OIC/RSO RANGE EVALUATION EXAMS 2025/2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Secondary Communication - ✔✔If primary fails a cease fire is in effect until it gets up
-Range specifics are detailed in SOP
-Most likely landline telephones or cell phones
-Are not used for normal exercise communications
✔✔Who needs comms - ✔✔OIC/RSO, gate tower guards
✔✔ AR385-63/MCO 3570.1 - ✔✔establishes ranges safety policies and responsibilities
for firing ammunition, lasers, guided, missiles, and rockets on Marine Corps and Army
ranges.
✔✔DA Pam 385-63 - ✔✔provides implementation guidance for the Marine Corps Range
Safety Program.
✔✔SOP - ✔✔each range or range complex will have its own standard operating
procedure (SOP). The SOP for an installation will have installation -specific instructions
for range safety. You must read the most current Sop for the range that you will be
using.
✔✔USMC Range Safety Pocket Guide - ✔✔The USMC Range Safety Pocket Guide
summarizes the policies and procedures needed to conduct a live-fire event. This
document contains information on surface danger zones (SDZ) setup for weapon
systems. The Pocket Guide also provides the OIC and RSO with a checklist that will
assist them with their most common tasks
✔✔SOUM - ✔✔Safety Of Use Memorandums (SOUM) are how the Range and Training
Area Management (RTAM) Branch provides range safety information and guidance to
the Marine Corps Total Force. This guidance is directive until the SOUM is cancelled,
changed or written into the Range Safety Order.
✔✔RCO - ✔✔Responsible for all range safety matters and provides coordination of
ranges in the installation complex
✔✔OIC - ✔✔Responsible and accountable for conduct of the exercise and ensuring
participants follow safety regulations
✔✔RSO - ✔✔Responsible for range safety for the exercise
✔✔LRSO - ✔✔Responsible for laser range safety for exercises involving lasers
, ✔✔Land - ✔✔The land area of a range for live-fire and maneuver includes start and
cease-fire lines, target areas, and impact areas.
✔✔Airspace - ✔✔refers to any one of several types of controlled and uncontrolled
airspace required to support range operations. Airspace over a range may include
restricted areas, warning areas, military operations, and air traffic controlled assigned
airspace.
✔✔Waterways - ✔✔The range boundaries may include navigable inland waterways
such as rivers or lakes. Sea space is the operating area necessary to contain live-fire
and support ship to shore training.
✔✔Dedicated impact areas - ✔✔An impact area is a designated area within the limits of
a range.
✔✔Dedicated Impact Areas are associated with: - ✔✔non-sensitive ammunition and
explosives.
✔✔Size of dedicated impact area - ✔✔usually a large piece of land that several ranges
fire into.
✔✔What is a dedicated impact area reserved for - ✔✔the impact and fragmentation of
launched or fired ammunition and explosives
✔✔Dedicated Impact area can contain what other impact area - ✔✔high-hazard
✔✔Impact Area - ✔✔The purpose of an impact area is to contain all hazards associated
with the ordnance being fired
✔✔High-hazard impact - ✔✔areas that are permanently designed to contain sensitive
ammunition and explosives
✔✔Why are high-hazard impact areas dangerous - ✔✔they contain high explosives and
sensitive unexploded ordinance
✔✔True/False: Never enter a high-hazard impact area without permission from range
control - ✔✔True
✔✔Ordnance fired into high-hazard impact areas - ✔✔Cluster bombs, artillery rounds,
mortar rounds, high-explosive grenades, missiles
✔✔Access Restricted - ✔✔fences, barricades, signs, guards or a combination of these
types of positive controls are used to protect unauthorized personnel
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Secondary Communication - ✔✔If primary fails a cease fire is in effect until it gets up
-Range specifics are detailed in SOP
-Most likely landline telephones or cell phones
-Are not used for normal exercise communications
✔✔Who needs comms - ✔✔OIC/RSO, gate tower guards
✔✔ AR385-63/MCO 3570.1 - ✔✔establishes ranges safety policies and responsibilities
for firing ammunition, lasers, guided, missiles, and rockets on Marine Corps and Army
ranges.
✔✔DA Pam 385-63 - ✔✔provides implementation guidance for the Marine Corps Range
Safety Program.
✔✔SOP - ✔✔each range or range complex will have its own standard operating
procedure (SOP). The SOP for an installation will have installation -specific instructions
for range safety. You must read the most current Sop for the range that you will be
using.
✔✔USMC Range Safety Pocket Guide - ✔✔The USMC Range Safety Pocket Guide
summarizes the policies and procedures needed to conduct a live-fire event. This
document contains information on surface danger zones (SDZ) setup for weapon
systems. The Pocket Guide also provides the OIC and RSO with a checklist that will
assist them with their most common tasks
✔✔SOUM - ✔✔Safety Of Use Memorandums (SOUM) are how the Range and Training
Area Management (RTAM) Branch provides range safety information and guidance to
the Marine Corps Total Force. This guidance is directive until the SOUM is cancelled,
changed or written into the Range Safety Order.
✔✔RCO - ✔✔Responsible for all range safety matters and provides coordination of
ranges in the installation complex
✔✔OIC - ✔✔Responsible and accountable for conduct of the exercise and ensuring
participants follow safety regulations
✔✔RSO - ✔✔Responsible for range safety for the exercise
✔✔LRSO - ✔✔Responsible for laser range safety for exercises involving lasers
, ✔✔Land - ✔✔The land area of a range for live-fire and maneuver includes start and
cease-fire lines, target areas, and impact areas.
✔✔Airspace - ✔✔refers to any one of several types of controlled and uncontrolled
airspace required to support range operations. Airspace over a range may include
restricted areas, warning areas, military operations, and air traffic controlled assigned
airspace.
✔✔Waterways - ✔✔The range boundaries may include navigable inland waterways
such as rivers or lakes. Sea space is the operating area necessary to contain live-fire
and support ship to shore training.
✔✔Dedicated impact areas - ✔✔An impact area is a designated area within the limits of
a range.
✔✔Dedicated Impact Areas are associated with: - ✔✔non-sensitive ammunition and
explosives.
✔✔Size of dedicated impact area - ✔✔usually a large piece of land that several ranges
fire into.
✔✔What is a dedicated impact area reserved for - ✔✔the impact and fragmentation of
launched or fired ammunition and explosives
✔✔Dedicated Impact area can contain what other impact area - ✔✔high-hazard
✔✔Impact Area - ✔✔The purpose of an impact area is to contain all hazards associated
with the ordnance being fired
✔✔High-hazard impact - ✔✔areas that are permanently designed to contain sensitive
ammunition and explosives
✔✔Why are high-hazard impact areas dangerous - ✔✔they contain high explosives and
sensitive unexploded ordinance
✔✔True/False: Never enter a high-hazard impact area without permission from range
control - ✔✔True
✔✔Ordnance fired into high-hazard impact areas - ✔✔Cluster bombs, artillery rounds,
mortar rounds, high-explosive grenades, missiles
✔✔Access Restricted - ✔✔fences, barricades, signs, guards or a combination of these
types of positive controls are used to protect unauthorized personnel
