Range Safety OIC/RSO Practice Questions and Answers (100% Pass)
AR385-63/MCO 3570.1 - ✔️✔️establishes ranges safety policies and responsibilities
for firing ammunition, lasers, guided, missiles, and rockets on Marine Corps and
Army ranges.
DA Pam 385-63 - ✔️✔️provides implementation guidance for the Marine Corps Range
Safety Program.
SOP - ✔️✔️each range or range complex will have its own standard operating
procedure (SOP). The SOP for an installation will have installation -specific
instructions for range safety. You must read the most current Sop for the range that
you will be using.
USMC Range Safety Pocket Guide - ✔️✔️The USMC Range Safety Pocket Guide
summarizes the policies and procedures needed to conduct a live-fire event. This
document contains information on surface danger zones (SDZ) setup for weapon
systems. The Pocket Guide also provides the OIC and RSO with a checklist that will
assist them with their most common tasks
SOUM - ✔️✔️Safety Of Use Memorandums (SOUM) are how the Range and Training
Area Management (RTAM) Branch provides range safety information and guidance
to the Marine Corps Total Force. This guidance is directive until the SOUM is
cancelled, changed or written into the Range Safety Order.
RCO - ✔️✔️Responsible for all range safety matters and provides coordination of
ranges in the installation complex
OIC - ✔️✔️Responsible and accountable for conduct of the exercise and ensuring
participants follow safety regulations
RSO - ✔️✔️Responsible for range safety for the exercise
LRSO - ✔️✔️Responsible for laser range safety for exercises involving lasers
Land - ✔️✔️The land area of a range for live-fire and maneuver includes start and
cease-fire lines, target areas, and impact areas.
Airspace - ✔️✔️refers to any one of several types of controlled and uncontrolled
airspace required to support range operations. Airspace over a range may include
restricted areas, warning areas, military operations, and air traffic controlled
assigned airspace.
Waterways - ✔️✔️The range boundaries may include navigable inland waterways
such as rivers or lakes. Sea space is the operating area necessary to contain live-fire
and support ship to shore training.
Dedicated impact areas - ✔️✔️An impact area is a designated area within the limits
of a range.
Dedicated Impact Areas are associated with: - ✔️✔️non-sensitive ammunition and
explosives.
Size of dedicated impact area - ✔️✔️usually a large piece of land that several ranges
fire into.
What is a dedicated impact area reserved for - ✔️✔️the impact and fragmentation of
launched or fired ammunition and explosives
Dedicated Impact area can contain what other impact area - ✔️✔️high-hazard
Impact Area - ✔️✔️The purpose of an impact area is to contain all hazards associated
with the ordnance being fired
High-hazard impact - ✔️✔️areas that are permanently designed to contain sensitive
ammunition and explosives
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