AOC IQT COMPREHENSIVE ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔The primary Army (ARFOR) liaison in the JAOC - ✔✔BCD (Battlefield Coordination
Detachment)
✔✔Responsibilities of the NALE (Naval & Amphibious Liaison Element) - ✔✔Rep the
MCC (Maritime Component Cc) / responsive to JAOC on Navy/Marine Ops
✔✔Responsibilities of the MARLE (Marine Liaison Element) - ✔✔Ensure the JFACC
understands the MAGTF concept of Ops and scheme of maneuver
✔✔Id the SOF Liaison Element that supports the JAOC - ✔✔SOLE (Special Ops
Liaison Element) Ensures all SOF teams, targets, and air missions are de conflicted /
properly integrated and coordinated
✔✔Define Joint Air Ops - ✔✔How air component performs its mission. Performed w/ air
capes made available by components in support of JFC's operational or campaign
objectives or in support of other Joint Force components
✔✔Define DCA - ✔✔Defensive Counter Air: designed time neutralize destroy enemy
forces attacking friendly airspace
✔✔Define OCA - ✔✔Offensive Counter Air: offensive to destroy enemy A/C, missiles,
structures, systems as close to source as possible
✔✔Define AI - ✔✔Air Interdiction: Divert, destruct, delay, destroy enemy military
surfaces so it can't launch at a distance where other forces aren't needed
✔✔Define CAS - ✔✔Close Air Support: Intervene when hostile forces close to friendlies.
Requires detailed integration/ precision to avoid frat.
✔✔Define Strategic Attack - ✔✔*JFC Directed* Offensive action to achieve national or
military strategic objective
, ✔✔Describe the Space Ops Functions that support Joint Ops - ✔✔ISR: Space based
sensors
Launch Detection: real time intel
Missile tracking: supports warning systems
Environmental Monitoring
SATCOM
Positioning, navigation, & timing(PNS)
SDA(Space Domain Awareness)
CS(Counter Space)
SSS(Space Service Support)
✔✔Roles and Responsibilities of the Space Coordination Authority (SCA) - ✔✔Joint
Space Ops/ integrates space capes
✔✔Roles and Responsibilities of the CSPOC (Combined Space Operations Center) -
✔✔Translates CDRUSSPACECOM guidance into the Combined Space Tasking Order
(CSTO)
✔✔(Cyber) DODIN (DOD Information Network Ops) mission - ✔✔DOD comm systems
maintenance
✔✔(Cyber) DOCO (Defensive Cyber Ops) Mission - ✔✔Preserve ability to utilize
friendly cyber capes & protect
✔✔(Cyber) OCO (Offensive Cyber Ops) Mission - ✔✔Project power by application of
force through Cyberspace
✔✔2 CMF (Cyber Mission Force) teams that USCYBERCOM may assign to the JAOC -
✔✔CPT (Cyber Protection Team) & CMT (Combat Mission Team)
✔✔Cyberspace actions that support Joint Military Ops - ✔✔Exploitation, cyber security,
cyber defense, attack in coordination w/ other fires
✔✔Define EA - ✔✔Electronic Attack: use of EM or directed energy or ARM weapons to
degrade/destroy enemy capes
✔✔Define ES - ✔✔Support: Find sources of EM energy for threat recognition, threat
warning/ collection
✔✔Key orgs, roles, and responsibilities of the EW planning org within the JAOC -
✔✔The EWCC plans, manages, and assesses air component EW operations and also
ensures effective coordination and synchronization with other joint force components
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔The primary Army (ARFOR) liaison in the JAOC - ✔✔BCD (Battlefield Coordination
Detachment)
✔✔Responsibilities of the NALE (Naval & Amphibious Liaison Element) - ✔✔Rep the
MCC (Maritime Component Cc) / responsive to JAOC on Navy/Marine Ops
✔✔Responsibilities of the MARLE (Marine Liaison Element) - ✔✔Ensure the JFACC
understands the MAGTF concept of Ops and scheme of maneuver
✔✔Id the SOF Liaison Element that supports the JAOC - ✔✔SOLE (Special Ops
Liaison Element) Ensures all SOF teams, targets, and air missions are de conflicted /
properly integrated and coordinated
✔✔Define Joint Air Ops - ✔✔How air component performs its mission. Performed w/ air
capes made available by components in support of JFC's operational or campaign
objectives or in support of other Joint Force components
✔✔Define DCA - ✔✔Defensive Counter Air: designed time neutralize destroy enemy
forces attacking friendly airspace
✔✔Define OCA - ✔✔Offensive Counter Air: offensive to destroy enemy A/C, missiles,
structures, systems as close to source as possible
✔✔Define AI - ✔✔Air Interdiction: Divert, destruct, delay, destroy enemy military
surfaces so it can't launch at a distance where other forces aren't needed
✔✔Define CAS - ✔✔Close Air Support: Intervene when hostile forces close to friendlies.
Requires detailed integration/ precision to avoid frat.
✔✔Define Strategic Attack - ✔✔*JFC Directed* Offensive action to achieve national or
military strategic objective
, ✔✔Describe the Space Ops Functions that support Joint Ops - ✔✔ISR: Space based
sensors
Launch Detection: real time intel
Missile tracking: supports warning systems
Environmental Monitoring
SATCOM
Positioning, navigation, & timing(PNS)
SDA(Space Domain Awareness)
CS(Counter Space)
SSS(Space Service Support)
✔✔Roles and Responsibilities of the Space Coordination Authority (SCA) - ✔✔Joint
Space Ops/ integrates space capes
✔✔Roles and Responsibilities of the CSPOC (Combined Space Operations Center) -
✔✔Translates CDRUSSPACECOM guidance into the Combined Space Tasking Order
(CSTO)
✔✔(Cyber) DODIN (DOD Information Network Ops) mission - ✔✔DOD comm systems
maintenance
✔✔(Cyber) DOCO (Defensive Cyber Ops) Mission - ✔✔Preserve ability to utilize
friendly cyber capes & protect
✔✔(Cyber) OCO (Offensive Cyber Ops) Mission - ✔✔Project power by application of
force through Cyberspace
✔✔2 CMF (Cyber Mission Force) teams that USCYBERCOM may assign to the JAOC -
✔✔CPT (Cyber Protection Team) & CMT (Combat Mission Team)
✔✔Cyberspace actions that support Joint Military Ops - ✔✔Exploitation, cyber security,
cyber defense, attack in coordination w/ other fires
✔✔Define EA - ✔✔Electronic Attack: use of EM or directed energy or ARM weapons to
degrade/destroy enemy capes
✔✔Define ES - ✔✔Support: Find sources of EM energy for threat recognition, threat
warning/ collection
✔✔Key orgs, roles, and responsibilities of the EW planning org within the JAOC -
✔✔The EWCC plans, manages, and assesses air component EW operations and also
ensures effective coordination and synchronization with other joint force components
