TBS PHASE 3 UPDATED CORE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Direct Air Support Center (DASC) - ✔✔integrates aviation operation with the ground
commanders' SOM, and is usually collocated with the senior FSCC.
The DASC executes procedural control, and has divert authority of airborne aircraft.
✔✔Ground Personnel - ✔✔Tactical air control parties (TACPs) exist at the MAGTF
through battalion level and are primarily used to integrate and coordinate air support in
the fire support process.
At the battalion level, the TACP is also used to provide terminal control for CAS aircraft.
✔✔Forward Air Controller (FAC) - ✔✔An officer (aviator / pilot) member of the tactical
air control party who, from a forward ground or airborne position, controls aircraft in
close air support of ground troops. Only in the Marine Corps.
✔✔Joint Terminal Attack Controller (JTAC) - ✔✔Directs the action of aircraft engaged in
close air support. Can be enlisted.
✔✔Terminal Controller - ✔✔Personnel with the authority to control the maneuver of and
grant weapons release clearance to attacking aircraft. Granted weapons release by
commander.
✔✔Joint Fires Observer (JFO) - ✔✔Certified and qualified service member who can
request, adjust, and control surface to surface fires, provide targeting information in
support of Type 2 or Type 3 CAS terminal attack control, and perform autonomous
terminal guidance operations (TGO). JFOs cannot perform terminal attack control of
CAS.
✔✔FAC / JTAC Transmission Requirements - ✔✔1. Where are they going
2. Altitude Block
,3. Other players on station
4. Active Threats (if Req'd)
5. Active GTL's (if Req'd)
✔✔Aircraft Check In - ✔✔1. Mission Number
2. Number / Type of Aircraft
3. Position / Alt
4. Ordnance
5. Time on Station (playtime)
6. Capabilites
7. Abort Code
✔✔Situation Update - ✔✔T. Threat Actifity
E. Enemy Situation
F. Friendly Situation
A. Artillery (IDF)
C. Clearance Authority
H. Hazards
R. Remarks and Restrictions
Keyword : TE FACHR
✔✔CAS Game Plan - ✔✔Keyword: TMOI
Type of Control
Method of Attack
Ordnance
Interval
✔✔Method of Attack - ✔✔Used to communicate the requirements for correlation for
CAS aircraft.
✔✔Bomb on Coordinate (BOC) - ✔✔Strike coordinates or utilize off board laser
guidance. Release from point in sky to hit a coordinate or put ordnance in laser basket.
✔✔Bomb On Target (BOT) - ✔✔Pilot must be contact/tally/captured. Self derived
targeting. Slower - mark / correlation.
✔✔Type of Control - ✔✔Type I, II, & III
Standardized contract between the controller and the aircraft.
Tools that give the terminal attack controller the greatest chance of successfully
destroying the target and negating friendly / civilian / collateral damage.
, Specific levels of risk should not be associated with each type of terminal attack control.
✔✔Type I - ✔✔FAC / JTAC must see both the target and the attacking aircraft during
terminal control. FAC / JTAC is control of individual attacks. Cleared HOT for each
attacking aircraft.
✔✔Type II - ✔✔FAC / JTAC is unable to acquire the target and/or the attacking aircraft.
Like Type I, FAC / JTAC is still in control of individual attacks.
✔✔Type III - ✔✔FAC / JTAC provides clearance for multiple attacks within a single
engagement. JTAC provides specific restrictions for the engagement - time, geometries,
specific target sets / priorities, etc.
Cleared to engage - blanket weapons release clearance.
✔✔Ordnance - ✔✔Weapon Effects - Fragmentation, blast, and armor piercing
Weapon-Target Match - Use the correct targeting system for the environment
✔✔Interval - ✔✔Lead aircraft and wingman. How far apart are their attacks in time?
✔✔CAS 9 Line ("I Hate Drinking Every Day Like My Friend Ed") - ✔✔1. IP / BP - Initial
Point (Fixed wing) / Battle Point (Rotary Wing)
2. Heading - from IP to target
3. Distance - from IP to target
4. Elevation
5. Description
6. Location
7. Mark
8. Friendlies
9. Egress
✔✔CAS Guns - ✔✔high explosive incendiary round with very high rates of fire. Calibers
range from the 7.62 GAU-17 on the Hey to the 25mm GAU-12 Equalizer on the AV-8B.
✔✔CAS Rockets - ✔✔2.75" Hydra - 35m ECR.
5" Zuni - 50m ECR.
✔✔Bombs - ✔✔general purpose, laser guided bombs, GPS guided bombs, laser JDAM
(GPS-Guided Bomb)
✔✔Final Attack Heading (FAH) - ✔✔Restricted run-in and the aircraft must fly within it
during the bomb run. It should be expressed as a cone and should allow the greatest
latitude possible to the pilot while facilitating the FAC's requirement to ensure the safe
execution of the support. You will always be expected to give a FAH.
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Direct Air Support Center (DASC) - ✔✔integrates aviation operation with the ground
commanders' SOM, and is usually collocated with the senior FSCC.
The DASC executes procedural control, and has divert authority of airborne aircraft.
✔✔Ground Personnel - ✔✔Tactical air control parties (TACPs) exist at the MAGTF
through battalion level and are primarily used to integrate and coordinate air support in
the fire support process.
At the battalion level, the TACP is also used to provide terminal control for CAS aircraft.
✔✔Forward Air Controller (FAC) - ✔✔An officer (aviator / pilot) member of the tactical
air control party who, from a forward ground or airborne position, controls aircraft in
close air support of ground troops. Only in the Marine Corps.
✔✔Joint Terminal Attack Controller (JTAC) - ✔✔Directs the action of aircraft engaged in
close air support. Can be enlisted.
✔✔Terminal Controller - ✔✔Personnel with the authority to control the maneuver of and
grant weapons release clearance to attacking aircraft. Granted weapons release by
commander.
✔✔Joint Fires Observer (JFO) - ✔✔Certified and qualified service member who can
request, adjust, and control surface to surface fires, provide targeting information in
support of Type 2 or Type 3 CAS terminal attack control, and perform autonomous
terminal guidance operations (TGO). JFOs cannot perform terminal attack control of
CAS.
✔✔FAC / JTAC Transmission Requirements - ✔✔1. Where are they going
2. Altitude Block
,3. Other players on station
4. Active Threats (if Req'd)
5. Active GTL's (if Req'd)
✔✔Aircraft Check In - ✔✔1. Mission Number
2. Number / Type of Aircraft
3. Position / Alt
4. Ordnance
5. Time on Station (playtime)
6. Capabilites
7. Abort Code
✔✔Situation Update - ✔✔T. Threat Actifity
E. Enemy Situation
F. Friendly Situation
A. Artillery (IDF)
C. Clearance Authority
H. Hazards
R. Remarks and Restrictions
Keyword : TE FACHR
✔✔CAS Game Plan - ✔✔Keyword: TMOI
Type of Control
Method of Attack
Ordnance
Interval
✔✔Method of Attack - ✔✔Used to communicate the requirements for correlation for
CAS aircraft.
✔✔Bomb on Coordinate (BOC) - ✔✔Strike coordinates or utilize off board laser
guidance. Release from point in sky to hit a coordinate or put ordnance in laser basket.
✔✔Bomb On Target (BOT) - ✔✔Pilot must be contact/tally/captured. Self derived
targeting. Slower - mark / correlation.
✔✔Type of Control - ✔✔Type I, II, & III
Standardized contract between the controller and the aircraft.
Tools that give the terminal attack controller the greatest chance of successfully
destroying the target and negating friendly / civilian / collateral damage.
, Specific levels of risk should not be associated with each type of terminal attack control.
✔✔Type I - ✔✔FAC / JTAC must see both the target and the attacking aircraft during
terminal control. FAC / JTAC is control of individual attacks. Cleared HOT for each
attacking aircraft.
✔✔Type II - ✔✔FAC / JTAC is unable to acquire the target and/or the attacking aircraft.
Like Type I, FAC / JTAC is still in control of individual attacks.
✔✔Type III - ✔✔FAC / JTAC provides clearance for multiple attacks within a single
engagement. JTAC provides specific restrictions for the engagement - time, geometries,
specific target sets / priorities, etc.
Cleared to engage - blanket weapons release clearance.
✔✔Ordnance - ✔✔Weapon Effects - Fragmentation, blast, and armor piercing
Weapon-Target Match - Use the correct targeting system for the environment
✔✔Interval - ✔✔Lead aircraft and wingman. How far apart are their attacks in time?
✔✔CAS 9 Line ("I Hate Drinking Every Day Like My Friend Ed") - ✔✔1. IP / BP - Initial
Point (Fixed wing) / Battle Point (Rotary Wing)
2. Heading - from IP to target
3. Distance - from IP to target
4. Elevation
5. Description
6. Location
7. Mark
8. Friendlies
9. Egress
✔✔CAS Guns - ✔✔high explosive incendiary round with very high rates of fire. Calibers
range from the 7.62 GAU-17 on the Hey to the 25mm GAU-12 Equalizer on the AV-8B.
✔✔CAS Rockets - ✔✔2.75" Hydra - 35m ECR.
5" Zuni - 50m ECR.
✔✔Bombs - ✔✔general purpose, laser guided bombs, GPS guided bombs, laser JDAM
(GPS-Guided Bomb)
✔✔Final Attack Heading (FAH) - ✔✔Restricted run-in and the aircraft must fly within it
during the bomb run. It should be expressed as a cone and should allow the greatest
latitude possible to the pilot while facilitating the FAC's requirement to ensure the safe
execution of the support. You will always be expected to give a FAH.
