CAVALRY LEADER COURSE – FINAL EXAM (NEW! 2025-2026
UPDATE) COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
ANSWERS 100% CORRECT A GRADE
Reconnaissance and Security Operations -ANSWER-conducted in order to enable the
Commander to make timely decisions to achieve positions of relative advantage by
answering CCIR (PIR and FFIR)
CCIR (Commander's Critical Information Requirements) -ANSWER-information requirement
identified by the commander as being critical to facilitating timely decision making
Reconnaissance operations allow commanders to understand the situation, visualize the
battle, and make decisions. Security operations provide reaction time and maneuver space
to enable decisions and protect the force from unanticipated danger. Reconnaissance and
security tasks answer commanders' critical information requirements (CCIR), mitigate risk,
identify enemy weakness, and isolate the enemy from sources of strength -ANSWER-What is
the purpose of reconnaissance and security operations?
PIR (Priority Intelligence Requirements) and FFIR (Friendly Force Information Requirements);
PIR (Priority Intelligence Requirements)-->EEI (Essential Elements of Information)--
>Indicators-->SIR (Specific Information Requirement) -ANSWER-What are the components of
CCIR?
PIR (Priority Intelligence Requirements) -ANSWER-an intelligence requirement, stated as a
priority for reconnaissance and security tasks and intelligence collection, that the
commander needs to understand about a threat, enemy, or adversary or about the
operational environment
FFIR (Friendly Force Information Requirements) -ANSWER-information the commander and
staff need to understand the status of friendly force and supporting capabilities; identify the
information about the mission, troops, and support available, and time available for friendly
forces that the commander considers most important
, EEI (Essential Elements of Information) -ANSWER-further refine PIR into areas where
information can be collected by collection assets
Indicator -ANSWER-positive or negative evidence of threat activity or any characteristic of
the AO that points toward threat vulnerabilities, the adoption or rejection by the threat of a
particular activity, or which may influence the friendly Commander's selection of COA
SIR (Specific Information Requirement) -ANSWER-facilitate tasking by matching
requirements to asset capability
DP (Decision Point) -ANSWER-point in space and time when the commander or staff
anticipates making a key decision concerning a specific course of action
PIR (IF) + FFIR (AND) = DP (THEN) -ANSWER-What equation makes up the Decision Support
Matrix?
- Ensure continuous reconnaissance
- Do not keep reconnaissance assets in reserve
- Orient on reconnaissance objectives
- Report all information rapidly and accurately
- Retain freedom of maneuver
- Gain and maintain enemy contact
- Develop the situation rapidly
(RREDDOG) -ANSWER-Fundamentals of Reconnaissance
- Zone
- Area
- Route
- Reconnaissance in Force
- Special Reconnaissance -ANSWER-Forms of Reconnaissance
UPDATE) COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
ANSWERS 100% CORRECT A GRADE
Reconnaissance and Security Operations -ANSWER-conducted in order to enable the
Commander to make timely decisions to achieve positions of relative advantage by
answering CCIR (PIR and FFIR)
CCIR (Commander's Critical Information Requirements) -ANSWER-information requirement
identified by the commander as being critical to facilitating timely decision making
Reconnaissance operations allow commanders to understand the situation, visualize the
battle, and make decisions. Security operations provide reaction time and maneuver space
to enable decisions and protect the force from unanticipated danger. Reconnaissance and
security tasks answer commanders' critical information requirements (CCIR), mitigate risk,
identify enemy weakness, and isolate the enemy from sources of strength -ANSWER-What is
the purpose of reconnaissance and security operations?
PIR (Priority Intelligence Requirements) and FFIR (Friendly Force Information Requirements);
PIR (Priority Intelligence Requirements)-->EEI (Essential Elements of Information)--
>Indicators-->SIR (Specific Information Requirement) -ANSWER-What are the components of
CCIR?
PIR (Priority Intelligence Requirements) -ANSWER-an intelligence requirement, stated as a
priority for reconnaissance and security tasks and intelligence collection, that the
commander needs to understand about a threat, enemy, or adversary or about the
operational environment
FFIR (Friendly Force Information Requirements) -ANSWER-information the commander and
staff need to understand the status of friendly force and supporting capabilities; identify the
information about the mission, troops, and support available, and time available for friendly
forces that the commander considers most important
, EEI (Essential Elements of Information) -ANSWER-further refine PIR into areas where
information can be collected by collection assets
Indicator -ANSWER-positive or negative evidence of threat activity or any characteristic of
the AO that points toward threat vulnerabilities, the adoption or rejection by the threat of a
particular activity, or which may influence the friendly Commander's selection of COA
SIR (Specific Information Requirement) -ANSWER-facilitate tasking by matching
requirements to asset capability
DP (Decision Point) -ANSWER-point in space and time when the commander or staff
anticipates making a key decision concerning a specific course of action
PIR (IF) + FFIR (AND) = DP (THEN) -ANSWER-What equation makes up the Decision Support
Matrix?
- Ensure continuous reconnaissance
- Do not keep reconnaissance assets in reserve
- Orient on reconnaissance objectives
- Report all information rapidly and accurately
- Retain freedom of maneuver
- Gain and maintain enemy contact
- Develop the situation rapidly
(RREDDOG) -ANSWER-Fundamentals of Reconnaissance
- Zone
- Area
- Route
- Reconnaissance in Force
- Special Reconnaissance -ANSWER-Forms of Reconnaissance
