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TACS/AAGS Flashcards

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What does the TACS/AAGS stand for?

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Theater Air Control System / Army Air Ground System

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What are the component systems of the Theater Air-Ground System (TAGS)?

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Army Air-Ground System (AAGS)
Marine Air Command and Control System (MACCS)
Navy Tactical Air Control System (NTACS)
Special Operations Air-Ground System (SOAGS)
Air Force Theater Air Control System (TACS)

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What are the characteristics of a JFC?

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Centralized control over joint assets
Sets theater objectives and priorities through campaign plans
Establishes the requirements for TAGS
Overall responsibility for airspace control and air defense
Directs air apportionment

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What are the JFC mission areas?

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Counterair
-Defensive and Offensive Counterair (DCA and OCA)

Counterland
-Air Interdiction (AI)
-Close Air Support (CAS)

Strategic attack (SA)

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Who creates the air apportionment?

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JFC

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Who creates air allocations?

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JFACC

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What is the location and function of the COMAFFOR?

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Falls under JFC. Provides Air Force forces to JFC.

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What is the location and function of the JFACC?

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Falls under the AFFOR. Could be the COMAFFOR but is led by the service with the preponderance of air asses WITH the C2 structure to support air operations.

Plans, coordinates, allocates, and tasks air sorties based on JFC guidance.

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What is the location and function of the Joint Air Operations Center (JAOC)?

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Falls under the JFACC

Develops the ATO and ACO

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What is the location and function of the Wing Operations Center?

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Falls under the JAOC, supports the airbases.

Receives orders and combat taskings from the AOC, which is two way communication.

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What is the location and function of the Joint Air Component Coordination Element (JACCE)?

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JFACC’s primary LNO to JFLCC, does not C2 any operations.

Works FOR the JFACC in the JFLCC

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What is the location and function of the Control and Reporting Center?

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Controls JFACC airspace through positive control of aircraft

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What is the location and function of the Tactical Air Control Party?

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Falls under Corps, DIV, BDE, BN.

-Advise GFC on the capabilities and limitations of air operations
-Provide the primary terminal attack control of CAS
-Immediate requests

Advise, control, assist

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What is the location and function of the Air Support Operations Center?

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Falls under the DIV.

Primary control agency of the TACS that directly supports ground forces at the senior tactical echelon.
Provides procedural control of air component aircraft operating in the AO.

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What is the location and function of the Airborne Command and Control?

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Airborne extension of the CRC.

Extends range of CRC capabilities to provide C2 beyond LOS.

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What is the location and function of the Forward Air Controller (Airborne)?

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Airborne extension of TACP

Main objective is to maximize and integrate joint fires

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What is the location and function of the COMARFOR?

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Provides Army forces to the JFC. Always an Army officer. Can dual hat as JFLCC.

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What is the location and function of the Joint Force Land Component Commander?

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Usually from the Army, but can be a Marine depending on the proponderance of land forces with C2 capabilities.

Plans, coordinates, employs and synchronizes the employment of land forces.

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What is the location and function of the Fires Support Element?

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Falls under Corps, DIV, BDE, BN.

Drives targeting process for the echelons of command.
Coordinates, plans, integrates, and synchronizes the employment and assessment of Army, joint, and multinational fires.

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What is the location and function of the Airspace Element?

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Corps and Division

Building out airspace from subordinate units, to include ADA (SHORAD) and UAS employment.

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What is the location and function of the Battlefield Coordination Detachment?

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Works inside AOC but for ARFOR. Senior liaison. Gets the land component’s targets onto the targeting cycle. Still represents the Army even if the Army isn’t the JFLCC

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What is the location and function of the Ground Liason Detachment/Recon Liaison Detachment?

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Works for the BCD works in the WOC. Liaise between ground units and the USAF wings providing CAS, AI, airlift, airdrops, recon.

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What is the location and function of the Army Air and Missile Defense Command (AAMDC)?

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Responsible for all Army’s Air Defense Systems. Works for COMARFOR. Will be the deputy Air Area Deputy Commander to the JFACC

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What is the location and function of the Air Defense Artillery Fire Control Officer?

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The Army single point of contact between land-based AMD fire direction centers and the joint or Army controlling authority

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What is the location and function of the Air Defense Artillery BDE?

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Plans current operations and makes adjustments/modifications
Provides administrative, operational, and sustainment support to deployed units

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What is the location and function of the Air Defense Airspace Management/Brigade Aviation Element?

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BDE’s air cell. Plans for airspace use, requests, maintains, disseminates joint ACMs. Works with FSE. ADA planners as well.

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What is the location and function of the Multi Domain Task Force?

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Capable of employing long-range precision fires and other effects from multiple domains to the JFC or a component Commander
Designed to defeat complex enemy systems through the collection of information and different forms of lethal and non-lethal fires

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What is the location and function of the Theater Fires Command/Element?

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Theater Fires Command (TFC) is the FSCOORD for the Theater Army
Theater Fires Element (TFE) is the joint fires element for the Theater Army
They both provide C2 of assigned fires capabilities
They both serve as the Theater Army’s senior organization to plan, coordinate, synchronize, and employ multidomain fires to support the JFLCC, theater army, and the JFACC

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