Section 4E--Air Force Structure

Question 1

What three major entities comprise DAF?

Answer 1

Secretariat, Air Staff, and Space Staff

Question 2

To achieve strategic, operational, and tactical objectives unhindered by time, distance, and geography, the Air Force employs six distinctive capabilities. What are they?

Answer 2

1. Air and Space Superiority
2. Global Attack
3. Rapid Global Mobility
4. Precision Engagement
5. Information Superiority
6. Agile Combat Support

Question 3

Secretary of the Air Force is a civilian appointed by whom?

Answer 3

The U.S. President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate

Question 4

The Secretary of the Air Force is the head of the Department of the Air Force and is subject to the authority, control, and direction of whom?

Answer 4

Secretary of Defense

Question 5

What are the USAF office symbol codes?

Answer 5

A1 - Manpower, personnel, and services
A2 - Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance
A3 - Operations
A4 - Logistics, Engineering, and Force Protection
A5 - Plans and Requirements
A6 - Communications
A8 - Strategic Plans and Programs
A10 - Strategic Deterrence and Nuclear Integration

Question 6

What are USAF subdivisions directly subordinate to a HAF functional manager?

Answer 6

Field Operating Agencies (FOAs)

Question 7

Who represents a major USAF subdivision having a specific portion of the USAF mission

Answer 7

Major Command MAJCOM

Question 8

Each major command MAJCOM is directly subordinate to whom?

Answer 8

Headquarters Air Force HAF

Question 9

Major commands (MAJCOMS) are interrelated and complementary, providing offense, defensive, and support elements. Which command consists (in whole or in part) of strategic, tactical, space or defense forces, or of flying forces that directly support such forces?

Answer 9

Operational command

Question 10

Whose mission is to support global implementation of the national security strategy by operating fighter, bomber, reconnaissance, battle-management, and electronic-combat aircraft?

Answer 10

Air Combat Command (ACC)

Question 11

Which command plans, conducts, controls, coordinates, and supports air and space operations in Europe, parts of Asia, and all of Africa with the exception of Egypt, to achieve United States and North Atlantic Treaty Organization objectives?

Answer 11

United States Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces Africa (USAFE-AFAFRICA)

Question 12

Which command was activated as a MAJCOM on 1 July 1993 and is headquarted at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas? Its mission is to recruit, train, and educate Airmen to deliver airpower for America.

Answer 12

Air Education and Training Command (AETC)

Question 13

Which command was activated as a MAJCOM on 17 February 1997, and is headquarted at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia? Its mission is to provide combat-ready forces to fly, fight, and win.

Answer 13

Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC)

Question 14

Which command is nicknamed “warfighting headquarters” and structured to perform an operational and warfighting mission in support of a Joint Force Commander?

Answer 14

A Component Numbered Air Force (C-NAF)

Question 15

Which commander, assigned as the commander of Air Force Forces to a geographic combatant command, will normally also be designated as the theater Joint Force Air Component Commander.

Answer 15

Component Numbered Air Force (C-NAF) commander

Question 16

Which type of wing performs a support function rather than an operational mission? This type of wing maintains and operates a base.

Answer 16

Air base wing.

Note: An air base wing often provides functional support to a MAJCOM hq

Question 17

Which group (unit) is a mission, logistics, support, medical, or large functional unit, such as a civil engineer group.

Answer 17

Dependent group

Question 18

What is the minimum adjusted population of groups?

Answer 18

at least 400

Question 19

What are the two types of squadrons?

Answer 19

Mission units and functional units

Question 20

What is the minimum adjusted population of a squadron?

Answer 20

At least 35

Question 21

If internal subdivision within a squadron is required, what type of flights may be established?

Answer 21

Numbered/named, alpha, or functional flights

Question 22

Which flights are part of a squadron (usually a mission squadron) and are composed of several elements that perform identical missions?

Answer 22

Alpha flights

Question 23

Which flights are usually part of a squadron and are composed of elements that perform specific missions?

Answer 23

Functional flights