purposes, as opposed to dress uniforms worn in functions and parades.

Operational Camouflage Pattern

Remember, in Army parlance OCP is OCP , regardless if it is the MultiCam variant or the new Scorpion W2 version. MultiCam will continued to be fielded by the Army under the name OCP.

MARPAT, as the camo pattern is known, is widely viewed as one of the best concealment patterns because of the small, digitized pixels.

Beginning Tuesday, the blue uniforms frequently referred to by sailors as “blueberries” can no longer be worn on the job. Instead, sailors will wear a green camouflage that’s long been used by Navy expeditionary forces, like SEALs and explosive ordnance disposal units. The blue has been worn since 2008.