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This document contains MCCC entrance exam questions and answers covering key military concepts such as troop leading procedures, unified land operations, mission planning, and tactical tasks. It includes detailed breakdowns of combat operations, reconnaissance, maneuver strategies, weapons systems, and leadership principles. The material serves as a comprehensive study guide for exam preparation and tactical knowledge review.

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1. Troop Leading 1. Receive the mission
Procedures 2. Issue WARNO
3. Make a tentative plan
4. Initiate movement
5. Reconnoiter
6. Complete plan
7. Issue OPORD
8. Supervise

2. Tenets of Unified 1. Simultaneity
Land Operations 2. Depth
3. Flexibility
4. Synchronization

3. Principles of 1. Mission Command
Unified Land 2. Develop the situation through action
Operations 3. Combined Arms
4. Adherence to the Law of War
5. Establish and Maintain Security
6. Create Multiple Dilemmas for the Enemy

4. Steps of IPB 1. Define the Operational Environment
2. Describe environmental effects on operations
3. Evaluate the threat
4. Determine threat COAs

5. The Mission Who (the company)
Statement What (the unit's essential task and type of operation)
When (this is the time given in the BN OPORD)
Where (the OBJ or location stated in higher's OPORD)
Why (the company purpose, taken from higher's concept of the operation)

6. Decisive Point


, A decisive point is a geographic space, specific key event, critical factor, or function
that, when acted upon, allows commanders to gain a marked advantage over an
adversary or contribute materially to achieving success

7. Offensive Tasks 1. Movement to contact
2. Attack
3. Pursuit
4. Exploitation

8. Defensive Tasks 1. Area Defense
2. Mobile Defense
3. Retrograde

9. Characteristics of 1. Surprise
the Offense 2. Concentration
3. Audacity
4. Tempo

10. Characteristics of 1. Disruption
the Defense 2. Flexibility
3. Maneuver
4. Massing Effects
5. Operations in Depth
6. Preparation
7. Security

11. Levels of War 1. Strategic
2. Operational
3. Tactical

12. Fundamentals of 1. Do not keep recon assets in reserve
Reconnaissance 2. Orient on the recon objective
3. Report information rapidly and accurately



, 4. Gain and maintain enemy contact
5. Ensure continuous recon
6. Retain freedom of maneuver
7. Develop the situation rapidly

13. Fundamentals of 1. Provide early and accurate warning
Security 2. Provide reaction time and maneuver space
3. Orient on the force or facility to be secured
4. Perform continuous recon
5. Maintain enemy contact

14. Principles of 1. Mass the effects of fire
Direct Fire 2. Avoid target overkill
Control 3. Destroy the greatest threat first
4. Employ the best weapon for the specific target
5. Minimize exposure
6. Plan and implement fratricide avoidance measures
7. Plan for limited visibility
8. Plan for degraded capabilities

1. Target Reference Point
15. Terrain Based 2. Engagement Area
DFCM 3. Sector of Fire
4. Direction of Fire
5. Terrain based quadrant
6. Friendly based quadrant
7. Maximum Engagement Line
8. Final Protective Line
9. Restrictive Fire Line

1. Rules of Engagement
16. Threat based 2. Weapons ready posture
DFCM 3. Weapons safety posture


, 4. Weapon control status
5. Engagement priorities
6. Trigger
7. Engagement techniques
8. Target Array
9. Fire patterns

17. Weapons Control 1. Hold
Status 2. Tight
3. Free

18. Forms of 1. Frontal Attack
Maneuver 2. Envelopment
3. Turning movement
4. Penetration
5. Infiltration
6. Flank Attack

19. Movement 1. Column
formations 2. Company line
and 3. Company wedge
techniques 4. Company vee
5. Company file
6. Echelon right or left
7. Box (weapons company)
8. Diamond (weapons company)
9. Coil (stationary weapons company)
10. Herringbone (weapons company)

1. Intelligence
20. Tenets of 2. Fundamentals
breaching 3. Organization
operations

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