Battalion Formal Inspection Questions
1. What do the letters JROTC stand for?
Answer: Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps
2. What do the letters LET stand for?
Answer: Leadership Education Training
3. What is the Mission of JROTC?
Answer: To motivate young people to become better citizens
4. How many merits equal one grade point?
Answer: 5 merits
5. What does the gold star represent?
Answer: Honor Unit with Distinction
6. What are the colors on the American flag and what do they stand for?
Answer: Red = Hardiness and Valor
White = Purity and Innocence
Blue = Vigilance, Perseverance, and Justice
7. How is the Flag displayed to indicate mourning?
Answer: The Flag is raised briskly to the top of the flagpole and then lowered to
half-staff
8. What are the three Flags used by the U.S. Army?
Answer: Garrison Flag (20’ by 38’) – Flown on holidays and other special
occasions
Post Flag (10’ by 19’) – Flown Daily
Storm Flag (5’ by 9 ½’) – Flown during stormy or windy weather
9. What is the company flag called?
Answer: The Guidon
10. When you are indoors and the National Anthem plays, what should you do?
Answer: Stand at attention and face the flag or music
11. Where is the place of Honor in the military?
Answer: The right side
12. In what order do military personnel enter a military vehicle?
Answer: The junior person enters first with the most senior person entering last
13. What is the normal saluting distance?
Answer: Six to thirty paces
14. What are the two parts of a two part command?
Answer: The preparatory command and the command of execution
15. What is the normal cadence of march?
Answer: 120 steps per minutes
16. What is the angle formed by the feet when at the position of attention?
Answer: Forty-Five degrees
17. What is the distance between the feet when at the position of parade rest?
Answer: Ten inches
18. What is the normal length of step forward when marching?
Answer: Thirty inches
19. What is the normal length of a step backwards?
Answer: Fifteen inches
20. What is the weight of the M1903 rifle?
Answer: 8.69 lbs
21. What is the caliber of the M1903 rifle?
Answer: .30 caliber
22. What are the two ways to become an American citizen?
Answer: By birth and naturalization
23. What are the first ten amendments to the Constitution called?
Answer: The Bill of Rights
24. What is the definition of a map?
Answer: A line drawing, to scale, of a portion of the earth’s surface as seen from
above
25. How do you read a map?
Answer: Right and Up
26. What are the five basic map colors?
Answer:
Black = Manmade features (buildings, roads)
Blue = Water or drainage (Lakes, rivers, swamps)
Brown = Elevation and relief (Contour lines)
Green = Vegetation (Woods, orchards, vineyards)
Red = Classifies certain manmade features such as main roads, populated areas,
and boundaries
27. What are the three north’s found on a military map?
A. True North
B. Grid North
C. Magnetic North
28. How close to a point would a six-digit coordinate put you?
Answer: Within 100 meters
29. What are the four-lifesaving steps?
A. Open the Airway and restore breathing
B. Stop the Bleeding
C. Control and treat for shock
D. Dress and bandage the wound
30. What is the preferred method of restoring breathing?
Answer: Mouth-to-Mouth resuscitation
31. What is the preferred method to controlling bleeding?
Answer: Apply direct pressure with a pressure dressing
32. What is the preferred method of preventing infection?
Answer: Apply a sterile dressing
33. What is the distance at which we fire on the range?
Answer: Ten meters or thirty feet
34. What are the three positions we use for marksmanship?
Answer: Prone, Kneeling, and Standing
35. Who is responsible for range safety?
Answer: Everyone present on the range
36. In marksmanship, what is the lowest score you can shoot and still earn a badge?
Answer: 150 points
37. When should you be allowed to run on the range?
Answer: Never
38. What is the definition of military leadership?
Answer: The process of influencing subordinates to complete the mission by
providing purpose, direction, and motivation
39. What are the two types of fractures?
Answer: Simple (Closed) and Compound (Open)
40. What percentage of your grade is made up of written examination?
Answer: Forty Percent
41. What is the definition of first aid?
Answer: The immediate care given to an ill or injured individual until qualified
medical treatment can be administered