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http://www.2ndbn5thmar.comBook INight WarriorHandbookA Guide to Individual Trainingfor Night Combat in the Infantry CompanyThird EditionJanuary 2005

Night Warrior HandbookNight Warrior Handbook:A Guide to Individual Training for Night Combat in the Infantry CompanyThe cover illustration and Night Warrior logo is the constellation Orion,the Greek hunter-warrior of the night sky.Night Warrior HandbookThird EditionPublished 31 January 2005First EditionSecond EditionThird Edition2nd Battalion, 5th Marines2nd Battalion, 5th MarinesIOC UpdatesCamp Pendleton, CA1 April 1999Camp Hansen, Okinawa 1 June 2000Quantico, VA31 January 2005

Night Warrior HandbookTable of ContentsIntroductionPurpose and ScopeHow to use this ManualNight Attack on Hill 163A Concept for Night OperationsChapter 1Night Warrior Individual Training StandardsSection 1.1Section 1.2Section 1.3Section 1.4Chapter 22-12-192-242-342-472-542-622-632-68Unaided Night Weapons SkillsUnaided Night Field Skills3-13-2Night Warrior Training PlansSection 4.1Section 4.2Section 4.3Chapter 5Night Vision GogglesNight Vision ScopesWeapons Laser PointersHand-held Laser PointersLaser DesignatorsIR SignalsIR AmmunitionCombat IDAccessoriesUnaided Night Skills Training for IndividualsSection 3.1Section 3.2Chapter 41-11-91-151-17Night Equipment Training for IndividualsSection 2.1Section 2.2Section 2.3Section 2.4Section 2.5Section 2.6Section 2.7Section 2.8Section 2.9Chapter 3Night Warrior BasicNight Warrior LeaderNight Warrior WeaponsAdditional Night Warrior StandardsiiiiiiviiQuarterly Training PlanNight Warrior Field Training PlansISMT Field Training Plans4-14-44-7Night Vision EquipmentSection 5.1Section 5.2Section 5.3Section 5.4Night Vision Equipment Distribution ListsBatteriesStandard Armory ProceduresAcquiring Equipment5-15-85-95-10

Night Warrior HandbookNight Warrior Handbook Contributing Editors:Camp PendletonCapt Fidel ArroyoLt Stefan BarrCapt Andrew "Kingpin" ButlerMarine Gunner Dwight FrazerCapt Douglas "KD" LangCapt Garret MeansSSgt Clifford MeyerLt Aaron PuttroffLt Patrick RapicaultLt John MaloneyCapt Tye WallaceMajor B.B. McBreenCamp LejeuneMajor J.M. BarrettMajor D. GreenwoodMajor C.N. BlackInfantry Officer’s CourseCapt C.C. ReadingerCapt J.L DyalCapt S.R. BarrGySgt W.E. HellerIf you have any ideas on how to improve this publication, please contact:Major B. B. McBreenbrendan.mcbreen@usmc.mil(703) 784-5531

Night Warrior HandbookJanuary 2005Purpose and ScopePurposeThe Night Warrior Handbook is Book I of a two-book series:Book I: Night Warrior Handbook is a training guide designed to help an infantry company trainin the individual skills needed to conduct a night attack. Book I includes individual trainingstandards (ITS), equipment training handouts, training plans, and night equipment guidelines.Book II: Night Combat in Infantry Units is a training guide designed to help an infantrycompany train in the collective skills needed to conduct a night attack. Book II includescollective training standards (CTS), battle drills for company, platoon, squad, and weaponssections, notes on integrating supporting units into night operations, and a collection of nightmarking SOPs.The Night Warrior Handbook is a training reference for infantry leaders. It is not prescriptive.Sections on training and individual training standards can be used by leaders in any order and forany purpose required. Most of the training standards and techniques, although presented in thecontext of an infantry company night attack, can be used for all types of operations.ScopeThe Night Warrior Handbook supports Marine infantry company night operations. No combatsupport, combat service support, or aviation-specific operations are covered. Although mostmaterial is relevant to any force conducting night operations, no attempt has been made to coverdrivers, communicators, medical personnel, mechanics or any of the other hundreds of skilledMarines who need training to operate at night.i

Night Warrior HandbookHow to use this ManualOrganizationChapter 1 contains individual training standards (ITSs) for night fighting skills, organized tocover basic, leader, and weapons section tasks. A fourth section contains optional tasks thatleaders can select for specific equipment or missions.Chapter 2 contains training materials on night equipment. For each piece of equipment, there isa data sheet – a training handout intended to be xeroxed by NCOs for instructional use – and asection on tactics, techniques and procedures.Chapter 3 contains tactics, techniques and procedures for unaided night fighting skills.Chapter 4 includes sample field training plans. Each plan references the standards in Chapter 1and the guidance in Chapters 2 and 3.Chapter 5 contains recommended equipment SOPs.Recommended Quick Start Instructions1. Assign all equipment to individual Marines. Use NAVMC 10520 cards for each piece ofequipment. See Chapter 5.2. Qualify all Marines on the Night Warrior Basic Qualification. See Chapter 1 for ITSs,Chapter 2 for equipment training guidelines, Chapter 3 for unaided techniques trainingguidelines, and Chapter 4 for a sample field-training plan.3. Qualify selected leaders on the Night Warrior Leader Qualification. See Chapter 1 forITSs, Chapter 2 for equipment training guidelines, Chapter 3 for unaided techniques trainingguidelines, and Chapter 4 for a sample field-training plan.4. Qualify specific Marines on selected Night Warrior Weapons tasks and any additionaltasks. See Chapter 1, Sections 1.3 and 1.4 for ITSs, and Chapter 4 for a sample field-trainingplan.5. Move on to collective training when the individual training phase is complete. See Book II:Night Combat in Infantry Units.6. Throughout the training process, educate unit leaders on combat at night.ii

Night Warrior HandbookNight Attack on Hill 163byMajor Brendan B. McBreenIn the cool darkness, the radiosquawked. “Roger Four-One. Thisis Kingpin. I’ve got you with threedots and a dash. I’ve also got ThreeZero on the deck with seven dots.Stand by to snake your target.”“Three-Zero this is Four-One! Ihave an enemy machinegun, with atleast four men, firing at the Cobras.Location is three-hundred meterssouthwest of objective eleven!”“Roger Four-One ”Sergeant Martin heard the whopwhop of the lead Cobra, callsign“Kingpin,” off behind his leftshoulder, but he didn’t turn to look.“Kingpin. Four-One. SnakingNOW.”At his feet, there was a slight rustleas each of his six teams adjusted itsmachinegun on the dancing IR spot900 meters away.“Break, Break! Four-One, this isSix.” The company commander wasin the draw with 3rd Platoon.“Cease fire on that target. Plan stillstands. Open fire on Objective oneone with tracers, NOW! Three-Zero.Move NOW!”“Four-One. Roger, over.”“Three-Zero. Roger, moving now.”“Four-One, this is Kingpin. I seeyour snake seven hundred metersnortheast of your firefly.”In the next instant, the night wastorn apart by far more noise,tracers, and detonations than Martinhad expected. In a head shakinginstant, Martin realized what he waswatching. Large green thumpingtracers arced up toward the Cobras“New Target! New Target!” heyelled to his gunners. “Fire on myspot!” But the machinegunners didnot need the spot. The origin of theenemy tracers was clearly visiblewith or without goggles. Thegunners shifted west and opened up,adding to the crescendo. An hourago, Martin had squatted with eachgun and ran the Support-by-Firedrill. Friendlies were at 312degrees, obliging him by markingtheir position with a blinkingPhoenix beacon inside an M-203tube. Now Martin was glad he hadbeen meticulous. “Watch your leftlimit!”Martin flipped up his goggles, kneltdown, and barked at his gunners.“Targets one and two on theobjective, with tracers ”“I see them moving!” an A-gunnershouted.“Hurry up!” Off in the darkness,nothing was visible. Martin flippeddown his goggles and immediatelycaught the seven-dot blink of 3rdPlatoon’s Phoenix. That would bethe right flank. The left flank, heknew, was marked with an IRchemlite, but he couldn’t see it.His machinegunners opened up, thistime with tracers, on their originaltargets. Enemy small arms fire nowcracked back at them. Third Platoonwas moving out there, urgently, butquietly, and completely blacked out.The enemy had not yet seen them.Martin saw an IR light beam from3rd Platoon arc left to right andthen rest steadily on some unseentarget. “Too strong for a PEQ-2,”he thought, “must be a hand-held.”iiiHe watched a dozen thin PEQ-2weapons beams converge on thebrighter beam.“Crack! BOOM!” The sound of arocket and its near-immediateimpact was followed by the suddenroar of automatic weapons. ThirdPlatoon was going in!The Cobras came back, well to thenorth this time, guided by Bunny, thecompany FAC. “Kingpin, this isBunny. I’m on the deck with the leadelement. Do you see my rope?”Bunny was making circles in the skywith a hand-held laser pointer.“Bunny. Kingpin. I see you and I seeyour helmets. Two groups. One withyou and one further north.” Theone-inch square of glint tape oneach Marine’s helmet was visibleinside the cockpit. Both 1st and 3rdPlatoons were now inside the enemyposition.“Roger, Kingpin. Our thermalspicked up and then lost two vehiclesmoving east, probably on the roadtoward checkpoint Five-EightTango. We have no friendlies thatfar east, over.“Roger, Bunny. On the way.”The company had overrun Objective11 with lots of short-range, wellaimed fire but no grenades, nomortars, and no illumination. TheMarines quickly established newpositions, consolidated units, andredistributed ammunition. On thecommander’s guidance, Two-Threelaid out an IR “T” to mark an LZ onthe southern slope, signaled theMedevac birds with a chemlitebuzzsaw, and then carried casualtiesto the birds. The attack had taken

Night Warrior Handbooknineteen hours to prepare, but onlythirty-five minutes to execute.Nine hundred meters away, whilehis gunners and the mortarmenbroke down their equipment, SgtMartin gazed north toward Hill 163and smiled. “That’s the reason wetrain so hard,” he thought. To theunaided eye, and especially anyremaining enemy observers, the hillwas still blacked out. During theentire action, from thereconnaissance, infiltration,support-by-fire, and assault, to theconsolidation and pursuit by fire, tothe treatment and evacuation ofcasualties by air, every task hadbeen done in complete darkness.If the Marine Corps went to wartomorrow, what night fightingcapabilities would our infantrybattalions possess? What nightfighting issues would arise? Could the battalion acquire andissue the 4000 ‘AA’ batteries itneeds that first night?Would the ship have 22,000rounds of belted 5.56 and 7.62without tracers?Would the battalion have glinttape? Infrared (IR) chemlites?An SOP for their use?Could the Cobras differentiatebetween a FAC lasing a target, aplatoon commander lasing aroute, a machinegunner lasing asector, and the log train lasing alanding zone?Would the squad leaders andsection leaders know how toboresight PEQ-2 weaponspointers to their M-203s, M249s, and M-240G weapons?Would the point man know thathis PVS-14 compass is over 10degrees off?Would the artillery FO knowhow to plan and adjust IRillumination rounds?The answer, of course, to all thesequestions, is NO. NO battalion has4000 ‘AA’ batteries. NO war stocksof ammunition have been adjusted tomeet night fighting requirements.NO battalion has a “Light disciplinein the IR spectrum SOP” that theCobras pilots know. NO Marine canboresight the PEQ-2 to the M-203,the M-249 or the M-240G becauseno mounts have been procured andno boresight procedures have beenpublished. If the Marine Corps wentto war tomorrow, the discoverylearning on night combat would bequick, dirty and dangerous – andwholly unnecessary.How does the Marine Corps plan tofight at night? We have spent a lot ofmoney in this area. What capabilitieshave we gained? The newestgeneration of equipment is fielded,but few training resources areavailable, and few leaders know theequipment and how it might modifytheir procedures. No up-to-datemanuals exist. No urgency isattached to night training. We ownthe equipment, but we certainly doNOT own the night.Night Fighting IssuesThe Good. Infantry units in theMarine Corps have the bestequipment available. This equipmenthas the potential to significantlyimprove our night fightingcapabilities. An infantry riflecompany now rates over seventyPVS-7 and seventy PVS-14 nightvision goggles (NVGs), almost onefor every Marine in the company.Forty magnifiers are available forthe NVGs. Over seventy PEQ-2weapons laser pointers are mountedto the company’s M-16s and M203s. Twenty-seven PVS-4 nightvision scopes, currently beingrefitted with new imaging tubes, areavailable for mounting to M-203s orother weapons. Commerciallyavailable equipment, firefly andPhoenix beacons, IR filters, IRchemlites, and glint tape, can bepurchased by units or acquiredthrough the supply system.ivMARCORSYSCOM is doing agreat job of acquiring equipment andanswering questions from the FMF.New equipment, the PEQ-2 weaponslaser pointer, the PEQ-4 hand-heldlaser pointer, the PVS-17 weaponsscope, and the PAQ-13 ThermalWeapons Sight (TWS), is beingfielded in the coming year. Butequipment does not equal capability.Training equals capability. Onlythose units that train and experimentwith this new equipment discoverthe Tactics, Techniques, andProcedures (TTPs) that will work incombat. Only those units that trainand experiment can develop andadjust their Night Fighting StandingOperating Procedures (SOPs).The Bad. Infantry units in theMarine Corps need critical trainingsupport: There is no Night Fightingmanual, no new individual trainingstandards, and no updated collectivetraining standards. There are notraining support materials, handouts,templates, posters or pocket guides.There are no Night Fighting courses,no New Equipment Training Teams,and no easy-to-read technicalmanuals for any of this newequipment.Infantry units have no budget forconsumable night equipment. Unitscannot afford to buy ‘AA’ batteries,IR beacons, glint tape or chemlites.Marines often buy their ownbatteries.Marine Corps ranges are notoriouslydifficult when it comes to supportingnight firing. Waivers are needed.Illumination is required. Maneuveris not allowed. The range regulationsare out of date in that they rarelytake night vision devices intoaccount and unnecessarily constraineven low-power lasers. Rangepersonnel are unfamiliar with newcapabilities and hesitate to approvelasers, infrared (IR) markers, andNVGs as the primary safetyequipment on a live-fire range.Although the mission of the infantry

Night Warrior Handbookis to “ close with and destroy theenemy by fire and maneuver,” nonight fire and maneuver hasoccurred on any range in Okinawa inat least four years! The Ugly. Who is the Marine Corpsproponent for Night Fighting? Howare Training, Requirements, andProcurement being guided? Whoprioritizes fielding plans? WhatMarines and what Marine units ratewhat equipment? Who is listeningwhen an infantry company says itneeds nine hand-held laser pointers?Marine leaders at all levels shouldknow the answers to these questions. Why is the PVS-17 scope replacingthe PVS-4? Goggles are far moreversatile than scopes. Why is anexpensive Thermal Weapons Sightneeded instead of an inexpensivePEQ-2 mount for M-249 and M240G weapons? Marines want apointer mount AND a scope and theability to choose either based on themission. Is the TWS able to see thesignal of a laser pointer? Why is thisimportant?The entire Marine Corps operates ona daytime work schedule. Duringnight training, the chowhall is notopen, the motor pool cannot repair avehicle, ammunition cannot bedrawn, and the armory may not beaccessible. These issues can becoordinated, but infantry companiesare not autonomous enough to trainat night without command support.Night Fighting References andResourcesResources do exist to help leaderslearn about and plan night training.The U.S. Army Training andDoctrine Command’s , contains most ofthe Army’s field manuals. Eachmanual in the infantry series has asection on night operations:FM 7-30 The Infantry Brigade,3 Oct 95FM 7-20 The InfantryBattalion, 6 Apr 92FM 7-10 The Infantry RifleCompany, 14 Dec 90FM 7-8 The Infantry Platoonand Squad, 22 Apr 92 The 7-8 and 7-10 contain the mostdetailed information. Other manualsare also helpful: FM 8-50 Prevention andMedical Management of LaserInjuries, 8 Aug 90FM 22-9 Soldier Performancein Continuous Operations, 12Dec 91FM 90-22 Multi-service Nightand Adverse Weather CombatOperations, 31 Jan 91 Unfortunately, FM 90-22 ishopelessly out of date.The Center for Army LessonsLearned website,http://call.army.mil/, contains twodocuments that all Marine Corpsinfantry company commandersshould read: “Ranger CompanyNight Live-Fire Raid in the IRSpectrum,” and “Own the Night!Small Unit Night Fighter Manual.”The MAWTS-1 web page,http://www.tecom.usmc.mil/mawts1contains software programs forplanning night operations.http://www.2ndbn5thmar.com, the2nd Battalion, 5th Marines’webpage, contains manuals andguidelines on Night Fighting, knowncollectively as the Night WarriorProgram.Additionally, this manual includesNight Warrior Individual TrainingStandards, Field Training Plans,including a plan for using the IndoorSimulated Marksmanship Trainer(ISMT) for night training, andRecommended EquipmentDistribution Lists.Book II: Night Combat in InfantryUnits is a manual for collectiveskills training. It includes NightBattle Drills and SOPs for infantryunits: Book I: Night Warrior Handbook isa manual of individual skillstraining. Sample TTPs include: A fire team leader with an M203 / PEQ-2 and PVS-14, hasno need for a scope.vWeapons equipped with PEQ-2sdo NOT need tracerammunition. PEQ-2 boresight isnot dependent on battlesightzero. Lefties should shoot PEQ2 right handed.Cobras CAN pick up the ‘rope’made by a PEQ-2. PEQ-2s canbe hand-held.All NVGs need helmet mounts.To read a map with NVGs, laythe map down and keep yourhead steady at about ten inches.Each infantry platoon needs anIR beacon to mark LZs,support-by-fire positions, ormaneuver elements.Each infantry platoon needs ahand-held laser pointer fordirecting fire. A leader canidentify targets for organic andnon-organic (TOW, HMG, AT)fires, define fields of fire, definecontrol measures and routes,and mark targets for CAS. Theheavy beam is distinctive on anIR-cluttered battlefield. Handheld laser pointers are NOT“Just for FACs.”Tracer SOP. Illumination SOP.Night Landing Zone SOP.SOP Codes for programmablePhoenix Beacons.Company Night Attack SOP:Infiltration, Linkup, Guides, andSupport-by-Fire procedures.SOP for Marking, Treating andEvacuating casualties under IRconditions.

Night Warrior Handbook Light Discipline in the IRSpectrum SOP. When an enemyhas NVGs, IR light is MOREvisible than white or red light.Other products are designed forleaders. Leaders should understandhuman factors at night, thephysiology of the eye under nightconditions, infrared light, the scienceof lasers, laser safety, and nightoperations planning considerations.The battalion webpage contains listsof references, resources, andterminology, including joint laserterminology. It also includes anannotated bibliography of over thirtybooks and articles on night fighting.Two write-ups on night fighting inthe Falklands, Take That Hill! byN.J. Vaux, and “The Last 300Yards” in The MechanizedBattlefield: A Tactical Analysis byD.A. Collett, are recommended forunit leaders looking for modernexamples of fighting at night. for all training products.Collect unit night experiences into update doctrinal manuals.BaseRequirements Division Re-write the infantry nightfighting requirements that driveacquisition. All infantry Marinesneed goggles. All weapons needpointers. Scopes, thermal or not,are additional equipment.Infantry platoons need aprogrammable IR signal device.Infantry platoons need a handheld laser pointer. Squads needradios during night operations. Infantry Regiments System Command What is to be Done?Provide New EquipmentTraining Teams for operatorswhen new equipment is fielded.Provide readable technicalmanuals aimed at the primaryaudience, the NCO.Standardize all new equipmenton commercially available ‘AA’batteries.Rewrite Range Regulations toencourage night training, reflectnew equipment capabilities, andsupport new night trainingstandards. Examine schedules for chowhalls, motor pools, and all otherinfrastructure that inhibit nighttraining.Assign one battalion the singletraining task: “Conduct a NightAttack.” Make that battalion theregiment’s lead agency indeveloping night TTP.Petition the division to increasethe infantry battalion budget tocover night fightingexpendables, especiallybatteries, and night equipmentpurchases.ConclusionThe Marine Corps has the very bestmodern equipment, tremendousMarines and well-trained leaders.What will it take for the MarineCorps to significantly improve itsinfantry night fighting capability?The answer is training. Training,supported by an infrastructure thatencourages and values nightoperations. An infantry proponentneeds to tie the following effortstogether to deconflict differencesand prioritize resources.Training & Education Concepts Division Write “A Concept for Fightingat Night” to guide requirements,acquisition, and training. Doctrine Division Produce a new manual: NightOperations for Infantry Units Update Individual TrainingStandards for Infantry, toinclude a new chapter ofstandards for night combat.Update night fighting collectivetask standards.Direct SOI and TBS to teachnight individual trainingstandards to privates andlieutenants.Direct SOI to establish a “NightWarrior Leader Course” toteach NCOs and officerscollective standards, SOPs, andTTPs for night combat.Produce a series of laminatednight training materials forsmall unit leaders: posters,pocket guides, training graphics,boresight targets and templates.Establish a web page for NightCombat that serves as a sourceviThe Marine Corps should field thebest-trained, most capable nightfighting infantry in the world. Theeasy part, acquiring the equipment,is well in hand. What remains to bedone is the experimentation, thedoctrinal modifications, and thechallenging and difficult trainingthat will produce competent andcapable battalions of NightWarriors.Major McBreen is currently theoperations officer for 2nd Battalion,5th Marines.This article was originally publishedin the August 2000 Marine CorpsGazette.

Night Warrior HandbookA Concept for Night OperationsThe Marine Corps needs a Concept for Night Operations, a document that addresses the following points:BackgroundMarine expeditionary MAGTFs need the capability to fight at night against sophisticated opponents. Inthe past sixty years, the Marine Corps has learned much about how to fight at night. The lessons learnedfrom these actions are contained in our warfighting manuals. Technology, while improving many of ournight fighting capabilities, does not erase these lessons. Future night fighting capabilities need to bedeveloped by combining combat experience, new technology, and experimentation during training.Purpose and ScopeThe purpose of a night operations concept is to define the desired night fighting capabilities of the MarineCorps and set the incremental goals necessary to reach these capabilities.The scope of the concept is the entire Marine Corps. Although only our operating forces engage theenemy, our training, education, procurement, and other supporting activities exist to support and fieldthese operating forces.Anticipated ThreatsThe Marine Corps, an expeditionary force in readiness, must plan for threats around the globe, in all typesand levels of conflict. Given the availability of night fighting technology, all threats must be assumed tohave night vision capability.In the future, we can expect threat forces to acquire comparable equipment, develop night fightingcapabilities, and develop counter measures to mitigate U.S. night fighting technology.Night Fighting CapabilityThe Marine Corps has tremendous night fighting potential. This potential is the sum of our technology,support, logistic backing, skilled leadership and high quality Marines. A lack of training focus however,makes our current night fighting capability far less than our potential suggests. We cannot mistakepotential capability for actual capability.Night Fighting ScenariosEvery standard Marine Corps operation will be executed at night. Future combat scenarios need to befully defined as completely executable at night. These scenarios will then guide night fightingdevelopment.Future Operational CapabilitiesOur warfighting doctrine demands that we capitalize on our strengths and exploit enemy vulnerabilities.Future operations will use darkness and the Marine Corps’ expertise in night operations to overwhelm theenemy’s ability to respond and decisively defeat his forces.vii

Night Warrior HandbookGoals. The Marine Corps will have the capability to fight twenty-four hours a day. Darkness will NOT reduce our ability to fight. The MAGTF will operate all units and allplatforms twenty-four hours a day. All communications, all logistics, all movement, and allcombat techniques will be optimized for night operations.The MAGTF will operate completely within the IR spectrum. All signals, all optics, and allweapons will have IR capability. Leaders, pilots, gunners, communicators, equipment operators,and all ground combat forces need IR vision.The MAGTF will operate on a common night vision wavelength band. All night vision will seethe same picture. Thermal vision will augment, not replace, night vision goggles.Our standard offensive capability will be the night attack. The primacy of night operations isdefined by our ability to attack at night. Supporting arms, assault support, CAS, and other unitswill optimize their night techniques to support the GCE during the night attack.The MAGTF will operate with a common night target identification system. This applies at theMAGTF level, where helicopters communicate target information with ground forces. Thisapplies at the squad level, where all Marines communicate to identify the same target. Allweapons need laser pointers to mark targets.The Marine Corps will be the most well trained night fighting force in the world.Constraints. We must realize that the biggest constraint on night operations is NOT technology, but thelimitations of the individual Marine. Leaders must be educated on the physiological limits of theirMarines. The secondary night constraints imposed by technology, training, and maintenance need to beclearly identified and well understood by battlefield leaders.Infrastructure. Some ranges and training facilities will be updated to better suit night training.Doctrine. Our warfighting doctrine encourages night fighting as a technique that attacks enemy weakness.A series of night fighting manuals needs to be developed and annually updated to reflect lessons learnedand share the impacts of rapidly changing night vision technology.Organization. Current MAGTF organization supports these night fighting goals.Training and Education. Training, not equipment, is the key component to night fighting capability.Manuals, training standards, schools, ranges, and facilities need to be significantly enhanced in order tosupport this night fighting concept. CAX needs to be changed. The T&R manuals need to be changed.MEU(SOC) standards need to be changed. Large exercises, which drive unit preparation training, need tofocus on night fighting.Technology Research and DevelopmentResearch, development and acquisition of night equipment will support our warfighting doctrine andnight fighting concept.RecommendationsThe GCE advocate should serve as a lightning rod for MAGTF night fighting development. A five-yearnight fighting plan should be implemented. An annual night fighting conference should present results ofcombat experience, experimentation, technical and tactical developments, and new doctrinal and trainingproducts. Each and every Marine should be challenged to contribute to the improvement of our nightfighting capability.viii

Night Warrior HandbookJanuary 2005Chapter 1Night Warrior Individual Training StandardsSection 1.1Qualification Standards forNight Warrior BasicThe following Individual Training Standards (ITS) define the Night Warrior Basic (NWB)Qualification. These are the minimum skills needed by all hands before unit-level training can begin. Allinfantry Marines, including Corpsmen, are expected to be NWB qualified. Existing ITSs from MCO3501.34 Infantry T&R Manual are referenced.1. Operate PVS-7D2. Operate PVS-143. Operate PEQ-2A4. Operate PVS-175. Operate PAS-136. Operate VLI7. Operate RCO8. Engage targets at night with weapon and PEQ-2A9. Engage targets at night with weapon and PVS-1710. Engage targets at night with weapon and PAS-1311. Engage targets at night with weapon and VLI12. Engage targets at night with weapon and RCO13. Camouflage self and equipment14. Silence weapon and equipment15. Operate silently at night1-1

Night Warrior Handbook16. Execute an individual night infiltration1. TASK: Operate PVS-7DCONDITIONS: In the dark. With a PVS-7D or 7B.STANDARD: The Marine must execute the following tasks:a. Remove old batteries. Insert new batteries.b. Remove lens cover. Attach sacrificial window.c. Don and adjust headmount OR Attach helmet mount to helmet. Attach PVS-7 to mount.d. Turn PVS-7 on.e. Execute the four-step focus process: focus main lens, focus each eyepiece diopter, adjust interpupilarydistance, adjust eye relief.f.Identify detailed object at 20m.g. Turn IR illuminator on and off.h. State the meaning of the red dot indicator in the left eye.i.State the meaning of the red dot indicator in the right eye.j.Flip PVS-7 to ‘up’ position on helmet mount OR Remove PVS-7 from head mount.NOTE: There are sl

Jan 31, 2005 · Night Warrior Handbook January 2005 Purpose and Scope Purpose The Night Warrior Handbook is Book I of a two-book series: Book I: Night Warrior Handbook is a training guide designed to help an infantry company train in the individual skills needed to conduct a night attack. Book I includes individual training standards (ITS), equipment training handouts, training plans, and night equipment .

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