US Army Tactical Standard Operating Procedure for Iraq (2004)

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US Army 1st Infantry Division Tactical Standard Operating Procedure (TACSOP) written at the For Official Use Only level and dated 26 Aug 2004. A 44 page "cheat sheet" detailing flow charts on how soldiers should respond to a variety of circumstances from an accidental or deliberate weapons of mass destruction (WMD) release or US troops committing war crimes to the discovery of mass graves.

Like most military documents it contains many acronyms. The most important are:

ID

Infantry Division

DMAIN

Division main command post

Other military acronyms can be found via the Wikileaks military dictionary.

Wikileaks metadata document forensics:

Creator: Acrobat PDFMaker 6.0 for Word

Producer: Acrobat Distiller 6.0 (Windows)

CreationDate: Fri Jun 25 12:40:08 2004

ModDate: Thu Aug 26 14:18:46 2004

Index to flow chart pages:

    1. FRIENDLY KIA
    2. FRIENDLY DEATH (NON-HOSTILE ACTION)
    3. IRAQI NIA / ICDC / POLICE DEATH (ENEMY ACTION)
    4. FRIENDLY FRATRICIDE
    5. NON-LETHAL FIRE FRATRICIDE
    6. DEATH OR MEDEVAC OF CG / ADC / CoS
    7. DEATH OR MEDEVAC OF 06 / 05 CDR
    8. HOMICIDE BOMBER ATTACK (DISMOUNTED / VEHICULAR)
    9. MISSING SOLDIER (POW / MISSING / AWOL)
    10. DETAINEE
    11. DOWNED AIRCRAFT
    12. RIOT
    13. POWER OUTAGE IN TOWN
    14. OIL LINE SABATOGE
    15. OIL LINE STOPS RUNNING
    16. MASS GRAVE FOUND
    17. WMD SITE FOUND
    18. DECK OF CARDS INFORMATION/INTELLIGENCE
    19. TF 20 CONTACTS 1 ID FOR RAID
    20. REFUGEE CRISIS
    21. CJTF-7/CPA TASKING REQUIRING EXECUTION IN LESS THAN 48 HOURS
    22. BRIDGE COLLAPSES / DESTROYED
    23. MSR BLOCKED BY ENEMY ACTIVITY
    24. MSR BLOCKED BY CIVILIAN ACTIVITY
    25. LOCAL NATIONAL MURDERS ANOTHER LOCAL NATIONAL
    26. NGO IS ATTACKED / KILLED
    27. VIP VISIT
    28. CORPS OR HIGHER CONVOY ESCORT
    29. WRONGFUL KILLING OF DETAINEE
    30. WRONGFUL KILLING OF CIVILIANS
    31. U.S. SOLDIER POTENTIAL WARCRIME
    32. U.S. SOLDIER FELONY CRIME
    33. ROE VIOLATION REPORTED
    34. FOB SECURITY BREACH
    35. FOB MORTAR ATTACK
    36. MASS CASUALTIES (5 OR MORE IN A SINGLE INCIDENT)
    37. CRITICAL FRIENDLY COMMO GOES DOWN
    38. Q37/Q36 COVERAGE GOES DOWN
    39. WMD EMPLOYED (INTENTIONAL / ACCIDENTAL)
    40. PAO EMERGENCY
    41. MINEFIELD LOCATED
    42. POLITICAL ASSYLUM SEEKER
    43. STOLEN / MISSING SENSITIVE ITEM
    44. CHANGE IN TASK ORGANIZATION (BN OR HIGHER)
    45. CHANGE IN UNIT AREA OF OPERATION (BDE OR HIGHER)

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