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1
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Identify the teams in the SRD

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Strategy Plans Team

Strategy Guidance Team

Ops Assessment Team

Non-Kinetic Team

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Recall the responsibilities of the teams in the SRD. (SPT)

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Mid-term and long term focus.

Leads the AOC in JPPA culminating in a plan or order

Develops and maintains JFACC op plans, including the JOAP.

Develop Air apportionment recommendations.

Develop and monitor JFACC CCIR’s

Primary interface with JPG

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Recall the responsibilities of the teams in the SRD. (SGT)

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Near term focus

Develops JFAC guidance for the planning, execution, and assessment of each ATO

Prepares AOD changes

Articulates JFACC desired effects to supporting commands

Coordinates with TET for Tactical Objectives and Tactical Task priorities.

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Recall the responsibilities of the teams in the SRD. (OAT)

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Responsible for analyzing the effectiveness of pass and present joint air operations, combining this analysis with a look at future plans and operations, and recommending adjustments to plans and guidance to achieve the desired end state objectives.

Long and near term focus

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Recall the products of the Strategy Plans Team

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Pre Execution: Apportionment Rec’s, JAOP, Air Estimate of the Situation, Commander’s Evaluation Response Message (EResM), and special studies and projects.

Execution: Updates to JAOP, Phase Directives, Operational level guidance for the current AOD, Branch and sequel plans

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Recall the products of the Strategy Guidance Team

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Pre execution: portions of the JAOP as assigned by the SPT, and support on Air Estimate of the Situation

Execution: AOD

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Recall the products of the Operational Assessment Team

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Operational Assessment Briefing

Operational Assessment Report (OAR)

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Recall the responsibilities of the teams in the SRD. (NIKE)

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State the function of the AF FOR staff

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mechanism through which the COMAFOR exercises responsibilities across the continuum of conflict.

Function is to support and assist the COMAFOR in preparing the Air Force component to carry out the functions and tasks assigned by the JFC.

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Recognize the principal responsibilities of the A-Staff directorates.

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A1 - Manpower
A2 - Intel
A3 - Operations
A4 - Logistics, Engineering, and Force Protection
A5 - Strategy, Plans, and Requirements
A6 - Communications
A8 - Strategic Plans and Programs
A9 - Studies, Analysis, Assessments, and Lessons Learned

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Identify the planning group the commander, Air Force forces (COMAFFOR) uses during crisis planning or execution.

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OPG - Operational Planning Group

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Distinguish between a campaign plan, a contingency plan, and crisis planning.

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Campaign: day to day operations of the joint force to shape the OE and achieve national objectives.

Contingency: branch of a campaign plan that is planned based on hypothetical situations for designated threats, catastrophic events, and contingent missions outside of crisis conditions.

crisis: results in an order (time constrained). An incident or situation that creates a condition of such national importance that the President or SecDef may consider a commitment of US military forces and resources to achieve or defend national objectives.

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Identify the four levels of planning and the associated products of contingency planning. Level 1 (least detail)

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Commander’s Estimate: Least detailed. Produces multiple COA to address contingencies. Can produce COA brief, command directive, commander’s estimate, or a memorandum with a proposed force list.

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Describe the products (e.g. orders) of crisis planning.

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Orders direct action.

WARNORD, PLANORD, ALERTORD, OPORD, FRAGORD, EXORD.

ALERTORD (plan development after a COA is selected)
OPORD: directive issued by a commander to coordinate execution of an operation.

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Identify the four levels of planning and the associated products of contingency planning. Level 2 (no annexes)

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Base Plan (BPLAN): describes the CONOPS, major forces, concept of support, and anticipated timelines for completing the mission. Normally doesn’t contain annexes.

May include Flexible Deterrent Options and Flexible Response Options. Shape develop situations.

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Identify the four levels of planning and the associated products of contingency planning. Level 3 (abbreviated OPLAN)

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Concept Plan (CONPLAN): is an OPLAN in an abbreviated format that may require considerable expansion to convert into a complete level 4 OPLAN or OPORD.

If it has a TPFDD its now a 3T. Also includes Annex E (Personnel) and Annex W (Operational Contract Support)

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Identify the four levels of planning and the associated products of contingency planning. Level 4 (complete)

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Operation Plan (OPLAN): complete and detailed plan. Identifies the force requirements, functional support, and resources to execute the plan.

Can request a National Intelligence Support Plan (NISP) be developed for a level 4 OPLAN.

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Describe the purpose of the JPPA

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Depends on the commander but for both use JPPA to plan for air operations.

JP: as the process used by the JFACC to develop the JAOP.

Orderly, analytical planning process

JFACC: develop a JAOP which guides employment of air capabilities and forces made available to accomplish missions assigned by the JFC.

COMAFFOR: create the detailed plans they require to effectively employ airpower, including operations orders and other supporting plans. (Focused on Service Component Plan (OPLAN)) and for execution develop an OP ORDER.

19
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Identify the seven steps of JPPA

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Initiation

Mission Analysis

COA Development

COA Analysis and Wargaming

COA comparison

COA Approval

Plan or Order Development

20
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Identify the Commander, Air Force Forces (COMAFFOR) primary plan/order produced by using the JPPA.

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Detailed Service Component Plan (OPLAN) containing mission and intent… time-phased force and deployment data (TPFFD).

During execution, will develop an OPORD. OPCON of Air Expeditionary Task Force (AETF) forces in the operation.

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Identify the Joint Force Air Component Commander (JFACC) primary plan/order produced by using the JPPA

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Develops a Joint Air Operations Plan for employment of joint/combined capabilites that are assigned, attached, or made available for tasking. JAOP is the JFACC’s supplement to the JFC’s plan.

22
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Define operational art.

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Cognitive approach used by commanders and staff–supported by their skills, knowledge, experience, creativity, and judgement–to develop strategies, campaigns, and operations to organize and employ military forces.

23
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Define operational design.

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Analytical frameworks that underpins planning. Helps in organizing and understanding the OE as a complex interactive system.

Commander is the central figure in planning.

24
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Define operational approach.

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Through the use of OPERATIONAL DESIGN and the application of OPERATIONAL ART, commanders develop innovative, adaptive alternatives to solve complex challenges. These broad alternatives are the operational approach.

Commanders description of the broad actions the force can take to achieve an objective.

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Recall the three purposes for developing an operational approach.

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  1. foundation for the commander’s planning guidance to the staff and other partners on how the joint forces will transform current conditions into the desired conditions.
  2. the model for execution of the campaign or operation and development of assessments for that campaign or operation.
  3. Enables a better understanding of the operational environment and problem.
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Identify the sub-steps of the Initiation step of JPPA

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Initiation is the Plan to Plan

Alert the staff and stand up the Operations Planning Group (OGP) and Air Planning Group (APG).

Review guidance and available staff estimates

Determine planning timeline and any additional planning team members required.

Issue initial planning guidance based on the JFACC’s guidance and your understanding of the OE to guide the APG/OPG through the planning process. (OPG is ops focused)

27
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Identify the primary inputs and outputs of Mission Analysis

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Inputs: 1. strategic guidance 2. HHQ planning directive 3. JFACC’s initial planning guidance and 4. division chief’s planning guidance

Outputs: Mission Statement and Intent Statement; + Problem Statement

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Define the terms “facts” and “assumptions”

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Facts: information known to be true. Should be relevant to the situation at hand.

Assumptions: Supposition about the current situation or future course of events, based on an assessment of available facts. Valid assumptions are logical, realistic, and essential.

29
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Define the terms “specified tasks” ; “implied task” ; and “essential task”.

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Specified: assigned to a commander in a planning directive. HHQ to SubHQ probably specified task.

Implied: additional tasks derived to accomplish specified tasks, support another command, or accomplish activities relevant to the objective but not stated specifically.

Essential: must execute successfully to attain the desired end state.

30
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Recall the five key elements every mission statement must address.

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Who, what, when, where, and why (leave the how for COA development.

31
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Recall the two key elements an intent statement should include.

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Concise expression of the purpose and the desired end states.

32
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State the definition of an air COA

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Potential Plan the JFACC could implement to accomplish the assigned mission.

33
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Identify the six questions a COA must answer.

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5W’s plus How

34
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Explain the purpose of Phasing as it relates to COA Development

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assists the command and staff with visualizing and thinking through the entire operation or campaign and to help define requirements in terms of forces, resources, time, space, and purpose.

Visualize a large-scale operation and make estimates of effort, over time.

35
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List and explain the five criteria for a COA to be considered “valid”

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Valid COA is:

Adequate - can accomplish mission within guidance

Feasible - accomplish mission within time, space, and resource limitations

Acceptable - balance cost and risk with advantage gained

Distinguishable - sufficiently different

Complete - incorporates all the factors necessary

36
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Define COA analysis and Wargaming

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A recorded “what if” session of actions and reactions designed to visualize the flow of the conflict or operation and evaluation each friendly COA in the light of the adversary adaptation.

37
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Explain the purpose of wargaming

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Tentatively evaluate COA validity and identify the ADVANTAGES and DISADVANTAGES of each proposed friendly COA.

+Staff can gain common understanding.

38
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Determine which enemy COA should be wargamed against.

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Most Likely & Most Dangerous

39
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Relate the importance of a weighted numerical matrix factor to its assigned value

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The higher number reflects a more important criteria and a more favorable evaluation.

40
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Explain the two questions which can be used to determine the weighting scale for a weighted numerical comparison matrix.

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  1. Most important & Least Important criteria
  2. Relative importance (the ratio) of the most important criteria to the least important criteria.
41
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Explain how to evaluate COAs against the criteria.

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Each COA is evaluated independently. Not against the other COAs.

42
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Explain who approved the recommended air COA.

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JFC approves the COA selected by the JFACC to present as the Air COA.

43
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Describe three ways of presenting the preferred air COA to the JFC.

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Formal Brief

message or US Message Text Format (USMTF) (ALL CAPS TEXT FORMAT)

Commander’s Estimate or “Joint Air Estimate”: Narrative of the most important information to convey to the JFC.

+ for Commander’s Estimate: Typically, SUPPORTING commander’s don’t submit estimates to CJCS but the SUPPORTED commander may be request to do so.

44
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Describe the five paragraph format in the narrative portion of a Commander’s Estimate.

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M - S - A - C - R

Mission

Situation and Courses of Action

Analysis of Adversary Capabilities and Intentions

Comparison of Own Courses of Action

Recommendation

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