AMEDD BOLC PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Principles of the AHS - ✔✔Conformity
Proximity
Flexibility
Mobility
Continuity
Control
✔✔Conformity - ✔✔Ensures that a comprehensive AHS support plan conforms to
tactical plans
Medical assets are arrayed on the battlefield properly
✔✔Proximity - ✔✔Provide medical support at the right time and place
Medical resources employed as far forward as possible, without impeding ongoing
operations
✔✔Flexibility - ✔✔Ability to shift AHS resources to meet changing battlefield
requirements
Effectively managing scarce medical resources so that they benefit the greatest number
of Soldiers in the AO
✔✔Mobility - ✔✔AHS assets remain in supporting distance to support maneuvering
forces
Vehicle hardening equal to that of supported unit
✔✔Continuity - ✔✔Patient moves through progressive, phased roles of care
, Each Soldier receives the care required to optimize patient outcome
✔✔Control - ✔✔Resources are efficiently employed
Ensure scope and quality of medical treatment meets professional standards and
policies
✔✔Each Medical COA should be - ✔✔Suitable - Is it nested with the maneuver plan?
Feasible - Can we do it?
Acceptable - Acceptable risk?
Complete - Includes all AMEDD functional areas?
✔✔Each Medical COA should address support for - ✔✔Security Operations (Basic
Reconnaissance Teams)
Main / Supporting Attacks (close fight)
Rear Operations (BDE Staging Area, FA units, etc.)
Follow-on Operations (Stability OPS, Defense OPS, etc.)
✔✔Medical Scheme of Manuver should include - ✔✔Task Organization for medical
assets
Task and Purpose for each medical element
Mission Command relationships
Evacuation and Supply routes
Ambulance Exchange points (AXPs) and Casualty Collection Points (CCPs)
Evacuation routes (air / ground)
Location of treatment facilities
Pickup Zones (PZs) and Landing Zones (LZs)
✔✔Wargaming the COA should include - ✔✔Refine casualty estimates by phase and/or
event
Movement of medical assets (determine grid locations)
Decision points (add to medical synch matrix)
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Principles of the AHS - ✔✔Conformity
Proximity
Flexibility
Mobility
Continuity
Control
✔✔Conformity - ✔✔Ensures that a comprehensive AHS support plan conforms to
tactical plans
Medical assets are arrayed on the battlefield properly
✔✔Proximity - ✔✔Provide medical support at the right time and place
Medical resources employed as far forward as possible, without impeding ongoing
operations
✔✔Flexibility - ✔✔Ability to shift AHS resources to meet changing battlefield
requirements
Effectively managing scarce medical resources so that they benefit the greatest number
of Soldiers in the AO
✔✔Mobility - ✔✔AHS assets remain in supporting distance to support maneuvering
forces
Vehicle hardening equal to that of supported unit
✔✔Continuity - ✔✔Patient moves through progressive, phased roles of care
, Each Soldier receives the care required to optimize patient outcome
✔✔Control - ✔✔Resources are efficiently employed
Ensure scope and quality of medical treatment meets professional standards and
policies
✔✔Each Medical COA should be - ✔✔Suitable - Is it nested with the maneuver plan?
Feasible - Can we do it?
Acceptable - Acceptable risk?
Complete - Includes all AMEDD functional areas?
✔✔Each Medical COA should address support for - ✔✔Security Operations (Basic
Reconnaissance Teams)
Main / Supporting Attacks (close fight)
Rear Operations (BDE Staging Area, FA units, etc.)
Follow-on Operations (Stability OPS, Defense OPS, etc.)
✔✔Medical Scheme of Manuver should include - ✔✔Task Organization for medical
assets
Task and Purpose for each medical element
Mission Command relationships
Evacuation and Supply routes
Ambulance Exchange points (AXPs) and Casualty Collection Points (CCPs)
Evacuation routes (air / ground)
Location of treatment facilities
Pickup Zones (PZs) and Landing Zones (LZs)
✔✔Wargaming the COA should include - ✔✔Refine casualty estimates by phase and/or
event
Movement of medical assets (determine grid locations)
Decision points (add to medical synch matrix)
