Deploy & Play

DEPLOY & PLAY
Saturday January 16th, 2021

Area of Operation
TURTLE MOUNTAINS REGION

Level 2 Op - All members encouraged

Deploy Play Basecamp Primary
34.558313° x -115.348941°

Op Overview: 

You will learn how to deploy caches and setup a Land Ops course in a teamwork fashion. In this exercise you will deploy the caches in reverse making things a little trickier than you might expect. The more sophisticated the op, the more complex the deployment.

If you already know how to setup a Land Ops course your experience and skills will be needed.

This is a New Op Style – Deploy by Day Play by Night
The Land Ops playbook has many different types of ops.

Saturday Overview

• Field Orientation and Workshop
• Deploy by Day - Hands on operation
• Play by Night (night op)
• Campfire Debriefing & Sharing

Purpose of introducing this op

It has been said that the Land Ops set-up team has the most fun. Why? This is your chance to find out. The purpose of this op is to share the set-up experience with all members. This will help prepare new set-up teams to deploy various types of games in the future. As the club emerges from the cold pandemic shutdown, we aim to grow our unique style of adventure beyond our current geography. Allowing all members to engage in setting up an op is the most obvious way to achieve herd immunity, oops, I meant to say herd capability. Holy moly…been couped up way too long.

Added Appreciation & Benefit
Deploying the course during the day and then playing it out the op at night will help to demonstrate how much the night changes everything. You will be changing lines and conducting the final exercise at night. Safe to say...it will feel like a completely different op than the one you set up during the day.

Op Plan

Two teams, Alpha and Bravo will deploy the op during the day light hours. Each team handling a line of caches. There are seven instruction caches in all. Three alpha line and three bravo line plus one common rendezvous cache name. After dinner this becomes a night op and the teams changes lines and play out the op. 

Special COVID Considerations. This is an outdoor activity and the social distancing will clearly not be a problem. The orientation will be spacious. Please read the Covid-19 Protocol for this Op here: 2021 Covid 19 Safety Plan.pdf  Also, if you have not already done so, please review and sign the Waiver document here: 2021 Waiver and General Release of Liability Relating to Coronavirus Fillable.pdf

LOCATION BASECAMP - Basecamp will be east of The Old Woman Mountains at location 34.558313,-115.348941

Basecamp Notice: Basecamp is rough camping. Please provide your own toiletry plans.

Attendance Goal
Ideal team size is 12-20 Vehicles. 

Special Comms Teams 
Spec Comms and Overwatch teams may be developed based on overflow attendance.

Op Schedule:

• FRIDAY: 
• Basecamp to be established by Friday afternoon.
• Early arrival encouraged
  Net control on frequency 145.555 remains open until 11 PM to assist any night time navigators to the camp.
  
• Camp overnight. 
  
  
• SATURDAY:
• 8:00 AM – Net Control Opens to assist morning arrivals
  NOTE: IF YOU ARE PLANNING TO ARRIVE SATURDAY MORNING YOU MUST PLAN ON ARRIVING BY 9:00 AM TO GIVE YOURSELF ADEQUATE TIME AND BE ON TIME FOR THE REQUIRED ORIENTATION.
• 10:00 AM - All participants Op Orientation & Workshop (REQUIRED)
• 11:30 AM - Lunch break
• 12:30 PM - Deploy by Day Launches for a planned 2-3 hour Op
• 5:00 PM  - Dinner at camps
  
• 6:00 PM – Night Op Orientation at Net Control (REQUIRED)
  
• 6:30 PM – Play by Night Op Launches (2 hour planned event)
• 9:00 PM - Campfire debrief & sharing (weather permitting) 
• Overnight Camping by Most

• SUNDAY:
• 8:00 AM – Optional activities to be announced
• 12:00 PM - Event officially ends at noon
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Who Should Attend (all experience levels)
This is an excellent opportunity for members of all experience levels (new and veteran) to join together for a unique adventure. 

Vehicle Communications
Vehicle to vehicle comms will be 2 meter for hams and/or FRS for non-hams. Freqs to be announced
2 meter primary frequency = 145.555 MHz
FRS = channel 1 (no privacy code)

Net Control Communications

• VHF/UHF - Vehicles will communicate with net control on 2 meter and/or UHF depending upon crossband repeater setups.
• HF – nets will be based on available operators
• APRS – turn it on if you have it for shared awareness