today I'm going to show you how to conduct a platoon raid for Army CST so the first thing is you're going to be conducting a 360 degree Security in an objective Rally Point before receiving the mission after you receive the mission with the company upward the platoon leader will issue a warno to their platoon and the pl along with other leaders in HQ will come up with the terrain model along with a platoon outboard the platoon leader will then conduct a Leader's Recon bringing any important Personnel like Squad leaders the point man and the RTO to see out the area another thing you can do is set up a RP in between the orp and the objective to act as a checkpoint additionally before you leave the pl will issue a five point contingency plan called agatwa to the PSG and the PSG will let the entire platoon know the got was to let the entire platoon know who's going when the leadership is coming back what to do if the platoon gets attacked or what to do when the leadership receive contact after the leader's Recon all Squad leaders should know where to place their squads on the objective or another way is to get the leadership to go to the RP and get the entire platoon to meet up with them at the RP by radioing to the PSG to come the platoon will now move out usually in a platoon column fire team which but will depend on the terrain and what the PL commands so this is what a fire team wedge looks like on a squad level and then this is what a platoon column fire team wedge looks like at the platoon level platoon will now move out in their order of March and it will depend on the terrain as what the PL commands if you're going to use the platoon column fire team wedge but that's usually what everyone uses once the platoon reaches the RP the pl will now set up all of his elements to prepare for the raid so this is also optional you can set up a security and observation team by picking two people from any squad to be your eyes and ears near the objective but once the platoon reaches the RP the pl will set everything up so he'll put his assault elements down here he'll set his support by fire elements up there and then he'll use his security elements to pull security now one thing is if you know there's a road nearby and there's likely to be enemy reinforcements you can utilize the security element as a eyes and ears on the road as well just to make sure the enemy doesn't over run the objective and then once all of these elements are in place the pl will conduct the attack by following his Pace plan usually by initiating fires or blowing a whistle once all the enemy are down after the mad minute the assault one and assault two elements will bound through the objective and kick any weapons away from the op4's reach the support by fire team will turn around and pull rear security and lastly the security element will come and pull Security on the objective and then you want to get all of your elements spread out evenly so that there's a even 360 degree security and then after that the pl will call for special teams with the APW first and then the 8 in litter and then the demo once all that's complete the pl will yell the red white and blue plan to get everybody off the objective you roughly have seven minutes to get off before enemy reinforcements arrive or an enemy artillery attack the area so you want to get your entire platoon off of here so the first thing he will yell is red which means the assault elements will go leave once they leave you're gonna yell white everyone else will yell white as well and that means the support by fire elements will get off the objective and then lastly blue everyone will yell blue the security and demo will go off the objective and set the detonation on the objective to destroy any important information or weapons caches and the objective will blow up after and then once that's done the platoon will now form back up in an orp and pull security and the pl will give a situational report to headquarters and once that's done the category will yell change of mission or index which means the rate has been completed and that's how you conduct The Raid for Army CST