Comms
Call for Fire
Fire Support Planning
Tac Planning
Combat Orders
Combat Service Support Function
Squad Tactics
Scouting and Patrolling
Air Assault Operations
MCDP 1-3
100
What is the max range of PRC 163 with no concerns for terrain and power?
5km - 7km.
100
How many transmissions and elements are there in a call for fire?
100
What does TTLODAC stand for?
Target
Trigger
Location
Observer
Delivery System
Attack Guidance
Communication Net
100
What acronym is used for the Six Trooping Steps and what does it stand for?
Begin planning
Arrange reconnaissance and coordination
Make reconnaissance
Complete the plan
Issue the order
Supervise
100
Does Command or Signal come first when writing your Command and Signal section in your Order?
Signal
100
Which principles of supply logistics is the ability to adapt logistics structure and procedures to changing situations, missions, and concepts of operation?
Flexibility
100
What is a technique of advance in which elements are individuals provide their own suppression and move by bounds.
Fire and Movement
100
What is the primary purpose of an ambush?
Destroy enemy/equipment
100
What does Min Boot on the Dect refer to?
Smallest force able to secure LZ.
100
The ________ of tactics lies in the technical application of combat power. It includes mastering the techniques and procedures that contribute to the development of warfighting skills such as marksmanship, navigation, gunnery, and close air support.
Science
200
What does PACE stand for when generating your communications signal plan?
Primary, Alternate, Contingency, Emergency
200
When troops are in contact this action will take precedence over all other supported units regardless of priorities of fire?
Immediate Suppression
200
What are considered the Co's "hip pocket artillery"?
60s and 81s.
200
What does OODA Loop stand for?
Observer, Orient, Decide, Act
200
What section does Commander's intent go in your orders and what are the elements of Commander's intent?
Execution
Purpose, Method, Endstate
200
Which principle of supply logistics is the ability to maintain logistics support to all users throughout the area of operations for the duration of the operation?
Sustainability
200
What is a technique of advance in which one element (the maneuver element) moves while being supported by another element (the support by fire element).
Fire and Maneuver
200
What does a SLLS halt entail?
Stop, Look, Listen and Smell
200
As a general rule, what is the smallest tactical unit to land in one wave in a landing zone?
Platoon.
200
The ______ of tactics lies in how we creatively form and apply military force in a given situation. This creativity is a developed capacity, acquired through education, practice, and experience.
Art
300
Which waveform would be the most practical and useful when communicating with Air Support Assets and why?
UHF(LOS), range may extend for more than 500km as long as aircraft is high enough to be within LOS, unable to bend around obstacles because UHF wavelengths are so small.
300
What are the Five Rules of Call to Fire?
1) Transmit Position Report (POSREP),
2) Determine Observer-Target (OT) Direction,
3) Estimated Observer-Target (OT) Distance,
4) Determine OT Factor,
5) Plot the Target
300
_______ target are enemy units that have been located without a degree of certainty or have been accurately located but are mobile and may move away?
Suspected
300
What are 6 tac planning process sections?
____ --> ____ --> _____ --> _____ --> ______ --> ________
METT-TC, EMLCOA, CG/CV/EX, SOM, FSP, TASKS
300
What acronym is utilized when dealing with enemies' capabilities and limitation?
DRAW-D
300
What are the three levels of logistics continuum?
Strategic, Operational, and Tactical
300
What concept is used when a fire team or squad leader must fight and lead their units to the objective?
Fighter Leader.
300
What is a detachment of ground, sea, or air forces sent out for the purpose of gathering information or carrying out a destructive, harassing, mopping-up, or security mission?
Patrol
300
What are the five stages of planning for assault support operations?
Staging
Landing
Air Movement
Loading
Ground Tactical
300
What are the four basic ways to adapt?
Anticipate
Improvisation
Flexible Plans
Decentralization
400
This radio is good for stationary communications, long haul communications, increased EMCON capabilities, power management (reduced wasted electrical) power due to carrier and sideband suppression?
PRC-160
400
What would be the correct way to express 265 mils and why?
0260
1) Direction in mils is always stated in four digits.
2) Direction in mils is always EXPRESSED to the nearest 10 mils.
3) Ends in 5 Rule.
400
What type of target is the only priority target in the defense?
Final Protective Fires
400
What acronym should be utilized in your SOM and what does it stand for?
DDFTC
Direction of Attack, Distribution of Forces, Form of Maneuver, TCMs, Consolidation
400
What 3 things must your Signal plan be?
Original, appropriate and redundant.
400
What are the 4 classes of supply that are most useful to us here at TBS and what are they?
1: Subsistence
2: Clothing, individual equipment, tentage, tool sets, administrative supplies
5: Ammunition
8: Medical Material
400
Which type of offensive operations is designed to catch or cut off a hostile force attempting to escape, with the aim of destroying it?
Pursuit
400
Which unit of the Squad Patrol is responsible for searching the kill zone?
Assault
400
What acronym is utilized for the LZ Brief?
LMOWFER
Location
Marked by
Obstacles
Winds
Friendlies (Direction and Distance)
Enemy (Direction and Distance, Last Contact)
Remarks
400
What is the reason to create and maintain a reserve unit?
Provide flexibility to deal with the uncertainty, chance and disorder of war
500
Which radio would be most widely used by infantry battalions for ground-to-ground communication and why?
PRC-163, Extends slightly beyond line of sight due to diffraction or being of the signal by the atmosphere, dependable usually depending on power output, terrain and atmospheric conditions.
500
Call for Fire Practice Simulation.
500
What does the FSP outline look like in a Combat Order Outline?
And what parts do you copy directly from higher and which are you responsible for writting?
Task
Purpose
Method (TTLODAC)
Effects
500
What acronym is utilized for Civil Considerations under your METT-TC and what does it stand for?
ASCOPE
Areas: of significance to the local population
Structures: of high value of importance
Capabilities: functions and services that local authorities provide
Organizations: identify how each organization can help or hurt the mission
People: key individuals
Events: key dates for the culture within the region
500
What areas do you walk the dog in your Orders?
EMLCOA, SOM and TASK
500
What are the six sub-functions of Supply?
Determination of requirements, procurement, storage, distribution, salvage, disposal.
500
How do squad leaders use the base unit fire team to control the squad?
Direction, Orientation and Speed.
500
What are the six sequential yet interdependent steps in the Intelligence Cycle?
Planning and Direction
Collection
Processing and Exploitation
Production
Dissemination
Utilization
500
Who is at the top of the Assault Support Operations Key Personnel?
Mission Commander
500
What are the six tactical tenets?
Achieving a decision
Gaining an Advantage
Being Faster
Adapting
Cooperating
Exploiting Success