Conduct the Offense | Common Offensive Planning Considerations | Combat Formations | Movement Techniques | Actions on Contact |
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Audacity, Concentration, Surprise, Tempo
What are the Characteristics of the Offense
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Observations, Avenues of approach, Key Terrain, Obstacles, and Cover and Concealment.
What does OAKOC stand for?
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Wedge and File
What are the two fire team formations?
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Individual movement technique. High Crawl, Low Crawl, 3-5 Second Rushes
What is IMT and what are the different techniques?
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Surveillance, Maneuver, Indirect Fire, Recon by Fire
Name three techniques leaders can use to develop a situation?
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Movement to Contact, Attack, Exploitation and Pursuit.
What are the four Offensive Tasks?
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Most likely and most dangerous
What are the 2 minimum COAs required?
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Column, File, Line
What are the three squad formations?
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Traveling, Traveling Overwatch, Bounding Overwatch
What are the three movement techniques?
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Deploy and report, Evaluate and Develop the situation, Choose a course of action, Execute the selected course of action, Recommend a course of action to the higher commander.
What are the five steps of action on contact?
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Envelopment, Turning, Frontal Attack, Penetration, Infiltration, and Flank Attack
What are the six forms of maneuver?
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Breach, defeat, destroy, seize and suppress
Name five tactical mission tasks,
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Column, Line Squads on line, Line Squads in column, Vee, Wedge, and File
What are the six platoon formations?
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Alternate (Leapfrog) and Successive (On Line)
Name and define the types of bounding
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Incorporate certain COAs into unit SOP
What can units to to avoid delay in getting higher commander's approval?
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Contiguous, Point, and Area
What are the three types of terrain features used as control measures?
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To avoid enemy strengths and create opportunities that increase the effects of combat power.
What is the purpose of movement and maneuver?
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Column, Wedge, Line, Echelon, Coil, Herringbone.
What are the six mounted formations?
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⅔ of the range of the support by fire weapon system.
What is the max distance of a mounted bound?
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Direct, Indirect, Non Hostile Civilian, Obstacles, CBRN, Aerial, Visual, Electronic Warfare
What are the eight forms of contact?
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Gain and Maintain enemy contact, disrupt enemy, fix the enemy, maneuver and follow through.
What is the five step sequence of offence during execution?
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All key leaders having a complete understanding of commanders intent and scheme of maneuver.
In your own words define Mission Command
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Line, Column, Vee, Box, Wedge, Diamond, and Echelon.
What are the seven primary combat formations?
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Movement is without enemy contact, maneuver is with.
What is the difference between movement and maneuver?
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Attack by Fire, Breach, Bypass, Clear, Control, Counter Recon, Disengagement, Exfiltrate, Follow and Assume, Follow and Support, Occupy, Retain, Secure, Seize, Support by Fire
Name five tactical tasks.
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