Airman's Foundational Competencies
This competency involves keeping emotions under control and restraining negative actions when under stress.
What is Self-Control?
This base in Texas is where every enlisted Airman begins their career at Basic Military Training.
What is Lackland AFB?
This state is home to Kirtland AFB.
What is New Mexico?
This plane was the U.S. Air Force’s first operational stealth bomber, capable of carrying nuclear or conventional bombs.
What is the B-2 Spirit?
This 1947 act established the Department of the Air Force as a separate branch of the U.S. military.
What is the National Security Act of 1947?
Name the four major categories that the Airman’s Foundational Competencies are grouped into.
What are Developing Self, Developing Others, Developing Ideas, and Developing Organizations?
This base in Alaska is one of the northernmost U.S. Air Force installations.
What is Eielson AFB?
This base in Montana supports intercontinental ballistic missile operations.
What is Malmstrom AFB?
This fighter jet, introduced in the 1970s, is nicknamed the “Eagle” and remains one of the most successful air superiority fighters ever built.
What is the F-15?
This war, fought from 1950 to 1953, ended in an armistice and established the 38th parallel as a dividing line.
What is the Korean War?
“Teamwork” belongs to this competency category.
What is Developing Others?
The only AFB in Kansas.
What is McConnell AFB?
This California base is associated with space launches and test operations.
What is Vandenberg SFB?
According to Cog’s Ladder, this is the stage of group development marked by tension and conflict.
What is the Bid for Power stage?
On this day, Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Japanese.
What is December 7th, 1941?
This competency under “Developing Organizations” considers and organizes activities and resources to achieve a desired goal; thinks on a large and small scale, long and short term.
What is Strategic Thinking?
This South Dakota base is home to the B-1B Lancer.
What is Ellsworth AFB?
This base in Arizona is home to the “Boneyard,” the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group.
What is Davis-Monthan AFB?
This World War II bomber was used to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
What is the B-29 Superfortress?
This French general rose to power after the Revolution redrew the map of Europe before his downfall at Waterloo.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
Name four of the five competencies that fall under “Developing Ideas.”
What are Analytical Thinking, Digital Literacy, Creative Thinking, Fostering Innovation, and Influence?
There are two main AFSOC bases. Name them and their locations.
What is Cannon AFB, NM and Hurlburt Field, FL
Originally established by the Allies after World War II, this German base became a critical NATO hub for airlift operations and it is one of the busiest air transport hubs in the world, often called the “Gateway to Europe.”
What is Ramstein Air Base?
First flown in the 1950s and still in service today, this versatile turboprop transport aircraft has served in every major U.S. conflict since Vietnam and is known for its ability to take off and land on short, rough runways.
What is the C-130 Hercules?
Name the two major military alliances formed during the Cold War — one led by the United States, and the other by the Soviet Union.
Answer: What are NATO and the Warsaw Pact?