IBOLC COMPREHENSIVE EXAM/73
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Troop Leading Procedures - -• Receive the mission- LDRs determine unit
mission and time available to accomplish it. Conduct initial analysis.
• Issue a warning order (WARNO)--less detailed than Opord
• Make a tentative plan-
• Start necessary movement
• Reconnoiter
• Complete the plan
• Issue Operations Order (OPORD)
• Supervise
- Rehearsal techniques - -Backbrief.,
Combined arms rehearsal.,
Support rehearsal.,
Battle drill or SOP rehearsal
- The principles of patrolling? - -• Planning
• Reconnaissance
• Security
• Control
• Common Sense
- Characteristics of the Offense - -Surprise
Audacity
Tempo
Concentration
- Characteristics of the Defense - -Preparation
Security
Disruption
Flexibility
Maneuver
Operations in Depth
Massing effects
- Steps of Engagement Area Development - -• Identify likely enemy
avenues of approach.
• Identify the enemy scheme of maneuver.
• Determine where to kill the enemy.
• Plan and integrate obstacles.
• Emplace weapons systems.
• Plan and integrate indirect fires.
, • Conduct an engagement area rehearsal.
- Forms of Maneuver - -Envelopment
Penetration
Infiltration
Frontal Attack
Turning Movement
- Employment of friendly machine gun fire - -FM 3-21.8 - Appendix A -
Machine Gun Employment
- What does a WARNO include, at a minimum? - -Type of Operation
General Location of Operation
Initial Operational Timeline
Reconnaissance to initiate
Movement to Initiate
Planning and Prep instructions
Information Requirements
Commander's critical information Requirements
- Steps to Complete "Receive the Mission" - -* Assess the time available to
prepare and execute the mission
* Prepare and initial Timeline for planning and executing the mission
* Determine the total amount of time to plan and prepare
*As planning continues, use the initial planning-time analysis to conduct a
detailed time analysis
* Analyze the time the unit has available
*Prepare initial timeline
- What is a WARNO? - -A preliminary notice of an order or action to follow.
- When can a leader make a tentative plan? - -After he issues his own
WARNO and after he receives the company's third WARNO or until he has
enough information to proceed.
- What does the PL do during mission analysis? - -Restates the mission
Conducts initial risk assessment
Identifies a tentative decisive point
Defines his own intent
- What does Mission Analysis Answer? - -What is my mission?
What is the current situation?
How do we accomplish the mission?
What are the risks?
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Troop Leading Procedures - -• Receive the mission- LDRs determine unit
mission and time available to accomplish it. Conduct initial analysis.
• Issue a warning order (WARNO)--less detailed than Opord
• Make a tentative plan-
• Start necessary movement
• Reconnoiter
• Complete the plan
• Issue Operations Order (OPORD)
• Supervise
- Rehearsal techniques - -Backbrief.,
Combined arms rehearsal.,
Support rehearsal.,
Battle drill or SOP rehearsal
- The principles of patrolling? - -• Planning
• Reconnaissance
• Security
• Control
• Common Sense
- Characteristics of the Offense - -Surprise
Audacity
Tempo
Concentration
- Characteristics of the Defense - -Preparation
Security
Disruption
Flexibility
Maneuver
Operations in Depth
Massing effects
- Steps of Engagement Area Development - -• Identify likely enemy
avenues of approach.
• Identify the enemy scheme of maneuver.
• Determine where to kill the enemy.
• Plan and integrate obstacles.
• Emplace weapons systems.
• Plan and integrate indirect fires.
, • Conduct an engagement area rehearsal.
- Forms of Maneuver - -Envelopment
Penetration
Infiltration
Frontal Attack
Turning Movement
- Employment of friendly machine gun fire - -FM 3-21.8 - Appendix A -
Machine Gun Employment
- What does a WARNO include, at a minimum? - -Type of Operation
General Location of Operation
Initial Operational Timeline
Reconnaissance to initiate
Movement to Initiate
Planning and Prep instructions
Information Requirements
Commander's critical information Requirements
- Steps to Complete "Receive the Mission" - -* Assess the time available to
prepare and execute the mission
* Prepare and initial Timeline for planning and executing the mission
* Determine the total amount of time to plan and prepare
*As planning continues, use the initial planning-time analysis to conduct a
detailed time analysis
* Analyze the time the unit has available
*Prepare initial timeline
- What is a WARNO? - -A preliminary notice of an order or action to follow.
- When can a leader make a tentative plan? - -After he issues his own
WARNO and after he receives the company's third WARNO or until he has
enough information to proceed.
- What does the PL do during mission analysis? - -Restates the mission
Conducts initial risk assessment
Identifies a tentative decisive point
Defines his own intent
- What does Mission Analysis Answer? - -What is my mission?
What is the current situation?
How do we accomplish the mission?
What are the risks?
