Squad Tactics - Basic Movements
True or False: When Enemy contact is expected, a Fire Team File is the advised movement formation for a unit to travel in.
What is False?
A Battle Drill is a trained response to a _________.
What is a Stimulus?
How many members make up the standard fire team?
What is four (4)?
True or False. It is prudent to structure every patrol conducted with the possibility of contact in mind.
What is True?
What term describes a deliberate process of thought whose purpose is to improve our thought in a reflective and self-disciplined approach
What is Critical Thinking?
What are the three Individual Movement Techniques?
What is High Crawl, Low Crawl, Rush (3-5 second)?
During React to Contact, the element in contact seeks cover and ________.
What is Returns Fire.
What are the 4 members that comprise the standard fire team.
What are the:
1) Fire Team Leader,
2) Grenadier,
3) Rifleman,
4) Automatic Rifleman
What are two major types of Infantry and Squad Patrols?
What are Reconnaissance Patrols & Combat Patrols?
This term describes the ability to follow previously defined rules or sets of rules to arrange data in a meaningful order.
What is Information Ordering?
A fire team has just crossed through a thickly vegetated area, and they have come upon a more-open terrain. In which movement formation should the fire team continue their travel?
What is a Wedge?
During React Indirect Fire, you should always re-assemble at this pre-designated point.
What is a Rally Point?
Who is responsible for maneuvering the squad?
What is the Squad Leader?
This type of Patrol provides security and harasses, destroys, or captures enemy troops, equipment or installation. They typically carry a significant amount of weapons and ammunition in case they must engage with the enemy.
What is a Combat Patrol?
Humans detect and impose patterns on apparently random entities and events in order to understand them, often doing this without awareness. What critical thinking strategy is this describing?
What is Pattern Recognition?
A fire team has just crossed through open terrain, and they have now reached a densely vegetated area with limited visibility. In which movement formation should the fire team continue their travel?
What is a File?
During React to Ambush (Near), Soldiers not in the Kill Zone are placing will aimed ______ _______ on the enemy.
What is Suppressive Fire?
Which fire team member is responsible for covering dead space?
What is The Grenadier
This type of Patrol collects information or confirms or disproves the accuracy of information previously gained. The intent of this type of patrol is to avoid enemy contact and accomplish its tactical task without engaging in close combat.
What is a Reconnaissance Patrol?
This term looks at given factual information or data for a pattern or trend and inferring the trend will continue. Although there is no certainty the trend will continue, the assumption is it will. Therefore, inductive reasoning is, “Based on this trend, this is probably true.”
What is Inductive Reasoning?
The interval between Soldiers in the Wedge formation is normally _____ meters?
What is 10 Meters
Reacting to Indirect Fire Battle Drill begins when any squad member alerts “_________,” or a round impacts
What is “INCOMING”?
List the three main weapons organic to the standard fire team and squad.
What are the:
1) M4 Assault Rifle,
2) M249 5.56 Machine Gun (aka Squad Automatic Weapon or SAW), and
3) M203 40mm Grenade Launcher?
What are the five (5) Principles of Patrolling?
What are Planning, Reconnaissance, Security, Control, Common Sense?
This term uses given factual information or data to infer other facts through logical thinking. It rearranges only the given information or data into new statements or truths; it does not provide new information. Therefore, deductive reasoning is, “If this is true, then this is also true.”
What is Deductive Reasoning?