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…Telephone lines within the building should be laid through walls and floors. (6) Rubbling. Rubbling parts of the building may provide useful cover and concealment for weapons emplacements. Rubbling should be performed only by trained engineers…

…Types of buildings that may be cleared include brick buildings and houses, box-wall buildings, heavy-clad framed buildings, and light-clad framed buildings. (1) Brick Buildings and Houses. The best way to enter a brick…

…Suppressing and obscuring enemy gunners within the objective building(s) and adjacent structures Isolating the objective building(s) with fires to prevent enemy withdrawal, reinforcement, or counterattack Breaching walls en route to and in the objective…

…Close-in Tank Limitations at Street and Overhead Levels (3) Assign Target Reference Points and Select Method of Engagement. After selecting the weapons positions, target reference points should be assigned to ensure adequate coverage and control…

…Optical devices enhances their ability to detect movement and engage it instantly. (2) Snipers can also support (by fire) infantry movement across streets. They can provide immediate precision fire on enemy machine gun nests and enemy…

…They may not have enough time to knock out walls in buildings and clear backblast areas. They should select positions that allow the backblast to escape, such as corner windows where the round fired goes out…

…Even if the subterranean effort is not immediately successful, it forces the defender to fight on atleast two levels and to extend resources to more than just street-level fighting. c. The existence of subterranean passages…

…Movement Down a Street 2-37 2404. Utilization of the Reserve 2-38 Chapter 3. Defensive Operations 3001. Introduction 3-1 3002 Decision to Defend 3-1 3003 Reasons for Not Defending Built-Up Areas 3…

…If forced to use a hallway (Figure A-18), Marines should move by hugging the wall to avoid presenting targets to the enemy. Military Operations on Urbanized Terrain A - 13

…At this point, the Marine covering the rearward movement of the last Marine can assume the rear guard position and move back to the wall as the Marine passes by his/her position (Figure A-70…

…If the walls of a building are made of thin material, such as sheetrock or thin plyboard, the Marine should either lie flat on the floor with his/her helmet pointing toward the area of detonation…

…If the walls of a building are made of thin material, such as sheetrock or thin plyboard, the Marine should either lie flat on the floor with his/her helmet pointing toward the area of detonation…

…Both shooters pass through the doorway together and immediately face respective corners, using the adjacent wall for cover. Both shooters buttonhook their respective areas (Figure A-39B). At this point, clearing the room is the same…

…After Shooter Number One shoots the door open, Shooter Number Two immediately moves to a kneeling position against the wall (Figure A-37). Shooter Number One kicks the door open from a standing position. If the…

…Increase of males in the streets wearing military style clothing or distinctive markings. Indicators of Negative Medicine-Related Activities Large-scale purchasing or theft of drugs and medicines or the herbs used to manufacture local remedies…

seized part of the walled city (Citadel) of Hue. The NVA/VC held this part of the walled city for about three weeks against determined U.S. and South Vietnamese forces before finally succumbing. The battle…

…and Herbicide Operations, for more detailed information.) These obstacles are used to block the following infantry approaches: Streets Buildings Roofs Open spaces Dead space Underground systems. a. The approval authority to boobytrap buildings is normally the…

…Both shooters clear their immediate areas along their respective walls, starting from the nearest respective corner and continuing to the farthest respective corner (Figure A-49). g. Both shooters establish dominant positions that give them control…

…Another method is to attach a grappling hook to the end of a scaling rope so that a Marine can scale a wall, spring from one building to another, or gain entrance through an upstairs window…

…Fighting in continuous darkness and restricted maneuver space causes even more stress to Marines than street fighting. E - 6 MCWP 3-35 .3