Defense Operations Mastery Quiz

A detailed illustration of military defense operations, including troops in strategic positions, machine gun placements, and tactical planning elements, in a dynamic battlefield setting.

Defense Operations Mastery Quiz

Test your knowledge on defense operations and tactics with our engaging quiz! This quiz covers essential concepts, control measures, and strategies that are crucial for military personnel involved in defensive operations.

Understand key principles of fire control measures.
Learn about machine gun employment and defense maneuvers.
Assess your tactical knowledge with each question.

21 Questions5 MinutesCreated by MasteringBlade452

A(n) _____ orients on retention of terrain by absorbing the enemy in an interlocking series of positions and destroying him largely by fires.

Area Defense

Mobile Defense

Retrograde

Withdrawal

In the defense, what are the two types of missions that can be given for a machine gun?

Final direction of fire or final protective line

Not possible, a machine gun can only have one mission

Principle direction of fire or final coordination line

Principle direction of fire or final protective line

What allows the commander to visually depict the effects of his engagement area and prevent gaps in his/her fires?

Fire plan sketch

Leader’s recon where TRP’s are marked

LP/OPs and patrols

IDF targets used to cover gaps and dead space

What are four methods a platoon commander utilizes to control his/her fires in the defense?

Trigger line, target reference point, engagement criteria, target precedence

Obstacles, early warning devices, FPF, PDF

FPF, PDF, FSP, TRP

FPF, PICMDEEP, ADDRAC, turning obstacles

In the defense, listening posts/observation posts (LP/OPs) can be used to ___________.

Observe enemy movement and report to the platoon commander.

Call for fire on enemy units.

Identify and prepare supplementary positions while marking TRP’s and direct fire control measures.

Observe enemy movement and report to the platoon commander and call for fire on enemy units.

All of the above.

Which answer best identifies elements of a comprehensive defensive scheme of maneuver?

Type/Method of Defense, Distribution of Forces, Orientation, Occupation Plan, TCMs, Security Plan.

Distribution of Forces, Form of Maneuver, Direction of Attack, TCMs, and Consolidation.

ORP, Checkpoints, Location of the Defense, Priorities of Work, Security

Preparation, Flexibility, Depth

Combat engineers support offensive and defensive operations over a spectrum of four functional areas. Select the best example of combat engineers in the offense and defense conducting counter-mobility operations.

Improving and maintaining lines of communication and main supply routes. Emplacing obstacles that divide the enemy’s forces just prior to the engagement area.

Using blocking obstacles to deny the enemy access to advancing units’ flanks or rear. Laying an anti-vehicle obstacle belt along a mounted enemy’s likely avenue of approach.

Construction and maintenance of expeditionary airfields. Reinforcing command posts and combat support positions.

Providing bridging equipment to facilitate river crossings. Clearing landing zones for resupply and medical evacuation missions.

Of the following lists, which are fire support control measures?

Attack Position ; Limit of Advance; Probable Line of Deployment

Restricted Firing Line; No Fire Area; Restrictive Fire Area

Assault Position; Assembly Area; Line of Departure

Battle Position ; Checkpoint; Initial Point

What four functions does engineers provide on the battlefield?

Obstacles, Breaching, Defense, Explosives

Mobility, Counter-Mobility, Survivability, General Engineering

Breaching, Minefield Operations, Force Protection, General Engineering

Mobility, Obstacle Plans, Survivability, General Engineering

What are the two methods that can be given to machineguns in a MORT statement?

Final protective lines; Principal direction of fire

By unit; Echelon

By stealth; By force

Bent-L method; Crow’s foot

What are the breaching fundamentals in order?

Support, Obscure, Secure, Reduce, Attack

Suppress, Obscure, Secure, Reduce, Assault

Suppress, Overwhelm, Support, Reduce Attack

Secure, Obscure, Suppress, Reduce Assault

What are the five essential elements of an offensive scheme of maneuver?

Main Effort, Type of Attack, TCMs, Sequence of Events, and Consolidation Plan.

Commanders Intent, Scheme of Maneuver, FSP, Tasks, and Coordinating Instructions.

Distribution of Forces, Checkpoints, Objective, CASEVAC Plan, and Consolidation.

Distribution of Forces, Form of Maneuver, Direction of Attack, TCMs, and Consolidation.

When loading the PLD, what technique would be used in a night attack to simplify the loading, but could increase difficultly when immediately deploying forces?

Combination of crow’s foot and bent-L

Crow’s foot

Bent-L

None of the above

In defensive operations, which of the following is NOT a way the M18A1 claymore munition is utilized?

As a protective obstacle

Reinforce other obstacles

Disrupt combat formations

Clear minefields and other obstacles

Which of the following are classifications of machinegun fires in relation to the target?

Dead Space, Danger Space, Plunging Fire, Grazing Fire

Fixed, Traversing, Searching, Traversing and Searching, Swinging Traverse, Free Gun

Flanking Fire, Frontal Fire, Oblique Fire, Enfilade Fire

Plunging Fire, Grazing Fire, Flanking Enfilade Fire, Frontal Enfilade Fire

__________ are developed to aid MG units in acquiring targets quickly to support a ground SOM?

Minimum safe lines

Target reference points

Principle directions of fire

Final protective lines

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