FO05 – FIELD AND TEMPORARY STORAGE EXERCISE
EDITION 1 – MAY 2012
IATG SAFERGUARD TRAINING MODULES
LESSON PLAN FOO5 – FIELD AND TEMPORARY STORAGE EXERCISE
ANNEX B
GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE AREA AND SITUATION
- UN Troops and indigenous armed forces are available to provide security patrols. However numbers of personnel are limited so ideally the FSA will be as compact as is reasonably possible to ease this task.
- UN Troops are available to control traffic into, around, and out of the FSA.
- Engineering support is available in case areas need to be improved.
- Weather should be assumed to be dry although getting hot towards midday (diurnal temperature range approx +5°C to +20°C). It can get very sunny in the middle of the day.
- There are no airfields or aircraft flight-paths in the area.
- No specific stocks have been designated as ‘vital’ stock.
- The roads are metalled roads or good all-weather tracks, which are adequate to sustain military cargo trucks. All roads can be used for military truck movements. All roads may be used for ammunition storage (as lines of FSMs along the length of roads) as long as the OQDs (specifically IBD and VBD and distance from roads) are maintained.
- The ground around the roads is (to an average distance of 10m from the edge of the road) firm and gravelly soil, which is well drained. Away from the roads, the ground varies from good solid subsoil to very marshy/swampy land.
- The logistic convoys are expected to run from south-east to north-west, along a Main Supply Route to be known as Route TOUR. The FSA should be accessible from Route TOUR.
- The area is generally uninhabited with a number of abandoned farms and dwellings. The main residential areas are the village of Fosdyke to the south, the village it Frampton to the north and the town of Bozon to the north-west.
- The area is bound to the south west and west by a vast tract of marshland that is uninhabited. This marsh is impassable to vehicles and people alike and should be considered as being impenetrable. The River Welland flows into the marsh, however the river is not used by watercraft due to the lethal currents. Again, it should be almost impossible for people or vehicles, or boats, to reasonably cross the river from south to north in any safe and discrete manner.
- The area is criss-crossed by an extensive water drainage network (made up of streams and manmade ditches), which will provide excellent water supplies for emergency fire fighting.
- To the north and west, beyond the edge of this map, is open, rolling agricultural land with little habitation, other than the small town on Bozon. You should not be concerned with the geography that is off the map.
MAP BRIEF
By grid square, starting from bottom left corner:
Area of 31/34 to 32/24 / Red road running through bottom left corner of map: a Busy main road. This is MSR TOUR.Fosdyke village. Inhabited buildings from the junction of MSR TOUR and the orange road, along the orange road to Hodgmans farm, and the dwellings to the south of this orange road.
To the west is a large black grid area on the map, a building at Bridgehouse bridge. This is a large agricultural greenhouse. This is a vulnerable structure.
“Middlecotts Hospital/Almshouses” is abandoned and not a factor to consider.
Squares 33/33 to 36/33 / No inhabited buildings, and nothing of significance,other than the impassable river and the impenetrable marshland.
Square 31/34 / Nothing of significance, no inhabited buildings.
Square 32/34 / No inhabited buildings. However, not the road running between Low Mill Lane and Hundred Acre farm (road runs south west to north east). This road has significant natural traversing to the west side, particularly in the area around the Horseshoe. This traversing runs for the length of this road and would be suitable for missile/rocket storage.
Squares 33/34 to 36/34 / No inhabited buildings, and nothing of significance, other than the impassable river and the impenetrable marshland.
Squares 31/35 to 36/35 / No inhabited buildings. However note the traversed road (see above). Otherwise, nothing of significance, other than the impassable river and the impenetrable marshland.
Squares 31/36 to 36/36 / No inhabited buildings, and nothing of significance, other than the impassable river and the impenetrable marshland.
Square 31/37 to 32/37 / No inhabited buildings, and nothing of significance.
Square 33/37 / North end of the square – Sandholme House is a residential commune which is still occupied. This should be treated as an inhabited building. (No other buildings in this square are inhabited).
Square 34/37 to 36/37 / No inhabited buildings, and nothing of significance, other than the impassable river and the impenetrable marshland.
Square 31/38 and surrounding area to west / The red road running south west to north east is a busy main road.
The residential area to the west of the road is a town and should be treated as an area of inhabited buildings.
Bozon Hall is an inhabited building.
The nursery to the north of Bozon Hall is a school and should be treated as a vulnerable building.
Squares 32/38 to 36/38 / No inhabited buildings, however the road called Frampton Roads, and the continuation of the road running west through Frampton to the main red road, and east to Marsh Farm and beyond, is a relatively busy road and should be treated as a main road.
Roads Farm and Marsh Farm are uninhabited.
Apart from this road, there is nothing of significance, other than the impassable river and the impenetrable marshland.
Square 31/39 to 36/39 / The Main red road continues to the north. The road running from this red road, east to the uninhabited Marsh Farm and beyond, should be treated as a main road.
The village of Frampton, as far east as Cotton Hall, is an inhabited area and should be treated as such.
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