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Measures employed by commanders to facilitate the rapid engagement of targets and simultaneously provide safeguards for friendly forces.
Fire Support Coordination Measures (FSCM)
o Describes how fires support the commander's intent and concept of operations.
o Establishes the priorities of fires to units for each phase of the operation
Scheme of Fires
The JFC's approved plan for integrating and coordinating joint air operations.
Joint Air Operations Plan (JAOP)
Purposes of Offensive Operations
o Defeat or destroy enemy forces.
o Secure decisive terrain.
o Deprive the enemy of resources.
o Gain information.
Purposes of Defensive Operations
o Create conditions for the offense that allow Army forces to regain the initiative.
o Retain decisive terrain.
o Counter enemy action.
What entity functions as the senior Army liaison to the Theater Air Control System (TACS)?
Battlefield Coordination Detachment (BCD)
What 3 ways can contact be broken/relinquished once it is made?
o If directed otherwise
o RHO is complete
o Enemy force is destroyed, based on engagement criteria
Squawk Codes
7400 - Link Loss
7500 - Hijack
7600 - Comms Failure
7700 - Emergency
Two Categories of Targets
o Deliberate (Planned Targets)
o Dynamic (Targets of Opportunity)
What does DAR stand for?
Department of the Army Representative
What fundamental of recon is best described when a TUAS and AH-64 conduct RHO?
Ensure Continuous Reconnaissance
What kind of operations would reconnaissance and security missions are considered?
Enabling Operations
What are some things that the ATO provides you?
Mission, unit, call-sign, laser codes, and armament.
Which airspace document provides ACMs and FSCMs?
Airspace Control Order (ACO)
Which security operation cannot operate independent of the main body?
Guard
What airspace document provides supplemental, corrective, or exact amplifications to the general mission tasking of the specific ATO cycle?
Special Instructions (SPINS)
Why would we conduct a movement to contact?
To develop the situation and establish/regain contact.
When is reconnaissance conducted?
Before, during, and after operations.
Form of reconnaissance that provides information on all routes, obstacles, terrain, and enemy activity.
Zone Reconnaissance
Which security operation is done independent of the main body?
Cover
Which characteristic of offense must be retained in a hasty attack?
Tempo/Speed
Which characteristic of offense is defined as the willingness to take bold risks?
Audacity
Military forces, governmental and nongovernmental organizations, and elements of the private sector with whom Army forces plan, coordinate, synchronize, and integrate during the conduct of operations.
Unified Action Partners
Which security operation provides early warning to the protected force?
Screen
A characteristic of offense that is defined as the relative speed and rhythm of military operations over time with respect to the enemy.
Tempo