3 Commando Brigade

Op Heron
Author: Lifetap

An OSOD mission

Map
Lythium

---

Background
Northern Takistan.  A US Blackhawk helicopter (Super 71) on a routine supply run was forced to perform an emergency landing, after what was believed to be a mechanical failure of the main rotor, possibly as a result of Takistan Insurgents' fire.  Contact was lost with the crew soon after the helicopter reported the emergency. 

As the crash is within the BAF sector, a Royal Marine QRF has been assembled and dispatched to the crash site.

A drone has located Super 71, but there are no signs of the crew.  

The QRF are to operate under the assumption that the flight crew have been captured by Takistan Insurgents.  The Takistan Insurgents' mode of operandum, in this region, is to distribute captured coalition forces around local villages/compounds until such time as they can be transferred out of the region.  The QRF has to find the flight crew before darkness falls.

The area is a known Takistan Insurgent hotspot and one that is generally avoided by coalition forces.

Mission
1 Troop RM Commandos, are to deploy to the region
- investigate the crash site
- destroyed the UH-60
- locate and evacuate the 5 missing US flight crew

Insertion:
- via Wildcat or Merlin

Local Assets
2 x Wildcats
2 x Merlin

Note: Helicopters are only cleared to fly if they have a crew of two

Air assets have 4 roles:
- CAS
- Recce
- Logistics
- Transportation of 1-Troop around the AO

Supplies
Dropped onto the HLS with the initial insertion

Further supplies to be inserted via Wildcat/Merlin

Support
None


Fig 1. Super 71, hours before the crash

---

Intel

Fig 2. Map of AO, showing approx location of the crash site (SW) and RM QRF base (NE)

Friendly Forces
No other friendly forces are expected in the AO

Enemy Forces
Takistan Insurgents 
Disposition: roaming the countryside and located in small towns.
Composition: lightly armed militia, occasionally motorized, although the majority will be on foot.

IED/mine threat
Tracks / Villages / terrain features - medium
Countryside - low

Civilians
Civilians are considered neural or hostile

---

Time
16:00 (sunset at 18:00)

Weather
Hot, dry, with heat haze

ROE
Standard.
Civilian casaulties are to be minimized.  (No HE in BUA)

---

Who can Play
Open to all guests, 3CB members and Recruits

---

PRIORITY PLACEMENTS
(Restricted to 3CB members only)

1 Troop HQ
1-0-A: Commander - MrBagel
1-0-B: 2iC - Lifetap
FAC - Reddog

1 Section
1-1-C: Section Commander - Philip
1-1-D: Section 2iC - Hemeroids

2 Section
1-2-C: Section Commander - Nemiuk
1-2-D: Section 2iC - Skullzy

3 Section
1-3-C: Section Commander - JoeEmp
1-3-D: Section 2iC - 

4 Section
1-4-C: Section Commander -

6-1 (Wildcat)
Pilot - Jetrise
Co-pilot - Ace The Brewer

6-2 (Wildcat)
Pilot - BlueRobin
Co-pilot -