WGX Fundamentals
This fundamental enables the crossing force to rapidly adapt to changes in the situation and to salvage the loss of a crossing site or to exploit a sudden opportunity.
What is Flexible Planning?
A location adjacent to the route or axis that may used for concealment of vehicles, troops, and equipment while an element is pausing to resume movement.
What is a Waiting Area?
The amount of Soldiers a single single zodiac can carry.
What is 15 (plus the engineer operator)?
This phase involves attacking to secure the exit bank and intermediate objectives to eliminate direct and observed indirect fires into the crossing area.
What is "Advance From the Far-side" (Phase 3)?
The crossing of an inland water obstacle or other gap that requires extensive planning and detailed preparations.
What is Deliberate gap crossing?
This fundamental is essential in order to cross units at the proper locations, in the sequence desired, and as quickly and efficiently as possible.
What is Traffic Management?
A controlled access area for WGX operations used to decrease traffic congestion and is usually defined between by Release Lines (RLs) around the gap.
What is the Crossing Area?
The categories of rates at which vehicles cross Improved Ribbon Bridges (IRBs).
What is Normal, Caution, Risk, and Two-Way?
This phase involves units securing objectives further from the gap crossing to gain additional time and space for the buildup of follow-on forces.
What is "Secure the Bridgehead Line" (Phase 4)?
The category of bridging employed under the threat of direct or indirect fire for immediate mobility support to maneuver force in close combat.
What is Tactical Bridging?
This fundamental is described by specifying additional command and control responsibilities at echelon and usually assigns units into the following four roles: assault forces, mobility units, bridgehead forces, and breakout forces.
What is Organization?
These points ensure vehicles do not exceed the capacity of the crossing means and to give final instructions on site-specific procedures - co-located at Call Forward Areas (CFAs or Chik-fil-A)
What is an Engineer Regulating Point (ERP)?
This gap characteristic determines rafting speeds and number of rafts per centerline.
What is Gap Width?
This phase is described as the attack to seize the near-side objectives of the gap while additionally conducting reconnaissance of the crossing sites.
What is "Advance to the Gap" (Phase 1)?
The crossing of an inland water obstacle or other gap using the crossing means on hand or those readily available - without pausing for elaborate preparations.
What is Hasty gap crossing?
This fundamental describes the need to maintain rapid momentum of gap crossing missions. "The longer the force takes to cross, the less likely it will succeed"
What is Speed?
These are manned posts used to preclude interruption of movement along designated routes and are located at a minimum at both Crossing Sites (CS) and Staging Areas (SA).
What are Traffic Control Points (TCPs)?
This bank velocity allows for Longitudinal Rafting.
What is LESS THAN 1.5m/s?
The attack out of the bridgehead to defeat the enemy at a subsequent or final objective by the "Breakout Force".
What is "Continue the Attack" (Phase 5)?
The category of bridging used to establish semi-permanent or permanent support to planned movements and road networks.
What is Support Bridging?
This fundamental is employed to minimize the disadvantages of gap crossing and prevent the enemy from massing forces or fires at the crossing site utilizing deception and assurance of operations security.
What is Surprise?
This is an area designated to assemble, prepare, and store bridge or other crossing equipment, located at least 1km and/or major terrain feature from the gap.
What is an Engineer Equipment Park (EEP)?
The lowest river depth a bridge can be emplaced in.
What is .8m?
The phase which units seize far-side objectives to eliminate direct fire into crossing sites.
What is "Assault Across the Gap" (Phase 2)?
A planned crossing of a water obstacle or other gap in which the crossing in intended to be undetected.
What is Covert gap crossing?