Defense Operations Mastery Quiz
Defense Operations Mastery Quiz
Test your knowledge on defense operations and tactics with our engaging quiz! This quiz covers essential concepts, control measures, and strategies that are crucial for military personnel involved in defensive operations.
- Understand key principles of fire control measures.
- Learn about machine gun employment and defense maneuvers.
- Assess your tactical knowledge with each question.
A(n) _____ orients on retention of terrain by absorbing the enemy in an interlocking series of positions and destroying him largely by fires.
Area Defense
Mobile Defense
Retrograde
Withdrawal
In the defense, what are the two types of missions that can be given for a machine gun?
Final direction of fire or final protective line
Not possible, a machine gun can only have one mission
Principle direction of fire or final coordination line
Principle direction of fire or final protective line
What allows the commander to visually depict the effects of his engagement area and prevent gaps in his/her fires?
Fire plan sketch
Leader’s recon where TRP’s are marked
LP/OPs and patrols
IDF targets used to cover gaps and dead space
What are four methods a platoon commander utilizes to control his/her fires in the defense?
Trigger line, target reference point, engagement criteria, target precedence
Obstacles, early warning devices, FPF, PDF
FPF, PDF, FSP, TRP
FPF, PICMDEEP, ADDRAC, turning obstacles
In the defense, listening posts/observation posts (LP/OPs) can be used to ___________.
Observe enemy movement and report to the platoon commander.
Call for fire on enemy units.
Identify and prepare supplementary positions while marking TRP’s and direct fire control measures.
Observe enemy movement and report to the platoon commander and call for fire on enemy units.
All of the above.
In the defense, a platoon should never go below _____ security at any time.
25%
50%
75%
100%
Which answer best identifies elements of a comprehensive defensive scheme of maneuver?
Type/Method of Defense, Distribution of Forces, Orientation, Occupation Plan, TCMs, Security Plan.
Distribution of Forces, Form of Maneuver, Direction of Attack, TCMs, and Consolidation.
ORP, Checkpoints, Location of the Defense, Priorities of Work, Security
Preparation, Flexibility, Depth
Combat engineers support offensive and defensive operations over a spectrum of four functional areas. Select the best example of combat engineers in the offense and defense conducting counter-mobility operations.
Improving and maintaining lines of communication and main supply routes. Emplacing obstacles that divide the enemy’s forces just prior to the engagement area.
Using blocking obstacles to deny the enemy access to advancing units’ flanks or rear. Laying an anti-vehicle obstacle belt along a mounted enemy’s likely avenue of approach.
Construction and maintenance of expeditionary airfields. Reinforcing command posts and combat support positions.
Providing bridging equipment to facilitate river crossings. Clearing landing zones for resupply and medical evacuation missions.
Of the following lists, which are fire support control measures?
Attack Position ; Limit of Advance; Probable Line of Deployment
Restricted Firing Line; No Fire Area; Restrictive Fire Area
Assault Position; Assembly Area; Line of Departure
Battle Position ; Checkpoint; Initial Point
What are the two methods of occupying a support by fire position?
Crow’s foot and Bent-L
By stealth and by force
Infiltration and by fire
Covert and overt
What four functions does engineers provide on the battlefield?
Obstacles, Breaching, Defense, Explosives
Mobility, Counter-Mobility, Survivability, General Engineering
Breaching, Minefield Operations, Force Protection, General Engineering
Mobility, Obstacle Plans, Survivability, General Engineering
Which acronym is used to identify the principles of machine gun employment?
MORT
HAW, MAW, LAW
PICMDEEP
ENFILADE
What are the two methods that can be given to machineguns in a MORT statement?
Final protective lines; Principal direction of fire
By unit; Echelon
By stealth; By force
Bent-L method; Crow’s foot
The following is a type of fire control measure for MGs in the offense:
Final protective line
Trigger line
Minimum safe line
Line of departure
What are the breaching fundamentals in order?
Support, Obscure, Secure, Reduce, Attack
Suppress, Obscure, Secure, Reduce, Assault
Suppress, Overwhelm, Support, Reduce Attack
Secure, Obscure, Suppress, Reduce Assault
What are the five essential elements of an offensive scheme of maneuver?
Main Effort, Type of Attack, TCMs, Sequence of Events, and Consolidation Plan.
Commanders Intent, Scheme of Maneuver, FSP, Tasks, and Coordinating Instructions.
Distribution of Forces, Checkpoints, Objective, CASEVAC Plan, and Consolidation.
Distribution of Forces, Form of Maneuver, Direction of Attack, TCMs, and Consolidation.
When loading the PLD, what technique would be used in a night attack to simplify the loading, but could increase difficultly when immediately deploying forces?
Combination of crow’s foot and bent-L
Crow’s foot
Bent-L
None of the above
In defensive operations, which of the following is NOT a way the M18A1 claymore munition is utilized?
As a protective obstacle
Reinforce other obstacles
Disrupt combat formations
Clear minefields and other obstacles
Which of the following are classifications of machinegun fires in relation to the target?
Dead Space, Danger Space, Plunging Fire, Grazing Fire
Fixed, Traversing, Searching, Traversing and Searching, Swinging Traverse, Free Gun
Flanking Fire, Frontal Fire, Oblique Fire, Enfilade Fire
Plunging Fire, Grazing Fire, Flanking Enfilade Fire, Frontal Enfilade Fire
Which fires are the most desirable machine gun class of fire with respect to the target?
Flanking Fire
Frontal Fire
Enfilade Fire
Oblique Fire
__________ are developed to aid MG units in acquiring targets quickly to support a ground SOM?
Minimum safe lines
Target reference points
Principle directions of fire
Final protective lines
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