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Lesson 2

Practice Exercise

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The following items will test your understanding of the material covered in this lesson. There is only one correct answer for each item. When you have completed the exercise, check your answers with the answer key that follows. If you answer any item incorrectly, review that part of the lesson which contains the portion involved.
Situation: You are a Bradley platoon leader. Your company team is conducting a withdrawal in order to prepare to defend another position. You are completing your planning on how you will organize and control your platoon's during the withdrawal.
1. The method your company team commander uses to withdraw depends on

 A. the number of security forces available.
B. enemy pressure.
C. whether the withdrawal is conducted during daylight or periods of reduced visibility.
D. available indirect fire support.
2. Your unit is conducting a withdrawal while the enemy is not attacking and your platoon has been selected as the company's security force. One of your tasks is to

A. select OPs for the company.
B. leave a security force to cover the company's withdrawal.
C. strive to conceal the withdrawal and deceive the enemy.
D. reposition your platoon to cover the most likely avenue of approach into the company's position.
3. Because the actions your platoon must take during a withdrawal under enemy pressure depend a lot on the enemy's actions, you should

A. prepare a contingency plan for withdrawal each time your platoon moves into a defensive position.
B. increase the number of OPs in order to gain more information on the enemy's intentions.
C. request permission for early withdrawal from your company team commander.
D. be prepared to move back by stealth.
4. You are planing a disengagement. When you employ the fighting vehicle elements and dismount elements on separate positions, you must

A. plan to disengage by thinning the lines.
B. request outside direct fire support to allow your platoon to disengage.
C. select a platoon remount point and routes to the remount point.
D. plan to disengage the fighting vehicle element first.
5. The company team commander directed you to disengage as rapidly as possible. Your dismount and fighting vehicle elements are separated, but are being adequately covered by another force. You disengage

A. simultaneously.
B. by dismount teams.
C. by thinning the lines.
D. by fighting vehicle teams.