Fist Cert Skill Level 1

What are the five requirements for achieving accurate first-round fire for effect - answer-- Accurate TGT Location and size - Accurate firing unit location - Accurate weapon/ ammo information - Accurate meteorological information - Accurate computational procedures (3-09.30, CHP 2) As an observer, which of the five requirements for achieving accurate first-round fire for effect are you solely responsible for? - answer-Accurate tgt location and size TRUE/ FAlSE: The observer serves as the eyes of the indirect fire systems and the FDC serves as the "brain" of the system - answer-TRUE (3-09.30, 1-1) What and its elements integrate the fires warfighting function into operations? - answer-Fires cell (3-09.30, 1-1) What asset provides the commander flexibility, range, speed, lethality, precision, and the ability to mass fires at a desired time and place - answer-Fixed-wing aircraft (3-09.20, 1-9) _______is executed in support of friendly forces in close enemy contact (i.e., close combat attack) or against enemy forces out of contact with friendly forces - answer-Army Attack Aviation (3-09.30, 1-10) Which branch of service employs it's attack rotary wing aviation primarily as a CAS platform? - answer-Marine Corps (3-09.30, 1-10) TRUE/ FALSE: Army Attack Avation can perform CAS in support of another component - answer-TRUE (3-09.30, 1-10) _____ can support or conduct close combat attack, CAS, strike coordination, and reconnaissance, AI, and other joint fires missions - answer-Unmanned Aircraft (3-09.30, 1-10) ______ normally produces the specific effect on a target with minimum expenditure of ammunition. It also reduces our vulnerability to adversary target acquistion - answer-Massing Fires (3-09.30, 1-14) Failure to select proper shell fuze combinations may result in what? - answer--Undesired effects on target - reduction in desired effects on target - excessive expenditure of ammunition (3-09.30, 1-15) Aside from tactical considerations, the selection of targets, munitions, and techniques of fire must comply with what? - answer-- Law of war - Geneva and Hague Conventions (3-09.30, 1-16) Observers equipped with nothing more than a map, binoculars, and compass typically have a mean target location error of about how many meters - answer-250 Who is in charge of the FIST and also the principal fire support advisor to the commander when attached to or supporting a company or troop - answer-Company/ Troop FSO (3-09.30, 2-20) The _____ has the responsibility to integrate fire support with the scheme of maneuver and provides the commander's intent for an operation and issues guidance, including guidance for fire support. The ___ translates the guidance into fire support tasks. - answer-Maneuver commander/ FSO (3-09.30, 2-22) What is a Target? - answer-- An entity or object that performs a function for the adversary considered for possible engagement or other action - A country, area, installation, agency, or person against which intelligence operations are directed - An area designated and numbered for future firing - An impact burst that hits the target (3-09.20, 1-26) What is a target that is identified too late, or not selected for action in time, to be included in deliberate targeting that, when detected or located, meets criteria specific to achieving objectives and is processed using dynamic targeting - answer-Target of opportunity (3-09.30, 1-27) A ____ is a target that is known to exist in the operational environment, upon which actions are planned, using deliberate targeting, creating effects which support commander's objectives - answer-Planned Target (3-09.30, 1-29) A ___ is a planned target upon which fores or other actions are scheduled for prosecution at a specified time. - answer-Scheduled Target A_____ is a planned target upon which fires or other actions are determined using deliberate targeting and triggered, when detected or located, using dynamic targeting. - answer-On-call Target A ___ is a target, based on either time or importance on which the delivery of fires takes precedence over all the fires for the designated firing unit or element. - answer-Priority Target What is an immediately available prearranged barrier of fire designed to impede enemy movement defensive lines? - answer-FPF (3-09.30) When planning an FPF, what is the approximate length and width in meters for an FPF fired with 4 tubes of 120mm Mortars - answer-300/ 75 (3-09.30, 1-8) When planning an FPF, what is the approximate length and width in meters for an FPF fired with 8 guns of 155mm Howitzers? - answer-400/75 (3-09.30, 1-8) What is the DA form used for the Target List Worksheet? - answer-DA Form 4655 Using target number AA100 With an altitude of 420m and a target description of eny dismounts, properly label the point target below - answer-Im not paying to place images into a damn quizlet, check your .30 1-9 Using target number AA1005, properly label the linear target below - answer-Im not paying to place images into a damn quizlet, check your .30 1-9 Using target number AA1010, properly label the rectangular target below - answer-Im not paying to place images into a damn quizlet, check your .30 1-9 Using the target number AA1015, properly label the circualr target below - answer-Im not paying to place images into a damn quizlet, check your .30 1-9 Using target number AA1020, C battery, 2-15 FA, a 155mm Howitzer battery, properly label the FPF below - answer-Im not paying to place images into a damn quizlet, check your .30 1-9 A ____ consists of two or more targets on which. fire is dsesired simultaneously - answer-Group of Targets (3-09.30, 1-11) A _____ is a number of targets and/or group(S) of targets planned to be fired in a predetermined sequence to support a maneuver operation - answer-Series of Targets (3-09.30, 1-12) A ____ consists of a number of planned targets of a similar nature that are planned for sequential attack - answer-Program of Targets (3-09.30, 1-12) What field artillery term is organic to each maneuver battalion and selected units to plan and coordinate all avaible company supporting fires - answer-Fire Support Team (3-09.30, 2-1) Fire support planning is intergrated through targeting and the running estomate. It includes developint intergrated fire plans using what - answer-Target lists, Final protective fires, Fire support execution matrix, Scheme of fires, and overlays (3-09.30, CHP 2) ______ is the planning and executing of fires so that. targets are adequately covered by a suitable weapon or group of weapons - answer-Fire support coordination ______ can be condicted at any place and time friendkly forces are in close proximity to enemy forces - answer-Close air support Occupying an observation post using SLOCTOP: identify the item that is not part of L-location - answer-Selct a position on the highest terrain in order to quickly detect enemy forces (3-09.30, 2-13) Occupying an. observation post using SLOCTOP: what is the number one priority for the team? - answer-Communication (3-09.30, 2-13) Occupying an observation using SLOCTOP; identify the item that is not part of T-targeting - answer-Refine company/troop targets and those assigned by higher headquarters (3-09.30) TRUE/FALSE: Occupying an observation post using SLOCTOP; during O- observation ensure all team memvers are proficeint in friendly or adversary forces recongition - answer-TRUE (3-09.30, 2-14) Occupying an observation post using SLOCTOP; what does P stand for? - answer-Position improvement (3-09.30, 2-14) What should be used as the primary means to determine the targets location - answer-Precision taret location equipment (3-09.30, 3-1) An observer must be able to self-locate to within ____ meters or ____ meters if degraded by lack of position locating systems or other navigational aids - answer-10 or 100 (3-09.30, 2-13) Azimuth is a horizontal angle measured clockwise from north base line that could be- - answer-True north, Grid north, or Magnetic north (3-09.30, 3-3) What is the interior angle formed at the target by the intersection of the observer-target and the gun-target lines with its vertex at the target? - answer-Angle T (3-09.30, 3-5) If angle T is 500 mils or greater and the observer is getting more of a correction than asked for, what should the observer consider doing? - answer-Cut the corrections (3-09.30, 3-5) The M22/M24 binocular reticle pattern is divided into increments of _______ with shorter hash marks at _________ increments. - answer-10 mils and 5 mils (3-09.30, 3-6) TRUE/ FALSE: hand measurements of angular deviation are the smae for all observers - answer-False (3-09.30, 3-7) Using the declinated M2 or a lensatic compass on a tripod or other stable platfrom, the observer can measure direction to an accuracy of how many Mils? How far awat should observers move away from vehicles to avoid incorrect readings? - answer-10 mils and 50 meters (3-09.30, 3-7) What direction will observers convert thier direction for the CFF request unless otherqise stated? - answer-Grid (3-09.30, 3-7) Using a protractor, the observer can scale direction from a map to an accuracy of how many mils?