BOLC Exam LSCO (Week 1) PART II (Verified)
Question: An operation in which a force moves forward or
rearward through another force's combat positions with the intention of moving into or out of contact with the enemy.
CORRECT ANSWER : Passage of Lines
Question: What are three POL Measures?
CORRECT ANSWER : Passage Lane Passage Point Gap
Question: Why does a commander call for a Pause?
CORRECT ANSWER : if he or she cannot anticipate
securing decisive objectives before subordinate forces reach their culminating points.
Question: What are the most important assets in sustaining
offensive task?
CORRECT ANSWER : Class III Class V Class VII
Question: What is the task of sustainment planner?
CORRECT ANSWER : Commanders and staffs plan for
increased requirements and demands on sustainment.
Question: What is the purpose of defensive operations?
CORRECT ANSWER : to retain decisive terrain or deny a
vital area to the enemy, to attrit or fix the enemy as a prelude to the offense, in response to surprise action by the enemy, or to increase the enemy's vulnerability, by forcing the enemy to concentrate forces.
Question: What are characteristics of a defense?
CORRECT ANSWER : Disruption, flexibility, maneuver,
massing effects, operations in depth, preparation, and security.
Question: What are forms of a defense?
CORRECT ANSWER : Defense of a Linear Obstacle,
Defense of a Perimeter, and Reverse Slope Defense.
Question: What are types of defensive operations?
CORRECT ANSWER : Area Defense, Mobile Defense,
Retrograde
Question: What is Area Defense?
CORRECT ANSWER : Denying ENY forces access to
designated terrain for a specific time rather than destroying the enemy outright
Question: What is a mobile defense?
CORRECT ANSWER : A defensive task that concentrates
on the destruction or defeat of the enemy through a decisive attack by a striking force. (ADRP 3-90, p.65)
Question: What is a retrograde defense?
CORRECT ANSWER : organized movement away from the
enemy.
Question: What are two types of obstacles?
CORRECT ANSWER : Existing and Reinforcing
Question: Which obstacles focus on manmade and natural?
CORRECT ANSWER : Existing
Question: Which obstacle focus on tactical and protective?
CORRECT ANSWER : Reinforcing
Question: What are four obstacle effects?
CORRECT ANSWER : Disrupt, Turn, Fix, Block
Question: Stop an attacker along a specific AA or prevent EN
from advancing thru EA.
CORRECT ANSWER : Block
Question: Divert enemy formation off one AA to an adjacent
AA or into EA
CORRECT ANSWER : Turn
Question: Break up enemy's formation & tempo; cause a
piecemeal attack.