IBOLC Entrance Exam Study Guide/44
Complete Questions and Answers
The Five Principles of Patrolling - -Planning, Recon, Control, and Common
Sense
- The 8 Troop Leading Proceedures - -Receive the mission
Issue a WARNO
Make a tentative plan
Start necessary movement
Recon
Complete the Plan
Issue a complete order
Supervise and Refine
- Five paragraphs of an Operations Order - -Situation
Mission
Execution
Sustainment
Command and Control
- Elements of a five-point contingency plan - -Going (where I'm going)
Others I'm taking with me
Time of my return
What to do if I don't return
Actions upon contact
- Elements of METT-TC - -Mission
Enemy
Terrain
Time available
Troops available
Civilian Considerations
- List the three movement techniques - -Traveling
Traveling Overwatch
Bounding Overwatch
- When do use traveling - -Use when SPEED IS IMPORTANT and enemy
contact is UNLIKELY
- When do you use Traveling-Overwatch - -Use when ENEMY CONTACT IS
POSSIBLE
, - When do you use Bounding Overwatch? - -Use when ENEMY CONTACT IS
EXPECTED or when in a large open danger area
- List the 5 Forms of Maneuver - -Envelopment
Turning Movement
Infiltration
Penetration
Frontal Attack
- Envelopment - -Attacking element seeks to avoid the enemy defense by
attacking flank or rear
- Turning Movement - -Attacking avoids enemy principal defense and
causes enemy to displace from current position by seizing OBJ's to the
enemy rear.
- Infiltration - -Attacking element conducts undetected movement through
or into an enemy area to gain position of advantage in the enemy rear,
(ambush, raid, covert breach of an obstacle are examples)
- Penetration - -Attack element seeks to rupture enemy defense on a
narrow front to create flanking oppurtunities and access to enemy rear
- Frontal Attack - -Destroy a a weak enemy force or fix a large enemy force
along a broad front.
- Characteristics of the Offense - -Surprise
Concentration
Audacity
Tempo
- Characteristics of the Defense - -Preparation
Securtiy
Disruption
Massing effects
Flexibility
Maneuver
Operational
- Steps to engagement area development - -1. Identify all likely enemy
avenues of approach
2. Determine likely enemy scheme of maneuver
3. Determine where to kill the enemy
Complete Questions and Answers
The Five Principles of Patrolling - -Planning, Recon, Control, and Common
Sense
- The 8 Troop Leading Proceedures - -Receive the mission
Issue a WARNO
Make a tentative plan
Start necessary movement
Recon
Complete the Plan
Issue a complete order
Supervise and Refine
- Five paragraphs of an Operations Order - -Situation
Mission
Execution
Sustainment
Command and Control
- Elements of a five-point contingency plan - -Going (where I'm going)
Others I'm taking with me
Time of my return
What to do if I don't return
Actions upon contact
- Elements of METT-TC - -Mission
Enemy
Terrain
Time available
Troops available
Civilian Considerations
- List the three movement techniques - -Traveling
Traveling Overwatch
Bounding Overwatch
- When do use traveling - -Use when SPEED IS IMPORTANT and enemy
contact is UNLIKELY
- When do you use Traveling-Overwatch - -Use when ENEMY CONTACT IS
POSSIBLE
, - When do you use Bounding Overwatch? - -Use when ENEMY CONTACT IS
EXPECTED or when in a large open danger area
- List the 5 Forms of Maneuver - -Envelopment
Turning Movement
Infiltration
Penetration
Frontal Attack
- Envelopment - -Attacking element seeks to avoid the enemy defense by
attacking flank or rear
- Turning Movement - -Attacking avoids enemy principal defense and
causes enemy to displace from current position by seizing OBJ's to the
enemy rear.
- Infiltration - -Attacking element conducts undetected movement through
or into an enemy area to gain position of advantage in the enemy rear,
(ambush, raid, covert breach of an obstacle are examples)
- Penetration - -Attack element seeks to rupture enemy defense on a
narrow front to create flanking oppurtunities and access to enemy rear
- Frontal Attack - -Destroy a a weak enemy force or fix a large enemy force
along a broad front.
- Characteristics of the Offense - -Surprise
Concentration
Audacity
Tempo
- Characteristics of the Defense - -Preparation
Securtiy
Disruption
Massing effects
Flexibility
Maneuver
Operational
- Steps to engagement area development - -1. Identify all likely enemy
avenues of approach
2. Determine likely enemy scheme of maneuver
3. Determine where to kill the enemy
