TBS PHASE 3 ACTUAL FINAL EXAMS QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Types of Attacks - ✔✔Deliberate
Hasty
✔✔Priority of Recon - ✔✔o Confirm location of enemy defense CSW, obstacles and
security.
o Identify the EN CV
o Identify the assault position that will best allow the ME to assault the enemy
o Identify the best support by fire position
o Identify routes and TCM's
✔✔Occupying Support By Fire - ✔✔-Stealth
-Force
✔✔Eight Principles of Machine Gun Employment, PICMDEEP - ✔✔Pairs
Interlocking fires
coordination of fires
Mutual Suport
Defilade
Enfilade
Economy of fires
Protection
✔✔Principal Direction of Fire - ✔✔the weapons primary focus is covering a likely
avenue of approach, key piece of terrain, or whatever object of interest that unit leader
assigns it. Weapon will left and right lateral limits.
✔✔Final Protective Line - ✔✔the weapon is primarily in a position to employ grazing
fires (center of the cone of fire does not pass 1 meter off the deck) across a unit's
frontage as a last effort to defend the lines.
, ✔✔7 Steps of Engagement Area Development - ✔✔1. Identify all likely enemy avenues
of approach
2. Determine likely enemy schemes of maneuver
3. Determine where to kill the enemy
4. Emplace weapon systems
5. Plan and integrate obstacles
6. Plan and integrate indirect fires
7. Conduct EA rehearsals
✔✔Types of Defensive Positions - ✔✔Primary
Supplementary
Alternate
Subsequent
✔✔Primary Positon - ✔✔is the best place to accomplish the assigned mission.
✔✔Alternate Position - ✔✔is where a unit can still accomplish its assigned mission, but
that is occupied when the primary BP becomes either untenable or unsuitable.
✔✔Supplementary Position - ✔✔allows a unit to address unexpected enemy schemes
of maneuver.
✔✔Subsequent Position - ✔✔is a preplanned position to which a unit expects to move
during the course of the defensive battle
✔✔Disrupt - ✔✔breaks up enemy formations
✔✔Protective Obstacles - ✔✔those obstacles employed to protect the defending force
from the enemy's final assault. Close to defensive positions (at least 50 meters away so
that they are out of grenade range), tied in with the FPF, and emplaced by units
normally without the engineers assistance.
✔✔Tactical Obstacles - ✔✔those obstacles that directly affect the enemy's ability to
maneuver. Meant to produce four tactical effects:
Disrupt, Turn, Fix, Block
✔✔Turn - ✔✔Manipulates the enemy's maneuver in a desired direction
✔✔Fix - ✔✔slows the enemy within a specific area
✔✔Direct Support - ✔✔the unit being supported is assigned fires supporting the
platoon. The supported unit assigns the guns a mission and targets; however, tactical
control still remains with the Machine Gun Section Leader.
AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Types of Attacks - ✔✔Deliberate
Hasty
✔✔Priority of Recon - ✔✔o Confirm location of enemy defense CSW, obstacles and
security.
o Identify the EN CV
o Identify the assault position that will best allow the ME to assault the enemy
o Identify the best support by fire position
o Identify routes and TCM's
✔✔Occupying Support By Fire - ✔✔-Stealth
-Force
✔✔Eight Principles of Machine Gun Employment, PICMDEEP - ✔✔Pairs
Interlocking fires
coordination of fires
Mutual Suport
Defilade
Enfilade
Economy of fires
Protection
✔✔Principal Direction of Fire - ✔✔the weapons primary focus is covering a likely
avenue of approach, key piece of terrain, or whatever object of interest that unit leader
assigns it. Weapon will left and right lateral limits.
✔✔Final Protective Line - ✔✔the weapon is primarily in a position to employ grazing
fires (center of the cone of fire does not pass 1 meter off the deck) across a unit's
frontage as a last effort to defend the lines.
, ✔✔7 Steps of Engagement Area Development - ✔✔1. Identify all likely enemy avenues
of approach
2. Determine likely enemy schemes of maneuver
3. Determine where to kill the enemy
4. Emplace weapon systems
5. Plan and integrate obstacles
6. Plan and integrate indirect fires
7. Conduct EA rehearsals
✔✔Types of Defensive Positions - ✔✔Primary
Supplementary
Alternate
Subsequent
✔✔Primary Positon - ✔✔is the best place to accomplish the assigned mission.
✔✔Alternate Position - ✔✔is where a unit can still accomplish its assigned mission, but
that is occupied when the primary BP becomes either untenable or unsuitable.
✔✔Supplementary Position - ✔✔allows a unit to address unexpected enemy schemes
of maneuver.
✔✔Subsequent Position - ✔✔is a preplanned position to which a unit expects to move
during the course of the defensive battle
✔✔Disrupt - ✔✔breaks up enemy formations
✔✔Protective Obstacles - ✔✔those obstacles employed to protect the defending force
from the enemy's final assault. Close to defensive positions (at least 50 meters away so
that they are out of grenade range), tied in with the FPF, and emplaced by units
normally without the engineers assistance.
✔✔Tactical Obstacles - ✔✔those obstacles that directly affect the enemy's ability to
maneuver. Meant to produce four tactical effects:
Disrupt, Turn, Fix, Block
✔✔Turn - ✔✔Manipulates the enemy's maneuver in a desired direction
✔✔Fix - ✔✔slows the enemy within a specific area
✔✔Direct Support - ✔✔the unit being supported is assigned fires supporting the
platoon. The supported unit assigns the guns a mission and targets; however, tactical
control still remains with the Machine Gun Section Leader.
