Answers
Question: Friendly units frame shapes are depicted as what type of shape?
Correct Answer: Rectangle
Question: Which of the following are the two categories of military symbols?
Correct Answer: Framed and Unframed
Question: What is your unit symbol if you are in an Armor Brigade?
Correct Answer: Blue Rectangle with X on top and Circle inside.
Question: Which of the following echelon amplifiers represents a team or crew?
Correct Answer: Hollow Circle with one diagonal line.
Question: Which of the following symbols is representing a target reference point?
Correct Answer: Plus Symbol
Question: Your unit is depicted in an area on a map. Which symbol for an area will your unit be depicted
in?
Correct Answer: Hollow Circle with an AA in the middle.
Question: You are conducting an attack by fire mission. How is this tactical mission task depicted on a
map?
Correct Answer: Half a Hexagon (Diamond shaped) with an arrow pointing out of the side.
Question: Which of the following retrograde task symbols represents a delay?
Correct Answer: U-Turn arrow with an D acronym in the middle.
Question: Which of the following icons represents Armor?
Correct Answer: Circle
Question: Which of the following icons represents CBRN?
Correct Answer: (Looks like two opened gas canisters cross thrown in the air).
Question: You are depicting a friendly unit on a course of action sketch. What category of military symbol
would you use?
Correct Answer: Framed
Question: You are reviewing a graphics overlay for a defense, and you want to see where the engineers are
going to emplace obstacles. What color normally depicts obstacles?
Correct Answer: Green
Question: You are putting together an operations overlay. You know from your lesson on Understanding
Military Terms and Symbols that each tactical symbol has a specific meaning and/or function. What is a
specified geographic surface included within a defineated set of lines (boundaries) used for the purpose of
facilitating coordination and decontification between adjacent units, formations, or other specific
geographical surfaces called?
, Correct Answer: Area
Question: Which of the following symbolizes an ambulance exchange point?
Correct Answer: A hollow box with an upside-down hollow triangle directly underneath with the acronym
AXP in the square.
Question: Which of the following three enablers allow the ABCT to conduct offensive operations with
precision and speed?
Correct Answer: Mobility, protection, and firepower.
Question: An ABCT conducts offensive operations to do which of the following?
Correct Answer: Defeat, destroy, or neutralize the enemy.
Question: You are part of a Brigade Combat Team. What is one exception for the role of the BCT from the
4 provided?
Correct Answer: Provide area security, coordinate with NGO's and PVO's and provide transportation
assets to enhance nation building missions.
Question: IBCT missions typically include which of the following except?
Correct Answer: Conducting Detainee Operations
Question: Which Brigade Combat Team would you be a part of that is better suited for operations in
restrictive and complex, urban combat?
Correct Answer: The Infantry BCT
Question: Which company is unique to the IBCT?
Correct Answer: Weapons company
Question: The SBCT primarily fights as what?
Correct Answer: Dismounted Infantry
Question: If you were in the SBCT what means do you use to perform your role of closing with and
destroying the enemy?
Correct Answer: Fire and Movement
Question: The BCTs signal company is organic to which battalion?
Correct Answer: The Brigade Engineer Battalion
Question: Which battalion within a BCT is equipped to perform counter-mobility tasks?
Correct Answer: INCORRECT Infantry Battalion
Question: All BCTs include which of these capabilities to meet mission requirements?-
Correct Answer: Maneuver; field artillery; intelligence; signal; engineering; CBRN; and sustainment
capabilities.
Question: Which of the following is the ABCT's primary maneuver force?
Correct Answer: Combined Arms Battalion
Question: What type of operations can all IBCT's conduct?