The following precautions are necessary to prevent injury to personnel and damage to material:

1. Take care in selecting positions for firing. Avoid areas that could cause you to fire through a screen of brush or trees. Impact with a twig or branch may deflect the rocket or cause it to detonate. You must try to obtain concealment, but not at the risk of safety.

2. To prevent the rocket from striking the foreground and causing serious injury to personnel, maintain the launcher in the firing position until the rocket has left the launcher.

3. Avoid the blast of flame and ejected residue to the rear of the launcher. Remove flammable material, such as dry vegetation, from the backblast area (fig. 14-44). Keep personnel and ammunition clear of the rear danger area unless adequate shelter protection is provided. Sand or loose dirt in the backblast area can also reveal your position to the enemy.

4. DO not fire rockets at temperatures below -40F or above 140F.

5. Never fire a damaged weapon.