ACE Reports and SALUTE-P's

A guide to SALUTE P's and ACE reports.

ACE Reports

A - Ammunition
C - Casualty
E - Equipment

Green - Good status (Operable or not injured/light injuries)


Yellow - Moderate status (Semi-Operable or mildly injured)

Red - Bad status (Barely Operable or critically injured)

Black - Bad status (Non-Operable or dead)

Ammunition - Amount of ammunition left. When you collect this from your fireteam, they should send it up to you as a color. Green means that you have plenty of ammunition remaining, Yellow means that they have expended roughly half of their initial load, but are still capable of continuing mission, and Red means that they are dangerously close to running out of ammunition (less than 2-3 magazines) and are unable to continue the mission effectively. And of course, Black means that you are completely out of ammunition.

Casualty - Casualties sustained. Green means that your soldiers have sustained no injuries, Yellow means that they have sustained an injury that will not impede their ability to fight, Red signifies a critical injury that needs immediate attention or an injury that prevents mobility. Black means that you have a soldier KIA, and you should report up his name in this section after calling Black.

Equipment - Any equipment expended/lost. If there is no change, report up as Green. If any equipment was expended, report up the type and number of equipment that was expended, eg. 1 AT-4 rocket fired. Yellow if you have expended your rounds mildly. You would report Red if you had lost (not expended) mission critical equipment, such as a laser designator or satchel charges. You should report Black if your special weapon has been damaged or is inoperable.
ACE reports should be collected and sent to squad leader as soon as any contact is complete. You, as a team leader, need to take the initiative and call on your team to send up a ACE report to you without prompting from the squad leader. This way, once the SL has dealt with his own responsibilities (informing higher of contact, etc) and calls on you for an ACE report, you can deliver it without any delay.

Applying ACE Report

1. First the element leader would call out they wish to have an ACE report from their said element over a communication device.
Ex: Sergeant Kleiner “Alpha Company, First Platoon, ACE report.”

2. The element and it’s appropriate units under it would reply with 4 simple words, stating their status, and their name.
Ex: Corporal Jankowiak “Jankowiak, Green, Yellow, Red.”

3. The element leader assesses their element’s situation in accordance to the reports given over the communication device.
Ex: Sergeant Kleiner “Interrogative, Janko, equipment inquiry.”
Corporal Jankowiak “Roger sergeant, weapon is partially damaged and cannot be used, using a back-up.”
Sergeant Kleiner “A-Firm.”

SALUTE-P Reports

(Be aware, this is for reporting enemy contacts.)

S - Size of enemy force. When reporting, simplify when possible. For example, if you see roughly 20 soldiers, call it in as a platoon. Vehicles should usually be identified, if you aren't comfortable ID'ing them, at least include what type, eg. Main Battle Tank, Armored Personnel Carrier, etc.

A - What the enemy is/was doing. Important information here includes posture, (relaxed, aggressive, defensive etc.) movement speed and direction (if stationary, include the general direction the unit is facing) and actual activity (emplacing IEDs, fortifying positions, manning a checkpoint etc.).

L - Location of the enemy. ICly calling in grid coordinates would be acceptable if this is from air-to-ground, otherwise say however many meters in whichever direction.

U - Not as important ingame. Generally, you should just simplify this. If you know you are fighting Russian troops in the woods, uniform is going to be Russian woodland fatigues. Any important information for High Value Targets (HVT) can also be passed up here. For example, in a mission where you are trying to locate a HVT wearing gold sunglasses, informing higher that you have a enemy combatant seen wearing glasses would be important.

T - When the enemy contact was observed, such as “Two mikes” referencing to how long since you’ve seen them.

E - Any weapons, equipment, etc that the enemy has on or near them. Important items to note are support weapons, anti-tank rockets, communications equipment, IEDs, or intelligence.

P In SALUTE-P

Many leaders will not include this in their SALUTE reports, but it is often the most critical element of the report. PIR is anything that a commander specifies is vital to the mission. A commander who is operating with a mounted element may specify that IEDs and Anti-tank weapons are PIR, as knowing the enemy's capabilities are critical to how he chooses to develop his plan of battle. If a leader fails to specify PIR, use initiative to determine what is most important that he knows. For example, if you are conducting air assault operations and you spot enemy with MANPADS, but the commander has failed to define the PIR for the operation, use the PIR section to report up the threat to friendly air assets.

The most important thing to keep in mind while writing up your SALUTE-P report is not to assume anything. If you see two men with scoped rifles, prone in the grass watching a road, do NOT call it in as a sniper team. You have no way of confirming that the enemy's intent is to use the weapons in a marksman role. Instead, call up only what you see and can confirm. For this example, you would call up a two man team, observing the road, armed with scoped weapons. The commander can interpret this information at his discretion.

Link to the original document

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1h2H3rKjJIaRqYbyy6cptZC0VJbXGYDWXjOdUSXxQlDQ/edit#slide=id.g37caecd68_044

[Drewsko]

THEY ARE RIGHT THERE! NO , RIGHT OVER THERE!!!!

[Soup Broth]

First, even if people don't use these callouts often it still anwsers the question of how best to relay tactical information quickly and efficiently in a format everybody can understand.

Secondly, keeping your squad close together, moving and spread out enough to minimize explosive damage is all good advice. If you find it's too much babysitting for you personally, find a different squad but you have to realise that a squad leaders job is.. to lead.

[あんパン]

Nobody's going to use this. It's like those squad leaders who goes, "Give me a 10 meter spread. IT HAS A GOOD SPREAD, KEEP A GOOD SPREAD. FOLLOW ME, MKAY. KEEP A GOOD SPREAD." Too much babysitting.

[Do or Dive]

Spread the situational awareness.

[Soup Broth]

Even though a lot of people won't use these callouts, thanks for making this guide and posting it. Atleast some tactically-aware people might start using it.

[Do or Dive]

SALUTE-P's definately you won't hear, but I've forced my squad (And kicked those who aren't compliant :) ) to follow the ACE reports.

[[BR1] Vancer2]

This is squad not Arma. I will never hear this in squad. Because I will assume that I will get kicked out of the squad that plays this like they're in fallujah. +1 though. Wish people would do this. Its like hearding cats 99.9% of the time.

[Nightrader]

+1
Good shit.