Professional Documents
Culture Documents
(OPORD)
5 Paragraph OPORD
• Situation
• Mission
• Execution
• Service Support
4) Task Organization
Task Organization
- Done by phase
Paragraph 1: Situation
a. Enemy Forces
b. Friendly Forces
c. Attachments / Detachments
Paragraph 1: Situation
• Enemy Forces – include pertinent intel / data
• Enemy Forces
(4) Enemy Capabilities – combat capability
- range and orientation of direct / indirect fires
- counter-attack forces
- reserves
- NBC
- mobility / countermobility
- ability to reposition
Enemy Forces:
Intensions
• Enemy Forces
(5) Enemy Intentions
- the most probable and most dangerous
course of action
b. Friendly Forces
- higher unit missions (two levels up)
- left unit and mission
- right unit and mission
- forward unit and mission
- following / reserve unit and mission
- units in support or higher supporting unit
artillery support
air support
mortar support
Attachments /
Detachments
c. Attachments & Detachments
(1) Attachments – who, why, when, where,
support requirements
c. Personnel
– ID EPW collection points and handling
instruction not covered by SOP
Paragraph 4: Service
Support
• Service Support
c. Personnel
- ID EPW collection points and handling
instruction not covered by SOP
- Mail
- Religious Services
- Graves Registration
• Mission
• Execution
• Service Support