Answer Key for PRACTICE EXERCISE on Parts E, F, G and H

PRACTICE EXERCISE

ANSWER KEY AND FEEDBACK

Item	Correct Answer and Feedback

1. Defensive operations are normally conducted in a sequence of seven events. Which event is out of sequence?
	A.	Prepare for combat.
	B.	Move to defensive positions.
	C.	Establish defensive positions.
	D.	Determine enemy intentions and locations.
	E.	Fight the Defensive.
	F.	Initiate contact or actions against the enemy.
	G.	Reorganize.

The above seven events are discussed in Paragraph 1 of Part E of this lesson.

2. Leaders are allowed most flexibility and small unit actions occur most frequently when defending a
B.	Sector.

Defense of a sector allows a unit to fight throughout the depth of the sector using dispersed small-unit tactics.

3. When conducting a relief in place, you would exchange which of the following items with the squad you are replacing?
B.	A TA-1 telephone.

Leaders coordinate the exchange of phones or switchboards, and emplaced munitions (if included in the relief order). Units do not exchange radios or radar equipment (if attached).

4. If your unit is going to conduct an airmobile operation, the vehicles left behind will be planned for in which of the following plans?
D.	Staging plan.

The staging plan includes left-behind vehicles and plans for future link-up with them.

5. Which of the following answers is true concerning a defensive position?
B.	Smoke should be used sparingly by the defender.

Smoke tends to screen movement by the attacker. Defensive use is normally restricted to use to screen movement by defending elements.

6. You are calling for indirect fire support. You have identified yourself, given the appropriate warning, and located the target for the firing battery. In order to describe the target, you rely on the codeword "SNAP." SNAP means
Size/Shape, Nature/Nomenclature, Activity, Protection/Posture.

The description information assists the fire direction center in determining method of engagement and ammunition best suited for the target.

7. An efficient means of conserving water, when it is scarce, is to serve troops
C.	Soups.

Soup provides food and liquid. Coffee and tea also provide liquid but both increase the flow of urine, which increases the need for liquid.

8. The best procedure to follow in "topping-off" vehicles in combat is to
B.	Top-off every time the situation allows.

Ideally, vehicles should be kept as full as possible so that fuel shortage does not become a problem during a fight.

9. With respect to your squad's equipment, you are directly responsible to
B.	Your platoon leader.

Although the platoon sergeant normally involves himself in maintenance (as the platoon leader's representative), each leader (company, platoon, squad) is responsible for the maintenance of that unit's equipment.

10. After being evacuated, a dead soldier's ring is found inside your BFV by his fire team leader. You
D.	Get the ring to the company supply sergeant.

Items found, which belong to evacuated dead, must be inventoried and passed to the supply sergeant. Dead are not evacuated through medical channels.

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