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TDG #2 - NEO in
Africa (Noncombatant Evacuation Operation)
You must evacuate American personnel from an overseas embassy! |
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You are the
Battalion Commander of Battalion Landing Team 2/2, 24th MEUSOC (Marine
Expeditionary Unit Special Operations Capable). Your battalion is
currently deployed aboard the USS Wasp and three support ships,
operating off the coast of eastern Africa near the impoverished
country of Okagor.
A violent
coup is taking place in Saboga (population 750,000), the capital city
of Okagor. Intelligence indicates that anti-American rebels are
beheading people in the streets and are closing in on the American
Embassy, which sits on the bank of the Chapera river in downtown
Saboga. The rebels are
armed with machetes, AK-47s and RPGs.
Saboga is
located about thirty kilometers inland on the Chapera River Delta. For
your battalion, access to the city can be accomplished by a coastal
landing (and a 30 kilometer land advance), by water up the Chapera River
Delta, or by air.
The American Embassy is currently guarded by a small contingent of
embassy Marines, however, a large and hostile crowd is gathering in
soccer fields next to the embassy. (The soccer fields are the only
open area in the general vicinity of the embassy.) To further
complicate matters, rebels have blown craters in the city's only
airfield and parked buses and other vehicles on the airfield, making
evacuation by airplane impossible.
Your task is to
reinforce the embassy as soon as possible and evacuate the thirty
American personnel out of the country in the fastest and safest way
possible. To accomplish your mission, you have the full range of
military personnel and gear usually deployed with a MEUSOC, to
include: |
Landing
Craft Air Cushion (LCAC)
Though the Chapera river gives waterborne access from the ocean to the
embassy, direct access to the riverside embassy is not possible for
the LCAC, due to a steep embankment. Options include a suitable
landing point 3 kilometers south of the embassy in a lightly populated
area of the city. |
Amphibious
Assault Vehicle
Your AAVs are equipped with reactive armor that protects against RPGs. |
Solution(s):
There may be more than one solution to this TDG. However, a similar
situation in Burma in the late 1980s yielded this solution from U.S.
Marine commanders: In 1988, thousands of pro-democracy students and
other civilians were being massacred or wounded in the streets as the
country descended into chaos. (There were people being beheaded in the
streets!) Amidst this carnage, American citizens at the U.S. Embassy
in Rangoon needed to be evacuated from the country. The preferred
method was by air (through the airport), which was eventually
realized. However, there was a backup plan in case the air evacuation
could not be conducted due to the situation. The backup plan involved
a MEUSOC deployed aboard U.S. Navy vessels operating in the Andaman
Sea. Basically, the plan called for AAVs to be transported up the
Rangoon River Delta via LCACs to a point near the capital of Rangoon
(site of the embassy). The AAVs would offload from the LCACs and
proceed to the embassy, collect the personnel, and return to the LCACs.
To reinforce the embassy, Marines were to be flown in aboard
helicopters. Commanders believed that crowds (in a field near the
embassy needed as a landing zone) would disperse when the mighty CH-53
helicopters approached for landings. |
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