ROPD Phase 4a Module 1 Safe Range Operations Pretest Complete
Solutions
**Range Safety Essentials**
1. What is the Army regulation/Marine Corps Order that governs range safety? AR 385-63/MCO
3570.1D.
2. Who controls and coordinates all ranges and publishes safe range use requirements for ranges? RMA.
**Risk Management**
1. In the context of DRM and range safety, mitigation of risk is the ability to ______________. Minimize
or eliminate hazards by implementing controls.
2. The five steps of the DRM process include identify hazards, ___________, implement controls, and
supervise and evaluate. Develop controls and make risk decisions.
3. What is the definition of an impact area? The ground and associated airspace within the training
complex used to contain fired, or launched ammunition or explosives, and the resulting fragments,
debris, and components from various weapons systems.
**Range Operations**
1. Who is responsible for ensuring proper supervision of misfire procedures? OIC.
2. You have been assigned a range for a MK-19 firing HEDP exercise. You have been directed to fire into
the impact area, with strict orders from range control against maneuvering in that area. Judging by your
orders from range control, what type of impact area is this? High hazard.
**Airspace Considerations**
Solutions
**Range Safety Essentials**
1. What is the Army regulation/Marine Corps Order that governs range safety? AR 385-63/MCO
3570.1D.
2. Who controls and coordinates all ranges and publishes safe range use requirements for ranges? RMA.
**Risk Management**
1. In the context of DRM and range safety, mitigation of risk is the ability to ______________. Minimize
or eliminate hazards by implementing controls.
2. The five steps of the DRM process include identify hazards, ___________, implement controls, and
supervise and evaluate. Develop controls and make risk decisions.
3. What is the definition of an impact area? The ground and associated airspace within the training
complex used to contain fired, or launched ammunition or explosives, and the resulting fragments,
debris, and components from various weapons systems.
**Range Operations**
1. Who is responsible for ensuring proper supervision of misfire procedures? OIC.
2. You have been assigned a range for a MK-19 firing HEDP exercise. You have been directed to fire into
the impact area, with strict orders from range control against maneuvering in that area. Judging by your
orders from range control, what type of impact area is this? High hazard.
**Airspace Considerations**
