AMEDD BOLC ACTUAL FINALS QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Composition of Sustainment Brigade - ✔✔3-7 battalions that can be tailored to the
mission. Includes following battalions:
Transpo
Petroleum
Special Troops (HQ, Signal Company)
Combat Sustainment Support
✔✔Who leads a Squad - ✔✔Squad Leader (SSG or SGT)
*can be composed of Fire Teams
✔✔Who is in a PLT HQ? - ✔✔PL, PSG, RTO, medic
✔✔How many PLTs in a Company - ✔✔3-5
✔✔Who leads a Company - ✔✔CPT or 1LT, as a Commander
✔✔Who is in charge of the Staff - ✔✔XO
✔✔How is an OPORD made - ✔✔Each staff section does their part of the order, guided
by the Commanders Intent
✔✔Define Mission Command - ✔✔the exercise of authority and direction by the
commander using mission orders to enable disciplined initiative within the commander's
intent to empower agile and adaptive leaders in the conduct of unified land operations
✔✔Plans and Orders - ✔✔Focus subordinates' activities
Provide tasks and activities, constraints, and coordinating instructions
Encourage agility, speed, and initiative
,Convey instructions in a standard, recognizable, clear, and simple format
✔✔What are the types of Combat orders - ✔✔Strategic plans: cover the overall conduct
of a war
Operational or campaign plans: cover a series of related military operations aimed at
accomplishing a strategic or operational objective
Tactical plans: cover the employment of units in operations
✔✔When does the OPLAN become the OPORD - ✔✔when the commander sets an
execution time
✔✔What are the 3 types of orders - ✔✔OPORD -directive from CDR to coordinate
execution of an operation. 5 paragraph format
WARNO- preliminary notice of a mission, issued as soon as mission is received
FRAGO- timely changes to existing orders, follows 5 paragraphs
✔✔What are the 5 paragraphs of the OPORD - ✔✔Situation
Mission
Execution
Sustainment
Command and signal
✔✔What is included in the Situation paragraph - ✔✔Area of Interest
Area of Operations
-Terrain
-Weather
-Enemy Forces
-Friendly Forces (includes mission and intent 1 and 2 levels up AND missions of
adjacent units)
-Civil considerations
-Other agency
-Attachments and Detachments
-Assumptions
Done by S2
✔✔What is included in the Mission paragraph - ✔✔CLEARLY STATES TASK AND
PURPOSE
Who
What
Where
When
, Why
✔✔What is included in the Execution Paragraph - ✔✔-THE COMMANDERS INTENT
-Key Tasks
-End State
-Concept of Operations (written in phases, broken into Decisive, Shaping, and
Sustaining lines)
-Scheme of Maneuver
-Tasks to Subordinate Units
-Coordinating Instructions (includes timeline, CCIRs, EEFI, fire support and aerospace
coordination, ROE, Risk reduction)
✔✔What is the Commanders Intent - ✔✔states the commanders KEY TASKS,
PURPOSE, and END STATE
gives the subordinate leader their left and right limits for Mission Command
✔✔What are the parts of each Phase in the Concept of Operations - ✔✔-Decisive
(gaining and accomplishing current ops)
-Shaping (prepping for future ops)
-Sustaining (maintaining current ops)
✔✔What is included in the Scheme of Maneuver - ✔✔Scheme of:
-Recon/Surveillance
-obscuration (smoke)
-mobility/counter mobility
-intelligence
-fires
-protection
-stability ops
-assessment
✔✔What are CCIRs - ✔✔Commanders Critical Information Requirements
-the stuff you'd wake the commander up to tell them
-"what do I need to know to win"
✔✔What is in the Sustainment Paragraph - ✔✔Logistics (done by S4)
-maintenance
-supply
-distribution
Personnel (done by S1)
-strength maintenance
-finance, religious, and legal support
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Composition of Sustainment Brigade - ✔✔3-7 battalions that can be tailored to the
mission. Includes following battalions:
Transpo
Petroleum
Special Troops (HQ, Signal Company)
Combat Sustainment Support
✔✔Who leads a Squad - ✔✔Squad Leader (SSG or SGT)
*can be composed of Fire Teams
✔✔Who is in a PLT HQ? - ✔✔PL, PSG, RTO, medic
✔✔How many PLTs in a Company - ✔✔3-5
✔✔Who leads a Company - ✔✔CPT or 1LT, as a Commander
✔✔Who is in charge of the Staff - ✔✔XO
✔✔How is an OPORD made - ✔✔Each staff section does their part of the order, guided
by the Commanders Intent
✔✔Define Mission Command - ✔✔the exercise of authority and direction by the
commander using mission orders to enable disciplined initiative within the commander's
intent to empower agile and adaptive leaders in the conduct of unified land operations
✔✔Plans and Orders - ✔✔Focus subordinates' activities
Provide tasks and activities, constraints, and coordinating instructions
Encourage agility, speed, and initiative
,Convey instructions in a standard, recognizable, clear, and simple format
✔✔What are the types of Combat orders - ✔✔Strategic plans: cover the overall conduct
of a war
Operational or campaign plans: cover a series of related military operations aimed at
accomplishing a strategic or operational objective
Tactical plans: cover the employment of units in operations
✔✔When does the OPLAN become the OPORD - ✔✔when the commander sets an
execution time
✔✔What are the 3 types of orders - ✔✔OPORD -directive from CDR to coordinate
execution of an operation. 5 paragraph format
WARNO- preliminary notice of a mission, issued as soon as mission is received
FRAGO- timely changes to existing orders, follows 5 paragraphs
✔✔What are the 5 paragraphs of the OPORD - ✔✔Situation
Mission
Execution
Sustainment
Command and signal
✔✔What is included in the Situation paragraph - ✔✔Area of Interest
Area of Operations
-Terrain
-Weather
-Enemy Forces
-Friendly Forces (includes mission and intent 1 and 2 levels up AND missions of
adjacent units)
-Civil considerations
-Other agency
-Attachments and Detachments
-Assumptions
Done by S2
✔✔What is included in the Mission paragraph - ✔✔CLEARLY STATES TASK AND
PURPOSE
Who
What
Where
When
, Why
✔✔What is included in the Execution Paragraph - ✔✔-THE COMMANDERS INTENT
-Key Tasks
-End State
-Concept of Operations (written in phases, broken into Decisive, Shaping, and
Sustaining lines)
-Scheme of Maneuver
-Tasks to Subordinate Units
-Coordinating Instructions (includes timeline, CCIRs, EEFI, fire support and aerospace
coordination, ROE, Risk reduction)
✔✔What is the Commanders Intent - ✔✔states the commanders KEY TASKS,
PURPOSE, and END STATE
gives the subordinate leader their left and right limits for Mission Command
✔✔What are the parts of each Phase in the Concept of Operations - ✔✔-Decisive
(gaining and accomplishing current ops)
-Shaping (prepping for future ops)
-Sustaining (maintaining current ops)
✔✔What is included in the Scheme of Maneuver - ✔✔Scheme of:
-Recon/Surveillance
-obscuration (smoke)
-mobility/counter mobility
-intelligence
-fires
-protection
-stability ops
-assessment
✔✔What are CCIRs - ✔✔Commanders Critical Information Requirements
-the stuff you'd wake the commander up to tell them
-"what do I need to know to win"
✔✔What is in the Sustainment Paragraph - ✔✔Logistics (done by S4)
-maintenance
-supply
-distribution
Personnel (done by S1)
-strength maintenance
-finance, religious, and legal support
