TACOPS MP BOLC EXAM SCRIPT 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Successive bounding (Easier to Control) - ✔✔bounding movement in proximity of
the same position (follow the leader)
✔✔Dismounted Movement Technique - ✔✔Column, V, Line, Wedge, Platoon Line
Squads in Column
✔✔Limit of Advance (LOA) - ✔✔used to control forward progress of attack
✔✔Line of Departure (LD) - ✔✔a phase line crossed at a prescribed time by troops
initiating an offensive operation (to keep you on time and on mission)
✔✔Response Force Operations:
Example situations that MPs respond to - ✔✔Friendly Forces under attack
Base/base clusters
Convoys
Downed aircraft.
✔✔Types of Ambush - ✔✔1. Linear
2. L-Shaped
3. Anti-armor
✔✔Characteristics of Defensive Operations - ✔✔1. Preparation
2. Security
3. Disruption
4. Massing effects
5. Flexibility
✔✔3 Types of Defense - ✔✔1. Area Defense- retention of terrain
2. Mobile Defense- destruction of enemy
3. Retrograde- organized movement away from enemy
✔✔4 Steps of conducting a defense - ✔✔1. Locate the enemy
2. initiate contact/actions on enemy contact
3. fight the defense
4. reorganize
✔✔3 Levels of Threat - ✔✔1. Level 1- MP can defeat; enemy controlled agents, enemy
sympathizers, terrorists, demonstrators/rioters
2. Level 2- MP can defeat; gorilla forces, unconventional type forces, small tactical units
(recon elements, intel gathering units)
3. Level 3- MP can delay; conventional forces capable of projecting combat power
rapidly into an area of operation (airborne, heliborne, bypassed units)
, ✔✔Primary sector of fire needs to be facing what direction? - ✔✔Obliques
✔✔Final Protective Fire (FPF) - ✔✔to defeat the enemy close assault against the
defensive position
✔✔Who places soldiers at the OP position? - ✔✔Squad leaders
✔✔4 Functions of Obstacles - ✔✔Disrupt- used to disrupt formations
Turn- move and manipulate enemy's
Fix-
Block-
✔✔Critical Site (like a Base/Raven)/Asset Security - ✔✔Special security activities that
prevent unauthorized access to installations/facilities, equipment, material, & documents
in a tactical environment.
Examples: Protection of command post, convoys, ASP, deep water ports, rail, pipelines
and high risk personnel
✔✔Types of Retrograde Operations - ✔✔1. Delay (Slowing them down)
2. Withdraw (Withdraw)
3. Retirement
✔✔What does a leader need to instill in his soldiers during a retrograde operation? -
✔✔An aggressive, offensive minded spirit
✔✔Decisively engaged - ✔✔When it is fully committed to combat and cannot extricate
itself from the existing situation
✔✔Delay - ✔✔Trades space for itme
✔✔2 Fundamentals of Delay - ✔✔1. Centralized, planned and controlled
2. Decentralized, executed
✔✔When conducting delay operations what takes precedence? - ✔✔Gaining Time
✔✔Delay from successive positions - ✔✔Reason to conduct delay; all units are
committed across a wide sector on the same phase line
✔✔Delay from alternate positions - ✔✔Reason to conduct delay; a force has narrow
sector or has been reinforced to allow positional depth.
✔✔Advantages of delaying in successive positions - ✔✔Masses fires of all combat
elements
WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Successive bounding (Easier to Control) - ✔✔bounding movement in proximity of
the same position (follow the leader)
✔✔Dismounted Movement Technique - ✔✔Column, V, Line, Wedge, Platoon Line
Squads in Column
✔✔Limit of Advance (LOA) - ✔✔used to control forward progress of attack
✔✔Line of Departure (LD) - ✔✔a phase line crossed at a prescribed time by troops
initiating an offensive operation (to keep you on time and on mission)
✔✔Response Force Operations:
Example situations that MPs respond to - ✔✔Friendly Forces under attack
Base/base clusters
Convoys
Downed aircraft.
✔✔Types of Ambush - ✔✔1. Linear
2. L-Shaped
3. Anti-armor
✔✔Characteristics of Defensive Operations - ✔✔1. Preparation
2. Security
3. Disruption
4. Massing effects
5. Flexibility
✔✔3 Types of Defense - ✔✔1. Area Defense- retention of terrain
2. Mobile Defense- destruction of enemy
3. Retrograde- organized movement away from enemy
✔✔4 Steps of conducting a defense - ✔✔1. Locate the enemy
2. initiate contact/actions on enemy contact
3. fight the defense
4. reorganize
✔✔3 Levels of Threat - ✔✔1. Level 1- MP can defeat; enemy controlled agents, enemy
sympathizers, terrorists, demonstrators/rioters
2. Level 2- MP can defeat; gorilla forces, unconventional type forces, small tactical units
(recon elements, intel gathering units)
3. Level 3- MP can delay; conventional forces capable of projecting combat power
rapidly into an area of operation (airborne, heliborne, bypassed units)
, ✔✔Primary sector of fire needs to be facing what direction? - ✔✔Obliques
✔✔Final Protective Fire (FPF) - ✔✔to defeat the enemy close assault against the
defensive position
✔✔Who places soldiers at the OP position? - ✔✔Squad leaders
✔✔4 Functions of Obstacles - ✔✔Disrupt- used to disrupt formations
Turn- move and manipulate enemy's
Fix-
Block-
✔✔Critical Site (like a Base/Raven)/Asset Security - ✔✔Special security activities that
prevent unauthorized access to installations/facilities, equipment, material, & documents
in a tactical environment.
Examples: Protection of command post, convoys, ASP, deep water ports, rail, pipelines
and high risk personnel
✔✔Types of Retrograde Operations - ✔✔1. Delay (Slowing them down)
2. Withdraw (Withdraw)
3. Retirement
✔✔What does a leader need to instill in his soldiers during a retrograde operation? -
✔✔An aggressive, offensive minded spirit
✔✔Decisively engaged - ✔✔When it is fully committed to combat and cannot extricate
itself from the existing situation
✔✔Delay - ✔✔Trades space for itme
✔✔2 Fundamentals of Delay - ✔✔1. Centralized, planned and controlled
2. Decentralized, executed
✔✔When conducting delay operations what takes precedence? - ✔✔Gaining Time
✔✔Delay from successive positions - ✔✔Reason to conduct delay; all units are
committed across a wide sector on the same phase line
✔✔Delay from alternate positions - ✔✔Reason to conduct delay; a force has narrow
sector or has been reinforced to allow positional depth.
✔✔Advantages of delaying in successive positions - ✔✔Masses fires of all combat
elements
