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LESSON ONE
PRACTICE EXERCISE ANSWERS
Situation: You are the commander of an infantry company. The company is preparing for defensive operations, and you are preparing a company defense plan.
1. In preparing a company defense plan, you must apply the fundamentals of defense. To exploit the advantages of the defender, you would
a. employ your long range weapons in the CFA.
b. conduct a mobile defense.
c. have the company prepare positions, construct obstacles, and conceal its efforts in advance.
d. initiate and be prepared to defend from one general direction.
2. During the preparation of your defense plan, you must apply the fundamental of understanding the enemy. When Threat forces attack they
a. attack with each battalion deployed in three echelons.
b. attack to destroy their opponent rather than seize terrain.
c. use first echelon battalions to drive deep into the rear to disrupt the opponents defense.
d. dismount 100 to 400 meters short of the defenders position.
Situation: You are the commander of an infantry company/company team, and are planning the defense of an urban area.
3. Use Figure 1. In the figure the MRR is
a. isolating an objective.
b. conducting a surprise attack.
c. executing a deliberate attack
d. bypassing strongpoints.
Figure 1. How the Enemy Attacks.
4. In planning the defense in large urban areas, you must carefully consider the restrictive terrain due to large building being close together. In this situation units will occupy defensive frontage
a. 4 to 8 blocks wide.
b. approximately one-half of those in open areas.
c. 2 to 5 blocks wide.
d. approximately one-third of those in open-areas.
Situation: You are the commander of an infantry company. The company is preparing for defensive operations, and you are preparing an operation estimate.
5. In preparing a commander's estimate your conclusions on relative combat power are based on
a. general impressions of the relative capability of the two forces.
b. detailed study of the personnel and weapons of both sides.
c. enemy capabilities that the enemy can physically perform.
d. number of enemy maneuver units, weather and terrain.
6. You are preparing to begin the second part of the analysis of courses of action (paragraph 3) of the commanders estimate. In this part, you
a. analyze each of your own courses of action.
b. identify enemy capabilities.
c. examine enemy maneuver capabilities.
d. re-examine enemy capabilities presented by the S2.
