FM 7-22.7: Duties/Responsibilities

Question 1

What does Individual Responsibility make a soldier accountable for?

Answer 1

• It makes them accountable for their personal conduct

Question 2

What is Command Authority?

Answer 2

• The authority leaders have over soldiers by virtue of rank or assignment and originates with the president and may be supplemented by law or regulation

Question 3

What are the two most important responsibilities of a leader?

Answer 3

• Mission accomplishment and the welfare of the soldiers

Question 4

What does Command Responsibility make a solider accountable for?

Answer 4

• Refers to the collective or organizational accountability and includes how well the unit performs their missions.

Question 5

Where would a soldier find a NCOs role in reference to the CoC?

Answer 5

• AR 600-20

Question 6

The Authority of Command that one individual exercises over others is acquired as a result of what?

Answer 6

• Grade/assignment

Question 7

What is a NCOs principle Duty/Responsibility?

Answer 7

• training

Question 8

Name some basic responsibilities. What are they?

Answer 8

• Maintaining discipline
• Maintaining govt property
• Training soldiers
• Ensuring the welfare of soldiers
• Executing the mission

Question 9

What is Power?

Answer 9

• The ability, either physical, mental, or moral to have a positive control over the actions of others

Question 10

What is Authority?

Answer 10

• The legitimate power of a leader to direct those subordinates to him or to take action within the scope of his position

Question 11

Every soldier has two responsibilities. What are they?

Answer 11

• Individual responsibilities
• Command responsibilities

Question 12

What are the five types of power?

Answer 12

• Legal: power derived from law and regulation
• Reward: Power derived from the capacity of the leader to provide desired rewards to a soldier for good performance
• Coercive: power which influences a person to perform/behave in a manner contrary to how that person desires to behave at the time
• Referent: Power derived from the leader’s personality/is effective as a means of influencing solders to extend their respect/admire the leader
• Expert: power derived from the leaders accumulation of knowledge, skills, and capabilities