USMC - Machine Gunnery Practice Stu dy
Gui de Test.
Characteristics of Fire - CORRECT ANSWER Trajectory, Burst of Fire, Cone of Fire, Beaten Zone, Dead
Space, Danger Space
Classes of fire with respect to the GUN - CORRECT ANSWER Fixed Fire, Traversing Fire, Searching Fire,
Traversing and Searching Fire, Swinging Traverse, Free Gun
Classes of fire with respect to the TARGET - CORRECT ANSWER Frontal, Flanking, Oblique, and Enfilade
Classes of fire with respect to the GROUND - CORRECT ANSWER Grazing Fire and Plunging Fire
Grazing Fire - CORRECT ANSWER When firing of level or uniformly sloping terrain, where the center of
the cone of fire does not rise above one meter
Enfilade Fire - CORRECT ANSWER When the long axis of the beaten zone coincides or nearly coincides
with the long axis of the target
Five types of Defilade - CORRECT ANSWER Direct Lay, Partial, Position, Maximum, Minimum
PICMDEEP - CORRECT ANSWER P - employed in pairs
I - Interlocking fields of fire
C - Coordination of fires
M - Mutual support
D - Defilade
E - Enfilade
E - Economy of rounds
P - protection
, SAFESOC - CORRECT ANSWER S - provide security
A - automatic weapons on avenues of approach
F - fields of fire
E - entrenchment
S - supplementary/alternative positions
O - obstacles
C - cover/concealment
Three types of machine gun fighting postions - CORRECT ANSWER U - shaped, T - shaped, L - Shaped
Mission of Machine Guns in the Defense - CORRECT ANSWER The purpose is to retain or control terrain,
gain time, develop more favorable conditions for offensive attacks, economize size to allow
concentration of focus elsewhere, and fire upon FPL's upon command
What three classes of fires are needed to fire an FPL - CORRECT ANSWER Searching, Enfilade, and
Grazing
Types of Wire - CORRECT ANSWER Tactical, Supplementary, and Protective
DRAW - D - CORRECT ANSWER Defend, reinforce, attack, withdraw, delay
RAZ - CORRECT ANSWER Route, area, zone
KOCOA - CORRECT ANSWER Key terrain, observations of fields of fire, cover and concealment, obstacles,
avenues of approach
OSMEAC - CORRECT ANSWER orientation, situation, mission, execution, admin and logistics, command
and signal
MARCH - E - CORRECT ANSWER massive hemorrhaging, airways, respiration, circulatory, head and
hypothermia, everything else