POA - 05. Air National Guard Flashcards
Organized the first NG aviation unit, the First Aero Company, New York NG
Capt. Raynal C. Bolling
Collaborated with Lt. Arthuroligher on the first Air Guard jet kill in the Korean War
Capt. Harry Underwood
The mass deployment of 8 ANG Fighter Squadrons to Europe after the Berlin Crisis
Stair Step
First ANG non-stop trans-Atlantic deployment of tactical aircraft
Ready Go
Awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously for a low-level attack against the Ploesti Oil refineries
LtCol Addison E. Baker
To provide trained and equipped units to protect life and property and to preserve peace, order, and public safety as directed by the Governor.
ANG’s State Role
Fire fighting and civil defense
Protect Life and Property
Counter-drug and community assistance
Preserve Peace, Order, and Public Safety
Includes offensive and defensive operations to attain and maintain a desired degree of air superiority.
Counter-Air
Operations to destroy, neutralize, disrupt, or limit enemy air and missile power as close to its source.
Offensive Counter-Air
Involves offensive and defensive operations conducted to attain and maintain a desired degree of space superiority.
Counter-Space
Delivers satellites, payloads, and materials into or through space. It also launches, sustains, or replaces satellites that are predicated to fail.
Space Lift
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.
Intelligence/Surveillance/Reconnaissance (ISR)
Plans, directs, coordinates, and controls forces into action to accomplish missions across the range of military operations.
Command and Control
Provides accurate locations and time of reference in support of all operations.
Navigation and Positioning
Seeks to control the information environment and establish information superiority.
Counter Information
Supply timely and accurate environmental information, including space environment and atmospheric weather
Weather Services
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.
Strategic Attacks
Involves operations conducted to attain and maintain a desired degree of superiority over surface operations by the destruction or neutralization of enemy surface forces.
Counter-Land
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.
Counter-Sea
Normally organized and employed in small formations that are capable of both independent and supporting operations.
AF Special Operations Forces
Those operations conducted to recover captured, missing, or isolated personnel from danger.
Combat Search and Rescue
Provides rapid and flexible force-mobility options allowing military forces to respond to and operate in a wide variety of circumstances and time frames.
Airlift
Significantly expands the employment options available to a commander by increasing the range, payload, and flexibility of air forces.
Air Refueling
