questions and CORRECT answers
Which USAF ground-based C2 element of TACS is responsible for detecting and identifying
hostile air tracks and establishing combat identification? - CORRECT
ANSWER Control and Reporting Center (CRC)
What common activity occurs in all command posts to describe how a commander and staff
build and maintain situational understanding throughout the operations process, relative to
time, facts, and assumptions? - CORRECT ANSWER a. Running estimates
1. These FSCM are used to facilitate attacks and include Fire Area (FFA), Fire Support
Coordination Line (FSCL), Battlefield Coordination Line (BCL), Coordinated Firing Line
(CFL), and Kill boxes. - CORRECT ANSWER a. Permissive FSCMs
1. This term describes the Army's operations concept and contribution to Unified Action. -
CORRECT ANSWER a. Unified Land Operations
1. The person is normally designated as the Joint Force Commander (JFC) by the airspace
control authority. - CORRECT ANSWER a. Joint Force Air Component Command
This is the U.S.M.C's principle organization construct for conducting missions arose the reign
of military operations that are balanced, forced packages and take organic command, of
ground, aviation, and logistic elements. - CORRECT ANSWER a. Marine Air-Ground
Task Force (MAGTF)
1. The division in the air operation center (AOC) is responsible for monitoring the execution
of the current ATO and publishing changes to the ATO or ACO. - CORRECT
ANSWER a. Combat Operations
1. The Doctrine approved by the Joint Force Commander (JFC) that provides specific
planning guidance and procedures for the airspace control system for the Joint Operations
Area (JOA). - CORRECT ANSWER a. Airspace Control Plan
, This U.S. Air force liaison advises ground commanders on the capabilities and limitations of
airpower, assist with planning requests and coordinating air support, and provides terminal
attack control to CAS aircraft. - CORRECT ANSWER a. TAC-P
A measure employed to facilitate the efficient use of airspace to accomplish missions and
simultaneously provide safeguards for friendly forces. - CORRECT ANSWER a.
Airspace coordinating measure (ACM)
This term best defines the way the Army conducts operations across multiple domains,
integrates each of the WFF, and those capabilities available from joint and multinational
assets to achieve a greater effect than if each element was used separately. - CORRECT
ANSWER a. Combined Arms
1. This level of warfare links strategy and tactics by establishing operational objectives
needed to achieve the military end states and strategic objectives. - CORRECT
ANSWER a. Operational level
1. This command authority over assigned or attached forces or commands, or military
capability or forces made available for tasking, that is limited to the direction and control of
movements/maneuvers within the operational area necessary to accomplish assigned mission
or tasks. - CORRECT ANSWER a. Tactical Control (TACON)
1. This document provides the JFACC's guidance for the use of joint air capabilities for a
specified period that is used throughout the planning stages of the joint air tasking cycle and
the execution of the ATO - CORRECT ANSWER a. Air Operation Directive.
This air mission is flown for the purpose of detecting targets and coordinating or performing
interdiction or reconnaissance on those targets in a specified geographic area - CORRECT
ANSWER a. Strike Coordination and Reconnaissance (SCR)
The organizational structure for Air Force forces to execute operational taskings at the JTF
level to provide a single air component commander, C2 capability, and force protection in
order to provide supporting Air Force forces (e.g., squadrons) to the JFC. - CORRECT
ANSWER a. The Air Expeditionary Task Force (AETF)