TACOPS MP BOLC EXAM MANUAL 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Types of bounding - ✔✔- Alternate is bounding in separate positions with the same
sector of fire (leap frog)
- Successive is bounding in proximity of the same position (follow the leader)
Successive is easier to control Alternate is faster
✔✔Raid - ✔✔In support of both Area Security and Maneuver and Mobility Support MPs
conduct patrols to ensure routes remain open; finding and destroying enemy forces.
✔✔4 Ss of Raid - ✔✔- Speed: Quick maneuvering to the target
- Security: Raiding party provides internal security
- Specific Targeting: Only specific targets are captured, only amount of force necessary
to prevent injury to forces is used.
- Safeguard: Target is safeguarded and evacuated away from raid location.
✔✔Level I Threat - ✔✔Enemy controlled agents, enemy sympathizers, terrorists,
demonstrators/rioters.
✔✔TCPs - ✔✔- Manned points where two or more MSRs converge or confusion exists
- Help protect the force at critical locations
- Only when needed
- Prevents interruption of traffic or unit movement along specified route
- Communication links to units using MSR
- Depicted on the traffic control plan and distribution network design
✔✔What missions would you use a TCP for? - ✔✔- Gap crossing
- Breaching operations
- MSR Regulation enforcement
- Straggler control
- Dislocated civilian control
- Garrison law enforcement
✔✔Organic fires to MPs - ✔✔
✔✔TCP Leader Responsibilities - ✔✔Prepare to establish
Select TCP location
Establish the TCP
Operate the TCP
✔✔TCP Planning Considerations - ✔✔- Become familiar with the Reporting and check-
in procedures, Traffic control plan, Length of time the TCP will operate, Grid
coordinates, Terrain in the area, Enemy activity in area of the TCP
- Determine the number of teams available for the mission
, - Determine the number and types of vehicles available for the mission
- Study the maps and overlays to determine the Main supply routes and secondary
roads, Most likely paths of enemy approach, Best defensive location for the TCP Best
terrain features
- Select the specific location for the TCP based on the commander's intent
✔✔Purpose of fire control measures - ✔✔- Maximize weapon effects on target.
- Achieve mutual support.
- Cover assigned area of responsibility.
- Prevent fratricide.
✔✔Level II Threat - ✔✔Guerilla forces, unconventional type forces, small tactical units
(recon elements, intelligence gathering units.)
✔✔Level III Threat - ✔✔Conventional forces capable of projecting combat power rapidly
into an area of operation (airborne, heliborne, and bypassed units)
✔✔How to Prioritize threats/Principles of Fire Control - ✔✔- Mass effects of fire.
- Destroy the greatest threat first.
- Avoid target overkill.
- Employ best weapon for the target.
- Minimize friendly exposure.
- Plan and implement fratricide avoidance measures.
- Plan for extreme limited visibility conditions.
- Plan for diminished capabilities.
✔✔MP assistance with Host Nation Forces: Responsibilities - ✔✔1. Provide a Secure
Environment
2. Secure Land Areas
3. Meet the Critical Needs of the Populace
4. Gain Support for the Host- Nation Government
5. Shape the Environment for Interagency and Host-
✔✔Levels of support in HN Police training - ✔✔- Advising: Takes the least amount of
assistance
- Partnering: Can be as simple as maintenance and HR
- Augmenting: Takes the most amount of resources
✔✔Steps in making an Operational Overlays - ✔✔- Orient the overlay material
- Plot and symbolize the detail
- Add the required marginal information (non-standardized things go in the legend)
✔✔Military symbols - ✔✔
WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Types of bounding - ✔✔- Alternate is bounding in separate positions with the same
sector of fire (leap frog)
- Successive is bounding in proximity of the same position (follow the leader)
Successive is easier to control Alternate is faster
✔✔Raid - ✔✔In support of both Area Security and Maneuver and Mobility Support MPs
conduct patrols to ensure routes remain open; finding and destroying enemy forces.
✔✔4 Ss of Raid - ✔✔- Speed: Quick maneuvering to the target
- Security: Raiding party provides internal security
- Specific Targeting: Only specific targets are captured, only amount of force necessary
to prevent injury to forces is used.
- Safeguard: Target is safeguarded and evacuated away from raid location.
✔✔Level I Threat - ✔✔Enemy controlled agents, enemy sympathizers, terrorists,
demonstrators/rioters.
✔✔TCPs - ✔✔- Manned points where two or more MSRs converge or confusion exists
- Help protect the force at critical locations
- Only when needed
- Prevents interruption of traffic or unit movement along specified route
- Communication links to units using MSR
- Depicted on the traffic control plan and distribution network design
✔✔What missions would you use a TCP for? - ✔✔- Gap crossing
- Breaching operations
- MSR Regulation enforcement
- Straggler control
- Dislocated civilian control
- Garrison law enforcement
✔✔Organic fires to MPs - ✔✔
✔✔TCP Leader Responsibilities - ✔✔Prepare to establish
Select TCP location
Establish the TCP
Operate the TCP
✔✔TCP Planning Considerations - ✔✔- Become familiar with the Reporting and check-
in procedures, Traffic control plan, Length of time the TCP will operate, Grid
coordinates, Terrain in the area, Enemy activity in area of the TCP
- Determine the number of teams available for the mission
, - Determine the number and types of vehicles available for the mission
- Study the maps and overlays to determine the Main supply routes and secondary
roads, Most likely paths of enemy approach, Best defensive location for the TCP Best
terrain features
- Select the specific location for the TCP based on the commander's intent
✔✔Purpose of fire control measures - ✔✔- Maximize weapon effects on target.
- Achieve mutual support.
- Cover assigned area of responsibility.
- Prevent fratricide.
✔✔Level II Threat - ✔✔Guerilla forces, unconventional type forces, small tactical units
(recon elements, intelligence gathering units.)
✔✔Level III Threat - ✔✔Conventional forces capable of projecting combat power rapidly
into an area of operation (airborne, heliborne, and bypassed units)
✔✔How to Prioritize threats/Principles of Fire Control - ✔✔- Mass effects of fire.
- Destroy the greatest threat first.
- Avoid target overkill.
- Employ best weapon for the target.
- Minimize friendly exposure.
- Plan and implement fratricide avoidance measures.
- Plan for extreme limited visibility conditions.
- Plan for diminished capabilities.
✔✔MP assistance with Host Nation Forces: Responsibilities - ✔✔1. Provide a Secure
Environment
2. Secure Land Areas
3. Meet the Critical Needs of the Populace
4. Gain Support for the Host- Nation Government
5. Shape the Environment for Interagency and Host-
✔✔Levels of support in HN Police training - ✔✔- Advising: Takes the least amount of
assistance
- Partnering: Can be as simple as maintenance and HR
- Augmenting: Takes the most amount of resources
✔✔Steps in making an Operational Overlays - ✔✔- Orient the overlay material
- Plot and symbolize the detail
- Add the required marginal information (non-standardized things go in the legend)
✔✔Military symbols - ✔✔
