FM 17-35 ( Armored Cavalry Platoon, Troop and Squadron ) 1960

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CHAPTER 20
OFFENSIVE OPERATIONS, ARMORED CAVALRY
SQUADRON
Section I. GENERAL
295. General
The armored cavalry squadron is capable of conducting offensive
operations as an economy force or as a task force when appropriately
reinforced. It engages in offensive action most frequently
to accomplish an assigned reconnaissance or security mission.
Attacks by the squadron may be a series of individual troop
actions, because of the normal dispersion within the squadron
while engaged in reconnaissance and security operations, or the
squadron may be required to conduct a coordinated attack. In offensive
operations, the squadron may operate directly under division
control or it may be attached, in whole or in part, to a major
subordinate command. (See FM 17-1.)
296. Employment of Armored Cavalry Squadron in Offensive
Operations
In offensive operations conducted by either the armored division
or the infantry division, the armored cavalry squadron is normally
assigned a security mission.
a. Penetration. In the penetration, the armored cavalry squadron
is normally employed to provide flank security for the force
making the penetration and for maintaining contact with the
forces on the flanks. As the force making the penetration advances,
the squadron will provide flank security, patrol routes of
communication, seize and hold terrain features, or be committed
as an independent combat force.
b. Envelopment and Turning Movements. In conducting an envelopment
or turning movement, the division will usually have
both flanks exposed. The armored cavalry squadron is normally
assigned the mission of securing the more dangerous flank of the
division.
297. Frontage
a. The frontage covered by the armored cavalry squadron in the
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