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U.S. Marines on a recon mission during a field training exercise in 2003. In military operations, military reconnaissance or scouting is the exploration of an area by military forces to obtain information about enemy forces, the terrain, and civil activities in the area of operations.
Military commanders use forward platoon and company-sized elements of their own organic forces, to perform close reconnaissance ("short-range" reconnaissance), [2] such as: the recon/scout platoons in infantry battalions; reconnaissance platoons in armored regiments/battalions; or "intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, reconnaissance" (ISTAR) companies that are organic to ...
Acquisition and Survey Regiment (Jordanian Armed Forces) Special Support & Reconnaissance Company - SSR (Danish Defence) ISTAR Bat TF 11 ad hoc] (Swiss Armed Forces) [62] 350. military intelligence battalion ( 350. vojnoobavještajna bojna ) (Croatian Army) Razuznavacki bataljon na ARM, Republika Makedonija; 5. obveščevalno-izvidniški ...
Since reconnaissance is a basic military skill, "special" reconnaissance refers to the means of operating in the desired area, and the nature of the mission. In US Army doctrine, [10] [11] there are five basic factors: Physical distances: The area of operations may be well beyond the forward line of troops, and require special skills to reach ...
O-57 Grasshopper at the National Museum of the United States Air Force A de Havilland Mosquito PR Mk XVI (F-8) of the 654th BS, Eighth Air Force at RAF Watton, 1944 North American B-25D (F-10) Mitchell photographic reconnaissance and mapping aircraft North American P-51C-5-NT Mustang (F-6C) Serial No 42-103368 of the 15th TRS at St. Dizler Airfield, France, Autumn 1944.
Reconnaissance, surveillance, and target acquisition (RSTA) squadrons are a type of unit in the United States Army.These are cavalry squadrons (though in IBCTs they typically contain at least one dismounted infantry troop), [1] [2] and act at the squadron level as a reconnaissance unit for their parent brigade combat teams.
From 1979 onward, joint training for LRRP and military stay-behind units was conducted at NATO's International Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol School (ILRRPS) in Weingarten, Germany, under the lead of UK SF. British SAS, German Fernspäher, Dutch Marines, Belgian Para-Commandos, US SF, and others worked and trained together on a daily basis.
31st Recon Battalion [12] of 3rd Military Region; 12th Recon Battalion [13] of 4th Military Region; 32nd Recon Battalion [14] of 5th Military Region; 47th Recon Battalion [15] of 7th Military Region; Recon Battalion under the staff HQ [16] of 9th Military Region; Beside, each Army Division, independent Regiment, Commando Brigade and provincial ...