IBOLC FINAL EXAM ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
GRADED A+
✔✔Four Goals of Analyzing Relative combat power - ✔✔ID an ENY weakness to exploit
ID friendly strengths to exploit the enemy weakness
ID enemy strengths to mitigate
ID friendly weaknesses to protect
✔✔What does a COA statement identify? - ✔✔The DP and what makes it decisive
Form of Maneuver or type of defensive mission
Tasks and Purposes of the decisive, shaping and sustaining operations
Reserve planning priorities
Purposes of critical war-fighting function element
The end state
✔✔COA must be - ✔✔Suitable
Acceptable
Distinguishable
Complete
Feasible
✔✔STEP 3 COA Analysis - ✔✔War game- action-reaction-counteraction
Methods:
Box
Belt
Avenues in Depth
✔✔STEP 8 of TLPs involves what things? - ✔✔Confirmation Briefs
Back-briefs
Rehersals
PCC 1 up = check equipment
PCC-2 level up = company, mission
✔✔Rehearsal methods - ✔✔Full dress rehearsal
Reduced force rehearsal
Terrain-Model
Digital Terrain Model
Sketch Map Rehearsal
Map Rehearsal
Network Rehearsal
✔✔Envelopment - ✔✔Envelopments avoid the enemy front, where he is protected and
can easily concentrate fires. Single envelopments maneuver against one enemy flank;
double envelopments maneuver against both. Either variant can develop into an
encirclement.
, ✔✔Turning movement - ✔✔A turning movement is a form of maneuver in which the
attacking force seeks to avoid the enemy's principal defensive positions by seizing
objectives to the enemy rear and causing the enemy to move out of his current positions
or divert major forces to meet the threat
✔✔Infiltration - ✔✔An infiltration is a form of maneuver in which an attacking force
conducts undetected movement through or into an area occupied by enemy forces to
occupy a position of advantage in the enemy rear while exposing only small elements to
enemy defensive fires
✔✔Penetration - ✔✔Commanders direct penetrations when enemy flanks are not
assailable or time does not permit another form of maneuver. Successful penetrations
create assailable flanks and provide access to enemy rear areas. Because penetrations
frequently are directed into the front of the enemy defense, they risk significantly more
friendly casualties than envelopments, turning movements, and infiltrations.
✔✔Frontal Attack - ✔✔At the tactical level, an attacking force can use a frontal attack to
rapidly overrun a weaker enemy force. A frontal attack strikes the enemy across a wide
front and over the most direct approaches. Commanders normally use it when they
possess overwhelming combat power and the enemy is at a clear disadvantage.
Commanders mass the effects of direct and indirect fires, shifting indirect and aerial
fires just before the assault. Success depends on achieving an advantage in combat
power throughout the attack.
✔✔M249 - ✔✔Manual: FM 3-22.68
5.56-mm gas operated, automatic weapon
16.41 pounds
Tripod: 16 lbs
Length 104cm
✔✔M249 Rates of fire - ✔✔Sustained: 50RPM, 6-9 rounds, 4-5 sec, 10min
Rapid: 100 RPM, 6-9 rounds, 2-3 sec, 2 min
Cyclic: 850 RPM in continuous burst, 1 min
✔✔M240 - ✔✔FM 3-22.68
7.62 mm gas operated medium machine gun
27.6 lbs
20 pound tripod
110.5cm
✔✔M240 rates of fire - ✔✔Sustained: 100 RPM, 6-9 rds, 4-5 sec, 10 minutes
Rapid: 200 RPM 10-13rds, 2-3 sec, 2 minutes
Cyclic 650-950 RPM, continuous burst, 1 minute
GRADED A+
✔✔Four Goals of Analyzing Relative combat power - ✔✔ID an ENY weakness to exploit
ID friendly strengths to exploit the enemy weakness
ID enemy strengths to mitigate
ID friendly weaknesses to protect
✔✔What does a COA statement identify? - ✔✔The DP and what makes it decisive
Form of Maneuver or type of defensive mission
Tasks and Purposes of the decisive, shaping and sustaining operations
Reserve planning priorities
Purposes of critical war-fighting function element
The end state
✔✔COA must be - ✔✔Suitable
Acceptable
Distinguishable
Complete
Feasible
✔✔STEP 3 COA Analysis - ✔✔War game- action-reaction-counteraction
Methods:
Box
Belt
Avenues in Depth
✔✔STEP 8 of TLPs involves what things? - ✔✔Confirmation Briefs
Back-briefs
Rehersals
PCC 1 up = check equipment
PCC-2 level up = company, mission
✔✔Rehearsal methods - ✔✔Full dress rehearsal
Reduced force rehearsal
Terrain-Model
Digital Terrain Model
Sketch Map Rehearsal
Map Rehearsal
Network Rehearsal
✔✔Envelopment - ✔✔Envelopments avoid the enemy front, where he is protected and
can easily concentrate fires. Single envelopments maneuver against one enemy flank;
double envelopments maneuver against both. Either variant can develop into an
encirclement.
, ✔✔Turning movement - ✔✔A turning movement is a form of maneuver in which the
attacking force seeks to avoid the enemy's principal defensive positions by seizing
objectives to the enemy rear and causing the enemy to move out of his current positions
or divert major forces to meet the threat
✔✔Infiltration - ✔✔An infiltration is a form of maneuver in which an attacking force
conducts undetected movement through or into an area occupied by enemy forces to
occupy a position of advantage in the enemy rear while exposing only small elements to
enemy defensive fires
✔✔Penetration - ✔✔Commanders direct penetrations when enemy flanks are not
assailable or time does not permit another form of maneuver. Successful penetrations
create assailable flanks and provide access to enemy rear areas. Because penetrations
frequently are directed into the front of the enemy defense, they risk significantly more
friendly casualties than envelopments, turning movements, and infiltrations.
✔✔Frontal Attack - ✔✔At the tactical level, an attacking force can use a frontal attack to
rapidly overrun a weaker enemy force. A frontal attack strikes the enemy across a wide
front and over the most direct approaches. Commanders normally use it when they
possess overwhelming combat power and the enemy is at a clear disadvantage.
Commanders mass the effects of direct and indirect fires, shifting indirect and aerial
fires just before the assault. Success depends on achieving an advantage in combat
power throughout the attack.
✔✔M249 - ✔✔Manual: FM 3-22.68
5.56-mm gas operated, automatic weapon
16.41 pounds
Tripod: 16 lbs
Length 104cm
✔✔M249 Rates of fire - ✔✔Sustained: 50RPM, 6-9 rounds, 4-5 sec, 10min
Rapid: 100 RPM, 6-9 rounds, 2-3 sec, 2 min
Cyclic: 850 RPM in continuous burst, 1 min
✔✔M240 - ✔✔FM 3-22.68
7.62 mm gas operated medium machine gun
27.6 lbs
20 pound tripod
110.5cm
✔✔M240 rates of fire - ✔✔Sustained: 100 RPM, 6-9 rds, 4-5 sec, 10 minutes
Rapid: 200 RPM 10-13rds, 2-3 sec, 2 minutes
Cyclic 650-950 RPM, continuous burst, 1 minute
