SNCO BOARD Flashcards

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An ongoing process and perhaps the most powerful method leadership can use to shape the future. It helps prepare Airmen for the increased responsibilities they will assume as they progress in their careers.

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Mentoring

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Manage sexual assault allegations when the alleged offender is a current or former intimate partner or when the victim is a military dependent 17 years of age or younger.

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Family Advocacy Program (FAP)

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Suicide Attempt Proactive Factors

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Social support, interconnectedness, sense of belonging, effective individual coping skills, and cultural norms that promote and protect responsible help-seeking behavior.

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Allows sexual assault victims to confidentially disclose the assault to specified individuals (e.g., SARC, SAPR VA, or healthcare personnel) and receive medical treatment, including emergency care, counseling, and assignment of a SARC and SAP&R VA, without triggering an official investigation and is intended to remove barriers to medical care and support while giving the victim additional time and increased control over the release and management of personal information.

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Restricted Report

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AFMAN 36-2905

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Fitness Program

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Nurturing emphasizes a caring attitude. Mentors must make the time and effort to effectively mentor their protégés and provide the appropriate amounts of attention, training, and time for them to apply, internalize, and value what they have learned.

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Nurture

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At this level, Airmen understand the broader Air Force perspective and the integration of diverse people and capabilities in operational execution. They transition from specialists to leaders with a broader enterprise perspective who understand Air Force operational capabilities. They lead teams by developing and inspiring others, taking care of people, and taking advantage of diversity. They foster collaborative relationships through building teams and coalitions, especially within large organizations, and negotiate with others, often external to the organization.

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Operational Competence

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Those eligible to accept Sexual Assault Reports

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SARC, SAPR VA, VVA, or healthcare personnel

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The program promotes the primary physical fitness components of cardiorespiratory endurance (aerobic), body composition, muscular strength, muscular endurance, and flexibility of each Airman in the unit. The physical fitness assessment (PFA) provides commanders with a tool to assist in the determination of overall fitness of their military personnel.

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Physical Fitness Program (PFP)

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A good mentor introduces and connects a protégé with others who can provide increased guidance, support, resources, and opportunities. Networking is a vital function that helps protégés establish themselves in their professional community through a solid network of friends, acquaintances, and associates.

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Network

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This level is predominantly direct and face-to-face and focused on personal competencies. Airmen gain a general understanding of team leadership and an appreciation for organization leadership. They master their core duty skills, develop experiences in applying those skills, and begin to acquire the knowledge and experience that will produce the qualities essential to effective leadership.

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Tactical Expertise

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Suicide Attempt Recognition

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(1) know co-workers, their usual moods and behaviors, and how they are functioning; (2) be able to recognize early signs of risk, stress, and distress; (3) engage with Airmen to determine what may be stressful or problematic; (4) assist Airmen with choosing the most appropriate resource to help resolve the problem; and (5) follow-up with Airmen to ensure the stressors are resolving and new ones are not taking their place.

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Provide leadership, management, general supervision, and guidance in organizing, equipping, training, and mobilizing the organization’s enlisted force to meet home station and expeditionary mission requirements. They also assist and advise in the selection and nomination of enlisted Airmen for positions of greater responsibility, to include developmental special duties. They work in concert with other enlisted leaders, such as squadron superintendents and first sergeants, to oversee the readiness, training, health, morale, welfare, and quality of life of assigned personnel. They represent the commander at various meetings, visit with Airmen in the group, participate on advisory councils and boards, interact with sister service counterparts as required, actively lead in the organization’s fitness program, and perform other duties as directed by the group commander.

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Group Superintendent

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  • Develop relationships with leadership, peers, and subordinates.
  • Take advantage of opportunities as they become available.
  • Efficiently use available resources.
  • Properly evaluate situations and the performance of followers.
  • Reward appropriately (and discipline accordingly).
  • Identify improvement areas in one’s self, followers, and the work place.
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Full Range Leadership Development

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Leveraging Diversity

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Diversity is a military necessity. The Air Force team is comprised of military, civilians, and contractors. At the core, diversity provides collective strengths, perspectives, and capabilities that transcend individual contributions. Air Force personnel who work in a diverse environment learn to maximize individual strengths and combine individual abilities and perspectives for the good of the mission. Diversity is about strengthening and ensuring long-term viability to support our mission.

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Mentors must help their protégés understand why goals are important; establish short- and long-term goals that are specific, achievable, and realistic; and be available to assist them in achieving their goals.

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Goal-Set

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Every Airman’s responsibility to be physically fit, regardless of age, grade, gender, or duty assignment. Physical fitness directly and positively impacts health, general fitness, duty performance and mission readiness.

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Physical Fitness Program (PFP)

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DoDI 6495

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SEXUAL ASSAULT PREVENTION AND RESPONSE (SAPR) PROGRAM

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The dedicated focal point for all readiness, health, morale, welfare and quality of life issues within their organizations. At home station and in expeditionary environments, their primary responsibility is to build and maintain a mission-ready force. They ensure the force understands the commander’s policies, goals and objectives, and also ensures support agencies, i.e., security forces, civil engineer, medical facilities, services, etc., are responsive to the needs of all assigned unit personnel and their families.

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First sergeants

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Inspirational mentors have a profound impact on protégés that encourages them to transform into a more improved being. Inspiration is a characteristic that distinguishes leaders from managers.

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Inspire

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Full Range Leadership Development

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Three core elements: the Leader, the Follower, and the Situation

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DoDI 6400

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Family Advocacy Program (FAP)

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Respecting Individuality

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The skilled leader deals effectively with all races, nationalities, cultures, disabilities, ages, and genders. In an effort to acknowledge the richness and benefits of diversity, we must increase awareness of individuality and expel stereotypes. Stereotypes ignore individual strengths and contributions and exploit generalized characteristics

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Leadership Blinders Risk Factors for Airmen Suicide

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(1) tunnel vision on the mission; (2) not engaging with Airmen; (3) difficulty recognizing risks and warning signs; (4) lack of knowledge of Air Force supported resources and the true impact of seeking help on an Air Force career; and (5) inappropriately sheltering Airmen from the consequences of their actions or failing to take proper action.

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An effective mentor, serving as a role model, understands that actions speak much louder than words. The protégé is constantly observing and learning from the mentor

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Model

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AFI36-2113

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First Sergeant

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AFH36-2618

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Enlisted Force Structure

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The time in which victim signed DD Form 2910 Sexual Assault reports must be reported to the base commander

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24-Hour Notification and 48 in deployed locations.

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8-Day Incident Report

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Installation or host Wing Commanders will require that an 8-Day Incident Report is completed for all Unrestricted Reports and Independent Investigations within eight days of report, including incidents occurring prior to service. The 8-Day Incident Report does not replace, but is in addition to, the SARC’s mandatory 24-hour notification to the installation or host Wing Commander of a report of sexual assault.

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Basic Air Force uniform philosophy

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Uniforms will be plain, distinctive, and standardized. This standardization includes a minimum and maximum number of authorized badges, insignia, and devices.

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Barriers to Reporting Sexual Assault

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  • Lack of privacy and confidentiality.
  • Stigma and shame based on the nature of the crime.
  • Fear of being reduced in the eyes of colleagues.
  • Fear of disciplinary action due to collateral misconduct.
  • Fear of re-victimization.
  • Fear of operational impacts on training status, security clearance, and deployment.
  • Fear of adverse impact on the unit or mission.
  • Fear of harassment, retaliation, or reprisal from commanders (or equivalent) or colleagues.
  • Fear of not being believed.
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Commander’s (or Equivalent) Critical Information Requirement (CCIR)

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The CCIR is a separate report from the 8-Day Incident Report and may be accomplished at the same time if the criteria required for a CCIR is known, or submitted later, as the criteria becomes apparent.

  • O-6 Commander (or equivalent) and above, SARC, SAPR VA, VVA, or any SAPR staff member identified as the alleged offender.
  • Warrants higher level command awareness.
  • An overturned conviction of a sexually based crime.
  • Media attention.
  • Congressional involvement.
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Mentoring requires the ability to empathize and show genuine compassion for protégés. Empathy cultivates bonds between mentors and protégés and fosters the mutual commitment that exemplifies mentoring.

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Empathize

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(1) Organize the material into logical, systematic units of manageable size; (2) correct errors immediately; (3) frequently review previously covered material and relate the material to the current lesson; (4) include practical exercises to help the protégé exercise the newfound knowledge; and (5) evaluate the protégés’ progress and provide detailed feedback.

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Teach

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Key advisor to the commander on matters relating to health, morale, welfare, safety, legal, personnel, administrative issues and a variety of other issues.

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First sergeants

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Suicide Attempt Risk Factors

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Relationship difficulties, problems at work, legal and financial problems, mental health diagnosis, substance misuse, and previous suicide attempts.

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This office manages all sexual harassment complaints

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Equal Opportunity

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Works in concert with the superintendent to oversee the readiness, training, health, morale and quality of life of assigned personnel.

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First sergeants

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The five elements of standard uniform

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Neatness, Cleanliness, Safety, Uniformity, and Military Image. The first four are absolute, objective criteria needed for the efficiency and well-being of the Air Force. The fifth, military image, is subjective, but necessary. The American public and its elected representatives draw certain conclusions on military effectiveness based on the image Airmen present. The image must instill public confidence and leave no doubt that Airmen live by a common standard and respond to military order and discipline.

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Air Force Leadership Levels

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Tactical expertise, operational competence, and strategic vision.

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At this level, Airmen combine highly developed personal and people/team institutional competencies to apply broad organizational competencies. They develop a deep understanding of Air Force capabilities and how Airmen achieve synergistic results and desired effects with their operational capabilities. They also understand how the Air Force operates within joint, multinational, and interagency relationships.

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Strategic Vision

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An organized mentor knows from the very beginning what he or she wants to achieve, and focuses on this goal. The time and effort spent organizing thoughts and materials into a logical, sequential plan aimed at a precisely defined target pays big dividends in the form of improved learning and developmental experiences for the protégé.

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Organize

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Appreciate Differences

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Effective leaders take time to recognize what excites others, leverage their talents, and cultivate a work culture that recognizes and appreciates differing perspectives and approaches to solving problems. Foremost, leaders must create a hospitable climate that promotes respect and inclusion.

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Effective mentors must remain alert to recognize nonverbal behaviors and subtle communication cues that indicate the protégés’ interest in certain areas. Mentors should be proactive, anticipate the needs, problems, and concerns of protégés, and address them immediately.

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Respond

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Leaders in the profession of arms. They advise, supervise and mentor others to further grow and develop junior enlisted Airmen and Noncommissioned Officers under their charge. They have a great deal of leadership experience they use to leverage resources and personnel against a variety of mission requirements.

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Senior Noncommissioned Officer Tier

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Organizational culture

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Dynamics within an organization are often driven by the way individuals behave based on perceptions of the organizational culture. Leaders can be particularly effective in aligning the environment with employee needs when they understand the organization’s culture and climate.

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AFI36-2903

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Dress and Appearance Standard

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Senior Noncommissioned Officer Responsibilities

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  • Epitomize excellence, professionalism, pride, and competence, serving as a role model for all Airmen to emulate.
  • Translate leaders’ direction into specific tasks and responsibilities their teams understand and execute.
  • Help leaders make informed decisions.
  • Be an active, visible leader.
  • Ensure money, facilities and other resources are utilized in an effective and efficient manner and in the best interest of the Air Force.
  • Promote peer involvement in detecting and correcting those behaviors, and recognize and reward Airmen who properly employ risk management philosophies.
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Activates victim support services and accountability responses that are essential to eliminating this crime. These reports are immediately referred to the AFOSI or the appropriate MCIO and the victim’s command is notified.

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Unrestricted Report

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Physical Fitness Program (PFP)

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To motivate all Airmen to participate in a year-round physical conditioning program that emphasizes total fitness, to include proper aerobic conditioning, muscular fitness training, and healthy eating. An active lifestyle increases productivity, optimizes health, and decreases absenteeism while maintaining a higher level of readiness.

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AFI90-6001

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SEXUAL ASSAULT PREVENTION AND RESPONSE (SAPR) PROGRAM

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Technical experts, transitioning from first-line supervisors to leaders of operational competence. This rank carries significantly increased responsibilities and requires a broad perspective and greater leadership and management skills. They are expected to accomplish the mission through the employment of teams by merging subordinates’ talents, skills, and resources with other teams’ functions.

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Master Sergeant

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DD Form 2910

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Document required for documenting Sexual Assault reports.