M100 Study Guide Updated Actual
Question and Answer (2026/2027)
| Grade A+
• Key sustainment tasks should have and need to include the following: -✓✓ Time,
location, quantities, and purpose
• How to best describe the ability to establish and operate ports of debarkations of
air rail and sea establish a distribution system to facilitate throughput for reception,
stationing, and onward movement, what would we be probably doing? (M157 -
Slide 9) -✓✓ Theater Opening
• What is the major role of a theater support command (TSC)? -✓✓ Plan and
synchronize inter theater sustainment operations at the operational level.
• What priorities would you normally see or find in a concept of support sketch? -
✓✓ Priority of Support
Priority of Supply
Priority of Maintenance
Priority of Movement
• Specified collective task while deploying an organic weapon system in a live fire
environment? -✓✓ Collective Live-Fire Task Proficiency
• What is the commander's area of operation that is designated to facilitate the
positioning employment protection of base sustainment assets required to sustain
and enable follow on operations? -✓✓ Support Area
,** This area is controlled by the Division Support Area Command Post
• Who is responsible for the training and proficiency of their unit and when
required for certifying training readiness by unit and echelon? -✓✓ Unit
Commanders
• What division command post controls the deep area? -✓✓ Main Command Post
** Deep Area is controlled by Division Main Command Post
• What is an operation at any echelon that creates and preserves conditions for
success in the decisive operations through effects on the enemies, other actors and
the terrain? -✓✓ Shaping Operations
• What is a collective task an organization trains to be proficient in its designed
capability or assigned mission? -✓✓ Mission Essential Task (MET)
• Who approves a units long range training plan? -✓✓ The Commander two levels
up
• What is a designated supported unit with a mission that supports the success of
the main effort? -✓✓ Support Effort
• What is the building and perseveration of the highest possible overall unit and
strategic readiness posture over time? -✓✓ Sustainable Readiness
,• What is the observation of performance measured against standards? -✓✓
Evaluation
• What is a cognitive tool that commanders and staffs use to visualize and describe
the application of combat power, in time, space, purpose, and resources, as they
develop the concept of operations. -✓✓ Operational Framework
• Where in the DIV HQ is the Joint Air Ground Integration Center located? -✓✓ In
the Division Current Operations Integration Cell (COIC)
• What is the military operation that develops and provides forces for projection
and employment to enable military effects across the operating environments? -✓✓
Force Generation
• What is a facility containing a tailored portion of a unit HQ designed to control
portions of an operation for a limited time? -✓✓ Tactical Command Post (TAC)
• What designated subordinate unit is usually weighted with the preponderance of
combat power? -✓✓ Main Effort
• What do commanders establish to integrate and synchronize training activities,
meetings, briefings, conferences and reports? -✓✓ Training Battle Rhythm
• What are the 4 measured areas of the CUSR? -✓✓ P - Personnel
S - Equipment and Supplies
R- On-hand available equipment readiness and serviceablity
T - Unit Training Proficiency
, • What is a collective task a lower echelon trains that supports a
company/battery/troop mission-essential task. -✓✓ Battle Task
• What are tasks that support more than one of the organization's mission essential
tasks or battle tasks? -✓✓ High-payoff tasks
• What has all the characteristics of a close area, requires a purposefully task-
organized, combined arms unit and where a division deploys a BCT? -✓✓
Consolidation Area
• What is a tactical HQ which employs a combination of BCT, Multifunction
brigades, and functional brigades in land operations? -✓✓ Division
• What three operational demands does the Sustainable Readiness Model analyze
to optimize the Army's ability to meet operational force requirements while
minimizing risks? -✓✓ 1. Known Requirements / Demands
2. Emerging-Emergent Requirements / Demands
3. Contingency Requirements / Demands
• What are the 3 modules that make up the Sustainable Readiness Model? -✓✓
Prepare
Ready
Mission
• How often do Active Duty Units accomplish their Unit Status Report (USR)? -
✓✓ Monthly
Question and Answer (2026/2027)
| Grade A+
• Key sustainment tasks should have and need to include the following: -✓✓ Time,
location, quantities, and purpose
• How to best describe the ability to establish and operate ports of debarkations of
air rail and sea establish a distribution system to facilitate throughput for reception,
stationing, and onward movement, what would we be probably doing? (M157 -
Slide 9) -✓✓ Theater Opening
• What is the major role of a theater support command (TSC)? -✓✓ Plan and
synchronize inter theater sustainment operations at the operational level.
• What priorities would you normally see or find in a concept of support sketch? -
✓✓ Priority of Support
Priority of Supply
Priority of Maintenance
Priority of Movement
• Specified collective task while deploying an organic weapon system in a live fire
environment? -✓✓ Collective Live-Fire Task Proficiency
• What is the commander's area of operation that is designated to facilitate the
positioning employment protection of base sustainment assets required to sustain
and enable follow on operations? -✓✓ Support Area
,** This area is controlled by the Division Support Area Command Post
• Who is responsible for the training and proficiency of their unit and when
required for certifying training readiness by unit and echelon? -✓✓ Unit
Commanders
• What division command post controls the deep area? -✓✓ Main Command Post
** Deep Area is controlled by Division Main Command Post
• What is an operation at any echelon that creates and preserves conditions for
success in the decisive operations through effects on the enemies, other actors and
the terrain? -✓✓ Shaping Operations
• What is a collective task an organization trains to be proficient in its designed
capability or assigned mission? -✓✓ Mission Essential Task (MET)
• Who approves a units long range training plan? -✓✓ The Commander two levels
up
• What is a designated supported unit with a mission that supports the success of
the main effort? -✓✓ Support Effort
• What is the building and perseveration of the highest possible overall unit and
strategic readiness posture over time? -✓✓ Sustainable Readiness
,• What is the observation of performance measured against standards? -✓✓
Evaluation
• What is a cognitive tool that commanders and staffs use to visualize and describe
the application of combat power, in time, space, purpose, and resources, as they
develop the concept of operations. -✓✓ Operational Framework
• Where in the DIV HQ is the Joint Air Ground Integration Center located? -✓✓ In
the Division Current Operations Integration Cell (COIC)
• What is the military operation that develops and provides forces for projection
and employment to enable military effects across the operating environments? -✓✓
Force Generation
• What is a facility containing a tailored portion of a unit HQ designed to control
portions of an operation for a limited time? -✓✓ Tactical Command Post (TAC)
• What designated subordinate unit is usually weighted with the preponderance of
combat power? -✓✓ Main Effort
• What do commanders establish to integrate and synchronize training activities,
meetings, briefings, conferences and reports? -✓✓ Training Battle Rhythm
• What are the 4 measured areas of the CUSR? -✓✓ P - Personnel
S - Equipment and Supplies
R- On-hand available equipment readiness and serviceablity
T - Unit Training Proficiency
, • What is a collective task a lower echelon trains that supports a
company/battery/troop mission-essential task. -✓✓ Battle Task
• What are tasks that support more than one of the organization's mission essential
tasks or battle tasks? -✓✓ High-payoff tasks
• What has all the characteristics of a close area, requires a purposefully task-
organized, combined arms unit and where a division deploys a BCT? -✓✓
Consolidation Area
• What is a tactical HQ which employs a combination of BCT, Multifunction
brigades, and functional brigades in land operations? -✓✓ Division
• What three operational demands does the Sustainable Readiness Model analyze
to optimize the Army's ability to meet operational force requirements while
minimizing risks? -✓✓ 1. Known Requirements / Demands
2. Emerging-Emergent Requirements / Demands
3. Contingency Requirements / Demands
• What are the 3 modules that make up the Sustainable Readiness Model? -✓✓
Prepare
Ready
Mission
• How often do Active Duty Units accomplish their Unit Status Report (USR)? -
✓✓ Monthly
