STAFF 1-9 Flashcards by Andrew Kerns

Staff support commanders in making and implementing decisions and in ______ and ______ combat power

Integrating and synchronizing

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what are the primary responsibilities of staffs??

3 key points

-support the commander

-Assist, assist, subordinate, commanders, staffs, and units

-Inform units and organizations outside the headquarters

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Staff support commanders in understanding, _____, And ______ an operational environment

Visualizing
Describing

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Whose primary responsibilities are these?

-support the commander
-Assist, subordinate commanders, staffs, and units
-Inform units and organizations outside the headquarters

Staffs

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Whose duties and responsibilities are these?

-managing information within their area of expertise
-Building and maintaining running estimates
-conducting staff research and analyzing problems

All staff sections

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staff sections share a common set of duties and responsibilities:
-performing intelligence _______
-developing _______ requirements
-advising and ______ the commander
-Providing ______

-preparation of the Battlefield
-information
-informing
-Recommendations

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Whose duties and responsibilities are the following?
-Preparing plans, orders, and other staff writing
-Exercising staff supervision
-Performing risk management
-Assessing operations

All staff sections share these common set of duties and responsibilities

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All staff section share these common duties and responsibilities:
-conducting staff, ______, and assistance visits

Performing staff ______procedures

-Inspections

-Administrative

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The commander staff must function as a single, cohesive unit – a _____

Team

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Effective staff members are-

Eight things

PEBAAAAA
-possess discipline and self-confidence
-Exercise initiative
-Bring clarity
-Apply critical and creative thinking
-Are competent
-Are adaptive
-Are flexible
-are team players

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Which core principle of effective staff officers is the following?

They are experts and doctrine and the processes and procedures associated with operations process

Are competent

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Which core principle of effective staff officers is the following?

They help simplify problems in complex operational environments by explaining the meaning of information

bring clarity

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Which core principle of effective staff officers is the following?

Anticipating requirements rather than waiting for instructions

exercise initiative

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In regards to applying critical and creative thinking, as CRITICAL THINKERS, Staff members discern truth and situations were direct observation is _____,______, or _____

Insufficient
Impossible
Impractical

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In regards to applying critical and creative, thinking, as CREATIVE THINKERS, staff members look at different options to____ _____. They use ________ Approaches by drawing from previous experience or developing new ideas

Solve problems

Innovative

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What core principle of efeective staff officers is the following

They recognize an adjust to changing conditions in an operational environment with appropriate, flexible, and timely actions

Are adaptive

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What does effective staff members “ are flexible” mean?

They avoid becoming overwhelmed or frustrated by changing requirements and priorities.

Staff members remain flexible and adjust to any changes.

Learn to manage multiple commitments simultaneously

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What core principle of efeective staff officers is the following

The understanding that all staff work serves the commander, even if the commander rejects the resulting recommendation.

Alternative and possibly unpopular ideas or points of view assist commanders, and making the best possible decisions

possess discipline and self-confidence

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What does it mean to be “ a team player” as a staff, core competency

They cooperate with other staff members within and outside their headquarters, resulting to effective collaboration and coordination

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Staff at every echelon and type of unit are structured differently, however, their structure is based on what three considerations?

-Mission

-Broad areas of expertise (functional responsibilities)

-Regulations and laws

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What determines how commanders organize, tailor, or adapt their individual staffs

Mission requirements

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Who serves alongside their staff officer counterparts in all staff sections?

Noncommissioned officers

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Who provides expert advice to the principal, staff officer and other members of the staff section, they also display the same characteristics as effective staff officers

Noncommissioned officers

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what does TO& E stand for?

Table of organization and equipment

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What document is a standard authorization document document that prescribes, organizational structure, personnel, and equipment requirements of a military unit?

TO& E Table of organization and equipment

True or false A TO&E does not count for administrative or Garrison responsibilities

True

What does MTOE stand for?

Modified table of organization and equipment

Whose approval does the commander need to change their individual MTOE?

Department of the army

What three things do types of tables of distribution and allowance include? 3

Mobilization Augmentation Full-time support

In organizing personnel into CP’s for operations or training exercises, commanders, chief of staff or executive officers, and staff consider the following 4 things-

-Staff sections and elements -CP cells -Boards, working groups, and planning teams -augmentation

What does COS stand for?

Chief of staff

What is the COS equivalent to?

(XO) executive officer

A staff section is a grouping of staff members by ______ of ______

Area of expertise

What are the three basic types of staff officers?

-Coordinating -Special -personal

A principal staff officer – who may be a coordinating, special, or personal staff officer for the commander leads who?

Each staff section

What does OPLAN stand for?

Operation plan

At what level is the COS position titled to?

Division or higher

At what level is the XO position titled to?

Brigade and battalion

Who is the commanders, principal staff officer?

The COS or XO

As the key staff integrator, the COS or XO frees the commander from routine details of staff operations and the ______ of the headquarters

Management

The following responsibilities belong to who? -Coordinating and directing the work of the staff -Establishing and monitoring the headquarters battle rhythm and nesting it with higher echelon and subordinate headquarters, battle rhythms for effective, decision-making, and other critical functions

Chief of staff or XO

Representing the commander when authorized and ensuring effective liaison change with higher echelon, lower, and adjacent units and other organizations as required is the responsibility of who?

Chief of staff or XO

True or false Supervising the sustainment of the headquarters and activities of the headquarters and headquarters battalion or company is the responsibility of the chief of staff or XO

True

Who are the commanders principal staff assistants, who advise, plan, and coordinate actions of special staff officers within their area of expertise?

Coordinating staff officers

Commanders establish a coordinating staff officers ______ and________ if they are not inherent in the Positions title

Authority and responsibilities

Which coordinating staff officer exercises planning and supervisory authority over designated special staff officers to accomplish the OPERATIONS planning function?

Organizations commanded by a general officer, have what type of staffs?

G staffs

Organizations commanded by field grade officers have what type of staffs?

S staffs

G1 or S1 is the principal staff officer for what?

Personnel

G2 or S2 is the principal staff officer for what function?

Intelligence

G3 or S3 is principal staff officer in charge of what function?

Operations

G4 or S4 is the principal staff officer for what function?

Logistics

G5 is the principal staff officer for what function?

Plans

True or false Brigade below should have an S5

False Doesn’t exist

G6 or S6 is principal staff officer of what function?

Signal

G8 is principal staff officer of what function

Financial management

G9 or S9, is principal staff officer of what function?

Civil affairs operations

What type of staff are the following? -Chief of fires or deputy fire support coordinator -chief of protection -Support operations officer SPO

Coordinating staff

True or false The SPO support operations officer is only authorized in a system at headquarters

True

The G1 RS one is the principal staff officer for all matters concerning __________ both military and civilian, and is typically the senior adjutant general officer in the command

Human resources

What are the three human resources core competes?

-man the force -provide HR services -Personnel information management

What tab is (human resources support)?

Tab A

What tab is (band operations)?

Tab E

The G1 or S1 prepares tab A (human resources support) and tab E (band operations) to appendix 2 (_______) of annex ___ (sustainment)

Personnel services support Annex F

Who has coordinating responsibility for the equal opportunity advisor and civilian personnel officer?

G1 or S1 has coordinating responsibility Think of them as human resources

Who may closely coordinate efforts with personal staff officers, such as the chaplain, surgeon, and staff judge advocate, through address, overlapping issues related to HR personnel welfare?

S1 or G1

Name the coordinating staff office that is responsible for the following -Managing the organization and administration of the headquarters -Providing administrative support from military and civilian personnel to include leaves passes and counseling

G1 or S1

Providing information services, including publications, printing, distribution, immaterial for the freedom of information actors, which staff officers responsibility?

S1 or G1

Which principal staff officer is responsible for the following? - Providing administrative support for non-US forces, foreign nationals -Providing administrative support to legal actions

S1 or G1

The G2 or S2 is the chief of the _____ war fighting function in the principal staff officer responsible for providing ______ to support current and future operations and plans

Intelligence Intelligence

The G2 or S2 is responsible for writing annex __ (intelligence) and provides input to the G3 or S3 for refinement of annex L (________)

Annex B Information collection

When required, the G2 or S2 may also write tab E (________) to appendix ____(targeting) of annex D (fires)

Battle damage assessment Appendix 3

Who has coordinating staff responsibility for the staff weather officer?

G2 or S2

True or false G2 or S2 provides intelligence support which includes specific support to psychological operations, operations security , military deception, and other information related capabilities

True

Whose responsibilities -Overseeing the intelligence Cell specifically situation development, target development, support to lethal and non-targeting -Providing the commander and staff with assessments of key groups and populations, including capabilities, intentions, and potential COAs

G2 or S2

Whose responsibility? -Identifying gaps in intelligence and developing collection strategies -Managing our supervising security programs -Recommending changes to information collection plan based on changes in the situation and weather

S2 or G2

Who leads the staff in IPB in consolidates the staffs IPB products into coherent and holistic IPB product?

G2/S2

Who is the chief of the movement and maneuver war, fighting function and commanders, principal staff officer for coordinating a synchronizing all operations in their entirety?

G3 or S3

While the chief of staff or EXO directs the efforts of the entire staff, which officer insures war, fighting function, integration, and synchronization across the planning, horizons and current, future operations

S3 or G3

S3. In coordination with S2 is responsible for preparing annex___ (information collection) and coordinates with S9 for preparing annex ___ (inter organization-interagency coordination) to the OPORD

Annex L Annex V

S3. In conjunction with G5 at division and higher., prepares annex_ (task organization) annex __(operations) and annex M (assessment)

Annex A Annex C

Who has coordinating staff responsibility of the following? -Aviation officer -chemical, biological, nuclear officer -Cyber warfare officer -Engineer -force management officer

S3 or G3

Who has responsibility for the following? -Liaison officers -Psychological operations officer -space operations officer -Other special staff officers in augmentations residing in the movement and maneuver Cell

S3 or G3

The S3 responsibilities for ___ and___ include: -allocating intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and security tasks -and integrating fires into operations -Planning, tactical troop movements -Developing the ammunition required supply rate

Plans and operations

S3 responsibilities for ____ include: -Preparing training guidance for the commanders approval -Determining requirements for and allocating of training resources -Conducting training, inspections, test, and evaluations

Training

S3 responsibilities for _____ And_____ include: -Reviewing analyzing and recommending a planned or programmed for structure -New weapons and equipment -allocating manpower resources to subordinate commands

Force development and modernization

What war fighting function is S4 responsible for?

Sustainment

The S4 prepares paragraph ___of the base order(think service and support) annex (___) sustainment, Annex P (host nation support) and annex (___) (operational contract support)

4 Annex F Annex P

As for responsibilities for sustainment ____ and_____ include: -Developing the logistics plan to support operations -Coordinating with G3, G2, and engineer to requisition catalog topographic foundation data -Coordinating with S1 or S3 to man, train, and equip replacement personnel

Plans and operations

The _______is the principal staff officer responsible for the protection war fighting function division through theater army

Chief of protection

Who is usually designated as the chief of protection, but also can be engineer, or The CBRN officer?

Provost Marshall

The chief of protection prepares annex___ (protection)

Annex E

Who is the principal staff officer responsible for the fires war fighting function at the theater army?

Chief of fires or DFSCOORD

Which annex does the chief of fires or DFSCOORD prepare?

Annex D fires

Which principal staff officer is responsible for all matters concerning civil affairs and civil military operations

G9 or S9

What annex does the S9 prepare?

Annex K civil affairs operations Think S9 + annex K = K9

S9 coordinates with G3 for preparation of annex____ (interorganization-interagency coordination)

Annex V

Who coordinates construction of facilities, field sanitation, and transportation?

Planning as part of which warfighting function?

Command control Not movement and maneuver

Which staff officer is principal in planning operations for mid to long range planning horizons?

G5, plans

In conjunction with G3, the G5 prepares annex ___ (task organization) annex __ (operations) and annex___ (assessment)

Annex A Annex C Annex M

-which staff officer is responsible? Preparing and coordinating OPLAN, concept plans, and OPORD’s -reviewing subordinate, supporting plans and orders -Coordinating and synchronizing war fighting functions in all plans and orders

Which staff officer deals with all matters concerning communications within the units area of operations?

S6 or G6

What war fighting function is S6 and G6 a part of beginning at the battalion headquarters?

Command and control

Which annex does G6 prepare?

Annex H (signal)

Which staff officer is responsible for financial management, and as part of the sustainment war fighting function?

G8 financial management

The G8 prepares tab __ (maintenance) to appendix 2 (personnel services support) And appendix ___(financial management) of annex F (sustainment)

Tab B appendix 4

-Air and missile defense officer -air Liaison officer -Aviation officer -CBRN officer -Civilian personnel officer —— are all considered what type of staff?

Special staff

-dental surgeon -Engineer -Equal opportunity advisor -EOD officer —— are all considered what type of officer

Special staff officer

What tab is human resources support? What tab is band operations?

Tab A HR support Tab E band operations

What appendix is personnel services support?

Appendix 2

What annex is sustainment?

Annex F

What annex is information collection? What annex is Interorganization-interagency coordination?

Annex L Annex V

Which annex is intelligence? Which annex is information collection ?

Annex B Annex L

What annex is task organization? What annex is operations? What annex is assessment?

Annex A Annex C Annex M

Which tab of a appendix 3 (targeting) Of annex D (fires ) is battle damage assessment?

Tab E

Which annex covers fires

Annex D

S3. In conjunction with the knowledge management officer prepares annex___(reports) And annex ____(distribution)

Annex R Annex Z

Which annex cover sustainment? Which annex covers host nation support ? Which annex covers operational contract support ?

Annex F Annex P Annex W

Which annex covers task organization? Which annex covers operations ? Which annex covers assessment ?

Annex A Annex C Annex M

Which annex covers signal?

Annex H

G8 prepares what tab of appendix 2 (personnel services) support of annex F

Tab B

G8 prepares appendix (number) of annex F

Appendix 4

Which annex covers civil affairs operations

Annex K