Range Safety OIC/RSO
Jeremiah
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establishes ranges safety policies and responsibilities for firing ammunition, lasers,
AR385-63/MCO 3570.1
guided, missiles, and rockets on Marine Corps and Army ranges.
DA Pam 385-63 provides implementation guidance for the Marine Corps Range Safety Program.
each range or range complex will have its own standard operating procedure (SOP).
SOP The SOP for an installation will have installation -specific instructions for range safety.
You must read the most current Sop for the range that you will be using.
The USMC Range Safety Pocket Guide summarizes the policies and procedures
needed to conduct a live-fire event. This document contains information on surface
USMC Range Safety Pocket Guide
danger zones (SDZ) setup for weapon systems. The Pocket Guide also provides the
OIC and RSO with a checklist that will assist them with their most common tasks
Safety Of Use Memorandums (SOUM) are how the Range and Training Area
Management (RTAM) Branch provides range safety information and guidance to the
SOUM
Marine Corps Total Force. This guidance is directive until the SOUM is cancelled,
changed or written into the Range Safety Order.
Responsible for all range safety matters and provides coordination of ranges in the
RCO
installation complex
Responsible and accountable for conduct of the exercise and ensuring participants
OIC
follow safety regulations
RSO Responsible for range safety for the exercise
LRSO Responsible for laser range safety for exercises involving lasers
The land area of a range for live-fire and maneuver includes start and cease-fire lines,
Land
target areas, and impact areas.
refers to any one of several types of controlled and uncontrolled airspace required to
Airspace support range operations. Airspace over a range may include restricted areas, warning
areas, military operations, and air traffic controlled assigned airspace.
The range boundaries may include navigable inland waterways such as rivers or lakes.
Waterways Sea space is the operating area necessary to contain live-fire and support ship to shore
training.
Range Safety OIC/RSO
Dedicated Impact Areas are associated with: non-sensitive ammunition and explosives.
Size of dedicated impact area usually a large piece of land that several ranges fire into.
What is a dedicated impact area reserved for the impact and fragmentation of launched or fired ammunition and explosives
Dedicated Impact area can contain what high-hazard
other impact area
The purpose of an impact area is to contain all hazards associated with the ordnance
Impact Area
being fired
High-hazard impact areas that are permanently designed to contain sensitive ammunition and explosives
Why are high-hazard impact areas they contain high explosives and sensitive unexploded ordinance
dangerous
Dedicated impact areas An impact area is a designated area within the limits of a range.
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True/False: Never enter a high-hazard True
impact area without permission from range
control
Ordnance fired into high-hazard impact Cluster bombs, artillery rounds, mortar rounds, high-explosive grenades, missiles
areas
fences, barricades, signs, guards or a combination of these types of positive controls
Access Restricted
are used to protect unauthorized personnel
normally for small arms or non-dud producing ammunition. This type of impact exists
Temporary Impact Area
only for the length of an exercise.
After an exercise, the temporary impact area should be capable of being cleared and
After Use of temporary impact area
returned to the original state.
Range Control ___________ and Manages and deconflicts
_ ____________ airspace during live fire
exercises
What should you do if an aircraft/boat/ship Immediate cease fire and control range control
enters your airspace during a live fire
exercise
-Captures vertical hazard limit for each weapon fired
-Coordinates w/ FAA to invoke airspace restrictions for all non-participating aircraft
What does range control do for a range
-Captures operating airspace both lateral and vertical for all exercise aircraft
operations
Local SOP's & airspace requirements may require the RSO to identify personnel as air sentinels
Installation Commander will coordinate w -waterways involved
US Army Corps of Engineers and US Coast -operations to be conducted
Guard to ensure proper notification of: -Sector of waterway that must be restricted
Issued by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), informs pilots and air traffic
Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) controllers about range activities that require civilian aircraft to avoid range and
airspace.
Issued by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and contains navigation
Notice to Mariners (NTM) warnings that advise mariners of waterway/sea space restrictions during range
exercises.
to designate areas that protect personnel and property from dangers during training
purpose of a danger zone
and, to the extent practicable, during combat
prevent injury to personnel or damage to property by identifying hazardous
design of the DZ is intended to
boundaries of ricochets and fragmentation associated with live fire training.
Range
surface Safety
danger OIC/RSO
zone (SDZ) is the danger zone area for munitions fired from the ground.
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