Volume 1. Air Force Organization and Program Allocation and Control Flashcards
What is manpower’s primary charge to AF units and functions?
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Right sizing AF units and functions to enhance their mission capability.
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The Air Force allocates available manpower consistent with which three factors?
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Mission requirements, available resources, and acceptable levels of risk.
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Name the four manpower core competencies or manpower programs for which the MO community is responsible.
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(1) Requirements determination.
(2) Program allocation and control.
(3) Organization structure.
(4) Performance management.
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Strategic planning is included in which manpower core competency?
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Performance management.
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What office approves all manpower standards?
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Headquarters Air Force/Directorate of Manpower, Organization, and Resources (HAF/A1M).
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Who do commanders partner with to perform command-unique manpower standard studies and to submit variances?
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The AFMAA, manpower requirements squadrons (MRSs), and command functional managers.
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Who is responsible for assisting and advising local commanders on manpower resource management?
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Wing-level MO community or an equivalent MO office.
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Identify the office or manager that reviews the functional accuracy and recommends approval of
manpower standards and variances.
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Functional Area Managers (FAM).
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Why did the Air Force establish “functional” field management engineering teams (METs (FMETs))?
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To aid AF functional managers.
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Who recruits potential retrainees for the MO career field?
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Each of us in the career field.
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What skill level must an individual have to be qualified for retraining into the manpower career
field?
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Five-skill level or higher in any specialty, or 3-skill level if no 5-skill level exists.
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What is the best way to promote interest in the manpower career field?
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Personal contact.
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What is a benefit of close coordination with your formal training section at the MPS?
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You can often receive advance notice of important changes in the training advisory, such as notices of career field deletions that require mandatory retraining.
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What steps should the local installation MO office take after the letter of recommendation for a
retrainee is sent to the MPS?
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(1) Help the retrainee prepare for attending the formal manpower course.
(2) Coordinate with the losing commander and try to get the retrainee assigned to the Installation
Manpower and Organization Office on a part-time basis.
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What do skill levels indicate?
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The amount of MO task experience and knowledge you possess.
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What completes the knowledge requirement for award of the 3-skill level?
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The basic manpower apprentice course.
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List the items you must complete before upgrade to the manpower craftsman skill level.
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Be certified as proficient on core and current duty position tasks identified in the CFETP.
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In addition to meeting knowledge requirements, what course must SMSgts complete before they
are eligible for the 9-skill level?
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Complete the Manpower Superintendent/Flight Chief Course
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In reference to Manpower and Organization (MO) objectives, Air Force policy is to allocate
available manpower consistent with mission requirements,
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available resources, and acceptable levels of risk.
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The structure around the four manpower core competencies allows the Manpower and
Organization (MO) community to
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optimize the use of available Air Force manpower resources.
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Expeditionary manpower planning and execution is included in which manpower core competency?
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Requirements determination.
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Managing manpower positions in the Manpower Programming and Execution System
(MPES) is included in which manpower core competency?
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Program allocation and control.
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Which agency serves as the Air Force’s point of contact (POC) for all Air Force management
engineering procedural matters?
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Air Force Manpower Analysis Agency.
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Defending manpower requirements is the responsibility of the
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functional area manager.
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In 1965, the Air Force management engineering and analysis experienced significant growth and focused on
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operational efficiency.
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Staff Sergeant Wilson wants to retrain into Air Force Specialty 3F3X1. What is the minimum general aptitude qualification examination (AQE) score needed?
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66.
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In the Manpower and Organization (MO) career field, completion of the basic Manpower Apprentice Course satisfies the knowledge portion of which skill level?
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3.
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Organizations with like responsibilities should have similar organizational structures.
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Standardization
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Organizations should be capable of adapting rapidly to changing external circumstances.
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Flexibility
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Organizational structure should provide a clear chain of command running from the president to the most junior Airman.
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Unambiguous command
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Organizations should be designed so lower echelons can achieve objectives without the need of continuous control from above.
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Decentralization
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Organizations should have a reason to exist and designed to achieve the outcome defined in the applicable mission directive.
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Mission orientation
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Organizations should be structured so personnel can recognize problems, find solutions, make decisions, and implement them quickly.
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Agility
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Organizational structure should be as plain and straightforward as possible because complexity often inhibits rather than facilitates organizational effectiveness.
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Simplicity
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Encourages rapid decision making.
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Lean organizational structures
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Constitutes a complete entity, using closely related parts.
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Functional grouping
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Mirrors peacetime and wartime operations so little time is lost in transition.
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Emphasis on wartime tasks
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Is established at the lowest level required to successfully accomplish the primary mission.
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Standard levels
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Are tactical echelons designed to increased operational effectiveness rather than to review and transmit paperwork.
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Skip-echelon structure.
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What agency is the approval authority for deviations from a standard structure?
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Headquarters Air Force/Directorate of Manpower, Organization, and Resources (HAF/A1M)
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Is constituted by directives issued by HQ USAF.
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Unit.
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Is a temporary unit organized to perform a specific task.
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Provisional unit.
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Consists of a headquarters unit and its subordinate units.
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Establishment.
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Directly administers units, detachments, or operating locations assigned to it.
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Parent unit.
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Identifies Air Force personnel on duty with organizations outside the Air Force.
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Air Force element.
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Is separated geographically from its parent unit, and does not have non-judicial punishment authority.
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Operating locations.
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Is separated geographically from its parent unit, and has non-judicial punishment authority
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Detachment.
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What do you call an organizational entity whose legal authority for existence is withdrawn?
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Disbanded
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What are the two major entities in HQ USAF?
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(1) The Secretariat (including the secretary of the Air Force and the secretary’s principal staff).
(2) The Air Staff, headed by the CSAF.
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Why is the A-Staff patterned after the J-Staff?
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Designed to improve communications within the Air Force and with other DOD organizations.
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What is a subdivision of the Air Force that reports directly to the CSAF?
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DRU.
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What subdivision of the Air Force reports directly to a HQ USAF functional manager?
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FOA.
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How is a lead MAJCOM organized to support the entire Air Force?
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Consolidates responsibilities for a particular function in a single command.
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What level of organization should not exceed 99 manpower authorizations without an approved
waiver?
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NAF.
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What is the name for a wing that performs a support rather than an operational mission?
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Air base wing.
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What level of organization has the same functions and responsibilities as a wing but does not warrant wing-level designation?
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Independent group.
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What is the lowest level unit in the Air Force?
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Numbered flight.
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Host unit commanders.
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Installation commander.
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Designation used at group level.
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Deputy commander.
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Staff element of HQ USAF or MAJCOM level.
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Directorate.
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Designation used at MAJCOM through wing level only.
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Vice commander.
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Occupies a position of command pursuant to orders of appointment.
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Commander.
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Supervises the activities of directorates and FOAs.
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Deputy chief of staff.
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Organizations that hold squadron status in the wing structure and can be aligned to this type of element when the head of organization is a civilian.
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Division.
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What staff element reports directly to a MAJCOM vice commander and oversees executive services?
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Director of staff (DS).
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What was a Component Numbered Air Force (C-NAF) structured to perform?
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An operational and warfighting mission in support of a Unified Combatant Command (UCC).
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Generally, what levels of organization report to a wing commander?
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The wing staff, the four group commanders (operations, logistics, support, and medical), and the comptroller.
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Provides commanders and staff with research services.
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History.
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Coordinates support planning and exercise evaluations.
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Plans.
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Implements emergency action and quick reaction checklist
procedures.
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Command post.
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Represents Air Force interests in environmental, civilian labor and utility rate matters.
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Staff judge advocate.
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Issues and manages programs to help preserve vital resources and enhance mission capability.
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Safety.
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Provides advice to commanders and staff on religious, ethical, moral, morale and quality of life matters.
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Chaplain.
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Implements the Air Force’s Inspection System, complaints program, and FWA programs.
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Inspector general.
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Administers complaint program and human relations program; conducts human relations climate assessment.
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Equal opportunity.
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Advises and counsels commanders in communicating Air Force messages to the military and public communities.
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Public affairs.
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What function is aligned as a squadron or flight reporting directly to the wing commander?
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Comptroller (FM).
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What organizational action renews legal authorization of a disbanded unit?
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Reconstitute.
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What organizational action changes the name or number of an organization?
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Redesignate.
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What organizational action places a unit with an existing military organization?
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Assign.
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What do you call support that is provided by one organization to another, enabling that organization to carry out operations?
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Logistic support.
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What is automatically created when its headquarters unit is activated, but personnel are not assigned to it?
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Establishment.
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What document(s) reflect the effective date of an organization action?
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The Department of the Air Force/Directorate of Manpower, Organization, and Resources (DAF/A1M) or orders issued by the Command.
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What type of unit will be created when a specific organization is required and no organization exists to attach personnel?
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Provisional unit.
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What are the characteristics of a provisional unit?
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They are temporary in nature and personnel are attached rather than assigned.
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How often are detachment and operating locations reviewed to validate the continuing requirement for the activity?
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Annually.
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How are detachments numbered?
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In sequence, beginning with one.
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What agency’s approval is required to activate, inactivate, or redesignate a unit in a command or for one of its subordinate units?
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Headquarters Air Force/Directorate of Manpower, Organization, and Resources (HAF/A1M).
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What is used to request an organization action such as unit activation?
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Organizational change request (OCR).
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In developing an OCR, how many questions must you use as a checklist when preparing a request?
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Eight questions.
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How many days before the proposed start of the test organization are test plans submitted for approval?
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At least 120 calendar days.
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Who is responsible for publishing the legal and authoritative documents needed to implement
organization actions?
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HQ USAF, and command (MAJCOM, FOA, and DRU) MO functions.
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What actions do G-Series orders direct?
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Activate, inactivate, redesignate, assign, and reassign units and detachments subordinate to a command and to attach one unit to another.
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