IBOLC Comprehensive Exam 2023 Questions and Answers

Actions by friendly force - Answer- Assault, attack by fire, breach, bypass, clear, combat search and rescue, consolidation and reorganization, control, disengagement, exfiltrate, follow and assume, follow and support, linkup, occupy, reduce, retain, secure, seize, support by fire, suppress Effects on enemy force - Answer- Block, canalize, contain, defeat, destroy, disrupt, fix, isolate, neutralize, penetrate, turn Forms of attack - Answer- Ambush, raid, feint, demonstration, spoiling attack, exploitation, pursuit Forms of maneuver - Answer- Front attack, flank attack, infiltration, penetration, turning movement, envelopment Troop leading procedures - Answer- 1. Receive the mission 2. Issue a warno 3. Make a tentative plan 4. Initiate movement 5. Conduct recon 6. Complete plan 7. Issue order 8. Supervise and refine Rehearsals - Answer- Backbrief, confirmation brief, supporting rehearsal, battle drill/ SOP rehearsal/ combined arms rehearsals Characteristics of the offense - Answer- Surprise Concentration Audacity Tempo Characteristics of the defense - Answer- Preparation Security Disruption Flexibility Mass and concentration Operation in depth Maneuverability Engagement area development - Answer- 1. Identify enemy avenue of approach 2. Identify enemy scheme of maneuver 3. Determine where to kill the enemy 4. Plan and integrate obstacles 5. Emplace weapon systems 6. Plans and integrate indirect fires 7. Conduct engagement area rehearsal Characteristics of machine guns: GROUND - Answer- Grazing Fire- cone of fire is less than 1 meter off the ground. Maximum effective grazing fire is 600m Plunging fire- when the danger space is within the beaten zone; loss in grazing fire at any point along trajectory Characteristics of machine guns: TARGET - Answer- Frontal fire: long axis of beaten zone is at a right angle to the front of a target Flanking Fire: firing at the side of a target Oblique Fire: long axis of beaten zone is at an angle other than a right angle to the front of the target enfilade fire: long axis of beaten zone is the long axis of the target (frontal or flanking) Characteristics of machine guns: WEAPON - Answer- Fixed fire: depth and width of beaten zone covers the target traversing fire: changes in width by left and right Searching fire: changes in depth by elevation traversing and searching: changes in width and depth free gun: single point targets with dramatic changes in width and depth Characteristics of machine guns: FIRE - Answer- Trajectory- path of round in flight Maximum ordinate- highest point in trajectory Cone of Fire- the pattern of fire from the trajectories of a burst Beaten Zone- elliptical pattern on bullet impacts Effective beaten zone: 85% of rounds fall Danger Space- point in trajectory where bullet rises less than 1.8 meters Elements of multi-dimensional urban battlefield - Answer- Airspace Surface area- street level super-surface area- roofs and upper floors subsurface area- basements and below ground floor Urban patterns - Answer- Satellite, network, linear, segment Conditions of urban environments - Answer- Surgical, precision, high intensity Fundamentals of urban operations - Answer- Perform aggressive information operations, Maintain close combat capability, Avoid attrition approach, Control the essential, Minimize collateral damage, Separate combatants from non-combatants, Preserve critical infrastructure, Restore essential services, Understand human dimension, Create a collaborative information environment, Transition control SOSRA - Answer- Suppress, obscure, secure, reduce, assault Battle Positions - Answer- -Primary -alternate- cover same AoA as primary(on flank) -supplementary- covers different AoA -subsequent- covers same AoA as primary(in depth) Movement techniques - Answer- Traveling, traveling overwatch, bounding overwatch 5 S's for EPW handling - Answer- 1. Search 2. Segregate 3. Silence 4. Safeguard 5. Speed to the rear Types of counseling - Answer- - event - performance - professional growth - Defensive Tasks - Answer- Area, mobile, retrograde Sequence of the defense - Answer- 1. Recon, security, enemy preparatory fires 2. Occupation 3. Approach of enemy attack 4. Enemy assault