TBS EXAM 3 Questions and Graded Answers.
Criteria to consider when selecting a formation for movement - Speed, Security, Control,
Deployability
3 levels of expected enemy contact - Contact Remote, Possible, and Imminent
Alternatives to Physical Leaders Recon - Map Recon, CoC Coordination, Intel
Classifications of Machine Gun Fire - Dead Space, Danger Space, Plunging Fire, Grazing
Fire, Flanking Fire, Frontal Fire, Oblique Fire, Enfilade Fire, Fixed, Traversing, Searching,
Traversing and Searching, Swinging Traverse, Free Gun.
Eight Principles of Machine Gun Employment - PICMDEEP. Pairs, Interlocking Fires,
Coordination of Fires, Mutual Support, Defilade, Enfilade, Economy, Protection
Machine Gun Fighting Positions - Primary, Alternate, Supplemental, L-Shape Fighting
Position, T-Shaped Fighting Position, Horse-Shoe Fighting Position, Two Hole Fighting Position
Support Relationships - General, Direct, Attached
Classification of Fires - Close Supporting Fire, Long Range Fires, Flank Protection Fires,
Fires in Support of Consolidation
Machine Gun Required Planning Considerations - Method-Echelon and Unit Objective
Route Time
Machine Gun Defensive Considerations - Principle Direction of Fire, Final Protective
Line, Individual Weapons Considerations, Offensive Considerations
Criteria to consider when selecting a formation for movement - Speed, Security, Control,
Deployability
3 levels of expected enemy contact - Contact Remote, Possible, and Imminent
Alternatives to Physical Leaders Recon - Map Recon, CoC Coordination, Intel
Classifications of Machine Gun Fire - Dead Space, Danger Space, Plunging Fire, Grazing
Fire, Flanking Fire, Frontal Fire, Oblique Fire, Enfilade Fire, Fixed, Traversing, Searching,
Traversing and Searching, Swinging Traverse, Free Gun.
Eight Principles of Machine Gun Employment - PICMDEEP. Pairs, Interlocking Fires,
Coordination of Fires, Mutual Support, Defilade, Enfilade, Economy, Protection
Machine Gun Fighting Positions - Primary, Alternate, Supplemental, L-Shape Fighting
Position, T-Shaped Fighting Position, Horse-Shoe Fighting Position, Two Hole Fighting Position
Support Relationships - General, Direct, Attached
Classification of Fires - Close Supporting Fire, Long Range Fires, Flank Protection Fires,
Fires in Support of Consolidation
Machine Gun Required Planning Considerations - Method-Echelon and Unit Objective
Route Time
Machine Gun Defensive Considerations - Principle Direction of Fire, Final Protective
Line, Individual Weapons Considerations, Offensive Considerations
