401-404 Flashcards
What concept is the Air Force mission configured to meet?
Expeditionary Military Force.
What by definition, can conduct military operations on short notice in response to crises with
forces tailored to achieve limited and clearly stated objectives?
The Air and Space Expeditionary Force.
What is the principal forum for discussion on national security policy issues?
The National Security Council System
What is a continuous process that helps the commanders see what they have, where they need it
to be, and then enables them to decide the most effective way to get there?
The Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution System
Of what is the ARC composed?
All units, organizations, and members of the ANG of the United States and USAFR
The scheme or proposed method for accomplishing a mission or reaching an objective.
Plan.
The relocation of forces to a desired area of operation.
Deployment.
A predetermined area in the MTF.
MCC.
Supposing something without positive proof.
Assumption
An emergency involving military force.
Contingency.
A quality or capability of military force which permits movement from place to place while retaining the ability to fulfill the primary mission.
Mobility.
Consolidates a facility’s peacetime and wartime capabilities and plans.
MCRP.
The mission for which a measured unit has been equipped, organized, or designed.
DOC.
The area where the MTF commander coordinates actions in support of the assigned mission.
MCC.
Classifying or reclassifying the sick and injured according to urgency of treatment required
Triage.
Through what does the Air Force establish a predictable, standardized battle rhythm ensuring
rotational forces are properly organized, trained, equipped, and ready to sustain capabilities while
rabidly responding to emerging crises?
Through the Air and Space Expeditionary Force.
Supports critical home station operations.
In-place support.
Primary pool from which the Air Force fulfills requirements.
Readily available force.
Consists of those forces assigned to organizations responsible to carry Air Force level functions.
Intuitional force.
Includes common user assets, such as global mobility forces, special recovery forces, space forces, and other uniquely categorized forces that provide support to the DOD.
Enabler-force.
The AEF library contains blocks of time within how many primary tempo bands that represent 100 percent of the AF-postured capabilities?
Five tempo bands.
What is the AEF life cycle schedule?
Two, 12 month life cycles.
For most of the forces, how is the AEF battle rhythm spent?
In normal training during which forces concentrate on unit missions and basic proficiency events.
What band has a four-month vulnerability period?
Band “A”.
What do Airmen do if they are not tasked to deploy?
They will remain in an on-call status to reinforce forward-deployed forces or provide additional capability.
What does the AEF reporting tool allow units the ability to report?
UTC level readiness data.
What band has a six-month vulnerability period?
Band “B” through “E”.
What does a numbered expeditionary Air Force consist of?
Multiple AEWs, with subordinate AEGs, and AESs
What makes up unit task codes?
Personnel, equipment or personnel and equipment.
Who rates each UTC against the unit’s current ability to deploy and employs the unit task codes?
Commanders.
What AF discipline does DCAPES provide real-time command, control, planning, and execution information for Air Force functional users?
Operations, logistics, manpower, and personnel.
What provides the USAF with the ability to perform operational planning and execution at an increased level of detail that complements joint planning?
DCAPES.
In the ART report, what does the yellow rating mean?
The UTC has a missing requirement, but that missing or deficient capability does not prevent the UTC from being tasked and accomplishing its mission in a contingency and/or AEF rotation.
According to the DOD, what is a unit task code?
A JCS developed assigned code, consisting of five characters that uniquely identify a type “unit” or force package.
What does derivative classification mean?
This means it incorporates, paraphrases, restates, and/or generates in a new form, information that is already classified, and marking the newly developed material consistent with the classification markings that apply on the source information.
