Week 5: 8-15 September 2013

Question 1

Squadron 5 nickname

Answer 1

Wolfpack

Question 2

Squadron 6 nickname

Answer 2

Bull Six

Question 3

Squadron 36 nickname

Answer 3

Pink Panthers

Question 4

President Thomas Jefferson’s quote on integrity (“In matters of…”) pg 169

Answer 4

“In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current. Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give up earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act. And never suppose that in any situation, or under any circumstances, it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing. Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.”

Question 5

USAF Academy Mission pg 16

Answer 5

Educate, train, and inspire men and women to become officers of character, motivated to lead in the United States Air Force and in service to our Nation.

Question 6

Cadet’s Oath of Allegiance pg 16

Answer 6

I, (name), having been appointed an Air Force Cadet in the United States Air Force, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which I am about to enter.

Question 7

Air Force Core Values pg 62

Answer 7

Integrity First, Service Before Self, And Excellence in All We Do. Integrity First: Integrity is a character trait. It is the willingness to do what is right even when no one is looking. It is the “moral compass”-the inner voice; the voice of self-control; the basis for the trust imperative in today’s military. Service Before Self: Service before self tells us that professional duties take precedence over personal desires. Excellence in All We Do: Excellence in all we do directs us to develop a sustained passion for continuous improvement and innovation that will propel the Air Force into a long-term, upward spiral of accomplishment and performance.

Question 8

F-22A Raptor pg 126

Answer 8

Question 9

F-22A Raptor Manufacturer

Answer 9

Lockheed Martin, Boeing

Question 10

F-22A Raptor Function

Answer 10

Air Dominance, Multi-Role Fighter

Question 11

F-22A Raptor Service Date

Answer 11

2002

Question 12

F-22A Raptor Speed and Supercruise

Answer 12

Speed: Mach 2.25

Supercruise: Mach 1.82

Question 13

F-22A Raptor Crew

Answer 13

One

Question 14

F-22 A Raptor Production and Inventory

Answer 14

Production: 187

Inventory: 183

Question 15

F-22A Raptor Commentary

Answer 15

The F-22A reached IOC in December 2005, and on Jan. 21, 2006, it flew its first operational sortie from Langley AFB, Va., as part of Noble Eagle. The Pentagon has capped production at 187 aircraft, with final delivery expected in 2012.

Question 16

F-86 Sabre pg 135

Answer 16

Question 17

F-86 Sabre Manufacturer

pg 135

Answer 17

Manufacturer: North American

Question 18

F-86 Sabre Function

pg 135

Answer 18

Function: Fighter

Question 19

F-86 Sabre Service Date

pg 135

Answer 19

Service Date: 1949-1970

Question 20

F-86 Sabre Speed

pg 135

Answer 20

Speed: 687 mph

Question 21

F-86 Sabre Crew

pg 135

Answer 21

Crew: One

Question 22

F-86 Sabre Production

pg 135

Answer 22

Production: 9,860

Question 23

F-86 Sabre Commentary

pg 135

Answer 23

Commentary: The Sabre is the most successful air-superiority fighter in the Korean War. F-86 pilots were credited with shooting down 792 MiGs for a loss of only 78 Sabres, a victory ratio of 10:1. Of the 41 American pilots who earned the designation of ace during the Korean War, all but one flew the F-86 Sabre.

Question 24

Global Positioning System (GPS)

pg 141

Answer 24

Question 25

Global Positioning System (GPS)

Service Date

pg 141

Answer 25

Service Date: 1994

Question 26

Global Positioning System (GPS)

Function

pg 141

Answer 26

Function: Worldwide Positioning, Navigation, Timing and Velocity Information

Question 27

Global Positioning System (GPS)

Power

pg 141

Answer 27

Power: Solar IIF panels generate 2,450 watts

Question 28

Global Positioning System (GPS)

Production

pg 141

Answer 28

Production: 31 (active)

Question 29

Global Positioning System (GPS)

Orbit

pg 141

Answer 29

Orbit: 11,000 miles.

Question 30

Mission Design Series (MDS)

Example: NKC-135R (aircraft)

Answer 30

Example: NKC-135R(aircraft)

“N” Prefix, Special Test (Permanent)

“K” Modfied Mission, Tanker

“C” Basic Mission, Cargo

“135” Design Number

“R” Model/Series

Question 31

Mission Design Series (MDS)

Status Prefix (optional)

pg 114

Answer 31

Status Prefix (optional)

G-Permanently Grounded

J-Special Test (temporary)

N-Special Test (permanent)

X-Experimental

Y-Prototype

Z-Planning

Question 32

Mission Design Series (MDS)

Basic Mission

pg 114

Answer 32

Basic Mission

A-Attack

B-Bomber

C-Transport

E-Special Electronic

F-Fighter

L-Laser

O-Observation

P-Patrol

R-Reconnaissance

S-Antisubmarine

T-Trainer

U-Utility

X-Research

Question 33

Mission Design Series (MDS)

Modified Mission (optional)

pg 114

Answer 33

Modified Mission (optional)

A-Attack

C-Transport

D-Director

E-Special Electronic

F-Fighter

H-Search and Rescue

K-Tanker

L-Cold Weather

M-Multi Mission

O-Observation

P-Patrol

Q-Drone

R-Reconnaissance

T-Trainer

U-Utility

V-Staff

W-Weather Vehicle Type

Question 34

Mission Design Series (MDS)

Non-Standard Vehicle Type (if applicable)

pg 114

Answer 34

Non-Standard Vehicle Type (if applicable)

G-Glider

H-Helicopter

S-Space Plane

V-VOLSTOL

Z-Lighter-than-air

Question 35

General Hansford T. Johnson pg 50

Answer 35

The first Academy graduate promoted to the rank of four-star general was also a 1959 graduate, General Hansford T. Johnson. General Johnson’s distinguished career included 423 combat missions as a forward air controller in Southeast Asia. General Johnson retired as the Commander-in-Chief of the United States Transportation Command and Military Airlift Command.

Question 36

Pilot Wings Badge

Answer 36

Question 37

Navigator/Combat Systems Officer Badge

Answer 37

Question 38

Astronaut Badge

Answer 38

Question 39

Air Battle Manager Badge pg 144

Answer 39

Question 40

WWII, The Doolittle Raid pg 74-76

Answer 40

Even before the actual outbreak of hostilities in Europe in the fall of 1939, the GHQ Air Force had begun the massive expansion program that would blossom during the following years into the largest air organization in the Nation’s history. In 1939, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt asked for an appropriation of $300 million for military aviation. The Air Corps planned for 24 operational combat-ready groups by 1941, which called for greatly enhanced manpower, training, equipment.

On 7 December 1941, “a day which will live in infamy,” Japanese naval air power dealt a devastating blow to the US Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor. Two waves of 350 Japanese aircraft sank or heavily damaged all eight US battleships.

As Japanese forces appeared invincible during the first six months of 1942, President Roosevelt desperately wanted an offensive strike against the Japanese home islands to boost sagging morale.

Navy Capt Francis S. Low conceived the idea of flying Army medium bombers off a Navy carrier and attacking Japan. The B-25 was selected because it was small; had sufficient range to carry two thousand-pound bombs, two thousand miles; and because it took off and handled very well.

The training was hard; no one had ever taken a off a fully loaded B-25 in less than five hundred feet. First they had to prove it could be done, then they had to train the people to do it. Before they were through, the bombers would lift off in only 287 feet. The crews proved they were good and so were their airplanes.

The raid was carefully planned. Excess weight was removed and additional bladders for fuel were added. Crews removed tailguns and replaced them with broomsticks. Crews also removed the secret Norden bombsights so critical technologies would not fall into enemy hands.

On 18 April 1942, Lt Col James “Jimmy” Doolittle answered the call when sixteen North American B-25 Mitchell medium bombers took off from the carrier, USS Hornet. The aircraft dropped bombs on various targets over Tokyo, Kobe, and Nagoya before crews bailed out or crashed landed in China (although one aircraft landed undamaged near Vladivostok, where the Soviets interned the plane and crew). Eighty crew members flew in the Doolittle Raid, 64 returned to fight again.

Even though the Doolittle Raid inflicted little damage, the gesture shocked Japanese military and naval leaders and cheered the American public. Upon his return to the United States in May 1942, Jimmy Doolittle received the Medal of Honor and promotion to Brigadier General.

Question 41

General James H. “Jimmy” Doolittle: Pg 104

Answer 41

General Doolittle enlisted in the Army Signal Corps Reserve in October 1917 as a flying cadet. Doolittle resigned from the Army Air Corps in 1930; but ten years later in July 1940, he returned to active duty. In April of 1942, he led 16 B-25 medium bombers on the first American bombing attack against the homeland of Japan from the deck of the USS Hornet. As a result of this bombing run on Tokyo, he received the Medal of Honor. In his career he was the commander of the Twelfth Air Force in North Africa, the Fifteenth Air Force in Italy, and the Eighth Air Force in England. Doolittle advocated the creation of an independent Air Force. “The first lesson is that you cannot lose a war if you have command of the air and you cannot win a war if you haven’t.” Doolittle, nicknamed the “Renaissance Man of Aviation,” was a test pilot as well as a daredevil and risk taker who made deliberate decision. Doolittle died in California on 27 September 1993.

Question 42

Constitution: Article 1 Section 3 through Section 5 pages 183-185

SECTION 3

Answer 42

Section 3
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each States, chosen by the Legislature thereof, for six Years; and each Senator shall have one Vote.

Immediately after they shall be assembled in Consequence of the first Election, they shall be divided as equally as may be into three Classes. The Seats of the Senators of the first Class shall be vacated at the Expiration of the second Year, of the second Class at the Expiration of the fourth Year, and of the third Class at the Expiration of the sixth Year, so that one third may be chosen every second Year; and if Vacancies happen by Resignation, or otherwise, during the Recess of the Legislature of any State, the Executive thereof may make temporary Appointments until the next Meeting of the Legislature, which shall then fill such Vacancies.

No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen.

The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided.

The Senate shall choose their other Officers, and also a President pro tempore, in the absence of the Vice President, or when he shall exercise the Officer of President of the United States.

The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present.

Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States: but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law.

Question 43

Constitution Article 1 Section 3 through Section 5: pages 183-185

SECTION 4

Answer 43

Section 4
The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each States by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Place of Choosing Senators.

The Congress shall assemble at least once in every Year, and such Meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by Law appoint a different Day.

Question 44

Constitution Article 1 Section 3 through Section 5: pages 183-185

SECTION 5

Answer 44

Section 5

Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members, and a Majority of each shall constitute a Quorum to do Business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the Attendance of absent Members, in such Manner, and under such Penalties as each House may provide.

Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly Behavior, and, with the Concurrence of two-thirds, expel a Member.

Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House on any question shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the Journal.

Neither House, during the Session of Congress, shall, without the Consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other Place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting.

Question 45

Air Force Core Values Explanation: Pg 62

Answer 45

Integrity First, Service Before Self, And Excellence In All We Do

Integrity First: Integrity is a character trait. It is the willingness to do what is right even when no one is looking. It is the “moral compass”-the inner voice; the voice of self-control; the basis for the trust imperative in today’s military.

Service Before Self: Service before self tells us that professional duties take precedence over personal desires.

Excellence In All We Do: Excellence in all we do directs us to develop a sustained passion for continuous improvement and innovation that will propel the Air Force into a long-term, upward spiral of accomplishment and performance.

Question 46

The Department/Secretary of Defense: pg 150

Answer 46

The Department of Defense (DoD) was created by the National Security Act of 1947 to maintain and employ the armed forces to support and defense the Constitution of the United States, to provide national security, and to protect national policies and interests. The Department of Defense is headed by the Secretary of Defense and made up of the Military Departments, Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Combatant Commanders, the DoD Staff and Agencies, and DoD Field Activities.

The National Security Act of 1947 also created the position of the Secretary of Defense (SecDef) who is responsible to the President for creating, supporting, and employing military capabilities. In time of war, military orders flow direction from the President to the SECDEF, to the Combatant Commander. If the President desires, those order may flow through the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on the way to the Combatant Commanders.