AIR ASSAULT PHASE 1 STUDY GUIDE 2026 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Dash before dots - ✔✔when referring to army and military regulations
✔✔CH-47 medic to casualty ratio? - ✔✔6 to 1
✔✔Normal MEDEVAC configuration for CH-47? - ✔✔16 ambulatory and 12 litter
✔✔CH-47 is an armed escort required for MEDEVAC missions? - ✔✔yes
✔✔What are the two methods of casualty extraction? - ✔✔sit down method
hoist method
✔✔What is the memory aid for the 9 line medevac request? - ✔✔low flying pilots eat
tacos some may nibble chalupas
✔✔What are the lines of the 9 line medevac? - ✔✔1. location
2. freq
3. patient precedence
4. equipment needed
5. number of patients by type
6, security
7. method of marking
8. casualty nationality and status
9. CBRN
✔✔What two lines are different during peace time? - ✔✔6 and 9
✔✔define Air assault operation - ✔✔engage enemy forces or seize and hold key terrain
✔✔Air movement operation - define - ✔✔operations other than air assault
✔✔What are the command levels of an air assault operation? - ✔✔Division has assets
Battalion has plan/coordinate
Company can execute mission
✔✔AATF - ✔✔air assault task force
✔✔What are some capabilities of an air assault operation? - ✔✔attack enemy positions
from any direction
✔✔What are some limitations of an air assault operation? - ✔✔adverse weather
high fuel and ammunition consumption rates
, ✔✔define air mission brief? (AMB) - ✔✔last face to face meeting of key personnel
involved in the air assault operation
✔✔What are the five stages of reverse planning? - ✔✔Ground tactical plan
Landing plan
Air movement plan
Loading plan
Staging plan
✔✔What are the three terrain flight modes? - ✔✔Nap of the earth
contour
low level
✔✔What is tactical cross loading? - ✔✔loads so key personnel are not on the same
aircraft
✔✔define chalk - ✔✔personnel and equipment designated to be moved by a specific
aircraft
✔✔define serial - ✔✔2 or more a/c seperated by other tactical groupings within the lift
by time or space
✔✔define H-Hour - ✔✔when the first a/c of the first lift touches down on the LZ
✔✔time from PZ to SP, and time from RP to LZ - ✔✔2 mins
✔✔What does WALT stand for? - ✔✔Wave off
Assume guidance
Land
Take off
✔✔TC 3-21.6 cover?? - ✔✔Visual Signals (hand and arm signals)
✔✔define AACFF - ✔✔army attack aviation call for fire
✔✔ATP 3-04.1 - ✔✔Aviation Tactical employment
✔✔ATP 3-09.32 - ✔✔Joint application of firepower
✔✔army attack aviation call for fire 5 line - ✔✔observer and warning order
friendly location and mark
target location
taget description and mark
AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Dash before dots - ✔✔when referring to army and military regulations
✔✔CH-47 medic to casualty ratio? - ✔✔6 to 1
✔✔Normal MEDEVAC configuration for CH-47? - ✔✔16 ambulatory and 12 litter
✔✔CH-47 is an armed escort required for MEDEVAC missions? - ✔✔yes
✔✔What are the two methods of casualty extraction? - ✔✔sit down method
hoist method
✔✔What is the memory aid for the 9 line medevac request? - ✔✔low flying pilots eat
tacos some may nibble chalupas
✔✔What are the lines of the 9 line medevac? - ✔✔1. location
2. freq
3. patient precedence
4. equipment needed
5. number of patients by type
6, security
7. method of marking
8. casualty nationality and status
9. CBRN
✔✔What two lines are different during peace time? - ✔✔6 and 9
✔✔define Air assault operation - ✔✔engage enemy forces or seize and hold key terrain
✔✔Air movement operation - define - ✔✔operations other than air assault
✔✔What are the command levels of an air assault operation? - ✔✔Division has assets
Battalion has plan/coordinate
Company can execute mission
✔✔AATF - ✔✔air assault task force
✔✔What are some capabilities of an air assault operation? - ✔✔attack enemy positions
from any direction
✔✔What are some limitations of an air assault operation? - ✔✔adverse weather
high fuel and ammunition consumption rates
, ✔✔define air mission brief? (AMB) - ✔✔last face to face meeting of key personnel
involved in the air assault operation
✔✔What are the five stages of reverse planning? - ✔✔Ground tactical plan
Landing plan
Air movement plan
Loading plan
Staging plan
✔✔What are the three terrain flight modes? - ✔✔Nap of the earth
contour
low level
✔✔What is tactical cross loading? - ✔✔loads so key personnel are not on the same
aircraft
✔✔define chalk - ✔✔personnel and equipment designated to be moved by a specific
aircraft
✔✔define serial - ✔✔2 or more a/c seperated by other tactical groupings within the lift
by time or space
✔✔define H-Hour - ✔✔when the first a/c of the first lift touches down on the LZ
✔✔time from PZ to SP, and time from RP to LZ - ✔✔2 mins
✔✔What does WALT stand for? - ✔✔Wave off
Assume guidance
Land
Take off
✔✔TC 3-21.6 cover?? - ✔✔Visual Signals (hand and arm signals)
✔✔define AACFF - ✔✔army attack aviation call for fire
✔✔ATP 3-04.1 - ✔✔Aviation Tactical employment
✔✔ATP 3-09.32 - ✔✔Joint application of firepower
✔✔army attack aviation call for fire 5 line - ✔✔observer and warning order
friendly location and mark
target location
taget description and mark
