Doctrine

Brief description of squadron SoPs and expectations for roles within a package.

Air-to-ground

Ground attacks require a Fighter to Fighter brief, to cover the following topics (FROTIES): Formation: Flight formation. Default is trail. Roles: For each callsign whether they are shooter (employing ordnance) or cover (Guaranteeing mutual support with visual and comm) Ordnance: Weapons to use. Timing: By x seconds or nautical miles Ingress Direction: Magnetic bearing to target from IP Egress Direction: Magnetic bearing from target to recovery Sort: Who is attacking what on the target. Default sort is north to south from #1-4 or by element.

Sounds like this: "Standby fighter to fighter brief. Trail, shooter, cover, shooter, cover. AGM-65D. 15 second separation by callsign. Ingress from IP 1, right to 060, egress to IP 1, left to 270. Lead sorted BMP north of the road, 3 sort T-80 south of the road"