Tactical Decision Game #3

You are a Marine captain commanding a rifle company, part of a MEU(SOC). Your battalion is conducting ongoing operations in Afghanistan as a part of Operation Enduring Freedom.

Members of a Force Recon squad successfully captured and interrogated a Taleban leader, and your company has been tasked with conducting a follow-up raid on a Taleban camp in search of intelligence assets. The camp is located in a mountainous area, so your operations plan must reflect that.

Your mission is to conduct a raid on the Taleban observation post on Hill 286. Your primary objective is to search the main compound for documents and materials that can be exploited as intel assets. Outside the main compound is a modest bunker where a Taleban commander is believed to reside; his capture, alive, is your secondary objective.

There are a series of interconnected tunnels that run under Hill 286 and into Hill 288, which is across a shallow valley from 286. A small Taleban unit is tasked with the defense and operation of each of these tunnels. On the accompanying map, squad-sized units are detailed in blue, platoon-sized units are detailed in green. The Taleban commander's position is in red, the suspected location of intel documents is in light blue. Total enemy strength in the area is estimated at no more than 225 terrorist fighters, most of whom are expected to be poorly trained. The garrison on top of the hill is estimated at forty fighters or less. You can expect these enemy personnel to attempt an assault as soon as the first shots are fired; they will employ AK-47 rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, and possibly mortars.

Your company (three platoons, each consisting of three rifle squads) has two machine gun teams (a total of four M240G medium machine guns) and two SMAW assault teams; no snipers on this mission. You also have a five man intel team tasked with securing the intel resources. Your total troop strength is 142. You also have priority from the battalion's artillery assets and AH-1W Cobra gunships.

What now, Captain?

Deadline for submission is 12:00 PM Monday. Here's what I want:

Insertion methods and locations

Deployment scheme for platoons and attached teams

Overall scheme of attack

Extraction location, scheme, and method

Any additional information you wish to provide

I anxiously await your solutions.