- ADP 3-19Publication
Fires
ADP 3-19 defines the fires warfighting function -- its tasks, its capabilities, and how effects are delivered and integrated through targeting. It deliberately covers more than field artillery: air and missile defense, joint fires, and nonlethal effects all live here. It replaced ADP 3-09 as the Army's fundamental fires publication.
- ADP 3-0Publication
Operations
ADP 3-0 is the Army's capstone description of how it conducts operations. The March 2025 edition carries multidomain operations as the Army's operational concept and supersedes the July 2019 edition. It sets the vocabulary -- warfighting functions, combat power, the operational framework -- that nearly every other doctrinal publication uses.
- Reference
The six warfighting functions
The six groupings a commander and staff use to organize tasks and capabilities so nothing gets left out of a plan, and the one naming trap boards use to catch people.
- Board question
Describe the M240B machine gun and give its ranges.
The M240B is a 7.62 mm, gas-operated, air-cooled, belt-fed machine gun that fires from the open-bolt position. Maximum effective range is 800 meters on the bipod and 1,800 meters on the tripod with the traversing and elevation mechanism. Maximum range is 3,725 meters.
- Board question
Describe the M249 light machine gun and give its maximum effective range.
The M249 is a 5.56 mm, gas-operated, air-cooled, belt-fed or magazine-fed automatic weapon that fires from the open-bolt position. Its maximum effective range is 800 meters against an area target when fired from the bipod.