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1. What is a Battle Drill?
A battle drill is a collective action rapidly executed without applying a deliberate decision-making process.
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2. How does a crew drill differ from a battle drill?
A crew drill is related to a crew of a weapon or piece of equipment.
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3. What are the characteristics of a battle drill?
-Requires minimal leader orders to accomplish and are standard throughout the Army
-Sequential actions are vital to success in combat or critical to preserving life
-They apply to platoon or smaller units
-They are trained responses to enemy actions or leader orders
-They represent mental steps followed for offensive and defensive actions in training and combat
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4. Why do battle drills apply to only platoon or smaller units?
At higher levels, integration of systems and synchronization demand an analysis of MET-T for each situation, and therefore cannot be standardized at those levels.
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5. What are the three phases of training that battle drill training should follow?
-walk (explain and demonstrate)
-crawl (practice)
-run (perform)
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6. You are performing a battle drill with your squad. What initiates the performance of the drill?
The cue
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7. Where is the cue found, in the task, conditions, or standards of a task?
The cue is found in the conditions.
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8. Trainers must decide training priorities for the drills and individual and leader tasks that support them. To do this, what must a leader do?
-Identify the unit’s critical tactical missions
-Select drills that support specific METL related tasks and the commander’s training guidance
-Rank drills in order of:
importance to mission accomplishment
the unit’s current level of proficiency
their degree of difficulty
-Identify individual and leader tasks that support the drills selected for training
-Conduct individual training
-Set up conditions for training
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9. Why is cross-training essential to battle drill training?
So that the unit may perform the battle drills despite personnel losses
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10. What determines the phase of training (walk, crawl, or run) for battle drills?
The level of proficiency of the soldiers
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11. When proficiency is obtained for a drill, what can a leader do to improve proficiency?
A leader must incorporate difficulty and realism as training progresses (limited visibility, NBC environment, live fires)
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