Battlefield Behavior Of Neutrals And Hostiles: Models For The Team Tactical Engagement Simulator (TTES)

This study has been conducted to define typical battlefield behaviors for five groups of hostiles and neutrals who might be encountered in combat: (1) Standard Elite Troops, (2) Average Irregulars, (3) Isolated Criminals, (4) Frightened Civilians, and (5) Unfriendly Civilians. Results can be used in modeling computer-controlled hostiles and neutrals (CCHC/Ns) in the joint Marine Corps-Navy Team Tactical Engagement Simulator (TTES), a deployable flexible virtual reality training system. Military personnel and civilian law enforcement officers will use TTES under a wide variety of simulated urban and rural situations to enhance marksmanship sills and to learn to discriminate among possible adversaries, to determine intent and level of hostility, and to decide whether to engage or to withhold fire. Thirty-five military and civilian subject matter experts were surveyed to obtain their judgments on the percentage of time each of several kinds of CCH/N behaviors typically will observed for each of the five groups, in a given medium-level conflict scenario under specified combat conditions. The experts also provided characteristic levels of seven traits or skills for each type of CCH/N. The results have been used to develop frequency distributions that represent each group uniquely, for use in TTES behavior representations.U.S. Marine Corps System Command Amphibious Warfare Directorate, Quantico, VAU.S. Marine Corps System Command Amphibious Warfare DirectorateApproved for public release; distribution is unlimited