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| What ADP / ADRP covers The Army? |
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| In which domains do U.S. forces Operate? |
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Air
Land
Maritime
Space
Cyberspace |
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| As a unique military profession, the Army is built upon an ethos of trust. What are four other essential characteristics of our profession? |
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Definition
Military Expertise
Honorable Service
Esprit De Corps
Stewardship |
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| What are the 11 Primary Missions of the U.S. Armed Forces? |
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Definition
Counter terrorism and irregular warfare
Deter and defeat aggression
Project power despite anti-access/area denial challenges
Counter weapons of mass destruction
Operate effectively in cyberspace
Operate effectively in space
Maintain a safe, secure, and effective nuclear deterrent
Defend the homeland and provide support to civil authorities
Provide a stabilizing presence
Conduct stability and counterinsurgency operations
Conduct humanitarian, disaster relief, and other operations |
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| What is the most important determinant of combat power? |
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| What is the US Army's greatest strategic asset; providing depth, versatility, and unmatched experience to the joint force? |
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| Title 10, USC, establishes the basic structure of the Army. What forces make up the Army? |
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| One Regular Army and two Reserve Components: the Regular Army, the Army Reserve, and the Army National Guard of the United States. Army Civilians support all three components. |
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| What is the unction of the Operating Force? |
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| Operating forces consist of units organized, trained, and equipped to deploy and fight. |
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| What is the function of the Generating Force? |
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| The generating force mans, trains, equips, deploys, and ensure the readiness of all Army forces. |
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| What five sets of characteristics will enhance the Army's operational adaptability? |
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Depth and Versatility
Adaptive and Innovative
Flexibility and Agility
Integrated and Synchronized
Lethal and Discriminate |
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| What ADP / ADRP covers Operational Terms and Military Symbols? |
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| Who is the principal audience of ADP 1-02, Operational Terms and Military Symbols? |
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| All members of the profession of arms. |
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| What is the purpose of a common set of doctrinal terms and military symbols? |
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| Terms and symbols can communicate a great deal of information with a simple word, phrase, or image and eliminate the need for a lengthy explanation of a complex idea. |
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| What are the three areas of focus of the professional language of land warfare? |
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Principle of Simplicity
Importance of clear communication
Importance of teaching the language. |
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| Military symbols fall into two categories: framed and unframed. What is the difference? |
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Definition
Framed military symbols include unit, equipment, installation, and activity symbols.
Unframed military symbols include control measure and tactical task mission symbols. |
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| Who establishes Army policy for developing doctrinal terms? |
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| United States Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) |
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| That common operational picture is displayed on a map or another geographical form representing the area of operations and which has been overlaid with military symbols. What does it include? |
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Friendly and enemy unites or ships
Boundaries
Control measures
Other elements that the commander deems necessary |
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| How are acronyms usually formed? |
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| Acronyms are usually formed from the initial letters of a name or parts of a series of words. |
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| What is a single display of relevant information within a commander's area of interest tailored to the user's requirements and based on common data and information shared by more than one command? |
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| A common operational picture |
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| What is communication in reference to Operational Terms and Military Symbols? |
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| Communication is an exchange of meaning that is only complete when the intended meaning is understood precisely by the intended audience |
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| Who can propose the creation, modification, or elimination of any doctrinal term? |
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| Any Soldier may contact a proponent for a given subject area. The proponent will consider the Soldier's proposal. |
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| What is the purpose of acronyms and abbreviations is the profession of arms? |
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Definition
| To allow the use of shorter versions of doctrinal military terms for ease of discussion in speaking and writing |
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| What ADP / ADRP covers Unified Land Operations? |
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Definition
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| t is the description of Unified Land Operations? |
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| Unified land operations describes how the Army seizes, retrains, and exploits the initiative to gain and maintain a position of relative advantage in sustained land operations through simultaneous offensive, defensive, and stability operations in order to prevent or deter conflict, prevail in war and create the conditions for favorable conflict resolution. |
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| What are the operational variables? |
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Definition
| The operational variables consist of political, military, economic, social, information, infrastructure, physical environment, time (known as PMESII-PT). |
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Term
| What are the mission variables? |
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| The mission variables consist of mission, enemy, terrain and weather, troops and support available, time available, civil considerations (Known as METT-TC) |
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| What is the Army's war-fighting doctrine? |
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Definition
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Term
| What is a series of related major operations aimed at archiving strategic and operational objectives within a given time and space? |
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Definition
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Term
| What is a military action, consisting of two or more related tactical actions, designed to achieve a strategic objective, in whole or in part? |
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| What is a battle or engagement, employing lethal or nonlethal actions, designed for a specific purpose relative to the enemy, the terrain, friendly forces, or other entity? |
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| How are Army operations characterized? |
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| Army operations are characterized by flexibility, integration, lethality, adaptability, depth, and synchronization |
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| Operational art is the pursuit of strategic objectives, in whole or in part, through the arrangement of tactical actions in time, space, and purpose. |
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| The Military Decision Making Process. |
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| What is the purpose of MDMP? |
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Definition
| It integrates the activities of the commander, staff, subordinate headquarters, and other partners to understand the situation and mission; develop, analyze, and compare courses of action; decide on course of action that best accomplishes the mission; and produce an operation order or order for execution. |
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| What FM covers Detainee Operations? |
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Term
| What ADP / ADRP covers Stability? |
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Definition
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Term
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| Stabilization in a process in which personnel identify and mitigate underlying sources of instability to establish the conditions for long-term stability. |
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Term
| What is the focus of stability tasks? |
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Definition
Identifying and targeting the root causes of instability
Building the capacity of local institutions |
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Term
| What are sources of instability? |
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Definition
Decreased support for the government based on what locals actually expect of their government.
Increased support for anti-government elements.
The undermining of the normal functioning of society where the emphasis must be on a return to the established norms. |
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| What are Stability tasks? |
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Definition
| Stability tasks are tasks conducted as part of operations outside the US in coordination with other instruments of national power to maintain or reestablish a safe and secure environment and provide essential governmental services, emergency infrastructure reconstruction, and humanitarian relief. |
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| What are the principles that lay the foundation for long-term stability? |
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Definition
Conflict transformation
Unity of effort
Legitimacy and host-nation ownership
Building partner capacity |
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Term
| What is a line of effort? |
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Definition
| A line of effort is a line that links multiple tasks using the logic of purpose rather than geographical reference to focus efforts toward establishing operational and strategic conditions. |
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Term
| What is a decisive point? |
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Definition
| A decisive point is a geographic place, specific key event, critical factor, or function that, when acted upon, allows commanders to gain a marked advantage over an adversary or contribute materially to achieving success. |
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| What is a stability mechanism? |
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Definition
| A stability mechanism is the primary method through which friendly forces affect civilians in order to attain conditions that support establishing a lasting, stable peace. |
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Term
| What is a defeat mechanism? |
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Definition
| A defeat mechanism is the method through which friendly forces accomplish their mission against enemy opposition. |
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Term
| What ADP / ADRP covers Fires? |
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Definition
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Term
| What are the core competencies of Fires? |
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Definition
Air Defense Artillery
Field Artillery |
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Term
| What are the critical capabilities of Fires? |
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Definition
Target Acquisition
Target Discrimination
Target Engagement |
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Term
| What are the principles of Fires? |
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Definition
Precision
Scalable
Synchronized
Responsive
Networked |
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Term
| What are the characteristics of Fires? |
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Definition
All Weather
Precision/Near Precision Fires
Mass Area Fires
Air and Space Integration
Inherently Joint |
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Term
| What are the defensive measures designed to destroy attacking enemy aircraft or missiles in the atmosphere, or to nullify or reduce effectiveness of such attack either through surveillance actions or active engagements of aerial threat? |
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| Fire support is fire that directly support land, maritime, amphibious, and special operations forces to engage enemy forces, combat formations, and facilities in pursuit of tactical and operational objectives. |
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| What is the objective of fires planning? |
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Definition
| To optimize combat power. |
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Term
| How is fire support planning accomplished? |
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Definition
| Fire support planning is accomplished using targeting and the running estimate. |
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Term
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| A target is an entity or object considered for possible engagement or other action. |
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| What does targeting provide? |
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| Targeting provides an effective method for matching the friendly force capabilities against enemy targets. |
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| What ADP / ADRP covers Protection? |
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Definition
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Term
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| Protection is the preservation of the effectiveness and survivability of mission-related military and nonmilitary personnel, equipment, facilities, information, and infrastructure deployed or located within or outside the boundaries of a given operational area. |
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| What are the Protection principles? |
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Comprehensive. Protection is an all-inclusive utilization of complementary and reinforcing protection tasks and systems available to commanders, incorporated into the plan, to preserve the force.
Integrated. Protection is integrated with other activities, systems, efforts, and capabilities associated with unified land operations to provide strength and structure to the overall effort. Integration must occur vertically and horizontally with unified action partners throughout the operations process.
Layered. Protection capabilities are arranged using a layered approach to provide strength and depth. Layering reduces the destructive effect of a threat or hazard through the dispersion of energy or the culmination of the force.
Redundant. Protection efforts are often redundant anywhere that a vulnerability or critical point failure is identified. Redundancy ensure that specific activities, systems, efforts, and capabilities that are critical for the success of the overall protection effort have a secondary or auxiliary effort of equal or greater capability.
Enduring. Protection capabilities are ongoing activities for maintaining the objectives of preserving combat power, populations, partners, essential equipment, resources, and critical infrastructure in every phase of an operation. |
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| What is the protection war-fighting function? |
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Definition
| The protection war-fighting function is the related tasks and systems that preserve the force so that commanders can apply maximum combat power to accomplish the mission. |
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Term
| What is the first step toward effective protection? |
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Definition
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Term
| During the preparation phase, what is the focus of protection? |
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Definition
| Deterring and preventing the enemy or adversary from actions that would affect combat power and the freedom of action. |
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Term
| What is the staff looking for as they monitor the conduct of operations during execution? |
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Definition
| Variances from the scheme of maneuver and protection |
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Term
| Assessing protection is an essential, continuous activity that occurs throughout the operations process. What is Assessment? |
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Definition
| Assessment is the determination of the progress toward accomplishing a task, creating a condition, or achieving an objective. |
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Term
| What ADP / ADRP covers Offense and Defense? |
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Definition
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Term
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| Tactics is the employment and ordered arrangement of forces in relation to each other. |
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Term
| What is the tactical level of war? |
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Definition
| The tactical level of war is the level of war at which battles and engagements are planned and executed to achieve military objectives assigned to tactical units or task forces. |
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Term
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Definition
| AN engagement is a tactical conflict, usually between opposing, lower echelon maneuver forces. |
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Term
| What echelons typically conduct engagement? |
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Definition
| Brigades and smaller echelons typically conduct engagements. |
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Term
| How long do engagements last? |
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Definition
| They are usually short, executed in terms of minutes, hours, or days. |
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Term
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Definition
| A battle consists of a set of related engagements that lasts longer and involves larger forces than an engagement. |
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Term
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Definition
| Battles can affect the course of a campaign or major operation. |
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Term
| When does a battle occur? |
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Definition
| A battle occurs when a division, corps, or Army commander fights for one or more significant objectives. Battles are usually operationally significant, if not operationally decisive. |
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Term
| The art of tactics consists of three interrelated aspects. What are they? |
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Definition
The creative and flexible array of means to accomplish assigned missions.
Decision making under conditions of uncertainty when faced with a thinking and adaptive enemy.
Understanding the effects of combat on Soldiers. |
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Term
| What is the science of tactic? |
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Definition
| The science of tactics encompasses the understanding of those military aspects of tactics--capabilities, techniques, and procedures--that can be measured and codified. |
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Term
| What is a hasty operation? |
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Definition
| A hasty operation is an operation in which a commander directs immediately available forces, using fragmentary orders, to preform activities with minimal preparation, trading planning and preparation time for speed of execution. |
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Term
| What is a deliberate operation? |
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Definition
| A deliberate operation is an operation in which the tactical situation allows the development and coordination of detailed plans, including multiple branches and sequels. |
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Term
| What ADP / ADRP covers Sustainment? |
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Definition
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Term
| What is the sustainment war-fighting function? |
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Definition
| The sustainment war-fighting function is related tasks and systems that provide support and services to ensure freedom of action, extend operational reach, and prolong endurance. |
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Term
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Definition
| Logistics is planning and executing of the movement and support of forces. |
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Term
| What are personnel services? |
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Definition
| Personnel services are sustainment functions that man and fund the force, maintain Soldier and Family readiness, promote the moral and ethical values of the nation, and enable the fighting qualities of the Army. |
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| What are the sustainment principles? |
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Definition
Integration
Anticipation
Responsiveness
Simplicity
Economy
Survivability
Continuity
Improvisation |
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| What are the principles of personnel services? |
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Definition
Synchronization
Timeliness
Stewardship
Accuracy
Consistency |
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Term
| What is the synchronization, coordination, and/or integration of the activities of governmental and nongovernmental entities with military operations to achieve a unity of effort? |
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Definition
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Term
| What is the purposeful reliance by one Service's forces on another Service's capabilities to maximize the complementary and reinforcing effects of both? |
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Definition
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Term
| What are generating forces? |
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Definition
| Generating forces consist of those Army organizations whose primary mission is to generate and sustain the operational Army's capabilities for employment. |
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Term
| What are operating forces? |
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Definition
| Operating forces are those forces whose primary missions are to participate in combat and the integral supporting elements thereof. |
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Term
| What ADP / ADRP covers Army Leadership? |
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Definition
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Term
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| Leadership is the process of influencing people by providing purpose, direction, and motivation to accomplish the mission and improve the organization. |
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Term
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Definition
| An Army Leader is anyone who by virtue of assumed role or assigned responsibility inspires and influences people to accomplish organizational goals. |
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| How can leaders mitigate resistance? |
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Definition
| Leaders can mitigate resistance by anticipating what others value, their reactions to influence, their shared understanding of common goals, and their commitment to the general organization or the purpose of the mission and their trust in the organization and the leader. |
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Definition
| Command is the authority that a commander in the armed forces lawfully exercises over subordinated by virtue of rank or assignment. |
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Term
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Definition
| Mission command is the exercise of authority and direction by the commander using mission order to enable disciplined initiative within the commander's intent to empower agile and adaptive leaders in the conduct of unified land operations. |
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| What conveys the expectations that the Army wants leaders to meet? |
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Definition
| The Leadership Requirements Model |
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Term
| What are the leader attributes? |
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Definition
Character
Presence
Intellect |
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Term
| What are the three categories of competencies? |
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Definition
Lead - Serves to Lead others
Develop - Develops as a whole
Achieve - Achieve organizational goals |
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| The category of leads encompasses five competencies. What are they? |
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Definition
Leads others
Extends influence beyond the CoC
Builds trust
Leads by example
Communicates |
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Term
| What is the purpose of ADP 6-22, Army Leadership? |
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Definition
| ADP 6-22 establishes the fundamental principles by which Army leaders accomplish their mission and care for their people. |
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Term
| What ADP / ADRP covers Training Units an Developing Leaders? |
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Definition
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| Who is responsible for training units and developing leaders? |
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Definition
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Term
| Where does training begin? |
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Definition
| Training begins in the generating force |
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Term
| Where do Soldiers build on the fundamental skills, knowledge, and behaviors, which were developed in institutional training? |
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Definition
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Term
| What is the Army's institutional training and education system, which primarily includes training base centers and schools that provide initial training and subsequent professional military education for Soldiers, military leaders, and Army civilians? |
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Definition
| The institutional training domain |
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Term
| What are the training active organizations undertake while at home station, at maneuver combat training centers, during joint exercises, at mobilization centers, and while operationally deployed? |
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Definition
| The operational training domain |
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Term
| What is planned, goal-oriented learning that reinforces and expands the depth and breadth of an individual's knowledge base, self-awareness, and situational awareness; complements institutional and operational learning; enhances professional competence; and meets personal objectives? |
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Definition
| The self-development training domain |
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Term
| What process do commanders apply to unit training and leader development? |
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Definition
The operations process --
Plan
Prepare
Execute
Assess |
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| What are the Army principles of unit training? |
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Definition
Commanders and other leaders are responsible for training.
Noncommissioned officers train individuals, crews, and small teams.
Train to standard
Train as you will fight
Train while operating
Train fundamentals first
Train to develop adaptability
Understand the operational environment
Train to sustain
Train to maintain
Conduct multi-echelon an concurrent training. |
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Term
| What does METL stand for and what is it? |
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Definition
| The unit's Mission-Essential Task List (METL) represents the doctrinal framework of fundamental tasks for which the unit was designed. |
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Term
| What FM covers Army Physical Readiness Training? |
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Definition
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Term
| Why is physical readiness training a mandatory training requirement? |
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Definition
Considered by senior leaders to be essential to individual, unit, and force readiness.
Required by law for all individuals and units. |
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Term
| Who serves as the primary trainers for enlisted Soldiers, crews, and small teams? |
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Definition
| Non-Commissioned Officers |
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Term
| To accomplish PRT mission, what must NCOs do? |
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Identify specific tasks that PRT enhances in support o the unit's C- or D-METL.
Prepare, rehearse, and execute PRT.
Evaluate PRT and conduct AARs to provide feedback to the commander. |
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| What are the 8 tenets of train as you will fight, as they relate to PRT? |
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PRT Must support full spectrum operations and promote quick transitions between missions.
PRT must support proficiency in combined arms operations and unified actions.
PRT focus is on training the fundamentals first.
PRT must be performance-oriented, conducted under realistic conditions, and mission focused.
PRT should incorporate challenging, complex, ambiguous, and uncomfortable situations.
PRT must incorporate safety and composite risk management (CRM).
PRT must be conducted under condition that replicate the operational environment.
PRT must be conducted during deployments. |
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Term
| What are the tenets of standards-based training? |
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Definition
Leaders know and enforce standards.
Leaders define success in the absence of standards.
Leaders train to standard, not time. |
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| What are the four PRT system's phases? |
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The initial conditioning phase (prepares future Soldiers to learn and adapt to Army PRT).
The toughening phase (Develop foundational fitness and fundamental movement skills that prepare Soldiers to transition to the sustaining phase).
The sustaining phase (develop a higher level of physical readiness required by duty position and C- or D METL).
Reconditioning phase (restores Soldiers' physical fitness levels that enable them to safely re-enter the toughening or sustaining phase and progress to their previous level of conditioning). |
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| What are the principles that the conduct of Army PRT follows? |
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Definition
Precision
Progression
Integration |
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