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Air Force Class
Test 2 - Spring 2011
26
Aerospace Engineering
Undergraduate 1
02/22/2011

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Term
What is Pass & Registration?
Definition
Where you would go to register your pet
Term
What is the Base Chapel?
Definition
Where you would go to worship
Term
What is SITES?
Definition
Standard Installation Topic Exchange Service: Where you would look for information concerning specific installations
Term
What is the BX?
Definition
Base Exchange: Where you would buy a new music CD
(or snacks, clothes, toiletries, shoes, etc.)
Term
What is the Commissary?
Definition
Where you would buy groceries
Term
What is SVS?
Definition
Services: Organization that operates the base fitness center
Term
What is PAO?
Definition
Public Affairs Office:  Organization that produces the base newspaper
Term
What is AAFES?
Definition
Army and Air Force Exchange Service: Organization that operates the BX and Commissary
Term
What is the Housing Office?
Definition
Where you would get a list of utility providers
Term
What is the Family Support Center?
Definition
Where you would go to receive assistance as a newly arrived member/family
Term
What is the Base Library?
Definition
Where kids can develop and foster an interest in reading
Term
What is Family Services?
Definition
Where you would go to receive help for meeting personal/family problems
Term
What is MPF?
Definition
Military Management Office: Where you would get a military ID
Term
What is TMO?
Definition
Traffic Management Office: Where you would go to have your household goods shipped
Term
What is the Officer's Club?
Definition
Where you (as an officer) would go to socialize after work
Term
War is an intrument of __________
Definition
National Policy
Term
War is a complex and chaotic ____________
Definition
human endeavor
Term
War is a clash of __________
Definition
opposing wills
Term
What offers our national leadership alernatives to annihilation and attrition options?
Definition
Air and space power
Term

According to the book, which of the following is one of Sun Tzu's strategies of war?

 

a) Shape military engagements so that they will be fought at the time and place of our choosing.

b) Confuse the enemy and create uncertainty.

c) Execute military operations more along the lines of soccer and not football.

d) Know your self and know your enemy.

Definition
b) Confuse the enemy and create uncertainty.
Term

Which of the following is the least devoloped of all communication skills?

 

a) writing

b) speaking

c) listening

d) reading

Definition
c) listening
Term

Which of the following is NOT invovled in the listening process?

 

a) responding

b) hearing

c) evaluating

d) attending to

Definition
b) hearing
Term

According to the book, which of the following make listening so challenging? MORE THAN ONE CORRECT ANSWER POSSIBLE.

a) Distractions

b) Speaker's delivery

c) Uninteresting topics

d) Uninteresting Speaker

Definition

a) Distractions

b) Speaker's delivery

c) Uninteresting topics

Term

According to the book, which of the following can help make us better listeners? MORE THAN ONE CORRECT ANSWER POSSIBLE.

 

a) be conscious of your hearing shortfalls

b) concentrate on the message

c) control your reactions

d) prepare yourself to listen

Definition

b) concentrate on the message

c) control your reactions

d) prepare yourself to listen

Term
Why is listening critical to you as a future Air Force officer?
Definition
Because of how it relates to the communication process which allows us to lead, motivate, train and evaluate others.
Term
What is Clausewitz's definition of war?
Definition

"War is nothing but a duel on an extensive  scale...Each strives by physical force to compel the other to submit to his will… War therefore is an act of violence to compel our opponent to do our will."

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