TACOPS MP BOLC FINAL PAPER 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔What is Area Defense? - ✔✔Denying ENY forces access to designated terrain for a
specific time rather than destroying the enemy outright
✔✔What are the forms of Defense? (3) - ✔✔- Area
- Mobile
- Retrograde
✔✔What is a Defile used for? - ✔✔- Control Movement
✔✔What do you use a Traffic Holding Area (THA) for when establishing a defile? - ✔✔-
Maximize Traffic flow w/ minimum control
- Too much congestion and prioritization of vehicles
✔✔Considerations when picking traffic holding area? - ✔✔- Location
✔✔What must a leader do when selecting a dismount point? - ✔✔- Ensure ppl are
using noise and light discipline
- Establish priorities of work
- Establish Security
✔✔Definition of TCP? - ✔✔- Point where there are 2 converging MSRs where MPs set
up traffic control measures.
✔✔What is a roadblock? - ✔✔- Point used to stop or limit freedom of movement into an
area
✔✔What do we create as we are waiting to let someone through a TCP? - ✔✔Holding
Area that is secure
✔✔What do MPs do when dealing with dislocated civilians? - ✔✔- Direct them to an
alternate route
✔✔What is the best location to find stragglers? (2) - ✔✔- TCPs
- Patrols
✔✔What do TCPs include? - ✔✔- Traffic Control Plans w/ Speed Limit Signage Posted
✔✔Defiles do what? - ✔✔- Create. flow one way or another
✔✔Who prepares the TCP plan? - ✔✔- Highway Traffic Section (HTS)
, ✔✔What to consider when building a holding area? - ✔✔- Cover and concealment
- Defendable
- Easy access to and from MSR
- Disperse vehicles
✔✔Holding area can be independent or used to support other operations as long as
they have? - ✔✔- Proper signage if Independent
✔✔What are Natural Disaster Stability Tasks? (5) - ✔✔- Establish Civil Security (Peace
Agreements)
- Establish Civil Control
- Restore Essential Services
- Provide support to Governance
- Provide support to economic and infrastructure development
✔✔What Operations are TCPs used for? (3) - ✔✔- Gap Crossings
- Straggler Control
- MSR Regulation
✔✔What is an Overlay used for? - ✔✔- Depict military and Friendly troop disposition
✔✔Steps to Building Overlay (3) - ✔✔- Orient Overlay material
- Plot and Symbolize the Detail
- Add required marginal info
✔✔What do you need to do to make your own overlay symbol? - ✔✔- Add it to the
legend
✔✔Assembly area is? - ✔✔Area a unit occupies to prepare for an operation
✔✔What is the Battle Handover Line? - ✔✔A designated areas where responsibility is
transferred.
✔✔Definition of Battle Handover? - ✔✔Operation to sustain continuity in the fight
✔✔Who establishes the Battle Handover Line? - ✔✔- The Controlling Commander
✔✔In what type of passage of line does MP unit remain stationary? - ✔✔- Forward
passage of Lines
✔✔The leader is responsible for what in Urban environments? - ✔✔- Local Security
✔✔What are you trying to control in an urban environment? - ✔✔- Only the essentials
(Key Terrain)
WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔What is Area Defense? - ✔✔Denying ENY forces access to designated terrain for a
specific time rather than destroying the enemy outright
✔✔What are the forms of Defense? (3) - ✔✔- Area
- Mobile
- Retrograde
✔✔What is a Defile used for? - ✔✔- Control Movement
✔✔What do you use a Traffic Holding Area (THA) for when establishing a defile? - ✔✔-
Maximize Traffic flow w/ minimum control
- Too much congestion and prioritization of vehicles
✔✔Considerations when picking traffic holding area? - ✔✔- Location
✔✔What must a leader do when selecting a dismount point? - ✔✔- Ensure ppl are
using noise and light discipline
- Establish priorities of work
- Establish Security
✔✔Definition of TCP? - ✔✔- Point where there are 2 converging MSRs where MPs set
up traffic control measures.
✔✔What is a roadblock? - ✔✔- Point used to stop or limit freedom of movement into an
area
✔✔What do we create as we are waiting to let someone through a TCP? - ✔✔Holding
Area that is secure
✔✔What do MPs do when dealing with dislocated civilians? - ✔✔- Direct them to an
alternate route
✔✔What is the best location to find stragglers? (2) - ✔✔- TCPs
- Patrols
✔✔What do TCPs include? - ✔✔- Traffic Control Plans w/ Speed Limit Signage Posted
✔✔Defiles do what? - ✔✔- Create. flow one way or another
✔✔Who prepares the TCP plan? - ✔✔- Highway Traffic Section (HTS)
, ✔✔What to consider when building a holding area? - ✔✔- Cover and concealment
- Defendable
- Easy access to and from MSR
- Disperse vehicles
✔✔Holding area can be independent or used to support other operations as long as
they have? - ✔✔- Proper signage if Independent
✔✔What are Natural Disaster Stability Tasks? (5) - ✔✔- Establish Civil Security (Peace
Agreements)
- Establish Civil Control
- Restore Essential Services
- Provide support to Governance
- Provide support to economic and infrastructure development
✔✔What Operations are TCPs used for? (3) - ✔✔- Gap Crossings
- Straggler Control
- MSR Regulation
✔✔What is an Overlay used for? - ✔✔- Depict military and Friendly troop disposition
✔✔Steps to Building Overlay (3) - ✔✔- Orient Overlay material
- Plot and Symbolize the Detail
- Add required marginal info
✔✔What do you need to do to make your own overlay symbol? - ✔✔- Add it to the
legend
✔✔Assembly area is? - ✔✔Area a unit occupies to prepare for an operation
✔✔What is the Battle Handover Line? - ✔✔A designated areas where responsibility is
transferred.
✔✔Definition of Battle Handover? - ✔✔Operation to sustain continuity in the fight
✔✔Who establishes the Battle Handover Line? - ✔✔- The Controlling Commander
✔✔In what type of passage of line does MP unit remain stationary? - ✔✔- Forward
passage of Lines
✔✔The leader is responsible for what in Urban environments? - ✔✔- Local Security
✔✔What are you trying to control in an urban environment? - ✔✔- Only the essentials
(Key Terrain)
