Military Symbol Two categories: What are they? - ✅✅-- Framed: includes unit,
equipment, installation, and activity symbols
- Unframed: includes control measure and tactical symbols.
What are the mission variables? - ✅✅-Mission, Enemy, Terrain, Troops, Time, Civil
Considerations (METT-TC)
-Utilized to filter information
categorized by the OV's
-Utilized in concert with OV's IOT refine their situational understanding of the OE
-Mission focused
-Understand
-Visualize
-Describe
-Direct
A military symbol - ✅✅ -graphic representation of a unit, equipment, installation,
activity, control measure, or tactical task relevant to military operations that is used
for planning or to represent the common operational picture on a map, display, or
overlay (ADRP 1-02)
Common military terms - ✅✅ -Terms allow members of North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO), Joint Forces, and the individual services to speak common
military terms across operations in regard to multiple activities.
Common/Familiar terms: - ✅✅-Adversary
Area of Influence
Area of Interest
Area of Operation
Area of Responsibility
Destroy
Boundary
Close Air Support
Clear
Physical Domain: What does this mean? - ✅✅-Air
Space
Land
Maritime
unknown
Military Symbol Color (fill): ??? - ✅✅-Blue: friendly or assumed friend
Red: hostile or suspect
,Green: neutral
Yellow: unknown or pending
What are the Friend/hostile symbol categories? - ✅✅-Friendly (Square):
Present/Planned (dashed)
Hostile (Diamond): Present/ Suspect (Dashed)
What are ICONS, MODIFIES, AND AMPLIFIERS? - ✅✅ -- The icon is the
innermost part of a symbol. The icon provides an abstract pictorial or alphanumeric
representation of units, equipment, installations, or activities. This publication
distinguishes between
icons that must be framed and icons for which framing is optional.
- A modifier provides an abstract pictorial or alphanumeric representation, displayed
in conjunction with an icon. The modifier provides additional information about the
icon (unit, equipment, installation, or activity) being displayed
- An amplifier provides additional information about the symbol being portrayed and
is displayed
outside the frame
What are the two status symbol types for the enemy? - ✅✅-Present and Suspect
What is a graphic control measure? - ✅✅ -A control measure is a graphic used on
maps and displays to regulate Forces and warfighting functions
(pg. 8-1 ADRP 1-02).
Three Graphic Control Measure Categories: - ✅✅-Points, lines, or areas
Graphic Control Measure Colors: - ✅✅-Friendly-black or blue
Enemy-red or black
How is a black enemy control measure shown? - ✅✅-Abbreviated ENY in amplifier
field 15.
What about neutral or unknown? - ✅✅-Obstacles-green
CBRN-yellow
✅✅
Where would you find information on how to properly build a unit icon? -
-ADRP 1-02
Fire Support Coordination Measure (FSCM) definition - ✅✅
-A fire support
coordination measure is a measure employed by commanders to facilitate the rapid
, engagement of targets and simultaneously provide safeguards for friendly forces (JP
3-0).
Fire support coordination measures govern the employment of artillery and mortars,
close combat attack and interdiction attack by Army aviation rotary-wing aircraft, fires
from unmanned aircraft, and close air support and air interdiction by fixed-wing
aircraft.
What drives the establishment or implementation of FSCMs? - ✅✅-- CDR
guidance
- Location of Friendly forces
- Scheme of Maneuver
- Anticipated Enemy Actions
Two broad FSCM categories: - ✅✅-- Permissive
- Restrictive
What is the difference between the two FSCM Categories? - ✅✅ -Permissive:
Facilitate the attack of targets by reducing the coordination necessary for the
clearance of fires. (FM 3-09)
- Coordinated Fire Line (CFL)
- Fire Support Coordination Line (FSCL)
- Free-Fire Area (FFA)
- Kill Box
Restrictive: those that provide safeguards for friendly forces, noncombatants,
facilities, or terrain. (FM 3-09)
- No-Fire Area (NFA)
- Restrictive Fire Area (RFA)
- Restrictive Fire Line (RFL)
- Fire Support Area (FSA)
- Fire Support Station (FSS)
- Zone of Fire (ZF
✅✅
The President and SecDef exercise authority and control of the Armed Forces
through what two distinct branches of the chain of command? - -1 One branch
runs from the President, through the SecDef, through the CJCS, to the CCDRs for
missions and forces assigned to their commands.
2 The Military Departments operate under the authority, direction, and control of the
SecDef
President of the United States does what? - ✅✅ -- Commander In Chief
- Senior statutory member of the National Security Council (NSC)
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