Which organization is responsible for developing and executing national military strategy? 

a. National Security Council 
b. DoD 
c. National Military Council

Which of the following is not considered part of the Joint Chiefs of Staff organization?

a. Chairman Joint chief of Staff
b. Chief of Staff, U. S. Army
c. Marine Corps Commandant
d. Chief of Staff, U. S. Air Force
e. Secretary of Defense
f. Chief of Naval Operations
g. Vice-Chairman Joint Chief of Staff

-To prepare and establish reserves of manpower, equipment, and supplies for effective operations across the range of military operations and plan for the expansion of peacetime components to meet the needs of war.

-To maintain in readiness mobile reserve forces, properly organized, trained, and equipped for employment in an emergency.

-To provide adequate, timely, and reliable intelligence and counterintelligence for the Military Departments and other agencies as directed by competent authority.

TSgt Skinner, Avionics Maintenance NCOIC, has three Airmen about to deploy with the Army.  During a conversation, Amn Soho asks, ―We‘ve never worked with the Army; what should we expect? Skinner replies, ―The command is composed of two or more military departments and has a broad continuing mission under a single commander.  The commander has the operational control and has full authority to organize and employ the forces as necessary to accomplish assigned missions.  After Skinner answered several more questions, Soho says, ―Thank you, sir.  I now feel better prepared for the deployment.

This paragraph BEST summarizes how knowledge of __________________ impact NCO effectiveness.

a. Functional Component Commands   
b. Service Component Commands
c. Combatant Commands

MSgt Jenkins, NCOIC of a work center in the Technology and Interoperability Facility, is meeting with Amn Simpkins who has just in-processed to the unit.  Jenkins feels that it is important to meet with each Airman to give them his expectations and ensure they understand the mission they support.  He begins by telling her, Our organization oversees Air Force network operations that provide cyberspace capabilities by managing a network of satellites.  We are also responsible for operating sensors that provide direct attack warning and assessment to US Strategic Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command.  The National Command Authority relies upon us to fulfill their mission.

This scenario BEST explains the importance of: 

a. Air Combat Command.
b. Air Force Space Command.
c. Air Force Global Strike Command.

Which of the following is not a Principle of War?

a. Simplicity
b. Unity of Command
c. Surprise
d. Contingency
e. Maneuver
f. Mass

The fundamental concepts of traditional warfare include:

 A confrontation between nation-states or coalitions/alliances of nation-states.
 Typically involves force-on-force military operations in which adversaries employ a variety of conventional military capabilities against each other in the air, land, maritime, space, and cyberspace domains.
 The objectives may be to convince or coerce key military or political decision makers, defeat an adversary‘s armed forces, destroy an adversary‘s war-making capacity, or seize or retain territory in order to force a change in an adversary‘s government or policies.

The fundamental concepts of irregular warfare include:

 A violent struggle among state and non-state actors for legitimacy and influence over the relevant populations.
 Combatants are irregular military rather than regular forces, like guerrilla or asymmetric warfare.
 They may employ the full range of military and other capabilities, in order to erode an adversary‘s power, influence, and will.
 Will test the resolve of a state and its strategic partners.

The Air Force capabilities relate to and complement other U.S. Air Force units and service capabilities:

 All operations require some sort of collaboration between units or services.
 The Joint environment requires all units/services to work together to accomplish the mission.
 Without Air Force capabilities you would not have control of air, space, or cyberspace making it hard to accomplish any mission.

TSgt Rojas is a loadmaster for a C-17 Globemaster stationed at McChord AFB, WA. He briefs his team on their upcoming mission. ―This is classified information, he begins. We are deploying immediately to Aviano AB, Italy to pick up the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team stationed at Vicenza, Italy for a combat jump to an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia.

This scenario BEST explains:
a. the importance of secrecy and maneuver in joint campaigns.
b. the relationship of supporting capabilities within a joint campaign.
c. maneuver and surprise as principles of war.

Since the Sept 11, 2001 attack on the US, the US military has been under indirect and asymmetric warfare. The US overwhelming dominance in military capability made it highly unlikely that adversaries will choose to fight head-to-head. Instead they have used spectrum of warfare where the nature and characteristics are significantly different. It includes, but is not limited to, activities such as insurgency, counterinsurgency, terrorism, and counterterrorism.

This paragraph BEST summarizes ______________?
a. Tactical Actions
b. Adversarial Crisis Response
c. Irregular Warfare

True or False:

Understanding other worldviews has little to no impact on Airmen as they focus on completing and planning to execute a mission.

Knowing the impact of diverse cultures allows Airmen to work successfully with allies and defeat adversaries. Understanding culture is an increasingly important component of this knowledge; indeed, the more unconventional the adversary (and the more diverse from US cultural norms), the more important it is for the US military to understand the adversary‘s society and underlying cultural dynamics as a means of ensuring operational success.

Cultural awareness can reduce battlefield friction and the fog of war. It can improve the military‘s ability to accomplish its mission by providing insight into the intent of the groups in the battlespace, thus allowing military leaders to outthink and out maneuver them. In addition, the success of US military operations calls for American military members to become experts in not only the culture of their adversaries, but also in the culture of their allies, civilian counterparts, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), international organizations, and others.

TSgt Jonson is about to deploy for the first time. Not wanting to make the same cultural mistakes, others in his unit have made while deployed, he memorized the Air Force Cultural and Language Center‘s field guide on Afghanistan‘s culture. He also visits a local Afghan community in the States to practice what he has learned and establishes a great working relationship with the Afghan community.

TSgt Jonson‘s actions BEST illustrate effective application of the:
a. AF Cross-Cultural Competence Model
b. Learning and Knowledge Domain of Culture
c. Political & Social Relations Domain of Culture

Special Agent Mirza is deployed overseas and working closely with local tribes to gather intelligence on rebel forces who threaten US Operations in the area. Special Agent Mirza must meet with one of the tribal elders to build a health clinic in exchange for information on local insurgents. Special Agent Mirza remembers that he must wait for the tribal elder to hug him before beginning the meeting. He notices the tribal elder appears frustrated with him so he quickly lowers his eyes as a sign of respect and then they sit down and begin the meeting. Special Agent Mirza‘s ______________ will MOST LIKELY _____________.

a. Negotiation; increase his effectiveness

b. Relation; slightly increase unit effectiveness

c. Communication; increase mission effectiveness

Personnel Reliability Program (PRP)

Two-person concept

What was the purpose of creating the Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC) in 2009? (Select all that apply)

____ Execute nuclear weapons with precision when called upon by our Nation
____ Mandates rules for storage and handling nuclear weapons
____ Ensure oversight of the nuclear mission of the US Air Force
____ Restore our country‘s and our allies‘ faith in our ability to safeguard nuclear assets

The components of the new triad include which of the following? (Select all that apply).

____SLBMs
____ICBMs
____C2
____Bombers

Which of the following is not a component of the new triad‘s non-nuclear and nuclear strike capabilities?

____SLBMs
____Active and passive defenses
____Warhead reliability
____Responsive infrastructure

True or False:

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has the authority to order the use of nuclear weapons.

SrA Trip is a weapons loader on a crew that has been loading the B-2 Bomber. While loading the Rotary Launcher Assembly (RLA) that contains nuclear weapons, he notices one of the racks that attach the bomb to the RLA was missing a bolt. From training, he remembered it as one of several bolts that holds the locking mechanism and could affect the rack‘s ability to hold the bomb in place. He wonders if this is something he should report to the Team Chief. However, he continues his task and decides not to mention it figuring it has already been verified by both the breakout and tow crews, and was accepted by the crew chief. It was later discovered by QA and the RLA removed from service.

This scenario BEST illustrates a violation of the _______________ element of the nuclear surety concept and an impact to _______________.
a. reliability; nuclear deterrence.
b. security; non-proliferation of nuclear weapons.
c. safety; nuclear employment.

SSgt Field and A1C Thomas is on duty as the Monitoring Facility Operator for the Weapons Storage and Security System (WS3). Early one morning Thomas experienced several momentary alarm failures. Each outage lasted for only a few seconds and communications to the security system was regained. Field wondered if the alarm glitch was due to the recent inclement weather they had experienced. Since the system appeared to auto correct itself, Field decided to hold off reporting the incident to the Maintenance Operations Center immediately as required by the Air Base Instructions.
Field‘s inaction will MOST LIKELY result in a compromise of nuclear weapons‘ ____________________ which will negatively impact mission effectiveness.

a. reliability and positive measures.
b. security and nuclear weapons security standards.
c. security and the two-person concept.