SGTS COURSE SQUAD OPERATIONS 2026 TEST
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔What is the purpose of a patrol overlay? - ✔✔Allows parent unit to monitor progress
of the patrol without transmitting coordinates over the radio
✔✔RALLY POINTS - ✔✔A rally point should:
•Provide cover and concealment.
•Be defensible for at least a short time.
•Be easily recognized and known to all patrol members.
✔✔Types of contact - ✔✔Observation
Meeting engagement
Ambush
✔✔Immediate Action (IA) Drills - ✔✔Immediate halt drill
Air observation and attack drill
Meeting engagement drills
Counter ambush drills
✔✔BREAKING CONTACT - ✔✔Fire and Movement: One portion of the patrol returns
the enemy fire while another portion bounds away from the enemy. Each portion of the
, patrol covers the other by fire until the entire patrol breaks contacts. The patrol can
bound by elements, fire teams, or individuals.
Clock System: Using the clock system, the patrol leader shouts a direction and
distance. Twelve o'clock is always the direction of movement of the patrol. If the patrol
leader shouts, "Nine o'clock, 200 meters," this means the patrol is to move in the
direction of nine o'clock for 200 meters.
✔✔In organizing the patrol for movement, the patrol leader determines the best
formation based upon the estimate of the situation. Which of the following are true
statements regarding patrol formations? Select all that apply. - ✔✔The squad and fire
team formations described in MCWP 3-11.2, Marine Rifle Squad, also apply to patrolling
formations.
A primary consideration impacting a patrol's formation is the probability of contact with
the enemy.
✔✔Movement control measures are established to assist the patrol leader, patrol
members, and higher headquarters coordinate movement and fires during the conduct
of the patrol. Patrols typically employ which of the following control measures along the
patrol route? Select all that apply. - ✔✔Checkpoints
Rally points
✔✔Identify the required event(s) during post-patrol procedures? Select all that apply. -
✔✔Patrol report
Patrol critique/AAR
✔✔What is the purpose of a patrol? - ✔✔To gather information or destroy enemy
installations, capture enemy personnel, perform security missions or prevent the enemy
from gaining information.
✔✔Reconnaissance and __________ patrols are two principle types of patrols used by
the Marine Corps. - ✔✔Combat
✔✔The acronym for the analysis that occurs in conducting an estimate of the situation
is METT-T which stands for: __________, Enemy, __________, Troops and Support
Available, and __________. - ✔✔Mission,Terrain and Weather,Time Available
✔✔Which of the following are elements of a combat patrol? Select all that apply. -
✔✔Headquarters element,Security element,Assault element
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔What is the purpose of a patrol overlay? - ✔✔Allows parent unit to monitor progress
of the patrol without transmitting coordinates over the radio
✔✔RALLY POINTS - ✔✔A rally point should:
•Provide cover and concealment.
•Be defensible for at least a short time.
•Be easily recognized and known to all patrol members.
✔✔Types of contact - ✔✔Observation
Meeting engagement
Ambush
✔✔Immediate Action (IA) Drills - ✔✔Immediate halt drill
Air observation and attack drill
Meeting engagement drills
Counter ambush drills
✔✔BREAKING CONTACT - ✔✔Fire and Movement: One portion of the patrol returns
the enemy fire while another portion bounds away from the enemy. Each portion of the
, patrol covers the other by fire until the entire patrol breaks contacts. The patrol can
bound by elements, fire teams, or individuals.
Clock System: Using the clock system, the patrol leader shouts a direction and
distance. Twelve o'clock is always the direction of movement of the patrol. If the patrol
leader shouts, "Nine o'clock, 200 meters," this means the patrol is to move in the
direction of nine o'clock for 200 meters.
✔✔In organizing the patrol for movement, the patrol leader determines the best
formation based upon the estimate of the situation. Which of the following are true
statements regarding patrol formations? Select all that apply. - ✔✔The squad and fire
team formations described in MCWP 3-11.2, Marine Rifle Squad, also apply to patrolling
formations.
A primary consideration impacting a patrol's formation is the probability of contact with
the enemy.
✔✔Movement control measures are established to assist the patrol leader, patrol
members, and higher headquarters coordinate movement and fires during the conduct
of the patrol. Patrols typically employ which of the following control measures along the
patrol route? Select all that apply. - ✔✔Checkpoints
Rally points
✔✔Identify the required event(s) during post-patrol procedures? Select all that apply. -
✔✔Patrol report
Patrol critique/AAR
✔✔What is the purpose of a patrol? - ✔✔To gather information or destroy enemy
installations, capture enemy personnel, perform security missions or prevent the enemy
from gaining information.
✔✔Reconnaissance and __________ patrols are two principle types of patrols used by
the Marine Corps. - ✔✔Combat
✔✔The acronym for the analysis that occurs in conducting an estimate of the situation
is METT-T which stands for: __________, Enemy, __________, Troops and Support
Available, and __________. - ✔✔Mission,Terrain and Weather,Time Available
✔✔Which of the following are elements of a combat patrol? Select all that apply. -
✔✔Headquarters element,Security element,Assault element
