INFANTRY ALC 2026 TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Defense Support of Civil Authorities (DSCA) - ✔✔Defense support of civil authorities
is a task that takes place only in the homeland, although some of its tasks are similar to
stability tasks.
Defense support of civil authorities is always conducted in support of another primary or
lead federal agency.
✔✔6 Tenets of ULO - ✔✔1)Flexibility 2)Integration
3)Lethality 4)Adaptability
5)Depth 6)Synchronization
✔✔what is the operational art - ✔✔the pursuit of strategic objectives in whole or in part
through the arrangement of tactical actions in time, space, and purpose.
✔✔what is the operational process? - ✔✔1)plan:
-army designed methodology
-military decision making process
- troop leading procedures
2)prepare
3)execute
4)assess
✔✔what are the 6 warfighting functions? - ✔✔1) mission command
2) movement and maneuver
3) intelligence
4) fires
5) sustainment
6) protection
✔✔what is combat power? - ✔✔the total means of destructive, constructive, and
information capabilities the military unit/formation can apply at a given time.
✔✔how do army forces generate combat power - ✔✔by converting potential into
effective action.
✔✔what are the 8 elements of combat power. - ✔✔leadership, information, movement
and maneuver, intelligence, fires, sustainment, mission command, and protection
✔✔how do commanders apply combat power? - ✔✔though the warfighting functions
using leadership and information.
✔✔how do commanders apply leadership? - ✔✔through mission command
,✔✔what does mission command do - ✔✔While the commander remains the central
figure in mission command, it enables subordinates to develop the situation.
✔✔tasks associated with movement and maneuver - ✔✔deploy, move, maneuver,
employ direct fires, occupy an area, mobility/countermobility ops, reconnaissance and
surveillance, employ battlefield obscuration.
✔✔what does intelligence provide to the warfighting functions - ✔✔it provides
understanding of possible treats, adversaries, and weather.
✔✔what is intelligence? - ✔✔synchronized information collected my means of recon,
surveillance, security, and intel operations.
✔✔whats is fires - ✔✔indirect weapons used to create specific lethal and non lethal
effects on a target
✔✔fires associated tasks? - ✔✔deliver fires, conduct targeting, integrate all forms of
army, joint, and multinational fire.
✔✔define sustainment and list associated tasks - ✔✔The endurance of Army forces is
primarily a function of their sustainment. It is essential to retaining and exploiting the
initiative.
Includes the following tasks:
Conduct logistics.
Provide personnel services.
Provide health service support.
✔✔what is protection? - ✔✔determines the degree to which potential threats can disrupt
operations and counters or mitigates those threats
✔✔what is a patrol? - ✔✔a detachment sent out by a larger unit to conduct a specific
mission that operates semi-independently and returns to the main body upon
completion of the mission.
✔✔what is the main function of a patrol? - ✔✔to engage with or report the enemies
disposition, location and actions.
to act as ground sensors or early warnings for larger units (the planned action
determines the type of patrol)
✔✔what is the purpose of a patrol? - ✔✔Gathering information on the enemy, on the
terrain, or on the populace.
, Regaining contact with the enemy or with adjacent friendly forces
Engaging the enemy in combat to destroy him or inflict losses.
Reassuring or gaining the trust of a local population.
Preventing public disorder.
Deterring and disrupting insurgent or criminal activity.
Providing unit security.
Protecting key infrastructure or bases.
✔✔Types of Patrols - ✔✔combat
recon
sustainment
✔✔main function of a combat patrol - ✔✔depart the main body with clear intent to make
direct contact with the enemy. it provides security, harasses, destroys, or captures
enemy troops, equipment, and installations.
✔✔three types of combat patrols - ✔✔raid, ambush, and security
✔✔three types of recon patrols - ✔✔area, zone, and route
✔✔internal makeup of a patrol - ✔✔headquarters element, aid and litter team, EPOW
team, surveillance team, route recorder, compass man, pace man, assault team,
support team, breach team, search team.
✔✔what must be established in the initial planning and coordination phase. - ✔✔troop
leading procedures, changes and updates to enemy situation, best use of terrain, hours
of light, weather condition, changes in friendly situation, attachments, local landing
zones, departure and re-entry points
✔✔coordination's necessary for patrolling - ✔✔fire support data, rehearsals (area and
time), special equipment, ammo, transportation requirements, signal plan, attachments
✔✔key tasks to complete the plan - ✔✔identify essential and shaping tasks, key travel
and execution times, primary and alternate routes, signals, challenger passwords,
location of leaders, action on enemy contact, contingency plans
✔✔departure from friendly lines requires - ✔✔coordination and planning
✔✔5 types of rally points - ✔✔initial, in route, objective, re-entery, near and far side
ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Defense Support of Civil Authorities (DSCA) - ✔✔Defense support of civil authorities
is a task that takes place only in the homeland, although some of its tasks are similar to
stability tasks.
Defense support of civil authorities is always conducted in support of another primary or
lead federal agency.
✔✔6 Tenets of ULO - ✔✔1)Flexibility 2)Integration
3)Lethality 4)Adaptability
5)Depth 6)Synchronization
✔✔what is the operational art - ✔✔the pursuit of strategic objectives in whole or in part
through the arrangement of tactical actions in time, space, and purpose.
✔✔what is the operational process? - ✔✔1)plan:
-army designed methodology
-military decision making process
- troop leading procedures
2)prepare
3)execute
4)assess
✔✔what are the 6 warfighting functions? - ✔✔1) mission command
2) movement and maneuver
3) intelligence
4) fires
5) sustainment
6) protection
✔✔what is combat power? - ✔✔the total means of destructive, constructive, and
information capabilities the military unit/formation can apply at a given time.
✔✔how do army forces generate combat power - ✔✔by converting potential into
effective action.
✔✔what are the 8 elements of combat power. - ✔✔leadership, information, movement
and maneuver, intelligence, fires, sustainment, mission command, and protection
✔✔how do commanders apply combat power? - ✔✔though the warfighting functions
using leadership and information.
✔✔how do commanders apply leadership? - ✔✔through mission command
,✔✔what does mission command do - ✔✔While the commander remains the central
figure in mission command, it enables subordinates to develop the situation.
✔✔tasks associated with movement and maneuver - ✔✔deploy, move, maneuver,
employ direct fires, occupy an area, mobility/countermobility ops, reconnaissance and
surveillance, employ battlefield obscuration.
✔✔what does intelligence provide to the warfighting functions - ✔✔it provides
understanding of possible treats, adversaries, and weather.
✔✔what is intelligence? - ✔✔synchronized information collected my means of recon,
surveillance, security, and intel operations.
✔✔whats is fires - ✔✔indirect weapons used to create specific lethal and non lethal
effects on a target
✔✔fires associated tasks? - ✔✔deliver fires, conduct targeting, integrate all forms of
army, joint, and multinational fire.
✔✔define sustainment and list associated tasks - ✔✔The endurance of Army forces is
primarily a function of their sustainment. It is essential to retaining and exploiting the
initiative.
Includes the following tasks:
Conduct logistics.
Provide personnel services.
Provide health service support.
✔✔what is protection? - ✔✔determines the degree to which potential threats can disrupt
operations and counters or mitigates those threats
✔✔what is a patrol? - ✔✔a detachment sent out by a larger unit to conduct a specific
mission that operates semi-independently and returns to the main body upon
completion of the mission.
✔✔what is the main function of a patrol? - ✔✔to engage with or report the enemies
disposition, location and actions.
to act as ground sensors or early warnings for larger units (the planned action
determines the type of patrol)
✔✔what is the purpose of a patrol? - ✔✔Gathering information on the enemy, on the
terrain, or on the populace.
, Regaining contact with the enemy or with adjacent friendly forces
Engaging the enemy in combat to destroy him or inflict losses.
Reassuring or gaining the trust of a local population.
Preventing public disorder.
Deterring and disrupting insurgent or criminal activity.
Providing unit security.
Protecting key infrastructure or bases.
✔✔Types of Patrols - ✔✔combat
recon
sustainment
✔✔main function of a combat patrol - ✔✔depart the main body with clear intent to make
direct contact with the enemy. it provides security, harasses, destroys, or captures
enemy troops, equipment, and installations.
✔✔three types of combat patrols - ✔✔raid, ambush, and security
✔✔three types of recon patrols - ✔✔area, zone, and route
✔✔internal makeup of a patrol - ✔✔headquarters element, aid and litter team, EPOW
team, surveillance team, route recorder, compass man, pace man, assault team,
support team, breach team, search team.
✔✔what must be established in the initial planning and coordination phase. - ✔✔troop
leading procedures, changes and updates to enemy situation, best use of terrain, hours
of light, weather condition, changes in friendly situation, attachments, local landing
zones, departure and re-entry points
✔✔coordination's necessary for patrolling - ✔✔fire support data, rehearsals (area and
time), special equipment, ammo, transportation requirements, signal plan, attachments
✔✔key tasks to complete the plan - ✔✔identify essential and shaping tasks, key travel
and execution times, primary and alternate routes, signals, challenger passwords,
location of leaders, action on enemy contact, contingency plans
✔✔departure from friendly lines requires - ✔✔coordination and planning
✔✔5 types of rally points - ✔✔initial, in route, objective, re-entery, near and far side
