M300 Flashcards

1
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Relief in place, link-up operations, and passage of lines are examples of?

Retrograde operations
Enabling operations
Defensive operations
Consolidation of gains

A

Enabling operations

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Which of the following is a stationary unit’s responsibility during a passage of lines?

Designate contact points between units involved

Exercise overall command and control of the passage

Conduct reconnaissance from current location to designated contact points

Establish security area/battle handover line

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Establish security area/battle handover line

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What obstacle control measure do corps and division commanders assign based on defined enemy avenues of approach and aligned with subordinate brigade areas of operations?

Obstacle groups

Obstacle numbers

Obstacle restricted areas

Obstacle zones

A

obstacle zones

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Describe the process the division staff uses to mitigate hazards that may potentially affect the outcome of the division’s operations?

Hazard identification, hazard analysis, criticality analysis, vulnerability analysis and establish protection priorities

Identify the hazards, assess the hazards, develop controls, and make risk decisions, implement controls, and supervise and evaluate

Integrate risk management into all phases of missions and operation, make risk decisions at appropriate level, accept no unnecessary risk and apply risk management cyclically and continuously

Threat analysis, hazard analysis, criticality analysis, vulnerability analysis and protection priorities

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Identify the hazards, assess the hazards, develop controls, and make risk decisions, implement controls, and supervise and evaluate

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Which of the following best describes what the protection prioritization list (PPL) does to help the commander?

It helps Army commanders to identify or assess assets that require protection prioritization within their assigned areas

It helps the commander analyze the hazards in their area of operations and the necessary steps to mitigate the hazard

It helps the commander do threat assessment for their area of operation

It helps the joint force commander prioritize the assets by phase that are to receive air and missile defense (AMD) protection

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It helps Army commanders to identify or assess assets that require protection prioritization within their assigned areas

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What differentiates the protection warfighting function and associated tasks from defensive and specific security operations?

It requires the employment of the reserve

It does NOT occur in all four major command and control activities performed during the operations process

It is an enduring activity

It has definitive start and stop times

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It is an enduring activity

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What type of Army support relationship provides support to a force as a whole and reinforces another similar-type unit?

Reinforcing (R) support

General support-reinforcing support (GSR)

General support (GS)

Direct support (DS)

A

gsr

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As a division sustainment planner, which of the following is a sustainment fundamental that defensive operations present?

Movement of Class II materials forward

Optimizing supply point distribution to eliminate throughput requirements

Plan and execute all six sustainment functions sequentially

Execution of defensive operations and simultaneously planning for future offensive operations

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Execution of defensive operations and simultaneously planning for future offensive operations

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Sustainment support for which defensive operation requires more fuel, provides less time for maintenance, and requires more complex casualty evacuation procedures?

Sustaining area defense operations

Sustaining mobile defense operations

Sustaining retrograde defense operations

Transitioning to retrograde defense operations

A

Sustaining mobile defense operations

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What combined intelligence and operations activity is focused on acquiring information on the threat, terrain, and civil considerations to facilitate understanding and decision making?

Information collection

Joint targeting

Requirements development

Tasking and directing

A

Information collection

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What information collection tasks help the commander align reconnaissance, surveillance, security, and intelligence assets to collect information on identified information gaps?

Collection, analysis, processing, and dissemination

Decide, detect, deliver, and assess

Identification, threat analysis, vulnerabilities analysis, and risk assessment

Collection management, direct information collection, execute collection

A

Collection management, direct information collection, execute collection

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What coordinated staff effort led by the G2, in support of information collection, analyzes information requirements to make recommendations to the G3 on how best to collect those requirements?

ISR Integration

Collection management

Information management

Knowledge management

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Collection management

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The commander directed the systematic observation of an area to collect information on the threat and local population. What information collection mission or operation best aligns with this activity?

Counterintelligence

Human intelligence

Surveillance

Security operation

A

Surveillance

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After determining initial information gaps during Information Collection planning, during which sub-task of mission analysis does the staff work with the collection management team to nominate information requirements as CCIRs and EEFIs.

Collection management

Review available assets

Develop the Initial IC Plan

Develop a course of action

A

Develop the Initial IC Plan

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The intelligence warfighting function refines collected data into usable information that can be distributed for further analysis or given directly to commanders as combat information. What intelligence activity does this describe?

Intelligence operations

Intelligence synchronization

Information collection

Intelligence processing, exploitation, and dissemination (PED)

A

Intelligence processing, exploitation, and dissemination (PED)

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During execution of an operation, you receive an information collection report that does not answer a PIR but you believe it may trigger a commanders decision based on your understanding of the commander’s intent. What is this an example of?

Essential element of friendly information

Decision point

Exceptional Information

Position of relative advantage

A

Exceptional Information

17
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During which phase of the joint targeting cycle (JTC) should targeting measures of performance (MOPs) and measures of effectiveness (MOEs) be developed?

Capabilities analysis

Combat assessment

Commander’s decision and force assignment

Commander’s objectives, targeting guidance, and intent

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Commander’s objectives, targeting guidance, and intent

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Normally developed by the air component in coordination with other component liaisons, joint force commanders may retain or delegate the responsibility to a component for which of the following development responsibilities?

Joint integrated prioritized target list

Joint target list

Restricted target list

Target nomination list

A

Joint integrated prioritized target list

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The Joint Forces Commander (JFC) directs their staff to collect, consolidate, and prioritize component target lists and synchronize the joint targeting process in preparation for the formal joint targeting coordination board. What entity should the commander form?

Joint fires element

Joint targeting working group.

Master air attack planners

Targeting effects team

A

Joint targeting working group.

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Which of the following statements best aligns with the optimum placement of the fire support coordination line (FSCL)?
Eliminates the need to consider ground forces scheme of maneuver and the requirement for close coordination between ground, air, and maritime forces

Is a definitive delineation between close air support short of the line and air interdiction long of it

Should be far enough from the rear boundary to accommodate all surface-to-surface fires

Should consider the shift in the preponderance of lethal effects from the ground component to the air component

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Should consider the shift in the preponderance of lethal effects from the ground component to the air component

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If a division identifies a high payoff target short of the coordinated fire line (CFL), what must the division do to engage the target?

Coordinate ground clearance with the subordinate brigade assigned to the area of operations in which the target resides

Coordinate with the battlefield coordination detachment (BCD) for approval to engage the target where it resides

Engage the target with no coordination because the coordinated fire line (CFL) is a permissive fire support coordination measure

Validate that the joint terminal attack controller (JTAC) can observe the target that resides short of the coordinated fire line (CFL)

A

Coordinate ground clearance with the subordinate brigade assigned to the area of operations in which the target resides

22
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Which of the following statements best aligns with the optimum placement of the fire support coordination line (FSCL)?

Eliminates the need to consider ground forces scheme of maneuver and the requirement for close coordination between ground, air, and maritime forces

Is a definitive delineation between close air support short of the line and air interdiction long of it

Should be far enough from the rear boundary to accommodate all surface-to-surface fires

Should consider the shift in the preponderance of lethal effects from the ground component to the air component

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Should consider the shift in the preponderance of lethal effects from the ground component to the air component

23
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Which of the following describe the Army’s methodology for targeting?

Decide, detect, deliver, assess

Determine, direct, deliver, exploit

Find, fix, finish, exploit, assess, disseminate

Guidance, development, employment, assessment

A

Decide, detect, deliver, assess

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In planning guidance the division commander describes that finding and destroying enemy reconnaissance operating in the security zone was vital to the success of the division’s planned attack, which doctrinal term best describes their guidance?

Dynamic target

High payoff target

High value target

Target of opportunity

A

High payoff target

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A commander directs the staff to include measures that offer the opportunity for responsive fires on high payoff targets, which of the following type of fire support coordination measure is the commander describing?

High payoff

Permissive

Prohibitive

Restrictive

A

Permissive

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Part of an Army division current operations cell, which of the following could be used to coordinate, integrate, and control operations in division-assigned airspace and to co-locate decision making authorities from the land and air component to support the maneuver commander’s objectives and intent?

Air-naval gunfire liaison company (ANGLICO)

Direct air support center (DASC)

Fire support team (FIST)

Joint air ground integration center (JAGIC)

A

Joint air ground integration center (JAGIC)

27
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Which statement best articulates the doctrinal definition of close air support (CAS)?

A battalion-level command that provides the commander with a liaison capability to plan, coordinate, and employ fires

Air action by aircraft against hostile targets that are in close proximity to friendly forces and that require detailed integration

The determination and assignment of the total expected air effort for tactical operations in support of the land component commander

The weapons clearance authority that is delegated to the joint terminal attack controller (JTAC) for the expenditure of any ordnance on the battlefield

A

Air action by aircraft against hostile targets that are in close proximity to friendly forces and that require detailed integration

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Which theater air control system (TACS) element would the division commander rely on to provide command and control for air component missions within their division-assigned airspace?

Air support operations center (ASOC)

Battlefield coordination detachment (BCD)

Joint Air Operations Center (JAOC)

Tactical air control party (TACP)

A

Air support operations center (ASOC)

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Part of an Army division current operations cell, which of the following could be used to coordinate, integrate, and control operations in division-assigned airspace and to co-locate decision making authorities from the land and air component to support the maneuver commander’s objectives and intent?

Air-naval gunfire liaison company (ANGLICO)

Direct air support center (DASC)

Fire support team (FIST)

Joint air ground integration center (JAGIC)

A

Joint air ground integration center (JAGIC)

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In support of division offensive and defensive operations, and as part of its core competencies, a combat aviation brigade (CAB) must be able to do which of the following?

All answers are correct

Enable command and control in support of combined arms teams

Position personnel, supplies, and equipment

Provide accurate and timely information collection

A

All answers are correct

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If required, a division or corps could leverage which of the following to orchestrate division-level counterfire operations, provide command and control of subordinate surface-to-surface firing units, and facilitate targeting in its deep fight?

Air and missile defense cell

Civil military operations center

Division main command post

Force field artillery headquarters

A

ffah

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Which of the following at the brigade to corps echelon coordinates and synchronizes cyberspace and electronic warfare operations to ensure unity of effort in meeting the commander’s operational objectives?

Cyber electromagnetic activities (CEMA) section

Fires cell

G-6 (S-6) section

G-3/G-2 fusion section

A

Cyber electromagnetic activities (CEMA) section