TBS PHASE 3 Question and Answer [2026] |
UPDATED ACTUAL Exam | Exam Script Review
Division of Phase III Exam Notes -✓✓ Moodle Sections:
1) Rifle Platoon in the Off - Brody
2) Rifle Plt Night Attk - Brody
3) Engineering in the O&D - Brody
4) Rifle Plt in the Def
5) Enlisted Promotion System - Carter
6) Explosive Obstacles - Carter
7) Aviation Employment Considerations - Carter
8) Intro to Crew Serve Weapons
9) M240B Med MG
10) DM Heavy MGs
11) DM MG Employment
12) Movement to Contact
Supplemental Videos:
1) Night Attack Platform - Brody
2) Platoon Patrolling Operations - Brody
3) Management of the Defense - Brody
4) Enlisted Promotion System - Carter
5) Explosive Obstacles - Carter
6) Aviation Employment Considerations - Carter
7) Intro to Crew Serve Weapons
8) Medium MG Platform
,9) Heavy MG Platform
10) MG Employment Platform
11) MG Employment Supporting Relationships
12) Movement to Contact
• Types of Attack -✓✓ Hasty - an attack when the commander decides to trade
preparation time for speed to exploit an opportunity.
Deliberate - a type of offensive action characterized by pre-planned and
coordinated employment of firepower and maneuver to close with and destroy the
enemy.
• Frontal Attack -✓✓ Used to rapidly destroy a weak enemy force or to fix an
enemy in place to support a flanking attack. Attacks the enemy's strongest point.
• Flanking Attack -✓✓ Uses fire and maneuver in order to gain a position of
advantage against an enemy vulnerability. A flanking attack usually uses a support
by fire position that diverts attention away from the main effort and uses fires to fix
the enemy in place which prevents them from reorienting on the main effort. The
commander uses FSP coordination measures, TCM's, and signal plan to avoid
fratricide.
• Minimum Safe Line -✓✓ Unfixed (bipod) - 45 degrees
Fixed (tripod) & M16 - 15 degrees
• Principals of War -✓✓ Keyword: MOOSE MUSS
Mass
Objective
Offensive
,Security
Economy of Force
Maneuver
Unity of Command
Surprise
Simplicity
• COC Coordination - METT-TC Analysis -✓✓ S-2 - Ground, signal, and human
intel - info on terrain and enemy
S-3 - real-time info on terrain and enemy. Coordinates pre-planned fires with target
lists, notifies adjacent mission sets.
S-4 - Logistics
S-6 - CEOI and challenge/pass
• Leader's Recon -✓✓ a small, leadership-heavy reconnaissance patrol that will
operate in close proximity to the enemy. As such, it must be planned in detail.
• Priorities of Leader's Recon -✓✓ Confirm location and orientation of enemy
defense, identify CV, identify an Assault POS, identify a SBF, identify routes and
TCM's that support SOM
• Consideration for SBF Pos -✓✓ - Located on the enemy frontage. This allows the
SBF elements to effectively fix and suppress the entire enemy defense as maneuver
element attacks the enemy flank.
- Direction of fire is ideally located 60-90 degrees offset from the maneuver
element's direction of attack. This allows the maneuver element to advance as close
to the enemy as possible under friendly suppression.
, - Provides cover and concealment to the SBF. This protects the support by fire
element from detection by the enemy.
• Types of TCMs -✓✓ - Positional - En Pos, Asslt Pos, SBF
- Navigational - SRP, Phase Line, CP's
- Fire Control - TRP's, MSL's, Targets
- Consolidation - Limit of Advance
• TCM's used in Platoon Attack -✓✓ AA, Attk Pos, LD, Checkpoint, Phase Line,
Release Point, TRP, Asslt Pos, Obj, LoA, Linkup Point
Linkup Point - an easily identifiable point on the ground where moving force is to
cross the boundaries of force in security.
• Two Methods of Occupying the SBF -✓✓ Stealth - SBF initiates fire.
Force - Cleared by IDF or other means for the SBF to take the posistion.
• Sequence of Events -✓✓ Leaders Recon -> Asslt Pos -> IDF -> SBF -> Move to
OBjective -> Asslt -> Consolidate -> Reorg
Each event has a condition that allows it to come to fruition (i.e. IDF -> SBF --
Final minute of IDF, SBF -> Asslt -- MSL2 tripped, SBF ceased)
• Preparatory Fires -✓✓ Conducted before the platoon steps into the attack, usually
at the battalion level or higher. These fires isolate the objective by targeting enemy
command and control, logistics, fire support, reinforcements, etc.
UPDATED ACTUAL Exam | Exam Script Review
Division of Phase III Exam Notes -✓✓ Moodle Sections:
1) Rifle Platoon in the Off - Brody
2) Rifle Plt Night Attk - Brody
3) Engineering in the O&D - Brody
4) Rifle Plt in the Def
5) Enlisted Promotion System - Carter
6) Explosive Obstacles - Carter
7) Aviation Employment Considerations - Carter
8) Intro to Crew Serve Weapons
9) M240B Med MG
10) DM Heavy MGs
11) DM MG Employment
12) Movement to Contact
Supplemental Videos:
1) Night Attack Platform - Brody
2) Platoon Patrolling Operations - Brody
3) Management of the Defense - Brody
4) Enlisted Promotion System - Carter
5) Explosive Obstacles - Carter
6) Aviation Employment Considerations - Carter
7) Intro to Crew Serve Weapons
8) Medium MG Platform
,9) Heavy MG Platform
10) MG Employment Platform
11) MG Employment Supporting Relationships
12) Movement to Contact
• Types of Attack -✓✓ Hasty - an attack when the commander decides to trade
preparation time for speed to exploit an opportunity.
Deliberate - a type of offensive action characterized by pre-planned and
coordinated employment of firepower and maneuver to close with and destroy the
enemy.
• Frontal Attack -✓✓ Used to rapidly destroy a weak enemy force or to fix an
enemy in place to support a flanking attack. Attacks the enemy's strongest point.
• Flanking Attack -✓✓ Uses fire and maneuver in order to gain a position of
advantage against an enemy vulnerability. A flanking attack usually uses a support
by fire position that diverts attention away from the main effort and uses fires to fix
the enemy in place which prevents them from reorienting on the main effort. The
commander uses FSP coordination measures, TCM's, and signal plan to avoid
fratricide.
• Minimum Safe Line -✓✓ Unfixed (bipod) - 45 degrees
Fixed (tripod) & M16 - 15 degrees
• Principals of War -✓✓ Keyword: MOOSE MUSS
Mass
Objective
Offensive
,Security
Economy of Force
Maneuver
Unity of Command
Surprise
Simplicity
• COC Coordination - METT-TC Analysis -✓✓ S-2 - Ground, signal, and human
intel - info on terrain and enemy
S-3 - real-time info on terrain and enemy. Coordinates pre-planned fires with target
lists, notifies adjacent mission sets.
S-4 - Logistics
S-6 - CEOI and challenge/pass
• Leader's Recon -✓✓ a small, leadership-heavy reconnaissance patrol that will
operate in close proximity to the enemy. As such, it must be planned in detail.
• Priorities of Leader's Recon -✓✓ Confirm location and orientation of enemy
defense, identify CV, identify an Assault POS, identify a SBF, identify routes and
TCM's that support SOM
• Consideration for SBF Pos -✓✓ - Located on the enemy frontage. This allows the
SBF elements to effectively fix and suppress the entire enemy defense as maneuver
element attacks the enemy flank.
- Direction of fire is ideally located 60-90 degrees offset from the maneuver
element's direction of attack. This allows the maneuver element to advance as close
to the enemy as possible under friendly suppression.
, - Provides cover and concealment to the SBF. This protects the support by fire
element from detection by the enemy.
• Types of TCMs -✓✓ - Positional - En Pos, Asslt Pos, SBF
- Navigational - SRP, Phase Line, CP's
- Fire Control - TRP's, MSL's, Targets
- Consolidation - Limit of Advance
• TCM's used in Platoon Attack -✓✓ AA, Attk Pos, LD, Checkpoint, Phase Line,
Release Point, TRP, Asslt Pos, Obj, LoA, Linkup Point
Linkup Point - an easily identifiable point on the ground where moving force is to
cross the boundaries of force in security.
• Two Methods of Occupying the SBF -✓✓ Stealth - SBF initiates fire.
Force - Cleared by IDF or other means for the SBF to take the posistion.
• Sequence of Events -✓✓ Leaders Recon -> Asslt Pos -> IDF -> SBF -> Move to
OBjective -> Asslt -> Consolidate -> Reorg
Each event has a condition that allows it to come to fruition (i.e. IDF -> SBF --
Final minute of IDF, SBF -> Asslt -- MSL2 tripped, SBF ceased)
• Preparatory Fires -✓✓ Conducted before the platoon steps into the attack, usually
at the battalion level or higher. These fires isolate the objective by targeting enemy
command and control, logistics, fire support, reinforcements, etc.
