Operation Noble Eagle, Enduring Freedom, and Iraqi Freedom (Global War on Terrorism)

Question 1

What operation focused on protecting the United States homeland from both internal and external air attacks of the nature used on September 11, providing 24-hour intercept response coverage for virtually the entire US in the form of ground alert and airborne combat air patrols over designated locations?

Answer 1

Operation Noble Eagle

Question 2

What operation focused on forming and acting with an international coalition against the war on terrorism?

Answer 2

Operation Enduring Freedom

Question 3

When did the first wave of Operation Enduring Freedom military operations launch?

Answer 3

7 Oct 2001

Question 4

What was the name of the mountaintop where al Qaeda soldiers fired on an MH-47E helicopter causing a Navy Seal to fall out and to the ground, culminating into one of the most intense small-unit firefights of the war against terrorism?

Answer 4

Takur Ghar

Question 5

What was known as one of the most intense small-unit firefights where US servicemen killed all the al Qaeda terrorists on the mountain top Takur Ghar, and seven US service men lost their lives?

Answer 5

Operation Anaconda (The Battle of Robert’s Ridge)

Question 6

What time ultimatum did President Bush give Saddam and his sons to leave Iraq or face conflict?

Answer 6

48 hours

Question 7

When did Operation Iraqi Freedom begin?

Answer 7

20 March 2003

Question 8

When did Operation Iraqi Freedom’s primary combat phase end?

Answer 8

1 May 2003

Question 9

Where was Operation Iraqi Freedom’s battle plan concept of “Shock and Awe” developed?

Answer 9

National Defense University

Question 10

What was the name of the battle concept used in Operation Iraqi Freedom that focused on the psychological destruction of the enemy’s will to fight rather than the physical destruction of the opposing military force?

Answer 10

Shock and Awe

Question 11

When were the Iraq Republican Guard Baghdad and Medina divisions defeated?

Answer 11

2 April 2003

Question 12

What Air Force units attacked alongside US Army units Saddam International Airport?

Answer 12

Special tactics combat controllers, Pararescuemen, Combat weathermen

Question 13

Who was the first Airman killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom?

Answer 13

SSgt Scott Sather

Question 14

On 1 September 2010, what operation marked the transition from Operation Iraqi Freedom, signifying a formal end to US military combat operations?

Answer 14

Operation New Dawn

Question 15

All US forces were mandated to withdraw from Iraqi territory by 31 Dec 2011 under the terms of bilateral agreement signed in 2008 by President Bush. When was the US troop withdrawal from Iraq completed?

Answer 15

18 Dec 2011

Question 16

On 20 March 2011 a collection of aircraft launched in support of what operation with the goal of enforcing UN security Council Resolution 1973, centered on protecting Libyan citizens from further harm from Libyan leand Moammar Gadhafi’s regime?

Answer 16

Operation Odyssey Dawn

Question 17

On 20 Sep 2012, the surge of US forces in Afghanistan ended, and the last several hundred surge troops left the country. When did the Afghan National Security Forces formally take over combat operations?

Answer 17

18 June 2013

Question 18

What operation replaced Operation Enduring Freedom, the name of the US portion NATO Resolute Support?

Answer 18

Operation Freedom Sentinel

Question 19

What name did President Obama give the operation that authorized US forces in cooperation with partner nations to conduct carefully targeted air strikes over Syria and Iraq with the aim of degrading and defeating Islamic State of Iraq and Levant?

Answer 19

Inherent Resolve