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| The ___ is the document that actually tasks the air assets in a theater to execute the daily war |
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| The ____ is responsible for joint air ops planning and the development of a JAOP for integrating the joint forces and employing that portion of the air effort. |
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| The JFACC carries out the employment of force responsibilities using the ______. |
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| TACS (Theater air control system) |
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| The ____ is the JFACC's plan for integrating and coordinating joint air ops and encompasses air capabilities and forces supported by, and in support of, other joint force components |
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| How many stages are there in the JAOP? What are they? |
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| 7; Initiation, Mission Analysis, COA development, COA analysis and Wargaming, COA comparison, COA approval, Plan of Order development |
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| In this JAOP stage, the JFACC and staff perform an assessment of the initiating directive to determine time available until mission execution, current status of intel products and other factors relevant to the specific planning situation. The JFACC may produce an initial msn statement during this step. |
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| In this JAOP stage, IPB is initiated. Adversary and friendly centers of gravity are analyzed. The JFC's mission and guidance are analyzed to produce the JFACC's mission and intent statements and planning guidance. This step includes the who, what, when, where and why, but seldomly answers the how. |
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| In this JAOP stage, IPB is refined to include adversary COAs. Multiple COAs or one COA with significant branches or sequels are developed. |
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| In this JAOP stage, Friendly COAs are analyzed and wargamed against adversary COAs. |
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| COA analysis and wargaming |
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| In this JAOP stage, Wargaming results are used to compare COAs against predetermined criteria. |
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| In this JAOP stage, The decision is briefed to the JFC with COA recommendation. |
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| In this JAOP stage, the selected COA is developed into a JAOP and other orders as appropriate. |
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| Plan or Order development |
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| A ____ is a source of power that provides moral or physical strength, freedom of action or will to act. |
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| In regards to the concentric COG rings, what is the most important class of COG? |
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| What do the five COG concentric rings consist of? |
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| Leadership, infrastructure, key production, population, fielded military forces |
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| A ____ represents a potential plan the JFACC could implement to accomplish the assigned mission. |
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| COA analysis involves wargaming each COA against the most ______ and the most _____ COAs. |
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| T or F? The JAOP details how the joint force efforts supports the JFC's overall operation or campaign plan. |
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| How many ATO's are there usually at any one time? What stage of development are they in? |
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| 3{today's (execution), tomorrow's (production), and the next day's (planning)} |
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| The ATO directs ac commitments through which component parts? (Name some) |
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| OCA/DCA, Interdiction, CAS, AR/REC, general remarks, *ACO (maybe separate) |
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| Because of its ever changing nature, the ____ may stand as a separate document which directly supports the ATO. |
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| What can be found in the ACO? |
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| MRR, Engagement zones, Exclusion areas, ADIZ procedures, Orbits, Refueling anchors, HIDACZ, ROZ, Navaids, Airfield data |
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| The ATO has a ___ hour planning cycle. |
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| The ATO is normally executed at ____ zulu. How long is it good for? |
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| The key to break the ATO is located in the ___ |
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| Joint users handbook for message text formats (JUH-MTF) |
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| A partial extract of the ATO, that applies to a single unit is called a ____ |
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| Where are the SPINS found in the ATO? |
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| in the general remarks section |
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| The objective of ___ is to protect friendly forces and vital interests from enemy airborne attacks and is synonymous with air defense. |
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| ___ is normally conducted over friendly territory, is reactive to the enemy and subject to the guidelines given by the AADC. |
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| DCA is composed of what two things? |
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| Active air defense and passive measures |
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| What four mission types are most closely associated with active air defense operations? |
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| Area defense, point defense, HVAA protection, Self-defense |
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| ______ missions are conducted for the defense of a broad area using a combination of weapons systems. |
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| ____ missions are conducted for the protection of a limited area. Normally in defense of the vital elements of friendly forces and installations. |
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| _______ uses fighter aircraft to protect critical airborne theater assets. |
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| _______ is conducted by friendly forces to defend themselves against direct attack. |
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| What are the four CAP types? |
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| Roving, Point, Barrier CAP, Reset/Goalie CAP |
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| The ____ cap can be used in force protection or point/area defense missions. |
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| A ___ CAP is tied to a specific location to protect a geographical point. |
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| A ______ protects against a threat from a known direction by putting a screen between the enemy threat and the friendly aircraft/position. |
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| The purpose of a ____ CAP is to mitigate vacated forward caps with reinforcements and where necessary, intercept leakers that pass through forward CAPS. |
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| ______ do not involve employing lethal weapons against enemy targets however they do increase survivability of friendly forces and reduce the effectiveness of enemy attacks. |
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| Name some examples of passive defense measures. |
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| Detection and warning systems, CBRN defense, Hardening, Reconstitution, Redundancy, Dispersal, Mobility, ECM/IRCM, Stealth and LO |
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| What is the single most important factor influencing DCA? |
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| What does HVAA stand for? |
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| High Value Airborne Asset |
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| _____ missions, destroy, disrupt, or degrade enemy air capabilites ideally before they can be employed against friendly forces. |
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| If OCA is successful, it results in what two things? |
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| Greater freedom from attack, enables increased freedom of action and frees assets for other ops |
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| T or F? OCA may take place over friendly or enemy territory. |
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| What are the four primary OCA mission types? |
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| Sweep, Escort, SEAD, attack ops |
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| The goal of ______ missions is to disrupt, distract or destroy the enemy in contested airspace while sustaining no losses. |
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| The difference between a sweep and an escort mission is that in an escort mission, ____. |
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| there are other aircraft to support |
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| ____ missions provide protection to friendly air to surface assets against enemy air/surface threats. |
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| ____ missions remain within 10 NM of the strike package and is the least flexible OCA option |
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| ____ AC neutralize, destroy, or degrade enemy surface based air defenses by destructive or disruptive means. |
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| What three primary categories encompass SEAD ops? |
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| AOR/JOA air defense sup, localized suppression, opportune suppression |
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| ______ consists of attack aircraft striking ground based tgts that support the enemy's counter air efforts such as, ac, missiles, ISR systems, C2 systems. |
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| What are some considerations of OCA |
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| Enemy threat, location and capes, Friendly C2 capes, ROE, Weaponeering, Deconfliction, Environmental conditions, distance, timing and refueling |
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| What are the two types of escorts? |
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| ______ typically precedes the main body of the strike package by 10-15 NM to clear away the threats |
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| During what ops do friendly C2 ISR assets support by snaitizing a/s updating AOC taskings and provide threat warning information |
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| Typical OCA targets include: |
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| EW capes, Airfield and op bases, AC, missiles and support infrastructure, C2 systems, Air Defense systems |
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| ______ dictates the minimum amount of effort to achieve the maximum desired results |
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| ______ takes assets allocated through economy of force and ensures that those assets provide the preponderance of destructive power at the decisive moment in battle. |
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| _____ deals with timing, positioning and freedom of action. |
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| What are the principles of war that concern strike package organization and employment procedures? |
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| Objective, economy of force, mass, maneuver and surprise |
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| What are good examples of sweep assets? |
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| _____ are tied to the package and will not stray too far away. |
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| _____ are good examples of escort assets |
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| F-15C, F-22, F-16, F-18, Tornado |
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| Assets that provide disruptive SEAD capes include: |
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| EA-6B, Tornado ECR, Compass Call |
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| Assets that provide destructive SEAD capes include:_____. |
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| F-16 CJ, FA-18, Tornado JR-1, B-52, B-1, F-16 C, |
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| Which assets utilize the HARM? |
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| What ac are the core element of a strike package? |
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| What is key for the controller when working with LO aircraft? |
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| According to the text, the four areas that impact strike operations and mission routing are: |
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| Threats, threat location, terrain, friendly air defenses |
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| To help reduce ID errors and fratricide what A/S control measures have been developed? |
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| Safe passage corridors, MRR, low-level transit levels |
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| What are the advantages of the single route gorilla? |
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| establishment of mutual support, local area superiority of numbers, contentration of force and firepower, tgt are deconfliction, concentration of support assets. |
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| What are the disadvantages of the single route gorilla? |
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| Predictable, Easily detected, Flow and deconfliction plan can be easily disrupted |
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| What are the advantages of using multiple package/ separate vector options? |
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| What are the disadvantages of using multiple package/ separate vector options? |
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| Less control of the overall pkge, places more emphasis on timing and comm, Deconfliction is more difficult |
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| _____ is the key to making surprise a force multiplier. |
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| Who specifies SEAD objectives? |
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| What are the three categories of SEAD? |
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| AOR/JOA air defense sup, localized suppression, opportune suppression |
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| What are the two means of executing sead? |
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| Disruptive and destructive |
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| In regards to disruptive means of SEAD execution, what would encompass active means? Passive means? |
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| EA, directed energy, jamming, chaf/ emcom, camo, IR shielding, warning receivers |
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| ______ is conducted against specific enemy air defense systems throughout the AOR/JOA to degrade or destroy their major capes |
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| Destruction of _____ has the most disruptive effect on an IADS. |
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| _____ suppression are normally confined to geographic areas associated with specific targets or transit routes for a specific time. |
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| What are the two types of localized suppression? |
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| Which type of suppression is most similar to CAS? |
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| Immediate localized suppression |
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| What suppression is unplanned and includes aircrew self defense and attack against surface - air air defense targets of opprotunity |
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| Enemy air defense systems detected by surface or airborne sensors or observers within range of available weapons and not yet targeted are? |
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| SEAD Targets of opprotunity |
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| True or False? An AC has the inherant authority and is obligated to use all neccesary means available to defend themselves? |
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| True or False? ROE or spins can limit aircrew self defense? |
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| Who has the authority to request suppression for SEAD targets of Op? |
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| Observers/Spotters/Controllers/Liason Officers from the diff componets |
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| What aircrews have aquired SEAD targets of opprotunity but have not engaged in they should immediately pass the targeting data to who? |
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| Battle Manager / Operation Center of the force componet capable of targeting the threat |
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| What are examples of surface componet SEAD capablities? |
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| Field Artillery, Mortars, Naval Surface fires, Attack Helo's, EW, SSM's |
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| To ensure unity of effort and conservation of force componets need to coordinate their SEAD activities within their AO's with the ________ to ensure they meet mission requirements. |
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| What is required for effective surface suppression? |
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| A rapid and free exchange of SEAD target information between the JFACC and other componet commanders |
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| Componet commanders will use their _________ to locate, ID, and attack SEAD targets within their AO's and areas of interest whenever possible, in many cases only the blank has assets needed for SEAD? |
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| Blank dictates SEAD asset allocation? |
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| The following are benefits derived from personal recovery operations? |
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| 1. Morale, Coesion and fighting caps of friendies, 2. Preserves critical combat resources and influcences national and int'l polictics by denying the explotation of captured personnel. |
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| What is defined as the sum of military, diplomatic and civil efforts to effect the recovery and return of us military, dod civilians, and dod contractor personal, who are isolated or missing while participating in a US gov't sanctioned military activity or mission and uncertain or hostile enviro or as deterimed by the SecDef? |
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| Blank are US military DOD cities or DOD contractors or other personnel designated by POTUS or SECDEF who have become seperated from their unit or ORG in an uncertain or hostile environment or denyed area requiring them to SERE? |
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| The primary mission of AF PRO is to utilize a combo of what to recover any IP? |
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| Specially trained airmen and Unique Equipment |
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| Blank is how the AF accomplished the PRO recovery task? |
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| True or False? Each service is primarily responsible for the PR coverage of their own operations? |
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| What is the AF's prefered mechanism for personnel recovery, in uncertain or hostile environments and denied areas? |
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| AF PRO concept is centered on 5 essential tasks? What are they? |
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| Report / Locate / Support / Recover/ Reintegrate |
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| What are the two areas of Recover? |
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| When does the reintegration task begin? |
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| When the recovery force relinquieses physical control |
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| What are the three CSAR components? |
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| The Command control and coord node / Recovery Forces / and the isolated personnel. |
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| Which essential task maybe a long term endevor with no specific end date? |
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| What is the AF's PRO componet located in the JAOC? |
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| What is the air equivalent to the JTAC on the ground? |
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| What is considered the premire RESCORT platform? |
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| What is the callsign of the rescue mission commander? |
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| What is the most capable AMC platform due to it's extensive comm capablity, an ability to oversee the air picture? |
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| What training can enable interoperability and improve integration between air force PRO forces and their joint combined partners? |
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| Joint and combined training |
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| blank weapons are normally employed in support of manuever forces? |
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| What are the 4 componets of SHORAD? |
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| Stinger, Avenger, FADC3I, Sentinel Survellance Radar ANMPQ-64 |
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| What type of missile is the Avenger employed? |
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| The Stinger missile has three versions what are they? |
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| What is the best Stinger missile? |
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| What type of fuse does the STINGER missile have? |
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| Which of the following is not a sensor system for target acquisition for the AVENGER? FLIR/OPTICAL SIGHT/LRF/SNIPER |
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| Which IFF modes can the AVENGER interrogate? |
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| How does a STINGER seek it's targetr? |
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| Mission of BLANK is to protect forces and selected GEO political assets from arial attack, missile attack and surveillance? |
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| PATRIOT provides protection against what? |
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| Theater Missiles, and Air Threats |
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| What is the primary threat to be countered by ARMY ADA? |
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| What is the C3 center of the PATRIOT battalion during AD operations? |
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| What does the ICC consist of? |
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| Lightweight weather tight shelter mounted on 5 ton cargo truck |
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| The ICC can communicate directly with elements of the USAF tacs using what links? |
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| 11, 11b, 16, ATDL-1, PADIL, IBIS-I, SAT-J, J REAP B &C |
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| The PATRIOT only communicates through which Data link? |
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| What type of warhead does the PAC 3 PATRIOT missile have? |
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| What are the 5 componets of a THAAD battery? |
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| THAAD Fire control and comm (TFCC), Launcher, Missile-round, Radar, and peculiar support equipment |
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| The mission of the BLANK is to protect the homeland, deployed military forces, friends and allies from short and medium balistic missiles? They provide the upper tier in the army's two tier defense system? |
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| The blank serve as a high alt defense against balistic missiles? |
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| ________ is capable of detecting and intercepting balistic missile threats in and above the atmosphere during their final or terminal phase of flight? |
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| What Radar does the THAAD utilize? |
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| What system provides automated engagement operations, and force opperations capablities at the SHORAD Battalion? |
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| The Blank radar is a mobile compact modular multifunction phased array radar used by FAD units? |
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| The sentinel radar can interrogate ________ IFF modes? |
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| The BLANK is the principle facility deployed by the commander to control operations? |
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| In General the CP is organized to perform the following functions? |
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| provide a focal point for recipt and development for intel, provide situation info to higher headqtrs, monitor ADA engagement ops. |
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| What reflects the considerations dictated by different combat situations, weather during wartime or piece time, required different actions? |
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| ________ are specific constraints applicatble to operation rela-world peacetime, wartime, or contingency mission employment? |
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| Are tactical rules of engagement classified or unclassified? |
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| Are standing rules of engagement classified or unclassified? |
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| what are the 2 elements of self defense |
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| necesity and proportionality |
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| What allows US forces to pursue and engage a hostile force that has commited a hostile act or demonstrated hostile intent and that remains an imminent threat? |
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| Immediate pursuit of hostile foreign forces |
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| What is an attack or other use of force by a foreign force or terrorist unit against the US, US forces, or other designated persons and property. |
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| What is the threat of imminent use of force by a foreign force or terrorist unit against the US, US forces, or other designated persons and property? |
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| What is a force or unit that has commited a hostile act, demonstrated hostile intent, or has been declared hostile? |
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| What is also known as an area of separation in some UN oiperations, the vertical limits that extend from ground level to infinity? |
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| What is the airspace above land territory, internal waters, and territorial waters is considered what? |
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| Soverign or territorial airspace |
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| a belt of ocean space adjacent to and measured from the coastal state's baseline to max width of 12nm |
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| waters to the landward side of the low water mark. |
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