MS300 Quiz 2 Review Study Guide

What is the purpose of a WARNING ORDER?

Leaders enable subordinates to begin their own planning and preparation (parallel planning) while they begin to develop the OPORD

Your Commander during their WARNORD, issues you the following guidance (you are 1/A/1-28 IN):

I want you to take out that machine gun nest on OBJ RASCAL IOT keep the enemy from placing direct fires on 2nd platoon NLT 120800JULXX

Re-write this as a proper mission statement

1/A/1-28 IN attacks to destroy ENY machine gun nest on OBJ RASCAL WL1234 5678 NLT 120800JULXX IOT prevent ENY ability to place direct fires on friendly forces.

The enemy has one team sized infantry unit located on Mount Rascal, screening to the NE. The enemy has one dismounted infantry squad in an ambush position along fire break 18 near the significant bend in the road. The enemy has one 82mm mortar team in a firing position located 500m NW of Mount Rascal.

What component of Enemy Analysis is this?

Disposition

What is a Decisive Point?

A geographic place, specific key event, critical factor, or function that, when acted upon, allows commanders to gain a marked advantage over an adversary or contribute materially to achieving success.

What is the acronym used to plan and record indirect fires?

TTLODAC

List the Four Characteristics of the Offense:

SCAT:

Suprise

Concentration

Audacity

Tempo

A predetermined point of reference, normally a permanent structure or terrain feature that can be used when describing a target location.

Target Reference Point

An area where the commander intends to contain and destroy an enemy force with the massed effects of all available weapons and supporting systems.

Engagement Area

That area assigned to a unit, crew-served weapon, or an individual weapon within which it will engage targets as they appear in accordance with established engagement priorities.

Sector of Fire

Subdivisions on an area created by superimposing an imaginary pair of perpendicular axes over the terrain to create four separate areas or sectors.

Terrain Based Quadrant

A linear fire control measure beyond which engagement is prohibited without coordination.

Restrictive Firing Line

A line of fire established where an enemy assault is to be checked by the interlocking fires of all available weapons.

Final Protective Line

What terrain gives a marked advantage to the element that holds it?

Key Terrain

An attack differs from a ___, because the commander knows part of the enemy's disposition.

Movement to Contact

The enemy platoon consists of three squads of seven soldiers each. The enemy is a dismounted infantry force, with standard small and medium arm weapon systems. The enemy could possess light mortars, but the information has not been confirmed.

What subcomponent of enemy analysis does this statement describe?

Composition

The enemy has one team sized infantry unit located on Mount Rascal, screening to the Northeast. The enemy has one dismounted infantry squad in an ambush position along Fire Break 18, near the significant bend in the road. The enemy has one 82mm mortar team in a firing position on the ridge line located approximately 900 meters Northwest of Mount Rascal.

Click on the map to identify the location of the enemy mortar team.

use common sense