Force Concepts
It provides the following benefits: creates efficiencies, encourages retention of valuable human capital, and, above all, increases Air Force combat capabilities.
What is the Total Force?
They fall under six types and are capability-based assets.
What are AEF teams?
A capability to accomplish a specific AF mission. It is represented by a 5-character alphanumeric code. Consists of four main elements: UTC Header, Mission Capability (MISCAP), Manpower Force Element (MFE), and Logistics Detail (LOGDET or equipment).
What is a Unit Type Code?
The accurate accounting of all Air Force personnel at all times regardless of location.
What is Total Force Accountability (TFA)?
A verbal or graphic statement, in broad outline, of a combatant commander's assumptions or intent in regard to an operation or series of operations.
What is a Concept of Operations or CONOPS?
In this phase of Installation Personnel Readiness (IPR), requests are approved by the SECDEF and are provided to the supported C-MAJCOM to build the requirements and load them into DCAPES.
What is the Requirement Development Phase?
Includes training for PERSCO team members and Installation Personnel Readiness (IPR) members.
What is Personnel HSRT?
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What is Midway?
Total Force includes personnel retired from the military, civilian personnel, contractor staff, and these individuals.
Who are host-nation support personnel?
Unique from C2ISR and Space & Cyberspace, this particular type of AEF team contains 12 Core (1-12) and six Non-Core teams (13-18).
What is Agile Combat Support (ACS)?
Aligning the unit manpower document to a unit’s tasked UTCs and aligning them to a specific AEF.
What is Posturing?
The principal reason for this is the need to quickly return military members and key civilian personnel to the unit by the unit commander.
What is Recall?
Where the details of an OPLAN are found; The specific areas covered and the depth of coverage depend on the scope and intent of the OPLAN.
What are Annexes?
In this phase of IPR, the AEF Center sources requirements in DCAPES based on postured UTCs.
What is the Sourcing Phase?
All 3F0X1 personnel are eligible for designation; Only 3F0X1 personnel assigned to PERSCO UTC positions coded with SEI 295 (DCAPES Operator) are required to complete the formal DCAPES Wing-level Users course.
What is PERSCO Training?
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What is the first Thanksgiving?
A general term applied to a force composed of significant elements, assigned or attached, of two or more military departments operating under a single joint force commander. Most of the military or humanitarian operations conducted around the globe today are examples of this.
What is the Joint Force Concept?
The deployment period that consists of 60% of the forces vulnerable to deploy (the other period will consist of 40% of the other forces vulnerable to deploy)
What is the Big Hit?
Determine the minimum number of UTCs required for assigned/committed missions and home station support, and the maximum number of that type within a specific unit that can be deployed simultaneously.
What is a P-Code?
In relation to deployed operations, these are the most important responsibilities and the purpose of any PERSCO team.
What are strength accountability and reporting?
The primary Force Support annexes addressing A1 capabilities.
What are Annex D (Logistics) and Annex E (Personnel)?
During the Verification and Validation Phase, after MAJCOMs have verified the tasking, the data is immediately visible to the IDO in this system.
What is DCAPES?
Consists of Tier 1 and Tier 2. Tier 1 applies to Lieutenants, 3 and 5-skill level enlisted personnel, and all cross-trainees.
What is Services HSRT?
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What is form 4392?
Leadership, Equal Opportunity, and Airman and Family Readiness enable an environment conducive to accomplishing Manpower, Personnel, Services, Education & Training requirements.
What are the 3 Enabling FS Readiness Functions?
These are the AEF Key Principles.
What are predictability, equitability, and transparency?
A planning and execution tool providing a means of logically grouping UTCs; elements are uniquely identified for the purpose of enhancing flexibility and usefulness of the operations planning and execution process.
What is a Force Module?
PERSCO will maintain accountability over all personnel on the ground, including transients, at their deployed and geographically separated locations, regardless of status.
What is Strength Accountability?
This annex to the CONOPS addresses Public Affairs issues such as media and community relations.
What is Annex F?
Daily operations include personnel coordinating with the IDO and UDMs to ensure appropriate units are tasked in DCAPES, making corrections as necessary.
What is Installation Personnel Readiness (IPR)?
Facilitates training on providing contingency food service, lodging, fitness and recreation, and mortuary affairs while under simulated wartime conditions.
What is Force Support Combat Training?
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What is 25-28 feet above normal sea level?
Most of the military or humanitarian operations conducted around the globe today are classified as this.
What are Joint Operations?
This defines battle rhythm and allows the Air Force to address the questions, “Who goes first?” and “Who goes next?”
What is Predictability?
A grouping of UTCs with supplies and personnel necessary to sustain forces with a base population of approximately 3,000 for a minimum of 30 days.
What are AETF Force Modules?
Personnel that spend at least one night in billeting at a location but are en route to their final duty location.
Who are Transient Personnel (Transient Accountability)?
Integrates the Base Support Plan (BSP) and the Expeditionary Site Survey Process (ESSP) and provides detailed information for use by planners, assisting site survey teams in prioritizing their site selection and bed-down actions.
What is the Base Support Plan/Expeditionary Site Plan (BaS&E)?
Its purpose is to monitor all personnel processing activities to include orders publication, eligibility screening, pre-deployment briefings, and assisting the transportation/passenger terminal in passenger manifesting by providing an appropriate file listing deployers for the specific passenger movement.
What is the Personnel Deployment Function (PDF)?
A convenient single document that compiles Core Mission Essential Task List (METL), War and Mobilization Plan (WMP), UTC Availability (UTA), and specific resources units are required to report.
What is the Designed Operational Capability (DOC) Statements?
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Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)?
The for functions are Plan, Schedule, Coordinate and Conduct.
What is Protocol?
AEF Key Element that consists of forces assigned to organizations responsible for carrying out statutory functions at the Air Force level.
What is Institutional Force?
These FMs contain modular-scalable UTCs commonly combined to form a specific capability (e.g., base transportation function).
What are Functional Area FMs?
The primary system used to attain and report TFA. Uses data from the Defense Manpower Data Center’s (DMDC) Personnel Accountability Reporting System database to identify members assigned or living in the affected area.
What is Air Force Personnel Accountability and Assessment System (AFPAAS)?
The Air Force interface to the Joint Operating Planning and Execution System (JOPES) and is the automated data processing subsystem, which enables the Air Force to plan for contingencies, along with matching and tracking requirements, people, and materiel in a time-sensitive manner.
What is Deliberate and Crisis Action Planning and Execution Segments (DCAPES)?
The IDO and the MPF chief jointly establish a this; establishing a formal processing line provides the most effective means to check personnel eligibility and readiness.
What is the Personnel Deployment Function (PDF)?
This is where the DOC statement is reported.
What is the Air Force Input Tool (AF-IT)?
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What is Turkey?
Includes personnel retired from the military, civilian personnel (including foreign national as well as non-appropriated fund employees), contractor staff, and host-nation support personnel.
What is the Total Force Concept?
They augment AETF FMs and identify added capability needed to support a continuing rotational presence.
What are AETF Support FMs?
Consists of food services, fitness and sports, and lodging.
What is the Sustainment Services Flight?
Software is menu driven and provides an automated tool for force accountability of deployed forces and requirements to include strength and casualty reporting.
What is the DCAPES PERSCO Web Application?
This individual ensures PDF capabilities meet the requirements of the forces deploying.
Who is the PDF OIC/NCOIC?
This is the only assessment system that reports at the UTC level and is the primary system used to source UTCs for taskings and contingencies.
What is the AEF Reporting Tool (ART)?
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What is 40 years?
Sections include Command, the Manpower and Personnel Flight, the Sustainment Services Flight, and the Community Services Flight.
What is the Expeditionary Force Support Squadron (EFSS)?
Consists of the recreation section and the combined Airman & Family Readiness Center Deployed (A&FRC-D) and Learning Resource Center.
What is the Community Services Flight?
The primary purpose is to allow AF planners to update and maintain JOPES Time-Phased Force Deployment Data (TPFDDs).
What is the Air Force JOPES Editing Tool (AFJET)?
An aspect of the Cargo Deployment Function (CDF) that involves placing the cargo in load plan sequence by chalk, normally according to chalk departure times, in preparation for inspection.
What is Marshaling?
Its principal reason is to highlight missing resources and quantify missing requirements for additional justification when submitting budgets.
What is the AEF Reporting Tool (ART)?
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