CGSC X100 UPDATED EXAM SCRIPT QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Operational Control (OPCON) - ✔✔•Authoritative direction for all military operations
and joint training
•Organize and employ commands and forces
•Assign command functions to subordinates
•Establish plans/requirements for ISR activity
•Suspend subordinate commanders from duty
✔✔Tactical Control (TACON) - ✔✔Local direction and control of movements or
maneuvers to accomplish mission
✔✔Support - ✔✔Aid, assist, protect, or sustain another organization
✔✔Joint Operations Area (JOA) - ✔✔An area of land, sea, and airspace defined by a
GCC or subordinate unified commander, in which a JFC (normally a CJTF) conducts
military operations to accomplish a specific mission.
✔✔Joint Special Operations Area (JSOA) - ✔✔An area of land, sea, and airspace
assigned by a JFC to a SOF commander to conduct special operations (SO) activities.
✔✔Area of Operations (AO) - ✔✔JFCs may define AOs for land and maritime forces.
Typically do not encompass the entire operational area of the JFC, but should be large
enough for the component commanders to accomplish their missions and protect their
forces.
✔✔Amphibious Objective Area (AOA) - ✔✔A geographic area, delineated for command
and control purposes, within which is located the objective(s) to be secured by an
amphibious force.
Must be of sufficient size to ensure accomplishment of the amphibious force's mission.
✔✔Joint Security Area (JSA) - ✔✔A specific surface area, designated by the JFC as
critical, that facilitates protection of joint bases and supports force projection, movement
control, sustainment, C2,airbases/ airfields, seaports, and other activities.
Not necessarily contiguous with areas actively engaged in combat.
May include intermediate support bases and support facilities intermixed with combat
elements.
✔✔A theater of operations is established when? - ✔✔Primarily when the scope of the
operation in time, space, purpose, and/or employed forces exceeds what a JOA can
normally accommodate.
, ✔✔Land Domain - ✔✔USA
Sustained Unified
Land Operations
Occupy Territories
Provide Logistics to Joint
Force
✔✔Air/Space Domain - ✔✔USAF
Global Vigilance (ISR)
Global Reach (Mobility)
Global Power (Strike)
✔✔Maritime Domain - ✔✔USN
Sea Control
Power Projection
Forward Presence
Maritime Security
HA/DR
Deterrence
✔✔Global Domain - ✔✔SOCCOM
Counterterrorism
Unconventional Warfare
Foreign Internal Defense/
SFA
✔✔Expeditionary Across Domains - ✔✔USMC
Combined Air/Ground
Expeditionary Ops
Force-in-Readiness
Amphibious
Security Detachments
✔✔Multinational (MN) Operations - ✔✔A collective term to describe military actions
conducted by forces of two or more nations.
✔✔Alliance - ✔✔The relationship that results from a formal agreement between two or
more nations for broad, long-term objectives that further the common interests of the
members.
✔✔Joint Forcible Entry - ✔✔JFE: Operations to seize and hold lodgments against
armed opposition.
Threats: transregional, multi-domain, multi-functional.
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Operational Control (OPCON) - ✔✔•Authoritative direction for all military operations
and joint training
•Organize and employ commands and forces
•Assign command functions to subordinates
•Establish plans/requirements for ISR activity
•Suspend subordinate commanders from duty
✔✔Tactical Control (TACON) - ✔✔Local direction and control of movements or
maneuvers to accomplish mission
✔✔Support - ✔✔Aid, assist, protect, or sustain another organization
✔✔Joint Operations Area (JOA) - ✔✔An area of land, sea, and airspace defined by a
GCC or subordinate unified commander, in which a JFC (normally a CJTF) conducts
military operations to accomplish a specific mission.
✔✔Joint Special Operations Area (JSOA) - ✔✔An area of land, sea, and airspace
assigned by a JFC to a SOF commander to conduct special operations (SO) activities.
✔✔Area of Operations (AO) - ✔✔JFCs may define AOs for land and maritime forces.
Typically do not encompass the entire operational area of the JFC, but should be large
enough for the component commanders to accomplish their missions and protect their
forces.
✔✔Amphibious Objective Area (AOA) - ✔✔A geographic area, delineated for command
and control purposes, within which is located the objective(s) to be secured by an
amphibious force.
Must be of sufficient size to ensure accomplishment of the amphibious force's mission.
✔✔Joint Security Area (JSA) - ✔✔A specific surface area, designated by the JFC as
critical, that facilitates protection of joint bases and supports force projection, movement
control, sustainment, C2,airbases/ airfields, seaports, and other activities.
Not necessarily contiguous with areas actively engaged in combat.
May include intermediate support bases and support facilities intermixed with combat
elements.
✔✔A theater of operations is established when? - ✔✔Primarily when the scope of the
operation in time, space, purpose, and/or employed forces exceeds what a JOA can
normally accommodate.
, ✔✔Land Domain - ✔✔USA
Sustained Unified
Land Operations
Occupy Territories
Provide Logistics to Joint
Force
✔✔Air/Space Domain - ✔✔USAF
Global Vigilance (ISR)
Global Reach (Mobility)
Global Power (Strike)
✔✔Maritime Domain - ✔✔USN
Sea Control
Power Projection
Forward Presence
Maritime Security
HA/DR
Deterrence
✔✔Global Domain - ✔✔SOCCOM
Counterterrorism
Unconventional Warfare
Foreign Internal Defense/
SFA
✔✔Expeditionary Across Domains - ✔✔USMC
Combined Air/Ground
Expeditionary Ops
Force-in-Readiness
Amphibious
Security Detachments
✔✔Multinational (MN) Operations - ✔✔A collective term to describe military actions
conducted by forces of two or more nations.
✔✔Alliance - ✔✔The relationship that results from a formal agreement between two or
more nations for broad, long-term objectives that further the common interests of the
members.
✔✔Joint Forcible Entry - ✔✔JFE: Operations to seize and hold lodgments against
armed opposition.
Threats: transregional, multi-domain, multi-functional.
