2.
Combat (tactical) documentation covers the following:
a. Battlefield documentation, which extends from the forward line
of
troops (FLOT) to Corps, consists of the following types of media coverage:
(1) Military operations from day one of the battle and information of
immediate value to commanders and their staffs for use in planning, conducting
and
combat,
combat
support,
and
combat
service
support
effectiveness.
(2) Friendly positions before, during, and after the battle.
This
includes providing front and reverse panoramics, camouflage discipline, and
fields of fire.
(3) Opposing forces (OPFOR) positions should also be documented,
if
possible, to detect camouflage and possible avenues of approach.
(4) On
the
scene
close-in
terrain
analysis
documentation
for
operational
traffic
supportability
planning,
barrier
location
and
identification.
(5) Aerial spot imagery which provides motion media of friendly and
OPFOR positions to augment intelligence photography.
(6) Military operations to furnish HQDA staff, training developers, and
military historians with combat and doctrinal material for evaluation and
development of effective counter measures.
(7) Battlefield
damage
of
friendly
force
equipment
to
provide
operational tacticians and logisticians immediate
information to
develop
effective counter measures.
(8) Battlefield damage to indigenous property for use by Civil Affairs
in adjudicating claims.
(9) Battlefield damage of OPFOR equipment to provide operational
tacticians and logisticians immediate information on effectiveness of friendly
weapons and tactics and to provide information for long-range research and
development activities.
(10) Field medical procedures as required by the field medical
commander, to furnish visual and audio information of immediate intelligence
and operations value.
(11) Initial battle engagements of new weapons and support systems and
revised tactics to provide HQDA staff and commanders and their staffs at all
levels, and Combat, doctrinal, material and training developers, information
for validation of new equipment doctrine.
(12)
Visual
documentation
of
captured
OPFOR
supplies,
material,
equipment,
personnel and documents for commanders and their staffs at all
levels for
use in planning, conducting and evaluating combat, combat support
and combat
service support activities. This material may be of
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