NCO Duties, Responsibilities And Authorities

Question 1

What FM covers the duties, responsibilities, and authorities of a NCO?

Answer 1

FM 7-22.7

Question 2

What is responsibility?

Answer 2

Being accountable for what you do or fail to do.

Question 3

What are the two most important responsibilities of a leader?

Answer 3

Mission accomplishment and welfare of the soldiers

Question 4

Where would a soldier find a NCO’s role reference to the chain of command?

Answer 4

AR 600-20

Question 5

What is an NCO’s principle duty and responsibility?

Answer 5

Training

Question 6

What is power?

Answer 6

Ability, physical, mental or moral to have a positive control over the actions of others.

Question 7

What is authority?

Answer 7

Legitimate power of a leader to direct those subordinates to him or to take action within the scope of his position.

Question 8

To insure your soldiers understand and are carrying out the task, you should do what?

Answer 8

Supervise the task

Question 9

What individual responsibility make a soldier accountable for?

Answer 9

It makes them accountable for the personal conduct.

Question 10

What are the three different types of duties?

Answer 10

Specified
Directed
Implied duties

Question 11

What is a specified duty?

Answer 11

Those related to jobs and positions.

Question 12

What is a directed duty?

Answer 12

Not specified as part of a job/mos or other directive; a siperior gives them orally or in writing. They include CQ, staff duty, or duties found in the units organization charts.