TBS PHASE 3 MAIN EXAMINATION TEST QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS MARKED A+
✔✔Movement to Contact Definition - ✔✔A form of the offense designed to develop the
situation and to establish or re-gain contact
✔✔4 types of offensive operations - ✔✔Movement to Contact
Exploitation
Attack
Pursuit
✔✔Determining when MTC is appropriate - ✔✔- Uncertain enemy situation
- We are seeking to develop the situation through contact with the enemy
- Time compressed environment
- We are seeking decisive engagement on our terms
- We are seeking to regain and maintain contact with the enemy
✔✔Enemy Contact Likelihoods - ✔✔Remote
Possible/Probable
Imminent
✔✔MTC Methods - ✔✔Approach March
Search & Attack
✔✔Movement to Contact TCMs - ✔✔Phase Line
Boundary
Contact Point
Axis of Advance
✔✔Movement to Combat Tasks - ✔✔Advanced Guard
Main Body
Rear/flank security
✔✔Immediate Action Drills - ✔✔Immediate responses to an action that provide the
commander time and space to make a decision.
✔✔Battle Drill - ✔✔A pre-drilled action that is chosen in response to an action. Battle
drills are like plays run out of a playbook.
✔✔M240B Ranges - ✔✔Max: 3725m
Max Efffective (suppression): 1800m
Grazing Fire: 600m
✔✔M240B Rates of Fire - ✔✔Sustained: 100 RPM
Rapid: 200 RPM
, Cyclic: 650 RPM
✔✔M2 .50 Cal Range - ✔✔Max: 7400m
Max Effective: 1830m
Grazing Fire: 700m
✔✔M2 .50 Cal Rates of Fire - ✔✔Sustained: Less than 40 RPMs
Rapid: 40 or More RPMs
Cyclic: 450-550 RPMs
✔✔Mk-19 Ranges - ✔✔Max: 2212m
Area: 2212m
Point: 1500m
✔✔Mk-19 Rates of Fire - ✔✔Sustained: 40 RPM
Rapid: 60 RPM
Cyclic: 325-375 RPM
✔✔Fire Support Planning Offense - ✔✔Preparation phase.
Conduct phase
Consolidation phase
Exploitation phase
✔✔Fire Support Planning Defense - ✔✔Long Range Targets
Close Defensive Fires
Final Protective Fires
✔✔EFST 4 Parts - ✔✔Task
Purpose
Method
Endstate
✔✔Battlefield Functions of Engineering - ✔✔Mobility
Counter-Mobility
Survivability
General engineering
✔✔Breaching Tenets - ✔✔Intelligence
Fundamentals
Organization
Mass
Synchronization
✔✔Breaching Fundamentals - ✔✔Suppress
Obscure
SOLUTIONS MARKED A+
✔✔Movement to Contact Definition - ✔✔A form of the offense designed to develop the
situation and to establish or re-gain contact
✔✔4 types of offensive operations - ✔✔Movement to Contact
Exploitation
Attack
Pursuit
✔✔Determining when MTC is appropriate - ✔✔- Uncertain enemy situation
- We are seeking to develop the situation through contact with the enemy
- Time compressed environment
- We are seeking decisive engagement on our terms
- We are seeking to regain and maintain contact with the enemy
✔✔Enemy Contact Likelihoods - ✔✔Remote
Possible/Probable
Imminent
✔✔MTC Methods - ✔✔Approach March
Search & Attack
✔✔Movement to Contact TCMs - ✔✔Phase Line
Boundary
Contact Point
Axis of Advance
✔✔Movement to Combat Tasks - ✔✔Advanced Guard
Main Body
Rear/flank security
✔✔Immediate Action Drills - ✔✔Immediate responses to an action that provide the
commander time and space to make a decision.
✔✔Battle Drill - ✔✔A pre-drilled action that is chosen in response to an action. Battle
drills are like plays run out of a playbook.
✔✔M240B Ranges - ✔✔Max: 3725m
Max Efffective (suppression): 1800m
Grazing Fire: 600m
✔✔M240B Rates of Fire - ✔✔Sustained: 100 RPM
Rapid: 200 RPM
, Cyclic: 650 RPM
✔✔M2 .50 Cal Range - ✔✔Max: 7400m
Max Effective: 1830m
Grazing Fire: 700m
✔✔M2 .50 Cal Rates of Fire - ✔✔Sustained: Less than 40 RPMs
Rapid: 40 or More RPMs
Cyclic: 450-550 RPMs
✔✔Mk-19 Ranges - ✔✔Max: 2212m
Area: 2212m
Point: 1500m
✔✔Mk-19 Rates of Fire - ✔✔Sustained: 40 RPM
Rapid: 60 RPM
Cyclic: 325-375 RPM
✔✔Fire Support Planning Offense - ✔✔Preparation phase.
Conduct phase
Consolidation phase
Exploitation phase
✔✔Fire Support Planning Defense - ✔✔Long Range Targets
Close Defensive Fires
Final Protective Fires
✔✔EFST 4 Parts - ✔✔Task
Purpose
Method
Endstate
✔✔Battlefield Functions of Engineering - ✔✔Mobility
Counter-Mobility
Survivability
General engineering
✔✔Breaching Tenets - ✔✔Intelligence
Fundamentals
Organization
Mass
Synchronization
✔✔Breaching Fundamentals - ✔✔Suppress
Obscure
