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LESSON 1
PRACTICE EXERCISE

Instructions 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 platoon leader. You have just received the company warning order for an offensive operation. You are executing your troop-leading procedures and preparing to issue your platoon order and participate in an offensive operation.

1. While making a tentative plan for the upcoming offensive operation, you are aware that, historically, most successful offensive operations have—

A. attacked enemy strong points.
B. produced more enemy prisoners than casualties.
C. destroyed enemy installations and facilities.
D. induced the enemy to shift forces from critical areas.
2. You are arranging your squads and fire teams for movement on the battlefield. When enemy contact is not likely, the movement technique used is—

A. traveling.
B. traveling overwatch.
C. bounding overwatch.
D. wedge formation.
3. You are explaining the fundamentals of movement to your squad leaders. You state that the key to moving successfully is—

A. move away from key terrain.
B. make contact with the lead element.
C. select the best combination of formations and movement techniques in each situation.

D. move out of the range of your platoon's organic indirect fire support.
4. Your platoon is preparing to conduct a movement to contact. You are briefing your platoon on the relationship between movement to contact, attacks, exploitations, and pursuit. You explain that a movement to contact is—

A. part of the preparatory phase of offensive operations.
B. only conducted during mobile or mechanized operations.
C. characterized by detailed information about the enemy's dispositions.
D. started when the forces become engaged.
5. You are completing your planning prior to conducting a movement to contact. What control measure can be used to control movement of the platoon? You—

A. assign an additional line of departure.
B. assign additional radios to the squads.
C. modify the movement technique.
D. designate additional phase lines and checkpoints.
6. You are briefing your squad leaders on fire and movement. You explain that a fire element—

A. will always be designated by the company or company team commander.
B. may be a soldier, a fire team, or an entire platoon.
C. will be designated before contact is made.
D. should remain a fire element, once it is so designated.
7. Your platoon has made contact with the enemy, and you are advancing towards the objective by fire and movement. You must decide which element you will control. You—

A. give control of the maneuver element to the platoon sergeant.
B. task a squad leader to control the maneuver element.
C. go with the maneuver element.
D. check with company commander to see whether you should control the fire or themaneuver element.