Maneuver Captains Career Course Entrance Exam

Troop Leading Procedures ✔✔1. Receive the Mission 2. Issue a Warning Order 3. Make a Tentative Plan 4. Initiate movement 5. Conduct Reconnaissance 6. Complete the Plan 7. Issue the Order 8. Supervise and Assess T ...

Troop Leading Procedures ✔✔1. Receive the Mission 2. Issue a Warning Order 3. Make a Tentative Plan 4. Initiate movement 5. Conduct Reconnaissance 6. Complete the Plan 7. Issue the Order 8. Supervise and Assess Tenets and Foundations of Unified Land Operations ✔✔1. Simultaneity 2. Depth 3. Synchronization 4. Flexibility Steps of IPB ✔✔1. Define the Battlefield Environment 2. Describe the Battlefield's Effects 3. Evaluate the Threat 4. Determine Threat Courses of ActionOffensive Tasks ✔✔Movement to Contact Attack Exploitation Pursuit Characteristics of the Offense ✔✔Audacity Concentration Surprise Tempo Forms of Maneuver ✔✔Envelopment Flank Attack Frontal Attack Infiltration Penetration Turning Movement Defensive Tasks ✔✔Area Defense Mobile Defense Retrograde Characteristics of the Defense ✔✔DisruptionFlexibility Maneuver Mass and Concentration Operations in Depth Preparation Security The Mission Statement ✔✔A short sentence or paragraph that describes the organization's essential tasks, purpose, and action. Containing the elements of who, what, when, where, and why. Decisive Point ✔✔A geographic place, specific 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. Levels of War ✔✔Strategic Operational Tactical The Mission Analysis Factors of METT-TC ✔✔Higher Headquarter's Mission, Intent, and Concept Unit's Purpose Constraints Tasks1. Specified 2. Implied 3. Essential Constraints ✔✔Proscriptive: mandates action Prohibitive: limits action Commander's Critical Information Requirements ✔✔An information requirement identified by the commander as being critical to facilitating timely decision making. Fundamentals of Reconnaissance ✔✔Ensure continuous reconnaissance Do not keep reconnaissance assets in reserve Orient on the reconnaissance objective Report information rapidly and accurately Retain freedom of maneuver Gain and maintain contact with the enemy Develop the situation rapidly Fundamentals of Security ✔✔Provide early and accurate warning provide reaction time and maneuver space Orient on the force or facility to be secured Perform continuous reconnaissanceMaintain Enemy Contact Principles of direct fire control ✔✔Mass the effects of fire Destroy the greatest threat first Avoid target overkill Employ the best weapon for specific target Minimize exposure Plan and implement fratricide avoidance measures Plan for limited visibility conditions Plan for degraded capabilities Breaching Tenets ✔✔Intelligence Breaching Fundamentals Breaching Organization Mass Synchronization Elements of Combat Power ✔✔Leadership Information Mission Command Movement and Maneuver FiresIntelligence Sustainment Protection Ambush ✔✔An attack by fire or other destructive means from a concealed position on a moving or temporarily halted enemy Attack by Fire ✔✔A tactical mission task in which a commander uses direct fires, supported by indirect fires, to engage an enemy without closing with the enemy to destroy, suppress, fix, or deceive that enemy Block ✔✔A tactical mission task that denies the enemy access to an area or prevents his advance in a direction or along an avenue of approach Breach ✔✔The unit employs all available means to breach through or establish a passage through an enemy defense, obstacle, minefield, or fortification Bypass ✔✔A tactical mission task in which a commander instructs his unit to maneuver around an obstacle, position, or enemy force to maintain the momentum of the operation while deliberately avoiding combat with an enemy force Canalize ✔✔A tactical mission task in which the commander restricts the enemy movement to a narrow zone by exploiting terrain coupled with obstacles, fires, or friendly maneuver.Contain ✔✔A tactical mission task that requires the commander to stop, hold, or surround enemy forces or to cause them to center their activity on a given front and prevent them from withdrawing any part of their forces for use elsewhere.