1st Volume - HVAC/R General Subjects Flashcards
What Outlines the basis of CE Organizations
Joint Publication 3-34, Engineer Doctrine for Joint Operations
What breaks the CE organization into two basic units?
Joint Publication 3-34, Engineer Doctrine for Joint Operations
What are the two basic units of CE organizations?
base civil engineer (BCE) units and RED HORSE units.
What is the basic organizational unit for civil engineer operations?
The BCE unit
How do BCE units operate?
As a combat support force, providing direct support to an operational mission.
What is the BCE unit’s primary mission?
To establish, sustain, and restore the base infrastructure.
What does infrastructure include?
Buildings, utilities (water, gas, electricity), and roads.
What are CE’s two core missions?
Wartime and peacetime
What is the BCE unit’s secondary mission?
Provide critical operational support such as fire protection, crash rescue, disaster preparedness, EOD, environmental, housing, and technical engineer services.
How is the CE organization structured?
As an objective squadron.
Why is CE structured as an objective squadron?
To implement the Air Force’s goal to streamline functions and responsibilities.
What enables us to do our job more effectively using fewer people?
The objective squadron concept.
What does the Housing Flight provide?
All permanent party personnel with adequate government housing when It is available or assists them with locating adequate off-base housing through referral services. It provides and manages furnishings where authorized and manages all aspects of the housing program
Who provides cradle-to-grave technical design and construction surveillance of operations and maintenance projects by contract?
The Engineering Flight
What empowers decision-making and work activities at the lowest level in the Air Force?
Objective squadron concept
What does RED HORSE stand for?
Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineer
What RED HORSE units are structured for?
wartime operations to provide heavy engineer capability
Who provides air component commanders with a dedicated and flexible unit capable of airfield and base heavy construction and repair?
RED HORSE
What unit has 400 squadron personnel and over 1,800 tons of heavy construction and support equipment and vehicles?
RED HORSE
Where are requirements for the Prime BEEF program located?
Air Force Instruction (AFI) 10–210, Prime Base Engineer Emergency Force (BEEF) Program
What five-character, alphanumeric code uniquely identifies each type unit of the Armed Forces?
Unit Type Codes (UTC)
Who establishes Unit Type Codes (UTC)?
MAJCOMs
What code establish the size, composition and equipment that make up Prime BEEF teams?
Unit Type Codes (UTC)
Who writes a designed operational capability (DOC) statement for each unit assigned to them?
MAJCOMs
What are DOC statements are based on?
the number and type of authorized personnel in each unit
The basic CE contingency mission includes what?
Force beddown of Air Force units and weapons systems; Operation and maintenance of Air Force facilities, infrastructure, and installations; Aircraft rescue and facility fire suppression; Command and control staff augmentation; Emergency repair of air bases; Construction management of emergency repair and force beddown activities; Rendering safe and disposal of explosive ordnance; Monitoring and protecting resources subject to conventional, nuclear, biological, and chemical attack.
What response time do MAJCOMs use for Prime BEEF forces?
24 hours for active units and 28 hours after activation for ANG and AFRES units
What do Prime BEEF UTC core positions represent?
minimally acceptable skills and proficiency levels necessary to organize and lead the most demanding contingency tasks required of the UTC; they serve as the core of experts for the UTC.
What are Prime BEEF UTC non-core positions?
those that have the same specialty but a lower skill level or those where substitution by other CE Air Force Specialties (AFSs) is permitted
Which positions combine to deliver the total manpower necessary for the UTC to conduct successful operations?
Core and non-core positions
What is the basis for all Prime BEEF training?
AFI 10–210, Prime Base Engineer Emergency Force (BEEF) Program
Who must attend Silver Flag training?
All personnel filling critical UTC positions
What establishes a systematic framework for decision-making with regard to the development of Air Force installations?
AF Comprehensive planning
What incorporates Air Force programs such as operational, environmental, and urban planning to identify and assess development alternatives and ensure compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws, regulations, and policies?
AF Comprehensive planning
What allows commanders to thoroughly analyze a variety of factors before making a decision that affects the installation or the surrounding community?
AF Comprehensive planning
What keeps everyone on the same page to make sure we meet mission requirements?
AF Comprehensive planning
What incorporates many documents and graphics that provide relevant information used in the planning and decision-making process?
AF Comprehensive plan
What are the four basic parts of the comprehensive plan?
general plan, component plans, special plans and studies, and maps
Which plan is a decision-maker’s summary document that contains text, maps, graphics, photographs, and other information, in a condensed format?
General plan
Which plan generally synopsizes information from the component plans as well as other planning documents?
General plan
Which plan allows easy updates and provides flexibility in responding to changes in the mission?
General plan
Which plans provide DETAILED information in the form of graphics, textual data, narrative, and maps that focus on specific functional areas?
Component Plans
Which plans provide an EXTENDED level of information and detail as needed to support execution of Air Force Civil Engineer programs
Component Plans
What are the four component plans under the comprehensive plan structure?
Composite Constraints and Opportunities; Infrastructure; Land Use and Transportation; and, Capital Improvements Program
What helps visually explain the narrative contained in the general plan, component plans, and special plans and studies?
Maps
What informs military planners of what the capabilities of an installation are and how they fit into the overall battle plans?
The USAF GeoBase Program
What is the vision of the USAF GeoBase?
One installation, one map
What is the high-resolution base map for an installation and includes facilities that all functional communities typically view for reference?
The Common Installation Picture (CIP)
What map includes an overhead satellite image or aerial photograph?
The Common Installation Picture (CIP)
What should serve as the foundation for the USAF Comprehensive Planning C-1 Installation Layout Map?
The Common Installation Picture (CIP)
Who maintains the Common Installation Picture (CIP) at each installation?
Civil Engineers
GeoBase is comprised of four unique decision support environments. What are they?
Garrison GeoBase, Strategic GeoBase, GeoReach Process, and Expeditionary GeoBase
What GeoBase environment enhances the many overlapping mapping efforts across major and minor installations with a single, coherent approach?
Garrison GeoBase
What GeoBase environment provides the structure for base operational support (BOS)?
Garrison GeoBase
What GeoBase environment provides the foundation for the Strategic GeoBase program environment?
Garrison GeoBase
What GeoBase environment is also a key training device for ground support mapping of forward operating locations (FOLs) during expeditionary operations?
Garrison GeoBase
What GeoBase environment offers the Air Force, DoD, and other government leadership the means to visualize Air Force installations through generalized views of detailed imagery and map data maintained as part of Garrison GeoBase?
Strategic GeoBase
What process provides senior planners and airmen with new intelligence enabling improved FOL selection, Time-Phased Force and Deployment Data planning, and accelerated bed-down of deployed personnel?
The GeoReach Process
What provides support to the Air Force Global Mobility Concept of Operations and the Expeditionary Site Survey Process?
The GeoReach Process
What is a lean, forward deployed version of Garrison GeoBase capabilities?
Expeditionary GeoBase
What provides provisional commanders and airmen enhanced situational awareness of the expeditionary base?
Expeditionary GeoBase
What enables Expeditionary GeoBase and sustains capabilities acquired at home stations through training?
The GeoReach Process
What is a template-based site designed to provide a standard for presenting information in support of the The Expeditionary Site Mapping (ESM) Program?
The Expeditionary Site Mapping (ESM) Portal
What makes the distribution of site mapping information and map visualization content to DoD users easy?
The Expeditionary Site Mapping (ESM) Portal
What portal aligns leadership’s vision for the Expeditionary Site Mapping (ESM) program with current and future site mapping capabilities and development initiatives?
The Expeditionary Site Mapping (ESM) Portal
What provides a common view of the Expeditionary Site Mapping (ESM) program throughout the Air Force?
The Expeditionary Site Mapping (ESM) Portal
What are geospatial data layers supporting one or more functional communities’ specific missions or processes?
Mission Data Sets (MDS)
What Air Force document outlines the basis of the Civil Engineer organizations?
Joint Publication 3–34, Engineer Doctrine for Joint Operations
What is the difference between an Air and Space Expeditionary Wing and an Air and Space Expeditionary Force?
The AEW must deploy quickly anywhere in the world while the AEF always knows when it is going to deploy and for how long
The Civil Engineer Operations Flight includes the elements of Material Acquisition, Facility
Maintenance, Heavy Repair, and
Infrastructure Support.
A RED HORSE unit will deploy with virtually all support necessary to support what function(s)?
Force beddown and expedient construction.
Who schedules and coordinates Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve training
deployments?
HQ AFCESA.
MAJCOMs ensure that Prime BEEF operational and training activities comply with
environmental laws and standards described in
AFPD 32–70, Environmental Quality.
A Prime BEEF unit’s response time
is always 24 hours after the mission begins
What Air Force instructional guidance is the basis for all Prime BEEF training?
AFI 10–210, Prime Base Engineer Emergency Force (BEEF) Program.
When a Prime BEEF member relocates to another duty station, what happens to his or her training record?
A printout of the training record or AF Form 1098 is placed in the member’s AF Form 623,
Individual Training Record.
After receiving initial nuclear, biological, and chemical defense and explosive ordnance
reconnaissance training, how often will you get refresher training for proper wear of chemical gear?
Annually.
What is your primary weapon when assigned to a Prime BEEF position?
M–16 rifle.
The Air Force comprehensive planning process
establishes a systematic framework for making decisions about AF installations.
In a comprehensive plan, what helps to visually explain the narrative contained in the
general plan, component plans, and special plans and studies?
Maps.
What is a key training device for ground support mapping of forward operating locations during expeditionary operations?
Garrison GeoBase.
The generalized installation views created by Strategic GeoBase are located on a server at
the Pentagon.
What enables the Expeditionary GeoBase?
GeoReach process.
What are Mission Data Sets?
Geospatial data layers supporting a functional community’s mission or processes.
Which system identifies duties and tasks for every position needed to accomplish the Air
Force mission?
Military personnel classification.
Each Air Force Specialty is combined into a broad and more general functional category
called
a career field
An apprentice learning a trade is at the
3-skill level
What is the Chief Enlisted Manager code that identifies a CMSgt or CMSgt-select as the top enlisted manager for Civil Engineers?`
3E000.
Which skill level must you obtain before promotion to staff sergeant?
5-skill level.
Who is responsible for obtaining the highest possible score on your end-of-course exam for CDCs?
You.
What is the forum to change the Career Field Education and Training Plan?
Utilization and Training Workshop.
Which proficiency codes identify subject knowledge?
A, B, C, and D.
If you can recall the methods, procedures, tools, and equipment associated with a task, you
have task knowledge.
As a minimum, what must trainees complete for skill level upgrade?
All core and critical tasks in the STS.
For a diamond task, what must the trainee do for upgrade?
Complete the task’s Air Force Quality Training Package and pass CerTest.
What electronic training program consolidates all of your training forms into a single database?
Air Force Training Records
Who must sign entries electronically on the 623a screen in Air Force Training Records?
You and your supervisor.
Which Air Force Training Records screen allows your section to document training for one of a kind systems?
797.
Which Air Force Training Records screen allows your trainer to document recurring training such as lockout tagout, HAZCOM, CPR, and the law of armed conflict?
1098.
You supervisor will sign you off on which screen in Air Force Training Records as you complete the required Air Force Qualification Training Packages?
AFQTP.