Role of the Scout Platoon
Command and Control
Individual
Reconnaissance
Reconnaissance 2
Security
Basic Scout Skills
Basic Scout Skills 2
Sustainment
100
CCIRs stands for?
commander’s critical information requirements
100
Commander’s reconnaissance and security guidance is an essential component of reconnaissance and security operations. Commanders must provide subordinate leaders with clear guidance to operate with disciplined initiative on the battlefield that ultimately achieves the higher commander’s intent. Critical to the platoon leader’s ability to execute the mission is a clear understanding of the commander’s reconnaissance or security guidance, which is:
Focus. Tempo. Engagement/disengagement criteria. Displacement criteria for the mission.
100
Name the task this graphic control measure indicates.
Screen
100
Scout platoons conduct all reconnaissance tasks guided by the fundamentals of reconnaissance. There are seven fundamentals that govern the planning and the execution of reconnaissance tasks. What are they?
Ensure continuous reconnaissance
Do not keep reconnaissance assets in reserve.
Orient on the reconnaissance objective
Report all information rapidly and accurately
Retain freedom of maneuver
Gain and maintain enemy contact
Develop the situation rapidly
100
The five forms of reconnaissance scout platoons conduct are:
zone, area, route, reconnaissance in force and special forces conduct the fifth form, special reconnaisance.
100
The fundamentals of security are important to the scout platoon because they provide the platoon direction and focus when executing security tasks. Successful security missions depend on the scout platoon properly applying the five fundamentals of security, which are?
Provide early and accurate warning
Provide reaction time and maneuver space
Orient on the force, area, or facility to protect
Perform continuous reconnaissance
Maintain enemy contact
100
Cover and concealment is just as vital as clear fields of fire. Terrain offers concealment from enemy ______ and cover from enemy ______
Observation
Fires
100
A five-point contingency plan is issued every time a leader or other individual separates from the main body. If a leader is going to conduct a reconnaissance of a hasty fighting position then they would give their five-point contingency plan to the rest of the squad, section, or platoon. Name the Acronym used and it's meaning
100
What are Class I supplies?
Rations and gratuitous issue of health, morale, and welfare items such as water and ice. (Food and Water)
200
The scout platoon’s mission is to conduct reconnaissance and security operations. During planning all leaders adhere to timelines using backwards planning from LTIOV and understand commander’s intent and that of the commander two levels up. What does LTIOV stand for?
Latest time information is of value
200
A ______________ is an intelligence requirement that the commander and staff need to understand the threat or other aspects of the operational environment. ____________ identifies the information about the enemy and the operational environment that the commander considers most important. ___________ becomes the central focus for scout platoons conducting reconnaissance and security for a commander.
Priority intelligence requirement
200
Leaders in scout platoons employ and monitor the following radio nets.
Platoon Net
Troop Command Net
Troop Fires Net
200
Focus allows the platoon leader to determine which tasks the platoon needs to accomplish first, where to concentrate reconnaissance activities, and the assets required. It narrows the scope of tasks to the information that is most important or critical to the squadron or battalion and brigade’s operations. What are the 3 Focus?
The focus is terrain, enemy forces, or a civilian population. (Terrain includes weather effects and civilian population includes society and infrastructure networks.)
200
What mathematical factor of a slope may make it reportable or an obstruction?
Slope Percentage
200
Scout platoons conduct security missions to provide early and accurate warning of enemy actions, provide time and maneuver space to react to the enemy, and develop a situation that allows the commander effective use of the protected force. The scout platoon conducts security tasks in conjunction with reconnaissance missions.
What are the five types of security tasks?
screen, guard, cover, area security, and local security
200
Generally, the platoon sends out dismounts in elements of no fewer than three scouts, which enhances mission accomplishment and survivability. Explain the main advantage of dismounts.
While vehicles easily alert enemy by their visual, sound, and exhaust signatures, dismounted patrols and observation posts are very difficult to notice.
200
______________ are a series of combat actions, often conducted simultaneously, taken upon contact with the enemy to develop the situation.
Actions on contact
200
What are Class V supplies
Ammunition, including mines and explosives.
300
The scout platoon’s mission is to conduct what two types of operations?
reconnaissance and security
Scout platoons are the eyes and ears of the commander. They uniquely organize, train, and equip to conduct reconnaissance and security tasks. The role of the scout platoon is to conduct reconnaissance and security missions that satisfy information requirements to allow commanders to make decisions.
300
Indicators are questions usually answered in what type of question format?
Positive or negative (Yes or No)
300
What are the RECONNAISSANCE MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES?
CUEING
MIXING
REDUNDANCY
300
Reconnaissance tempo allows the platoon leader to establish associated time requirements and correlate them with the planning time, movement formations, engagement criteria, and methods such as dismounted or mounted reconnaissance.
Tempo refers to the level of what 2 things required by the scout platoon to accomplish reconnaissance tasks?
level of detail and the level of covertness
300
An area reconnaissance is a form of reconnaissance that focuses on obtaining detailed information about the _______________ within a prescribed area.
(3 things)
terrain, enemy, or civilian population
300
Which statement is False?
You can conduct a moving screen in front of the force being protected.
Enemy may be allowed to pass through a screen.
Screen tasks are defensive in nature.
You can conduct a moving screen in front of the force being protected.
300
Explain Dead reckoning by it's 3 major components
Dead reckoning, also called point navigation, is accomplished by starting from a known point and strictly following a predetermined azimuth and distance.
Known point, azimuth, distance
300
What is worn in MOPP level 2.
Suit and boots worn. Gloves and mask carried.
300
The combat load is...
the minimum mission-essential equipment and supplies to carrying out the mission.
400
The driver is responsible for the combat readiness and tactical employment of their vehicle. The driver tactically maneuvers the vehicle as directed by the vehicle commander. Drivers perform the preventive maintenance and operator checks of the vehicle and equipment. They maintain vehicle status of what 6 assets to report to the gunner?
Personnel, weapons, equipment, and petroleum, oils, and lubricants.
400
TLP are the scout platoon leader’s most frequently used tool in mission preparation. Parallel planning will aid the scout platoon in accomplishing its mission. Even if the platoon leader does not have a complete plan, issuing guidance early allows more time for rehearsals which are, essential to any successful operation, particularly in the scout platoon. Scout sections and squads often operate dispersed and over extended distances and the section and squad leaders require time to conduct their planning and issue orders and guidance to their Soldiers. The eight steps in TLP are:
Step 1. Receive the mission.
Step 2. Issue a WARNORD.
Step 3. Make a tentative plan.
Step 4. Initiate movement.
Step 5. Conduct reconnaissance.
Step 6. Complete the plan.
Step 7. Issue the order.
Step 8. Supervise and refine.
400
There are two reconnaissance techniques scout platoons execute to answer information requirements:
reconnaissance pull and reconnaissance push
400
What are all the possible combinations of tempos?
Rapid and Forceful
Rapid and Stealthy
Deliberate and Forceful
Deliberate and Stealthy
400
The route type is determined by the ability to withstand weather. It is determined by the worst section of road on the entire route and is categorized as follows: Type_ Type_ Type_
X,Y,Z
Type X. An all-weather route that, with reasonable maintenance, is passable throughout the year to a volume of traffic never appreciably less than its maximum capacity. This type of route is normally formed of roads having waterproof surfaces and being only slightly affected by rain, frost, thaw, or heat. This type of route is never closed because of weather effects other than snow or flood blockage.
Type Y. A limited, all-weather route that is passable throughout the year with reasonable maintenance, but at times has a volume of traffic considerably less than maximum capacity. This type of route usually consists of roads that do not have waterproof surfaces. The route is considerably affected by rain, frost, thaw, or heat. This type of route is closed for short periods (up to one day at a time) by adverse weather conditions during which heavy use of the road would probably lead to complete collapse.
Type Z. A fair-weather route is passable only in fair weather. This type of route is so seriously affected by adverse weather conditions that it may remain closed for long periods. Improvement of such a route can only be achieved by construction or realignment.
400
Clearly articulating the tempo of security tasks, which allows the scout platoon leader to establish associated time requirements that drive planning such as the method of establishing observation posts (either mounted or dismounted), requirements for UAS, and required sustainment and communications support necessary to execute the mission. Additionally, it describes the haste scouts employed in occupying and establishing observation posts.
What are the 2 tempos of security and their meaning?
Short duration: scout platoons conduct short-duration observation posts for periods less than 12 hours.
Long duration: scout platoons conduct long-duration observation posts for greater than 12 hours.
400
NAME THE MOVEMENT TECHNIQUES
Traveling
Traveling Overwatch
Bounding Overwatch
400
This COA may be selected when the platoon does not have the resources to leave an element in contact and still continue to accomplish its priority reconnaissance tasks. It may also be selected when the platoon has made contact with an enemy force that cannot adversely affect the mission of the platoon’s higher headquarters. The scout platoon cannot conduct its mission if it becomes decisively engaged. If it is engaged, the platoon must have a plan to _________
Break Contact (and Bypass)
400
_______ reports the need for emergency resupply to the 1SG who relays the request to the squadron S-4.
The PSG
500
What is the difference between an enemy and an advisary?
An enemy is a party identified as hostile against which the use of force is authorized.
An adversary is a party acknowledged as potentially hostile to a friendly party and against which the use of force may be authorized depending the circumstances.
500
Scout platoons face an elusive, diverse, flexible, and adaptive enemy. The enemy combines a wide array of lethal and nonlethal weapons, including modern peer, near-peer, hybrid threats, and improvised systems presenting a complex enemy situation. Because these wide ranging capabilities, the platoon must consider each form of contact that the enemy may use because of these wide ranging capabilities. The forms of contact to consider are:
Direct fire.
Indirect fire.
Nonhostile civilian contact.
Obstacles.
CBRN.
Aerial.
Visual.
Electronic warfare
500
The scout platoon leader seeks to use appropriate combinations of reconnaissance methods to accomplish their mission and gain and maintain contact with the enemy. No method is mutually exclusive and the greater the number of assets applied usually increases the effectiveness of the operation. The scout platoon conducts reconnaissance using a combination of what methods?
(dismounted, mounted, aerial, and reconnaissance by fire)
500
Displacement criteria are triggers for a planned withdrawal, passage of lines, or an RHO between units. Displacement criteria conditions are triggered by?
event-driven (example, answering associated PIR), time-driven (example, meeting latest time information of value trigger), or threat driven (example, identification of enemy reserve).
500
Any curve with a radius of __m or less is an obstruction. _m or less is reportable
25m
45m
500
The screening force may have a wide frontage. A phase line placed along identifiable terrain graphically indicates the forward line of own troops and can serve as a LOA for the scout platoon. A boundary depicts the rear limit of the screen. The scout platoon is responsible for the area between the screened enemy force and the rear screen boundary. The boundary may serve as a battle handover line or a reconnaissance handover line. Other phase lines control maneuver of the sections and aid in both reporting and orientation. The scout platoon leader designates the section's ____ of ___ to control lateral movement of sections.
AO
Area of Operation
500
The platoon maintains relative positioning based on terrain and combat losses. The _____ formation lends itself to immediate mutual support and provides depth due to its flexibility. Using any of the techniques of movement, the two forward vehicles perform most of the information gathering and reporting. The rear vehicles provide over watch. This formation provides exceptional control.
Vee
500
When a scout makes contact with the enemy, they react to the circumstances of the contact. The section or squad that makes initial visual contact with the enemy deploys to covered terrain that affords good observation and fields of fire. If the scout receives fire from the enemy, they return fire, but only with the intent of breaking direct fire contact. Scouts want to refrain from being decisively engaged with the enemy and focus on their mission.
The first step of Actions on Contact is to
______ and ______
STEP 1 – DEPLOY AND REPORT
500
The ________ is a simple and efficient method to accomplish routine resupply operations. These operations include regular resupply of items in classes I, III, V, and IX and any other items requested by the platoon and troop. The squadron staff plans ________ at their level and conducts sustainment operations at every opportunity. The ________ comprises troop and squadron assets that transport supplies to the troop, and the troop distribute supplies to the scout platoon
LOGPAC