HSCO 506 UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
●● Special Reconnaissance
Answer: Conducted in hostile, denied or politically sensitive
environments to collect or verify information of strategic or operational
significance.
●● Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction
Answer: Efforts to counter the development, proliferation, use, and
effects of WMD by actors of concern
●● Counterterrorism
Answer: Defined as the actions taken directly against terrorist networks
and indirectly to influence and render global and regional environments
inhospitable to terrorist networks
●● Unconventional Warefare
Answer: Activities conducted to enable a resistance movement or
insurgency to coerce, disrupt, or overthrow a government or occupying
power by operating through or with underground, auxiliary, or guerrilla
forces in a denied area
●● Foreign Internal Defense
,Answer: Used to alter or shape the operational environment in a host
nation to create conditions conductive to the success of a full spectrum
of military operations
●● A JTF can be constituted and designated by which authorities.
(Select all the apply.)
Answer: The Secretary of Defense
A Unified Combatant Commander
A Sub-Unified Commander
An existing JTF Commander
●● USSOCOM organizes, equips, trains and advises fores in dozens of
countries around the world. This is an example of which core activity?
(Choose one correct answer).
Answer: Security Force Assistance
●● What year did MARSOC officially join USSOCOM? (Choose one
correct answer).
Answer: 2006
●● What does an Air Force Special Operations Tactical Air Control
Party member do? (Choose one correct answer).
Answer: Operate forward communications networks.
, ●● USASOC, MARSOC, AFSOC, and NAVYSPECWARCOM are
examples of what? (Choose one correct answer).
Answer: SOF Service Component Commands
●● True or False? A Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force
(CJSOTF) is a multi-national, multi-service special operations force.
Answer: True
●● Joint Combined Exchange Training (JCET)
Answer: A program conducted overseas to fulfill United States forces
training requirements and at the same time exchange the sharing of skills
between United States and host nation counterparts.
●● Counter Narco-Terrorism (CNT)
Answer: Main focus is to assist in the identification and interdiction of
the local networks that assist both terrorist and narcotics traffickers in
moving people, money and weapons
●● Mobile Training Team (MTT)
Answer: Mission is to train indigenous personnel to operate, maintain,
and employ weapons and support systems, or to develop a self-training
capability in a particular skill
●● Subject Matter Expert Exchange (SMEE)
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
●● Special Reconnaissance
Answer: Conducted in hostile, denied or politically sensitive
environments to collect or verify information of strategic or operational
significance.
●● Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction
Answer: Efforts to counter the development, proliferation, use, and
effects of WMD by actors of concern
●● Counterterrorism
Answer: Defined as the actions taken directly against terrorist networks
and indirectly to influence and render global and regional environments
inhospitable to terrorist networks
●● Unconventional Warefare
Answer: Activities conducted to enable a resistance movement or
insurgency to coerce, disrupt, or overthrow a government or occupying
power by operating through or with underground, auxiliary, or guerrilla
forces in a denied area
●● Foreign Internal Defense
,Answer: Used to alter or shape the operational environment in a host
nation to create conditions conductive to the success of a full spectrum
of military operations
●● A JTF can be constituted and designated by which authorities.
(Select all the apply.)
Answer: The Secretary of Defense
A Unified Combatant Commander
A Sub-Unified Commander
An existing JTF Commander
●● USSOCOM organizes, equips, trains and advises fores in dozens of
countries around the world. This is an example of which core activity?
(Choose one correct answer).
Answer: Security Force Assistance
●● What year did MARSOC officially join USSOCOM? (Choose one
correct answer).
Answer: 2006
●● What does an Air Force Special Operations Tactical Air Control
Party member do? (Choose one correct answer).
Answer: Operate forward communications networks.
, ●● USASOC, MARSOC, AFSOC, and NAVYSPECWARCOM are
examples of what? (Choose one correct answer).
Answer: SOF Service Component Commands
●● True or False? A Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force
(CJSOTF) is a multi-national, multi-service special operations force.
Answer: True
●● Joint Combined Exchange Training (JCET)
Answer: A program conducted overseas to fulfill United States forces
training requirements and at the same time exchange the sharing of skills
between United States and host nation counterparts.
●● Counter Narco-Terrorism (CNT)
Answer: Main focus is to assist in the identification and interdiction of
the local networks that assist both terrorist and narcotics traffickers in
moving people, money and weapons
●● Mobile Training Team (MTT)
Answer: Mission is to train indigenous personnel to operate, maintain,
and employ weapons and support systems, or to develop a self-training
capability in a particular skill
●● Subject Matter Expert Exchange (SMEE)
