AOC IQT STUDYS GUIDE ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS
SET A+
✔✔Describe the purpose of joint doctrine - ✔✔Enhance the operational effectiveness of
joint forces towards a common objective
✔✔Describe the operational level of war - ✔✔Links strategy & tactics by establishing
operational objectives to achieve military end states and strategic objectives
✔✔ID three fundamentals key to Joint Air Operations - ✔✔1. Joint Operations
2. Joint Planning
3. Joint C2
✔✔ID 3 levels of JFCs - ✔✔1. UCC
2. Sub UCC
3. JTF
✔✔Distinguish between the Service Component Command & Functional Component
Command - ✔✔Service Component Command: pg 18 of Book 1
Functional Component Command: pg 19 of Book 1
✔✔Describe the characteristics of the 4 command relationship levels of authority -
✔✔COCOM: unique to combatant commander
OPCON: authoritative direction for all military ops & joint training
TACON: local direction and control of movements to accomplish the mission
Support: aid, assist, protect, or sustain another organization
✔✔Describe what is meant by the term "joint air operations" - ✔✔Air ops performed with
air capabilities/forces made available by components
✔✔Match the following areas with their definitions: DCA, OCA, Air Interdiction, CAS,
Strategic Attack - ✔✔pg 31-32 of Book 1
, ✔✔List the elements of the strategy to task methodology in hierarchical order - ✔✔1.
Operational objectives
2. Tactical objectives
3. Tactical tasks
✔✔Match the two types of indicators commonly used by the joint forces with what they
assess - ✔✔1. Measures of Performance (MOP): Goes with tasks
2. Measures of Effectiveness (MOE): Goes with objectives
✔✔List guidelines for indicator development - ✔✔Relevant
Observable
Collectable
Responsive
Resourced
✔✔ID the six stages of the joint air tasking cycle - ✔✔1. Objectives, effects, and
guidance
2. Target development
3. Weaponeering and Allocatin
4. ATO Production and Dissemination
5. Execution planning and Force extension
6. Assessment
✔✔ID the products of each stage of the joint air tasking cycle - ✔✔1: AOD
2: JIPTL
3: MAAP SORTIE/ALLOT
4: ATO/ACO/SPINS
5: PDA/INFLTREP/MISREP
6: Recommendations
✔✔Describe the purpose of the Space Coordinating Authority (SCA) - ✔✔Coordinate &
integrate space
✔✔Describe the purpose of the Combined Space Operations Center (CSpOC) -
✔✔Space C2
✔✔Explain the purpose of the Space Support Request (SSR) - ✔✔Mechanism for
requesting space capability
✔✔Describe the CO missions - ✔✔1. DODIN
2. OCO
3. DCO
SET A+
✔✔Describe the purpose of joint doctrine - ✔✔Enhance the operational effectiveness of
joint forces towards a common objective
✔✔Describe the operational level of war - ✔✔Links strategy & tactics by establishing
operational objectives to achieve military end states and strategic objectives
✔✔ID three fundamentals key to Joint Air Operations - ✔✔1. Joint Operations
2. Joint Planning
3. Joint C2
✔✔ID 3 levels of JFCs - ✔✔1. UCC
2. Sub UCC
3. JTF
✔✔Distinguish between the Service Component Command & Functional Component
Command - ✔✔Service Component Command: pg 18 of Book 1
Functional Component Command: pg 19 of Book 1
✔✔Describe the characteristics of the 4 command relationship levels of authority -
✔✔COCOM: unique to combatant commander
OPCON: authoritative direction for all military ops & joint training
TACON: local direction and control of movements to accomplish the mission
Support: aid, assist, protect, or sustain another organization
✔✔Describe what is meant by the term "joint air operations" - ✔✔Air ops performed with
air capabilities/forces made available by components
✔✔Match the following areas with their definitions: DCA, OCA, Air Interdiction, CAS,
Strategic Attack - ✔✔pg 31-32 of Book 1
, ✔✔List the elements of the strategy to task methodology in hierarchical order - ✔✔1.
Operational objectives
2. Tactical objectives
3. Tactical tasks
✔✔Match the two types of indicators commonly used by the joint forces with what they
assess - ✔✔1. Measures of Performance (MOP): Goes with tasks
2. Measures of Effectiveness (MOE): Goes with objectives
✔✔List guidelines for indicator development - ✔✔Relevant
Observable
Collectable
Responsive
Resourced
✔✔ID the six stages of the joint air tasking cycle - ✔✔1. Objectives, effects, and
guidance
2. Target development
3. Weaponeering and Allocatin
4. ATO Production and Dissemination
5. Execution planning and Force extension
6. Assessment
✔✔ID the products of each stage of the joint air tasking cycle - ✔✔1: AOD
2: JIPTL
3: MAAP SORTIE/ALLOT
4: ATO/ACO/SPINS
5: PDA/INFLTREP/MISREP
6: Recommendations
✔✔Describe the purpose of the Space Coordinating Authority (SCA) - ✔✔Coordinate &
integrate space
✔✔Describe the purpose of the Combined Space Operations Center (CSpOC) -
✔✔Space C2
✔✔Explain the purpose of the Space Support Request (SSR) - ✔✔Mechanism for
requesting space capability
✔✔Describe the CO missions - ✔✔1. DODIN
2. OCO
3. DCO
