CAPTAINS CAREER 2026 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔In which publications would you look to find the Counseling Process? - ✔✔ATP 6-
22.1
✔✔Select a suitable place, schedule the time, notify the subordinates well in advance,
organize information, establish the atmosphere are all aspects of what stage of the
counseling process? - ✔✔Prepare for counseling
✔✔Operational Variables - ✔✔PMESIP-T
1. Political
2. Military
3. Environment
4. Social
5. Information
6. Physical Environment
7. Time
✔✔METL - ✔✔Mission Essential Task List
✔✔What are the three types of training? - ✔✔1. Live
2. Virtual
3. Constructive
✔✔What are the six principles of mission command? - ✔✔1. Build cohesive teams
through mutual trust.
2. Create shared understanding.
3. Provide a clear commander's intent.
4. Exercise disciplined initiative.
5. Use mission orders.
6. Accept prudent risk.
, ✔✔__________ is a deliberate exposure to potential injury or less when the
commander judges the outcome in terms of mission accomplishment as worth the cost.
- ✔✔Prudent Risk
✔✔Commanders and staffs actively build and maintain __________ within the force
and with unified action partners by maintaining collaboration and dialogue throughout
the operations process. - ✔✔Shared Understanding
✔✔(T/F) Commanders inform and influence audiences both inside and outside their
organizations. - ✔✔True
✔✔What are the war-fighting functions? - ✔✔1. Mission Command
2. Movement and Maneuver
3. Intelligence
4. Fires
5. Sustainment
6. Protection
✔✔__________ decision making generates several alternative solutions, compares
these solutions to a set of criteria, and selects the best course of action. - ✔✔Analytic
✔✔__________ is the meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known
conventions used in their representation. - ✔✔Information
✔✔A __________ is a difference between the actual situation during an operation and
what the plan forecasted the situation would be at that time or event. - ✔✔Variance
✔✔(T/F) A staff's most important function is to support and advise the commander
throughout planning, preparation, execution, and assessment. - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔(T/F) Staff Officers only communicate with higher echelons. - ✔✔FALSE
✔✔(T/F) Staff Officers recognize and adjust to changing conditions in the operational
environment with appropriate, flexible, and timely actions. - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔(T/F) During operations, commanders cannot decide to reframe after realizing the
desired conditions have changed, are not achievable, cannot be attained through the
current operational approach, or because of change of mission or end state. -
✔✔FALSE
✔✔What are the mission variables? - ✔✔1. Mission
2. Enemy
3. Terrain and Weather
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔In which publications would you look to find the Counseling Process? - ✔✔ATP 6-
22.1
✔✔Select a suitable place, schedule the time, notify the subordinates well in advance,
organize information, establish the atmosphere are all aspects of what stage of the
counseling process? - ✔✔Prepare for counseling
✔✔Operational Variables - ✔✔PMESIP-T
1. Political
2. Military
3. Environment
4. Social
5. Information
6. Physical Environment
7. Time
✔✔METL - ✔✔Mission Essential Task List
✔✔What are the three types of training? - ✔✔1. Live
2. Virtual
3. Constructive
✔✔What are the six principles of mission command? - ✔✔1. Build cohesive teams
through mutual trust.
2. Create shared understanding.
3. Provide a clear commander's intent.
4. Exercise disciplined initiative.
5. Use mission orders.
6. Accept prudent risk.
, ✔✔__________ is a deliberate exposure to potential injury or less when the
commander judges the outcome in terms of mission accomplishment as worth the cost.
- ✔✔Prudent Risk
✔✔Commanders and staffs actively build and maintain __________ within the force
and with unified action partners by maintaining collaboration and dialogue throughout
the operations process. - ✔✔Shared Understanding
✔✔(T/F) Commanders inform and influence audiences both inside and outside their
organizations. - ✔✔True
✔✔What are the war-fighting functions? - ✔✔1. Mission Command
2. Movement and Maneuver
3. Intelligence
4. Fires
5. Sustainment
6. Protection
✔✔__________ decision making generates several alternative solutions, compares
these solutions to a set of criteria, and selects the best course of action. - ✔✔Analytic
✔✔__________ is the meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known
conventions used in their representation. - ✔✔Information
✔✔A __________ is a difference between the actual situation during an operation and
what the plan forecasted the situation would be at that time or event. - ✔✔Variance
✔✔(T/F) A staff's most important function is to support and advise the commander
throughout planning, preparation, execution, and assessment. - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔(T/F) Staff Officers only communicate with higher echelons. - ✔✔FALSE
✔✔(T/F) Staff Officers recognize and adjust to changing conditions in the operational
environment with appropriate, flexible, and timely actions. - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔(T/F) During operations, commanders cannot decide to reframe after realizing the
desired conditions have changed, are not achievable, cannot be attained through the
current operational approach, or because of change of mission or end state. -
✔✔FALSE
✔✔What are the mission variables? - ✔✔1. Mission
2. Enemy
3. Terrain and Weather
