Basic Training Test#6: Battlefield Tactics

Here are a series of tests concerning battlefield tactics, Recruit. To move on you have to demonstrate that you can think like a soldier.

Your Company is advancing across a battlefield. The enemy has a series of machine gun posts plus riflemen in trenches but you are not sure if they are aware of your movement yet because of morning fog. What's the best formation to use as you advance?

a. A series of single files. One soldier following another.

b. A series of battle lines stretching across the battlefield

c. An attack column. A mass of men 20 soldiers wide by 50 rows deep.

d. Men spread across the battlefield in random order and crawl towards the enemy

What is the best formation for your advance?


A.single file lines

B.wide battle line

C.attack column

D.random order