POA - 05. Air National Guard

Question 1

Organized the first NG aviation unit, the First Aero Company, New York NG

Answer 1

Capt. Raynal C. Bolling

Question 2

Collaborated with Lt. Arthuroligher on the first Air Guard jet kill in the Korean War

Answer 2

Capt. Harry Underwood

Question 3

The mass deployment of 8 ANG Fighter Squadrons to Europe after the Berlin Crisis

Answer 3

Stair Step

Question 4

First ANG non-stop trans-Atlantic deployment of tactical aircraft

Answer 4

Ready Go

Question 5

Awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously for a low-level attack against the Ploesti Oil refineries

Answer 5

LtCol Addison E. Baker

Question 6

To provide trained and equipped units to protect life and property and to preserve peace, order, and public safety as directed by the Governor.

Answer 6

ANG’s State Role

Question 7

Fire fighting and civil defense

Answer 7

Protect Life and Property

Question 8

Counter-drug and community assistance

Answer 8

Preserve Peace, Order, and Public Safety

Question 9

Includes offensive and defensive operations to attain and maintain a desired degree of air superiority.

Answer 9

Counter-Air

Question 10

Operations to destroy, neutralize, disrupt, or limit enemy air and missile power as close to its source.

Answer 10

Offensive Counter-Air

Question 11

Involves offensive and defensive operations conducted to attain and maintain a desired degree of space superiority.

Answer 11

Counter-Space

Question 12

Delivers satellites, payloads, and materials into or through space. It also launches, sustains, or replaces satellites that are predicated to fail.

Answer 12

Space Lift

Question 13

Combined functions that provide clear, brief, relevant, and timely analysis on foreign capabilities and intentions for planning and conducting military operations. This is essential to maintaining information superiority.

Answer 13

Intelligence/Surveillance/Reconnaissance (ISR)

Question 14

Plans, directs, coordinates, and controls forces into action to accomplish missions across the range of military operations.

Answer 14

Command and Control

Question 15

Provides accurate locations and time of reference in support of all operations.

Answer 15

Navigation and Positioning

Question 16

Seeks to control the information environment and establish information superiority.

Answer 16

Counter Information

Question 17

Supply timely and accurate environmental information, including space environment and atmospheric weather

Answer 17

Weather Services

Question 18

Operations intended to directly achieve strategic effects by striking at the enemy’s center of gravity (COG). The attack should affect the enemy’s entire effort rather than just a single action, battle, or operation and should produce effects well beyond the proportion or effect expended in the execution.

Answer 18

Strategic Attacks

Question 19

Involves operations conducted to attain and maintain a desired degree of superiority over surface operations by the destruction or neutralization of enemy surface forces.

Answer 19

Counter-Land

Question 20

Extends AF functions into a maritime environment. The objective is to gain control of this maritime environment and to extend possible, dominate operations either in support of naval forces or independently.

Answer 20

Counter-Sea

Question 21

Normally organized and employed in small formations that are capable of both independent and supporting operations.

Answer 21

AF Special Operations Forces

Question 22

Those operations conducted to recover captured, missing, or isolated personnel from danger.

Answer 22

Combat Search and Rescue

Question 23

Provides rapid and flexible force-mobility options allowing military forces to respond to and operate in a wide variety of circumstances and time frames.

Answer 23

Airlift

Question 24

Significantly expands the employment options available to a commander by increasing the range, payload, and flexibility of air forces.

Answer 24

Air Refueling

Question 25

Concerned with developing lighter, leaner, and more rapid deployable forces.

Answer 25

Agile Combat Support

Question 26

Virtually all enlisted Airmen provide this distinct capability

Answer 26

Agile Combat Support

Question 27

Protection of life, property, and preservation of peace, order, and public safety

Answer 27

ANG’s State Roles

Question 28

Augment major commands of the active Air Force

Answer 28

ANG’s Federal Role

Question 29

Firefighting, regional emergencies, counter-drug operations are examples of

Answer 29

ANG State Missions

Question 30

Which Distinct Capability has the functions: Counter-Air, Counter-Space, and Space Lift

Answer 30

Air and Space Superiority

Question 31

Which Distinct Capability has the functions: ISR, Command and Control, Navigation and Positioning, Counter Information, and Weather Services

Answer 31

Information Superiority

Question 32

Which Distinct Capability has the function: Global Attack

Answer 32

Strategic Attack

Question 33

Which Distinct Capability has the functions: Counter-Land, Counter-Sea, Special Ops, and CSAR

Answer 33

Precision Engagement

Question 34

Which Distinct Capability has the functions: Airlift and Air Refueling

Answer 34

Rapid Global Mobility