STAR Board Flashcards
Command Team
What are the characerisitcs of Army Profession?
Trust, Honorable service, Military expertise, Stewardship, Esprit de corps.
What is trust?
Trust is the foundation of the Army’s relationship with the American people.
What is Honorable Service?
Army professionals serve honorable by obeying the laws of the Nation and all legal orders.
What is Military Exoertise?
Military expertice is the ethical is the design, generation, support, and application of landpower, and the associated capabilities essemtia to accoplishing missions.
What is Stewardship?
Stewardship is the responsibility of Soilders and Army civilians to strengthen the Army as a profession.
What is espirit de Corps?
Denotes the Army’s winning spirit - a collective ethos of camaraderie, mutual trust, and cohesive teamwork.
What is Reveille?
Reveille is the bugle call played to signal the troops to awaken for morning roll call and coincides with the raising of the national Color.
What is Taps bugle call used for?
“Taps” is played on some military insillations late in the evening as it signals “lights out”.
What does SHARP stand for?
Sexual Harassment Assult Response and Prevention.
What are two types of SHARP offenses?
Sexual harassment and sexual assult
What is Army policy on SHARP?
It does not tolerate or condone sexual harassment, sexual assult, or associated realiatory behavior.
What are the two types of SHARP reports?
Restricted and unrestricted
What is discrimination?
When somone, or a group of people, is harassed, intimiated, insulted, humiliated, or is treated less favorably than another person or group.
List types of discrimination?
Race, color, sex (include gender identity), national origin, religon, or sexual orientation.
What are types of equal oportunity complaints?
Informal and formal
What are the types formations?
U-formation, Line, Circular, Extended rectangle
What are rest positions given at halt?
Parade rest, stand at ease, at ease, rest
What was the first Cheif of the Engineers?
Louis Duportail
When was the office of the Cheif of the Engineer established?
16 June 1775
When and where was the Engineer Corps established?
16 March 1802 at West Point, NY
Name some of the famous engineer porjects?
The Washington Monument, The hoover dam, The panama canal
What is Army’s Mission?
To deploy, fight, and win our Nation’s wars by providing ready, prompt, and sustained land dominance.
What is the Army’s motto?
This we’ll defend
Drill Sergent Question (WTBD)
What does SALUTE stand for?
Size, activity, location, unit, time, equipment
When would you use SALUTE?
When you see suspected enemy befor they see you.
What does GOTWA stand for?
Where you are going, others you are taking with you, time to be expected gone, what to do if you do not come back on time, actions on if you recieve contact, actions on if they recive contact.
What does TIC stand for?
Troops in conacts
What does TCCC stand for?
Tactical combat casualty care
What are the three levels of care?
Care under fire, tactical field care, tactical evacuation care.
What does AVPU stand for?
Alert, verbal, pain, unresponsive
What is line 4 in the 9 MEDEVAC?
Special equipment required
What does CCP stand for?
Casualty collection point
What security must be emplaced when crossing a linear danger area?
Near side and far side security
Who is the only one in the formation allowed to classify a Linear Dange Area?
The person in charge of the formation (PL, PSG, SQL, TL)
What is the rule of thumb when clearing the objective?
Clear from the 6 to the 3 to the 9 by way of the 12
Who do you place at the 6 o’clock apex when clearing the objective?
The WSL (weapons squad leader and or weapons team leader)
What are the functions of each Squad and or Team?
3 SQD (Security, assult, support by fire) 4 SQD (security, assult, assult 2, support by fire)
When moving in a squad column fire team wedge what are the techniques used?
Traveling, traveling overwatch, bounding overwatch
When i straveling overwatch used in a squa column fire team wedge?
When contact is possile
What are the two different bounding techniques?
Alternate and seccessive
When receving contact what is the first thing you must do?
Assume prone unsupported and return fire
What does the last man say when passing the last man of the “L”?
“Last man; LOA)
What does LOA stand for?
Limit of Advance
What are the five major terrain features?
Hill, valley, ridge, saddle, deppression
What are the minor terrain features found on a map?
Draw, cliff, spur
What are the two supplemental terrain features?
Fill, cut
What is the first thing you do when you read a map?
Orient you map
What is the rule of thumb when reading a map?
Right and up
Instructor (Course) Questions
What are the major components for light framing?
Floor, wall, roof, stairs
What is the lowest member of the frame and support the floor joists?
Box sill
The components of a box sill are?
Sill plate, header joist
How are floor joist with a crown installed?
Crown up
What are th different girder types?
Built-up or laminated, solid, steel
How much clearance are on each side of girders to allair circulation and evaporation?
1/2”
How is plywood installedin reference to the floor joist?
Perpendicular
What is installed after the walls have been erected, squared and plumb?
Upper top plate
What is a let-in?
Studs are notched to let in braces
What is a cut-in
Cut in an angle and inserted between stud in a diagonal progression from top plae to sole plate
What is the first measurementfrom the outside corner should be?
15-1/4”
What supports the header and runs from the bottom of the header to the sole plate?
Trimmer studs
What type of roof has a minimum slope of 1/4” per foot of run?
Flat room
What type of truss is the simplest to construct & consist of only top & bottom cords, vertical center post?
King post
What is the usual spacing for trusses?
24” on center
What type of truss is most widely used in light frame construction & provide a uniform load carrying capacity?
W-type
Name the 4 component of trusses?
Top cord, bottom cord, web member, gussets
What are the stair components?
Tread, riser, stringer/carriage, nailing block, kick plate, railing
For stairs what is the name if the board that is stepped on?
Tread
What are the railing parts?
Newel post, handrail, baluster
What is the vertical member that is placed between two treads?
Riser
The
The procedures where the thickness of the tread is subtraced from the first unit of rise is called what?
Dropping the stringer
