Non-adversarial cover operations Airmen accomplish outside of war but in response to crisis or contingency;
Adversarial cover operations involving parties acknowledged as potentially hostile to a friendly force and against which use of force may be used?
The largest service component by active duty members.
What is the U.S. Army (445,000 members compared to the Air Force's 314,000 members)?
This figure is third in line in the OPCON chain of command?
Who is the Combatant Commander?
Who is the Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff?
OPCON and ADCON stand for this.
Operational Command and Administrative Command
Level of operation that Epic Fury and Inherent Resolve fall under.
What is Operational?
Core values of the Navy.
What are Honor, Courage, Commitment?
What is the Goldwater-Nichols Act?
Organizational structure adopted by the Air Force to represent six Air Force functions at the Wing level or higher.
What is the A-Staff?
The commander-in-chief of the National Guard.
Who is the state governor, who runs the National Guard of their state unless the President federalizes the National Guard during a national emergency?
This is Unity of Effort.
What is a concept referring to coordination and communication amongst U.S. Government agencies towards the same common goals for success?
The two entities Coast Guard falls under and when.
What is the Navy during wartime and the Department of Homeland Security during peacetime?
CJCS falls under this chain of command.
What is ADCON?
The role the highest ranking service member in the military play?
What is the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff?
The four Functional Combatant Commands.
What are: USCYBERCOM, USSOCOM, USTRANSCOM, and USSTRATCOM?
This is Unity of Command.
What is a principle ensuring unity of effort under one responsible commander for each objective, enabling commanders to understand the effective mechanisms to achieve military unity of effort?
True or False: The Air Force, responsible for the Air Domain, is the only service component to operate in the air and operate aircraft.
False, the Army, Navy, Marines, Coast Guard (and to an extent the Space Force) all have aircraft.
The Army and Air Force also have limited maritime vessels. All branches also have land vehicles. This is to say, branches specializing in one domain frequently operate in others on occasion.
The National Security Act was established in this year and created this organization.
What is 1947 and the National Security Council?
The seven Geographic Combatant Commands.
What are USNORTHCOM, USSOUTHCOM, USCENTCOM, USINDOPACOM, USAFRICOM, USEUCOM, and USSPACECOM?
JIIM stands for this.
What is: Joint Interagency Intergovernmental Multinational?
Levels of government that handles tactical, operational, and strategic planning.
What are: squadron-wing for tactical, MAJCOM for operational, and White House for strategic?
The core values of the Army.
(hint: LDRSHIP)
What are: Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless service, Honor, Integrity, and Personal courage?
The Goldwater Nichols Act did at least 3 of these things.
Gave SECDEF sole power over DoD operations.
CJCS established as principle military advisor.
More power to civilian authority.
Restructured military to give CCDRs full authority over their AOR.
The individual contributions of each service branch (Army, Navy, Marines, Space Force, and Coast Guard) in the Joint Team.
What is:
Army covers the land/ground domain and controlling enemy territory and resources,
Navy covers the sea domain and power projection across the globe,
Marines cover the expeditionary and amphibious operations,
Space Force covers global space operations,
and the Coast Guard guards the Nation's waters as a maritime force with law enforcement powers?
Under JIIM, United Nations cooperation falls here.
What is Intergovernmental?