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Day 5: Joint Ops & Joint Staff Flashcards

1
Q

The primary way the Department of Defense (DOD) employs two or more Services (from at least two Military Departments) in a single operation is through what?

A

joint operations

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2
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A joint force operates under a single what?

A

joint force commander (JFC)

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3
Q

The capacity of our Armed Forces to operate as a cohesive joint team is a key advantage in any _____________

A

operational environment (OE)

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4
Q

How many groups are there in joint functions?

A

7

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5
Q

What are the groups in joint functions?

A
  • C2 (Command & Control)
  • Information
  • Intelligence
  • Fires
  • Movement and maneuver
  • Protection
  • Sustainment
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6
Q

The exercise of authority and direction by a commander over assigned and attached forces to accomplish the mission

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Command and Control (C2)

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7
Q

What are the JFC command authorities?

A
  • Combatant Command (COCOM)
  • Administrative Control (ADCON)
  • Operational Control (OPCON)
  • Tactical Control (TACON)
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8
Q

Identify

  • Warfighting Authority
  • Can not be delegated

Joint Functions

A

Command Authority

Command Relationships (COMREL)

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9
Q

Identify

Death / Discipline / Decorations

Joint Functions

A

Administrative Control (ADCON)

Command Relationships (COMREL)

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10
Q

Identify

Alignment of forces to strategic objectives

Joint Functions

A

Operational Control (OPCON)

Command Relationships (COMREL)

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11
Q

Identify

“Boots on the ground”
Execution of tactical tasks to support operational and strategic objective

Joint Functions

A

Tactical Control (TACON)

Command Relationships (COMREL)

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12
Q

Identify

The management and application of information and its deliberate integration with other joint functions to change or maintain perceptions, attitudes, and other elements that drive desired behaviors and to support human and automated decision making

Joint Functions

A

Information

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13
Q

Identify

  • Providing integrated, evaluated, analyzed, and interpreted information concerning foreign nations, hostile or potentially hostile forces or elements, or areas of actual or potential operations
  • Tells JFCs what the enemy is doing, is capable of doing, and may do in the future

Joint Functions

A

Intelligence

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14
Q

Identify

Use available weapons and other systems to create a specific effect on a target

Joint Functions

A

Fires

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15
Q

Identify

Encompasses the disposition of joint forces to conduct operations by securing positional advantages before or during combat operations and by exploiting tactical success to achieve operational and strategic objectives

Joint Functions

A

Movement and maneuver

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16
Q

Identify

Force protection, force health protection (FHP), and other protection activities

Joint Functions

A

Protection

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17
Q

Identify

The provision of logistics and personnel services to maintain operations through mission accomplishment and redeployment of the force

Joint Functions

A

Sustainment

18
Q

Identify

A classified document that provides operational instructions to all branches of the U.S. armed forces and serves as the organizational directive to the eleven COCOMs

A

Unified Command Plan (UCP)

19
Q

What is established by the Unified Command Plan (UCP)?

A

Areas of Responsibilities (AORs)

20
Q

Areas of Responsibilities (AORs) define what?

A

Geographic responsibilities for a Geographic Combatant Command (GCC)

21
Q

Geographic Combatant Command (GCC) and Joint Force Commands (JFCs) designate smaller ____________ on temporary basis

A

area of operations (OAs)

22
Q

Area of operations (OAs) have a physical dimension comprised with a combination of what?

A
  • Air
  • Land
  • Maritime
  • Space Domains
23
Q

What are some physical factors of the Operational Environment (OE)?

A
  • Information Environment
  • Cyberspace
  • EMS (electromagnetic spectrum)
24
Q

List

Geographic Combatant Commands

A
  • USCENTCOM (U.S. Central Command)
  • USAFRICOM (U.S. Africa Command)
  • USEUCOM (U.S. European Command)
  • USNORTHCOM (U.S. Northern Command)
  • USINDOPACOM (U.S. Indo-Pacific Command)
  • USSOUTHCOM (U.S. Southern Command)
  • USSPACECOM (U.S. Space Command)
25
Q

List

Functional Combatant Commands

A
  • USSOCOM (U.S. Special Operations Command)
  • USTRANSCOM (U.S. Transportation Command)
  • USSTRATCOM (U.S. Strategic Command)
  • USCYBERCOM (U.S. Cyber Command)
26
Q

The use of cross-functional staff integration elements are what?

A
  • Boards
  • Bureaus
  • Centers
  • Cells
  • Working Groups
27
Q

What is a mnemonic to remember the Command Relationship Offices?

Joint Staff

A

Penguins In Our Little Polar Cove

28
Q

What is the Office/Prefix of J1?

Joint Staff

A

Personnel & Manpower

29
Q

What is the Office/Prefix of J2?

Joint Staff

A

Intelligence

30
Q

What is the Office/Prefix of J3?

Joint Staff

A

Operations

31
Q

What is the Office/Prefix of J4?

Joint Staff

A

Logistics

32
Q

What is the Office/Prefix of J5?

Joint Staff

A

Strategy Plans & Policy

33
Q

What is the Office/Prefix of J6?

Joint Staff

A

C4 (C2, Comm, Cyber)

34
Q

What is the Office/Prefix of J7?

Joint Staff

A

Joint Force Development (Training)

35
Q

What is the Office/Prefix of J8?

Joint Staff

A

Force Structure & Resources

36
Q

What is the Office/Prefix of J9?

Joint Staff

A

IO, Joint Fires, STO, etc

37
Q

Identify

A

Joint Staff

A

Airforce

38
Q

Identify

N

Joint Staff

A

Navy

39
Q

Identify

S

Joint Staff

A

Space, Army Marines

40
Q

Identify

G

Joint Staff

A

General

41
Q

Identify

J

Joint Staff

A

Joint

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