Ch. 110 Tractical Measures Fundamentals

Question 1

Describe unaided day/night observation technique!

Answer 1

• AVOID all unnecessary movement
• remain motionless while observing
• Use all available concealment
• Expose nothing that reflects light
• Blend w/ background
• Avoid skyline
• Distort or change regular outline of objects
• Remain in the shade

Question 2

Describe Off-Center vision method!!

Answer 2

-View an object by looking at 6-10 degrees above,below, or to either side rather directly at it.

Question 3

Describe Scanning Method!!!!

Answer 3

-Looking from right to left or left to right using a slow, regular scanning movement

Question 4

Describe the Strip Method!!!!!

Answer 4

• Look at ground nearest you
• Search a narrow strip 50m or less deep
• Go right to left parallel to your front
• Search left to right on a similar strip farther away and overlap the first strip

Question 5

What steps to take to preserve night vision when in lighted or illumination areas?

Answer 5

• Close one eye to preserve night vision
• Vision is good until other eye adapts
• Use red light to preserve night vision
• Fatigue, lack of oxygen, long exposure to sunlight, alcohol, nicotine w/ 48 hrs, and age help decrease night vision

Question 6

What techniques enhance hearing?

Answer 6

• Hearing is amplified w/ mouth open
• Remove helmet
• Hold ear close to ground

Question 7

What does Intel report SALUTE stand for?

Answer 7

-Size and/ or strength
-Activity or actions
-Location and direction
-Unit identification
-Time of observation
-Equipment and weapons
EX. 7 enemy soldiers, traveling SW, crossed road junction on BLACK RIDGE, unit unknown, at 211300 Aug carrying 1 machine gun and 1 rocket launcher

Question 8

What are the 5 paragraphs of an operations order (SMEAC)?

Answer 8

• Situation (environment, enemy/friendly forces, attachments/detachments)
• Mission (task & purpose)
• Execution (plan from start to finish)
• Administration (material needed, POW handling, casualty Evac)
• Command & Signal ( chain of command, order of march,call signs, freq & signals)

Question 9

Define the term SAFE?

Answer 9

• Security (set security)
• Automatic weapons (place MG most likely avenue of approach
• Field of fire (clear fields of fire)
• Entrenchment (dig in position)

Question 10

What is a individual fighting position?

Answer 10

-Wide enough to accommodate the shoulders of a man sitting on a fire step/ 4ft deep

Question 11

What is a 2 man fighting position?

Answer 11

-Essentially 2 adjacent one-man fighting holes

Question 12

What are the advantages of a 2 man fighting position?

Answer 12

-Continuous observation, mutual assistance & reassurance and redistribution of ammunition

Question 13

What are the disadvantages of a 2 man fighting position?

Answer 13

-Less protection against tank tank crossing, bombing/shelling fragments

Question 14

Define Armor Protection Level System (APLS)?

Answer 14

-To establish standardized body armor protection

Question 15

What are the 4 levels of APLS?

Answer 15

• Level 0 (no body armor worn)
• Level 1 (Vest/PC w/soft armor only)
• Level 2 (Vest/PC w/ front/back hard plates
• Level 3 (Vest/PC w/ front,back,and side plates)

Question 16

What is Camouflage?

Answer 16

-Anything that keeps yourself, equipment, and position for looking like what it really is

Question 17

What is Cover?

Answer 17

• Provide protection from bullets, fragments, flames, etc.

- It can man made or natural

Question 18

When do you use High Crawl?

Answer 18

• Cover and/or concealment are available
• Poor visibility reduces enemy observation
• Greater speed of movement is required

Question 19

When do you use Low Crawl?

Answer 19

• Cover and concealment are scarce
• The enemy had good observation over the area in which the scout is moving
• Speed is not essentail

Question 20

MEDEVAC has how many priority levels?

Answer 20

-4

Question 21

Define Priority 1?

Answer 21

• Urgent

- To save life/limb or eyesight in 2 hrs

Question 22

Define Priority 1A?

Answer 22

• Urgent Surgical

- need surgical intervention to save life or limb

Question 23

Define Priority 2?

Answer 23

• Priority

- If not evacuated in 4 hrs or become and Urgent

Question 24

Define Priority 3?

Answer 24

• Routine

- Sick and wounded evacuated within 24 hrs

Question 25

Define Priority 4?

Answer 25

• Convenience

- No life threaten treatment needed

Question 26

How many lines are in the NATO CASEVAC request?

Answer 26

-9

Question 27

What is Line 1 for the 9 Line?

Answer 27

-Location of pick-up site (6-8 digit grid)

Question 28

What is Line 2 for the 9 Line?

Answer 28

-Radio freq or call sign

Question 29

What is Line 3 for the 9 line?

Answer 29

-# of PT’s
(A) Urgent-1hr
(B) Priority-4hr
(C) Routine-24hr

Question 30

What is Line 4 for the 9 line?

Answer 30

-Special equipment required
(A) None
(B) Hoist
(C) Extraction Equip
(D) Ventilator

Question 31

What is Line 5 for the 9 line?

Answer 31

-# of PT’s by type
(L) Litter
(A) Ambulatory

Question 32

What is Line 6 for the 9 line?

Answer 32

-Security at pickup site
(E) Enemy troops in area
(N) No enemy troops
(P) Possible enemy troops
(X) Enemy troops present, armed escort required

Question 33

What is Line 7 for the 9 line?

Answer 33

-Method of marking pickup site
(A) Panels
(B) Pyrotechnics
(C) Smoke
(D) None
(E) Other

Question 34

What is Line 8 for the 9 line?

Answer 34

-Pt nationality status
(A) US
(B) US civilian
(C) Non-US military
(D) Non-US Civilian

Question 35

What is Line 9 for the 9 line?

Answer 35

-CBR Contamination
(N) Nuclear/Radiological
(B) Biological
(C) Chemical
(D) None