117 MARFORSOC Overview and key Concepts Fundamentals

Question 1

Who is under MRSG

Answer 1

H&s Company / 1stMRSB /2nd MRSB / 3rd MRSB

Question 2

Who is under MRR

Answer 2

1st MRB/2MRB/3MRB

Question 3

Who is under MARFORSOC

Answer 3

MRR/MRTC/MRSG

Question 4

Direct action is

Answer 4

Entail short -duration strikes and other small-scall offensive actions conducted with specialized military capabilities to seize, destroy, capture, exploit, recover or damage designated targets in hostile, denied, or diplomatically and/or politically sensitive environments

Question 5

Special reconnaissance

Answer 5

entails reconnaissance and surveillance actions normally conducted in a clandestine or covert manner to collect or verify information of strategic or operational significance, employing military capabilities not normally found in conventional forces(CF)

Question 6

Counterterrorism (CT)

Answer 6

is activities and operations taken to neutralize terrorist and their networking order to render them incapable of using unlawful violence to instill fear and coerce governments or societies to achieve their goals

Question 7

foreign internal defense(FID)/Security Force Assistance(SFA)

Answer 7

Refers to US activities that support a host nations subversions, lawlessness, insurgencies, terrorism and other threats to their internal security and stability

Question 8

Counter insurgency

Answer 8

comprehensive civilian and military efforts design to simultaneously defeat, contain insurgency and address its root causes

Question 9

Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD)

Answer 9

SOF Support USG efforts to curtail the development, possession, proliferate use and effects of weapons of mass destruction, related expertise, materials, technologies and means of delivery by state and non-state actors

Question 10

Hostage rescue and recover(HRR)

Answer 10

operations are sensitive crisis response missions in response to terrorist threats and incidents, offense operations in support of hostage rescue and recovery can include the recapture of US Facilities, installations and sensitive material overseas

Question 11

Foreign Humanitarian Assistance

Answer 11

is a range of department of defense humanitarian activities conducted outside the US and its territories to relive or reduce human suffering, disease, hunger and privation

Question 12

Military Information Support Operations

Answer 12

are planned to convey selective information and indicators to foreign audience to influence their emotions, motives , objective reasoning and ultimately the behavior of foreign government’s, organization, groups and individuals in a manner favorable to the originator

Question 13

Civil affairs operations

Answer 13

are actions planned, executed and assessed by civil affairs that enhance the operations environments, identify and mitigate underlying causes of instability within civil society or involved the application of functional specialty skills normally the responsibility of civil government.

Question 14

the Five truths

Answer 14

-Humans are mire important than hardware
-SOF cannot be mass produced
-Quality is better than quantity
-competent SOF cannot be created for emergencies
-Most special operations require non-SOF support

Question 15

SOF Imperatives

Answer 15

-Understand the operational environment
-recognize political implications