Composite Warfare Commanders

Question 1

What are the 3 tiers to the composite warfare structure

Answer 1

Warfare Commanders, Functional Group Commanders, Coordinators

Question 2

Warfare Commanders

Answer 2

Established for extended periods of time; an officer to whom the OTC may delegate authority to conduct some or all offensive/defensive functions of the force is the Composite Warfare Commander (the warfare commanders work under them); can autonomously initiate action and deploy weapons/sensors

Question 3

Functional Group Commanders

Answer 3

Established to perform designated command functions that are generally more limited in scope and duration than warfare commanders; no fixed list of functional groups, but there are common ones; can autonomously initiate action and deploy weapons/sensors

Question 4

Coordinators

Answer 4

Don’t initiate autonomous actions; asset and resource managers; specific coordinators relevant to us: air resource element coordinator (AREC = CO of CVN = ROMEO) they create the airplan, helicopter element coordinator (HEC aka Gooey), Submarine operations coordinating authority (SOCA aka sub guy Josh), submarine element coordinator (SEC aka sub guy Josh)

Question 5

Air and Missile Defense Commander

Answer 5

WHISKEY. Captain of Shotgun Cruiser. Direct defensive actions taken to destroy, nullify or reduce the effectiveness of hostile air threats

Question 6

Information Operations Warfare Commander

Answer 6

QUEBEC. O6 on the CVN. Intel guy

Question 7

Sea Combatant Commander

Answer 7

ZULU. On the CVN = DESRON. Can function as both Xray and Sierra if needed

Question 8

Antisubmarine Warfare Commander

Answer 8

X-RAY. Defends against sub threats.

Question 9

Surface Warfare Commander

Answer 9

SIERRA

Question 10

Strike Warfare Commander

Answer 10

PAPA aka CAG. Controls the air wing. Main focus is land targets, but can work with other warfare commanders for air/surface threats

Question 11

TACOM

Answer 11

Tactical Command. Whoever has overall command over 77’s aircraft (CAG). CTF 74 owns all 7th fleet subs (Can be transferred to the strike group for integrated ops, but can always be taken back). Whoever has TACOM has responsibility for waterspace management (could be SOCA if delegated)

Question 12

TACON

Answer 12

Tactical Control. Who is controlling us at the current time (CAG or CO of CRUDES). For subs, if CSG has TACOM, SOCA has TACON. Any other time CTF 74 has TACOM and TACON.

Question 13

OPCON

Answer 13

Operational Control. Subs are always owned by CTF 74 so they can always lend them out to CSG and take them back. CAG always retains OPCON of us