TBS PHASE 3 STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
MARKED A+
✔✔Survivability - ✔✔- protect the force and its resources while deceiving the enemy
- ability to avoid or withstand hostile actions or environmental conditions
- PACE plan
- Tactics
✔✔Classes of Supply - ✔✔1. Chow and Water*
2. Clothing and individual equipment
3. Fuel*
4. Construction equipment
5. Ammo*
6. Alcohol (moral boosts)
7. Major end items
8. Medical supplies
9. Maintenance parts
10. Everything else
✔✔Replenishment Methods - ✔✔1. Service station resupply method
2. Tailgate Resupply method
✔✔Tactical Logistics PLanning - ✔✔METT-T
task/purpose/endstate
✔✔Purpose of the Offense - ✔✔achieve decisive victory
✔✔Offensive principles - ✔✔1. Orient
2. Disrupt & Fix
3. Maneuver & Follow Through
✔✔Forms of Maneuver (DDFTC) - ✔✔1. Frontal Attack
2. Flanking Attack
3. Envelopment
4. Turning Movement
5. Infiltration
6. Penetration
✔✔Frontal Attack - ✔✔useful when
- we posses a significant advantage in combat power over the enemy
- seek to maintain momentum and tempo for rapid action
✔✔Flanking Attack - ✔✔useful when
- seek to minimize the effects of enemy's frontally oriented combat power by focusing on
a weak point
, ✔✔Supporting vs. Supported - ✔✔Supporting unit fixes enemy IOT allow the supported
unit to maneuver to a position of advantage and finish
✔✔Support by Fire - ✔✔- Purpose: allow maneuver to close
- Method: achiever fire superiority
- End State: enemy is fixed in place on the ropes
✔✔Orient: Leaders Recon Preparation - ✔✔Enemy
- location
- orientation
- assets
- security area
- strengths/weaknesses
✔✔Leaders Recon Execution - ✔✔- orient the enemy (orientation, critical assets,
security area)
= refine SOM and FSP: sketch obj, collect data, TCMs and FSCMs
✔✔Occupation - ✔✔- LOD
- sbf COLD
- assaults position
✔✔Disrupt and Fix - ✔✔- effect: disrupt enemy - allows me to occupy SBF hot
unimpeded and fix the enemy
- effect: fix enemy in place
✔✔Night Operations Pros - ✔✔- surprise: psychological advantage
- tempo
- take advantage of technology
- limited visibility may avoid heavy losses
✔✔Night Operations Cons - ✔✔- command and control
- human factors
- lack predisposition to contact - ranger files
- requires substantial
- setting conditions
- fatricide/CASEVAC
✔✔principles - trinity of the night - ✔✔1. surprise
2. direction
3. control
✔✔Surprise - ✔✔- stealth: discipline/prep for combat/reconnaissance
- deception; unexpected AOA/Illumination
MARKED A+
✔✔Survivability - ✔✔- protect the force and its resources while deceiving the enemy
- ability to avoid or withstand hostile actions or environmental conditions
- PACE plan
- Tactics
✔✔Classes of Supply - ✔✔1. Chow and Water*
2. Clothing and individual equipment
3. Fuel*
4. Construction equipment
5. Ammo*
6. Alcohol (moral boosts)
7. Major end items
8. Medical supplies
9. Maintenance parts
10. Everything else
✔✔Replenishment Methods - ✔✔1. Service station resupply method
2. Tailgate Resupply method
✔✔Tactical Logistics PLanning - ✔✔METT-T
task/purpose/endstate
✔✔Purpose of the Offense - ✔✔achieve decisive victory
✔✔Offensive principles - ✔✔1. Orient
2. Disrupt & Fix
3. Maneuver & Follow Through
✔✔Forms of Maneuver (DDFTC) - ✔✔1. Frontal Attack
2. Flanking Attack
3. Envelopment
4. Turning Movement
5. Infiltration
6. Penetration
✔✔Frontal Attack - ✔✔useful when
- we posses a significant advantage in combat power over the enemy
- seek to maintain momentum and tempo for rapid action
✔✔Flanking Attack - ✔✔useful when
- seek to minimize the effects of enemy's frontally oriented combat power by focusing on
a weak point
, ✔✔Supporting vs. Supported - ✔✔Supporting unit fixes enemy IOT allow the supported
unit to maneuver to a position of advantage and finish
✔✔Support by Fire - ✔✔- Purpose: allow maneuver to close
- Method: achiever fire superiority
- End State: enemy is fixed in place on the ropes
✔✔Orient: Leaders Recon Preparation - ✔✔Enemy
- location
- orientation
- assets
- security area
- strengths/weaknesses
✔✔Leaders Recon Execution - ✔✔- orient the enemy (orientation, critical assets,
security area)
= refine SOM and FSP: sketch obj, collect data, TCMs and FSCMs
✔✔Occupation - ✔✔- LOD
- sbf COLD
- assaults position
✔✔Disrupt and Fix - ✔✔- effect: disrupt enemy - allows me to occupy SBF hot
unimpeded and fix the enemy
- effect: fix enemy in place
✔✔Night Operations Pros - ✔✔- surprise: psychological advantage
- tempo
- take advantage of technology
- limited visibility may avoid heavy losses
✔✔Night Operations Cons - ✔✔- command and control
- human factors
- lack predisposition to contact - ranger files
- requires substantial
- setting conditions
- fatricide/CASEVAC
✔✔principles - trinity of the night - ✔✔1. surprise
2. direction
3. control
✔✔Surprise - ✔✔- stealth: discipline/prep for combat/reconnaissance
- deception; unexpected AOA/Illumination
