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What are the LAAD Bn doctrinal radio nets?

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  1. LAAD Bn Command Net (HF)
  2. LAAD Command Net (HF)
  3. LAAD Weapon Control Net (HF)
  4. LAAD Team Control Net (VHF)
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Purpose of LAAD Bn doctrinal radio nets

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It is the primary means of communications due to wide dispersion and mobility of LAAD units. Internal and external comm nets are used.

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Site selection criteria

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  • Communications
  • Integration with MACCS Agencies
  • Integration with Supported Unit
  • Mission Accomplishment - KOCOA
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Lost Comm Procedures

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  • Attempt to relay through adjacent agency, section, or team
  • Change location if tactical situation allows
  • Send a Runner
  • Attempt to use alternate frequency - Basic radio PM
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Doctrinal Weapons Control Status if comms are lost

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  • Weapons Tight: remain in tight
  • Weapons Hold: wait 30 mins and revert to tight
  • Weapons Free: immediately revert to tight
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Comm net monitored by Platoon Commander

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LAAD Weapon Control Net/LAAD Command Net

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What is the primary consideration when establishing a LAAD Platoon Command Post?

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Communications

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What is the most important consideration when establishing a LAAD Platoon Command Post?

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Mission Accomplishment

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What does KOCOA stand for?

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  • Key Terrain
  • Observations and Fields of Fire
  • Cover and Concealment
  • Obstacles
  • Avenues of Approach
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What is BOWMED for?

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Guidelines for LAAD Employment

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What does BOWMED stand for?

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  • Balanced Fires
  • Overlapping Fires
  • Weighted Coverage
  • Mutually Supporting
  • Early Engagement
  • Defense in Depth
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Balanced Fires

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Positioning LAAD units to permit approximately equal defensive fires in all directions.

Even more important when facing 360° threat.

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Overlapping Fires

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When individual AD units engagement zones overlap.

Reduces possibility of Enemy Aircraft slipping through MAGTF AD w/o being engaged by another AD unit

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Weighted Coverage

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Achieved by concentrating teams toward known enemy locations, unprotected unit boundaries, or likely avenues of approach.

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Mutually Supporting

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Positioning individual fires into dead zones that surround adjacent assets which enhances defensive survivability.

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Early Engagement

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Positioned far enough from the asset or unit being defended to permit the engagement of Enemy aircraft before ORL.

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Defense in Depth

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Positioning AD assets so enemy aircraft encounter ever-increasing volumes of fire by integrating all AD weapons to maximize defense in depth.

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Employment Principles

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Weapons Mass

Weapons Mix

Mobility

Integration

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Weapons Mass

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Achieved by concentrating GBAD and airborne air defense assets on and around a vital area IOT defend from air attack

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Weapons Mix

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Blends aircraft, GBAD, and small arms for balanced and complementary air defense system, complicating the enemy’s ability to attack.

Offsets limitations of one air defense system with the capabilities of another.

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Mobility

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Crucial. Must be highly mobile and rapidly deployable IOT provide continuous protection for maneuver elements and self-defense.

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Integration

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The close coordination of effort and unity of action that results from the efficient blending if individual air defense systems.

Conserves fires and eliminated unnecessary engagements of the same target by multiple assets.

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General Support

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Given to a supported force as a whole and not to any subdivision.

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Direct Support

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Given by one force to another requiring the supporting force to answer directly to the supported unit commander’s request for assistance.

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Purpose of command relationships

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IOT give commanders authority and asset to accomplish their assigned missions

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Command relationships establish

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  • Authority, responsibility, and Chain of Command
  • The degree of authority one commander has over another
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How to prioritize the Defended Asset List

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Vulnerability, Criticality, Recoverability, Threat

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Vulnerability

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The degree to which the asset is susceptible to an air attack

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Criticality

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Degree to which the asset is essential to mission accomplishment

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What is the guideline for facing a 360 degree threat?

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Balanced Fires

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31
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Guideline for orienting firepower toward an enemy

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Weighted Coverage

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The degree to which an asset is susceptible to an air attack

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Vulnerability

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The degree to which the asset is essential to mission accomplishment

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Criticality

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Reflects the degree an asset can recover from inflicted damage

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Recoverability

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35
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Based on the probability of an asset being targeted for attack

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Threat

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36
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Allocates sufficient air defense resources to defend priority MAGTF assets or areas adequately

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Weapons Mass

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37
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Blends aircraft, GBAD, and small arms to achieve a balanced, complementary air defense system that complicates the enemy’s ability to attack

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Weapons Mix

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38
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Crucial to Air Defense system and allows for continuous protection for maneuver elements in the battlespace

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Mobility

39
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Given to the supported force as a WHOLE and not to any subdivision

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General Support

40
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Given by one force to another requiring the supporting force to answer DIRECTLY to the supported unit commander’s request for assistance

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Direct Support

41
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Weapons Applications

A
  • Point Defense
  • Surveillance or Weapon Gap Filler
  • Convoy Defense
  • Defense of a Maneuver Element
  • Base Defense Zone
42
Q

Methods of defending a convoy

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  • Prepositioned
  • Integrated
  • Combination
43
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Types of employment in defense of Maneuver Element

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  • Deploy behind the unit
  • Deploy within the unit
44
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Destruction area established around an air facility, site or a FOB to allow the launch and recovery of friendly aircraft while maintaining an air defense posture

A

BDZ

45
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Requirements for BDZ

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Radar, Weapon System, Controlling Agency

46
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Air Defense Warning Conditions

VERBATIM

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  • Red: Attack by hostile aircraft is imminent or in progress
  • Yellow: Attack by hostile aircraft is probable
  • White: Attack by hostile aircraft is improbable
47
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Weapons Control Status

VERBATIM

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  • Weapons Free: LAAD teams engage all aircraft NOT positively identified as friendly
  • Weapons Tight: LAAD teams engage any aircraft POSITIVELY identified as hostile
  • Weapons Hold: Do not fire or cease fire on aircraft currently engaged. Do not fire except in self-defense or in response to a formal fire control order
48
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Weapons Free

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Weapons Free: LAAD teams engage all aircraft NOT positively identified as friendly

49
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Weapons Tight

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LAAD teams engage any aircraft POSITIVELY identified as hostile

50
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Weapons Hold

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Do not fire or cease fire on aircraft currently engaged. Do not fire except in self-defense or in response to a formal fire control order.

51
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Four States of Alert for Air Defense Units

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  • SOA A - Battle Stations
  • SOA B - 5 Minutes
  • SOA C - 1 Hour
  • SOA D - 4 Hours
52
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What is the time period of SOA B?

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5 Minutes

53
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What is the time period of SOA C?

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1 Hour

54
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What is the time period for SOA D?

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4 Hours

55
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What are the Identification Categories?

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  • Bogey
  • Bandit
  • Friendly
  • Hostile
56
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Bogey

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A radar or visual contact whose identity is unknown

57
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Bandit

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A contact identified as enemy

58
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Friendly

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A contact positively ID as friendly

59
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Hostile

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A contact identified as enemy UPON WHICH engagement is authorized IAW theatre ROE

60
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Definition of Manual Crosstell

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System used for orienting the gunner’s attention to a general area for target detection

61
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Components of Manual Crosstell

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  • Cartesian Coordinate Reference Point (CCRP)
  • X,Y axes
  • Increments
  • Quadrants
62
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Definition of CCRP

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Cartesian Coordinate Reference Point

  • Represents the point at which both the “X” and “Y” axes intersect
63
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The ___ axis is the horizontal line.

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X axis

64
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The ___ axis is the vertical line.

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Y axis

65
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What are the distance increments on the CCRP?

A

Nautical Miles

66
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What are the four quadrants formed by the axes intersecting the CCRP

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WASHINGTON

MAINE

CALIFORNIA

FLORIDA

67
Q

Which net is used for LAAD Team to communicate with LAAD Squad Leader

A

LAAD Team Control Net

68
Q

Which net is used for LAAD battery to connect with firing platoons?

A

LAAD Command Net

69
Q

Weapons Control Status if Lost Comms if in Weapons Tight

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LAAD units will remain in weapons tight

70
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Weapons Control Status if Lost Comms if in Weapons Hold

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Wait 30 minutes, then revert to weapons tight

71
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Weapons Control Status if Lost Comms if in Weapons Free

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Immediately revert to weapons tight

72
Q

Which site selection criteria for establishing a LAAD Platoon Command Post needs to be redundant and reliable and is the primary consideration?

A

Communications

73
Q

Which site selection criteria for establishing a LAAD Platoon Command Post provides the best situational awareness?

A

Integration [co-locating with agencies]

74
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Which site selection criteria for establishing a LAAD Platoon Command Post is the most important consideration?

A

Mission Accomplishment

75
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Weapon Engagement Zones

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  • Fighter Engagement Zone (FEZ)
  • Missile Engagement Zone (MEZ)
  • Joint Engagement Zone (JEZ)
76
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Two types of Air Defense

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Active and Passive

77
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Air defense measures including the use of aircraft, air defense weapons, electronic warfare, and other available weapons.

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Active Air Defense

78
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Air defense measures including deception, dispersion, and using protective construction and camouflage.

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Passive Air Defense

79
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Missile Engagement Zones

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HIMEZ, LOMEZ, SHORADEZ, BDZ

80
Q

Which Engagement Zone do we belong to as LAAD?

A

SHORADEZ

81
Q

What Missile Engagement Zone is USMC-Specific?

A

Based Defense Zone (BDZ)

82
Q

Theatre-wide plan to destroy air threats

A

Area Air Defense Plan

83
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HF Frequencies

A

2-29.999MHz

84
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VHF Frequencies

A

30-224.999MHz

85
Q

UHF Frequencies

A

225-511.999MHz

86
Q

What characteristics apply to high frequency [HF]?

A

Long-range

More resistant to jamming

requires long antenna

Key information only found in ACEOI

87
Q

What characteristics apply to VHF frequency?

A

Less resistant to jamming, increase vocal fidelity, key info only found in ACEOI

88
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What characteristics apply to UHF Frequency?

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Less Resistant, increased vocal fidelity

89
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What is an advantage of co-locating with agencies

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knowledge of friendly aircraft

90
Q

What billet in the TAOC will be a 7210 Lieutenant?

A

Weapons Director

91
Q

What MACS Team will embed with GCE unit and communicate with MACS?

A

ASLT = Air Support Liaison Team

92
Q

What are the 3 Reports specific to LAAD?

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  1. Engagement Report
  2. Leaker Report
  3. Position Report
93
Q

What is the difference between Assigned and Attached Command Relationships?

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Assigned = long term

Attached = short term

LAAD (3 decks)

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