ADP 5-0 / ADRP 5-0 - The Operations Process

Question 1

What are the troop leading procedure steps?

Answer 1

• Step 1 – Receive the mission.
• Step 2 – Issue a warning order.
• Step 3 – Make a tentative plan.
• Step 4 – Initiate movement.
• Step 5 – Conduct reconnaissance.
• Step 6 – Complete the plan.
• Step 7 – Issue the order.
• Step 8 – Supervise and refine the plan.

Question 2

What is the purpose of the military decision-making process?

Answer 2

Commanders with a coordinating staff use the MDMP as their primary planning process.

Question 3

What is MDMP?

Answer 3

The military decision-making process is an iterative planning methodology to understand the situation and mission, develop a course of action, and produce an operation plan or order

Question 4

What are the MDMP steps?

Answer 4

• Step 1 – Receipt of mission.
• Step 2 – Mission analysis.
• Step 3 – Course of action development.
• Step 4 – Course of action analysis.
• Step 5 – Course of action comparison.
• Step 6 – Course of action approval.
• Step 7 – Orders production, dissemination, and transition.

Question 5

What are the Army Command relationships?

Answer 5

• Organic.
• Assigned.
• Attached.
• Operational Control (OPCON).
• Tactical Control (TACON).
• Administrative Control (ADCON).

Question 6

What are the Army support relationships?

Answer 6

• Direct support (DS).
• General support (GS).
• Reinforcing (R).
• General support-reinforcing (GSR).