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ANNEX A (General Tips of the Trade) to Detachment B-52 (Project Delta) Reconnaissance Tips of the Trade.

GENERAL TIPS OF THE TRADE

1. While on a mission, minimize fatigue because tired men become careless.
2. If you show confidence, your team will have confidence.
3. If the team leader loses his temper it will effect his judgment. Keep cool and think ahead, always keep an alternate plan in mind. Don’t be afraid to ask advice from your team members.
4. Team work, the key to success, only comes through constant practice and training. Realism must be injected into all phases of training such as zeroing weapons at targets in the jungle, use of live training aids for PW snatch or ambush practice, etc.
5. Teams that have good physical training have fewer health problems.
6. Make sure personnel take salt tablets as a preventative measure rather then wait until collapse is imminent. One tablet in a canteen of water is a good way to take salt, especially on very hoy and humid days.
7. If your mission calls for emplacing a mine in a road, ensure that an extra fuse is taken along, in case one is lost.
8. All personnel should wear loose fitting and untailored clothing on field operations. Tight fighting clothes often tears or rips allowing easy access to exposed parts of the body to mosquitos and leeches.
9. Each team leader should have a pre-mission and post-mission checklist to ensure nothing is left behind.
10. Use tact when reprimanding your personnel, especially indigenous team members. If possible take the man aside to criticize him. This enables him to reason positively to the criticism, since he will not feel ridiculed and lose self-confidence.
11. Do not hang clothing or bandanas on green bamboo if you plan to wear it afterwards. The fuzz on the bamboo is just like itching powder.
12. Conduct English classes for your indigenous personnel, especially interpreters. Conduct classes for your U.S. personnel on your indigenous team members’ dialect.
13. Pre-set frequencies on the PBC-25 so that a quick turn of the dials will put you on the desired frequency. This is especially helpful at night when you want to avoid using a light.
14. Carry CS powder in plastic insect repellent or lube oil bottles. It is difficult to put CS powder in them but it is definitely worth the effort. Sprinkle CS powder in and on empty “C” ration cans and food containers. It will prevent animals from digging them up once you have buried them.