MP platoon leaders and squad leaders coordinate with base and base cluster commanders in their
area of operations to ensure that MP response forces are included in the base defense plan. MP
conduct reconnaissance of the areas surrounding the bases and identify the most likely avenues of
approach. Identify rally points where MP squads and platoons can consolidate to respond to the base
under attack. Exchange SOIs or identify alternate forms of communication in order to directly
communicate with bases during response force operations. MP review base defense plans to become
familiar with individual base fire plans, fields of fire, and location of mines and obstacles. Identify
possible avenues for MP to respond and establish signals for shifting fires. This type coordination can
enable MP leaders and base commanders to effectively use existing fires, mines, and obstacles to
defeat the threat with a minimum of resources. With effective communication and well coordinated
prior planning, MP can consolidate, respond to a base, engage the threat from his weakest point, and
then make use of existing obstacles, minefields, and friendly fires by driving the threat into them, and
together with the base destroy the threat.
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