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To elaborate upon Morb's last part of his original post;
"Contact" is traditionally used to pass reports of actual contact, or observed enemy. However this gets confusing at airsoft games if every time you see an enemy you are yelling "CONTACT!" into the radio. So if you're just passing an observation of the enemy, and no firefight it's best just to pass that along as a standard message using the method described in previous posts.
Procedure upon "CONTACT".
When the ENFOR has been engaged, the proper method for passing that up the chain is a CONTACT REPORT. We'll use Morb's SALUTE method for the formatting instead of the CF format, because I think it'll be easier to remember for the average player.
*Note: Just to mention here, when you are sending this report you are about to be engaged by an ENFOR or are currently engaged. It's important to think about this one and the situation you are in; are you the pointman? The machine gunner in your squad? Probably the wrong person to be chatting on the radio while plastic is whizzing over your head. Instead the best person to send this report is someone on the tail end of the contact, ie: your squad got bumped and no one is shooting at you yet. If you have time to "maneuver for position", then you have time to send this report.
So, your squad Alpha Two has been bumped, and most of your guys are exchanging fire. You were the "last man" on your patrol and have not yet been engaged. Before you "hook in" to the fight, you send off a quick CONTACT REPORT;
"Zero this is Alpha Two, CONTACT OVER/WAIT OUT" (wait out if you need a moment)
- AT THIS POINT ALL OTHER RADIO TRAFFIC CEASES -
"Alpha Two, Zero, send CONTACT REPORT over"
"Alpha Two, section of enemy engaged at the crashed plane, infantry over" *1
"Zero, roger over"
"Alpha Two, out"
*1. Note here how the "1 this is 2" callsign method is dropped, and whomever is speaking simply states their callsign then the message. This is done to reduce the amount of time it takes to send a message.
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