IBOLC FINAL COMPREHENSIVE EXAM 2023

Troop Leading Procedures (TLPs) - Answer- Step 1 - Receive the mission. Step 2 - Issue a warning order. 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. Course of Action Development - Answer- (AGADAP) Analyze Relative Combat Power Generate Options Array Forces Develop the Concept of the Operation Assign Responsibility Prepare a COA Statement and Sketch Identify the forms of maneuver - Answer- Envelopment Turning Movement infiltration Penetration frontal attack. 240B Ranges - Answer- -Bipod/point: 600m Tripod/point: 800m -Bipod/area: 800m Tripod/area: 1,100m -Suppression: 1,800M Grazing: 600m Four major urban patterns - Answer- Satellite, Network, Linear, Segment Organization task to squads to conduct a breach - Answer- 1. Support Force - Suppress, Obscure 2. Breach Force - Suppress, Obscure, Secure, Reduce 3. Assault Force - Assault, Suppress(if necessary) Movement Techniques (FM 3-21.8 3-20) - Answer- -Traveling (enemy contact unlikely - maximizes speed) -Traveling Overwatch (enemy contact possible or likely) -Bounding Overwatch (enemy contact expected - slowest technique) SOSRA (Breaching Fundamentals) - Answer- 1. Suppress: suppress enemy direct fire systems covering the reduction area 2. Obscure: control obscuring smoke 3. Secure: provides local security 4. Reduce: eliminating the obstacle 5. Assault: destroy the enemy on far side of obstacle Four types of platoon battle positions and depict them. (FM 3-21.10, 5-56) - Answer- 1. Primary 2. Alternate 3. Supplementary 4. Subsequent 7 Steps of Engagement Area Development - Answer- Identify all likely enemy avenues of approach Determine likely enemy schemes of maneuver Determine where to kill the enemy Plan and integrate obstacles Emplace weapon systems Plan and integrate indirect fires Rehearse the execution of operations in the EA 9-Line Medevac Request - Answer- Line 1: Location of pickup site (GRID) Line 2: Frequency and call sign at pickup site. Line 3: Number of patients by precedence (Urgent, Priority, Routine, Convenience) Line 4: Special equipment required. Line 5: Number of patients by type (# litter & # ambulatory). Line 6: Type of wound, injury, illness (peacetime) - Security of Pick-up Site (wartime). Line 7: Method of marking pickup site. Line 8: Patient nationality and status Line 9: Landing Zone description (peacetime) - NBC Contamination (wartime). Five Principles of Patrolling (Ranger Handbook) - Answer- Planning, Recon, Security, Control, Common Sense Steps of the Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield/Battle-space - Answer- 1. Determine battlefield environment 2. Describe battlefield effects 3. Evaluate the threat 4. Determine threat COAs List 3 of the 7 Reconnaissance Fundamentals - Answer- 1. Ensure continuous reconnasaince 2. Do not keep reconnaissance assets in reserve 3. Orient on the reconnaissance objective 4. Report information rapidly and accurately 5. Retain freedom of maneuver 6. Gain and maintain enemy contact 7. Develop the situation rapidly SDZ - Answer- Surface Danger Zone AREA A - Dispersion area AREA B - Ricochet area Call For Fire - Answer- 1. ID: Warning Order: (Adjust Fire/Fire For Effect/Suppress/Immediate Suppression) + (Polar/Shift from Known Point/Grid) 2. Location: (Polar) Direction Distance (Shift From Know Point) Direction -> Left/Right/Add/Drop (Grid) 3. Description: 4. Method of Engagement: 5. Method of Control: Rates of Fire for an M249 Machine Gun - Answer- Bipod/point: 600m Bipod/area: 800m Tripod/area: 1,000m Grazing: 600m 8 Step Training Model - Answer- Plan Train and certify leaders Recon Issue the plan Rehearse Execute AAR Retrain Sequence of the Defense - Answer- Gain and Maintain Enemy Contact, Disrupt, Fix, Maneuver, Follow Through 7 CHARACTERISTICS OF THE DEFENSE - Answer- Disruption Flexibility Maneuver Mass/Concentration Operations in Depth Preparation Security ASCOPE - Answer- Area Structures Capabilities Organizations People Events SDZ - Answer- Surface Danger Zone (Ricochets, Dispersion) The call for fire consists of ______ elements sent in ______ transmissions with a break and a read back after each part - Answer- 1. Tango 1 This is Fire 3 Adjust Fire Over 2.FIRE 3 THIS TANGO 1 ADJUST FIRE OUT 1. GRID AB OVER 2.GRID AB OUT 1. ONE TANK IN THE OPEN, ICM IN AFFECT OVER 2. ONE TANK IN THE OPEN, ICM IN AFFECT OUT 1. BRAVO TWO ROUNDS OVER 2.BRAVO TWO ROUNDS OUT 1.DIRECTION 1650 OVER DIRECTION 1650 OUT 240B - Answer- 100 RNDS PER MIN 200 ROUNDS SUSTAIN 5 military aspects of weather - Answer- 1.Temperature and humidity 2.Precipitation 3.Winds 4.Clouds 5.Visibility. MILITARY SYMBOLS - Answer-