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Lesson 2

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 the leader of the 2nd platoon, C Company, 32nd Bn, 134th Div Inf (Mech). Your unit is part of a combined German and U.S. force deployed in eastern Germany, at the request of the German government. The combined force's mission is to counter a paramilitary insurgency in Leipzig which has captured and is currently occupying the city. Use this situation to answer the questions in this exercise.
1. Your platoon is dismounted, moving to contact down a street in the business section of the city. You come to a street corner. To determine what is taking place around the corner, you

A. extend the butt of your weapon around the corner to see if it draws fire.
B. press the front of your body to the building and expose your head until one eye can see down the street.
C. extend the muzzle of your weapon around the corner to see if it draws fire.
D. lay flat on the ground with your weapon hidden by the building, and expose your head enough to observe.
2. Your platoon is clearing an enemy-held building from the top down. You have secured a foothold and breach point on the building's roof. Two squads will clear rooms from the stairs and two squads will rappel down the building's exterior and enter through windows. You are setting up the rappel site. You make sure the rope is of sufficient length and inspect the anchor point to ensure

A. the rope is securely locked into the greaves.
B. the rope slides smoothly around the anchor.
C. it is wedged firmly into the corner of the roof.
D. rope will easily slide over the anchor point.
3. You are firing at the enemy from a hasty firing position inside a building, using a window as a firing port. You are firing your weapon

A. from the kneeling position, well back into the room.
B. using the window sill to steady your weapon.
C. from the standing position, against the back wall.
D. from any position, with the muzzle of the weapon extending through the window.
4. You are preparing your platoon for offensive action. Since you will have to get to the enemy before you destroy him, you select the weapons and ordnance for their effects against buildings rather than enemy personnel. The most common type of construction in the world is

A. 30-inch stone walls.
B. 12- to 24-inch brick walls.
C. 14-inch steel and concrete.
D. 8- to 10-inch reinforced concrete.
5. A key requirement for victory in combat in built-up areas and under MOUT conditions, is heavy direct-fire support. This heavy direct-fire support is provided by

A. field artillery.
B. mortars.
C. small arms fire.
D. tank main guns.
6. Your platoon has been ordered back on the offensive and is attacking and clearing a building. A squad assault force is in the process of clearing a room when it takes a casualty. You

A. immediately reinforce from the support force.
B. allow the assault force to continue, unaugmented.
C. withdraw the platoon to reorganize the force.
D. obtain replacements through cross-leveling skills.
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