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What is the core component of combat logistics support?
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logistics planning function |
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For which areas do log planners (or "loggies") evaluate the assigned functions and direct operations of logistics plans processes and special activities?
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Deployment control centers |
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How many core competencies are there for log plans?
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5 |
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Conducting readiness assessment is critical to...
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What program is used to visualize and analyze the gross transportation feasibility of an Operation Plan (OPLAN) time-phased force and deployment data (TPFDD)?
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Joint Flow Analysis System for Transportation (JFAST) |
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Right-sized unit type codes (UTC) are scalable and... |
modular |
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What keeps combatant commanders informed of the status of forces they will be receiving? |
Intransit Visibility (ITV) |
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What ensures operations continue throughout the duration of a mission? |
Sustainment |
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During which process do Airman assist in monitoring and reporting limiting factors?
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Adaptive planning process |
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What function do noncommissioned officers (NCO) provide during base support and expeditionary site planning processes? |
Conduct training for subordinate and tenant units |
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A trainee may perform a task unsupervised when
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tasked certified |
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What is the max. time it should take a trainee to progress from the 3-skill level to the 5-skill level?
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15 months |
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What position can a 9-level be expected to fill? |
superintendent |
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What area is not a base-level log plans function? |
functional management |
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Which section is a base-level log plans function? |
War readiness material management |
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What kind of activities will 20 percent of your time be spent on? |
deployment |
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What is the title of an individual who leads a unified command? |
Combatant commander |
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In which area do major command (MAJCOM) personnel work with other logistics functional areas to ensure needed logistics resources are identified and programmed in the Program Objective Memorandum (POM)? |
Numbered Air Force (NAF) |
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Who is the statutory military advisor to the National Security Council (NSC)? |
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff |
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Who is the intelligence advisor to the National Security Council (NSC)?
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Direction of National Intelligence |
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What level of decision is made through the National Security Council System (NSCS)? |
Presidential |
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What community refers to the participating in the overall strategic planning of the Armed Forces? |
Joint Strategic Planning Community |
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The primary means by which the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) performs join strategic planning is the.....
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Joint Strategic Planning System (JSPS) |
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A major goal of the Planning, programming, budgeting and execution (PPBE) system is to... |
link any major decision with acquisition, force structure, operation concepts, and infrastructure |
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The planning, programming, budgeting and execution (PPBE) system is concerned with allocating resources to meet the war fighting needs of.... |
combatant commanders (CCDR) |
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The Department of Defense (DOD) turns budgets and the money that comes from them into operational military plans through the use of....
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the Joint Strategic Capabilities Plan (JSCP)
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Which system is the Department of Defense (DOD) directed single, integrated joint command and control system for conventional operational planning and execution? |
Joint Operation Planning and Execution System (JOPES) |
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Who is the focus of the joint operation planning process, using it to determine the best method of accomplishing assigned tasks and direct the actions necessary to accomplish the mission?
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Combatant Commanders (CCDR) |
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What type of plan is an abbreviated form of an operation plan (OPLAN)?
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Concept |
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What plan may or may not have an associated time-phased force and deployment data (TPFDD)? |
Concept |
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What type of plan is prepared by the supporting combatant commanders when they are assisting the supported commander's contingency plans? |
Supporting |
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During crisis action planning, which of the following are prepared in prescribed formats under joint procedures?
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Operation Order
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What formal process is used to source the emerging unified combatant commander (UCC) requirements?
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Joint sourcing process |
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How many phases are there in the crisis action planning (CAP) process?
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6 |
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What phase of the crisis action planning (CAP) consists of a report containing information on the current situation, actions being taken by US forces within the constraints of current rules of engagement (ROE), readily available forces, the time frame for the earliest commitment of forces, and any major constraints to force employment?
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Crisis assessment |
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What phase of crisis action planning (CAP) ends when the National Command Authorities (NCA) decides to return to the pre-crisis situation, or have military options developed for possible consideration? |
Crisis assessment |
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Which phase of crisis action planning (CAP) begins when command authorities decide to use a military response to a situation?
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Course of action development |
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What type of order is sent to the supported commander and Joint Planning and Execution Community (JPEC) to direct execution planning before a course of action (COA) is formally approved by the Secretary of Defense (SECDEF) and the President of the United States (POTUS)?
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Planning
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What kind of order does the SECDEF approve and transmit to the supported commander and the Joint Planning and Execution Community (JPEC) announcing the selected course of action (COA)? |
Alert
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What type of order is used to prepare forces to deploy and deploy forces without approving the execution of a plan or operations order (OPORD)?
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Deployment |
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How is war readiness material (WRM) positioned?
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as start stock, swing stock, or a combo of both |
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Once all WRM authorization have been loaded into the Material Management System (MMS), who is responsible to validate the information? |
WRM noncommissioned officer (WRMNCO) |
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Who are the functional experts for their respective areas and are essential to the war readiness material (WRM) program?
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Unit WRM managers
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What WRM document is the vehicle authorization listing (VAL) created from? |
War Plans Additive Requirements Report (WPARR) |
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When dealing with the vehicle authorization listing (VAL), what use codes are logistics planners mainly concerned with? |
L, M |
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Who is ultimately responsible for making every effort to ensure approved levels of support are requisitioned, stored, and maintained ready for use? |
Installation Commander |
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Who is responsible to manage the installation war readiness (WRM) program and is the office of primary responsibility (OPR) for the program?
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WRM Officer (WRMO) |
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Who is responsible for establishing a WRM training program?
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WRM Officer/WRM noncommissioned officer (WRMO/WRMNCO) |
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Who accompanies the WRM noncommissioned officer (WRMNCO) on surveillance visits to provide technical expertise?
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WRM Manager (WRMM)
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Who is responsible to coordinate, compile, analyze, and submit an annual budget for WRM?
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WRMNCO
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Who is responsible for costs associated with WRM reconstitution after direct mission support use?
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Storing Command |
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Who is responsible for costs associated with WRM reconstitution after indirect missions support use?
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Using unit |
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What type of agreement is made between 2 Air Force units?
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intraservice agreement |
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What type of agreement is made between an Air Force supplier and an Army receiver?
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interservice agreement |
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Who is responsible for requesting support, and how is the support initially requested? |
receiver, in writing
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What is an unclassified, web-based system that provides a worldwide cradle-to-grave automated means of managing Acquisition and Cross-servicing Agreement (ACSA) transactions?
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ACSA Global Automated Tracking and Reporting System (AGATRS) |
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What functional responsibility related to BAS&E manages base support plans (BSP) and expeditionary site plans (ESP) site reviews? |
site manager |
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Who appoints an installation Base Support and Expeditionary Planning Tool (BAS&E) office of primary responsibility in writing? |
Wing commander |
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How many types of teams compose the expeditionary site survey process integrated site survey?
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2 |
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The Air and Space Expeditionary (AEF) concept is the Air Force methodology for which of the following actions?
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Presenting forces to the combatant commanders (CCDR)
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What is everyone regardless of Air Force specialty code (AFSC)? |
Expeditionary Airman |
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The AEF is structured on which main principles?
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Predictability, equitability, and transparency |
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As a principle of AEF, predictability allows which of the following?
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Maintaining a high state of readiness for all of our forces- all the time, through the AEF battle rhythm |
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If the baseline AEF vulnerability period of four months facilitates readiness of the force to respond to rotation and operational plan (OPLAN) requirements, the results will be.. |
All AEF forces are vulnerable for OPLAN requirements |
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Posturing codes, or P-codes, indicate what unit type code (UTC) records would generally be available for
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during normal rotational operations |
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What P-code indicates UTCs that are not normally available to support rotational requirements within their aligned AEF library; however, they can be made available during surge operations? |
DWX |
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What P-code indicates UTCs that are not normally available for deployment under non-surge ops within their aligned AEF, but can be deployed during declared surge operations? |
DXX |
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What provides the Air and Space Expeditionary Force Center (AEFC) and the unit commander a reference on how many residual positions a unit has once all standard deployable UTCs have been postured? |
Unit Manpower Document (UMD) |
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The ART provides all of the following, except; |
the ability to report status of an entire unit's ability to meet a major war committment |
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When assessing UTCs, commanders rate each UTC against the unit's.....
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current ability to support deployments |
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The responsibility for organizing, training, and equipping aerospace forces to meet CCDR requirements is the...
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Headquarters USAF (HAF) |
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Which functional level is responsible for associating, tracking, and managing personnel and equipment in UTCs and assigning them to the proper AEF? |
Unit commander or equivalent level supervisor |
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To whom must individual personnel report any changes to their mobility status? |
Unit deployment manager (UDM) |
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Which AEF ART training requirement is known as the key to successful installation ART program management? |
Navigating ART |
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The Chie of Staff USAF (CSAF), acts as a "Global Force Provider" fulfilling the responsibility to support CCDRs through the AEF by..... |
coordinating and scheduling USAF forces to provide combat-ready assigned, apportioned, and allocated forces as spelled out in the Global Force Management (GFM) guidance |
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Establishing broad, total force (active duty, air reserve component, civilian) personnel and manpower policy and guidance is the responsible of which functional area? |
Deputy Chief of Staff, personnel |
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Who is responsible for execution of the AEF schedule?
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Commander, Air Combat Command (COMACC) |
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What does the Installation Deployment Readiness Cell (IDRC) act as in its responsibility to gather and present decision-quality information to the wing/installation leadership? |
Focal point for all deployment and execution operations |
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Who is a permanent member of the IDRC staff? |
Installation Personnel Readiness (IPR) personnel |
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Which serves as the direct support staff to the IDRC?
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manpower |
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With whom does the IDRC staff coordinate to ensure appropriate units are tasked in DCAPES, making corrections as necessary? |
Unit deployment manager (UDM) |
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Who acts for the installation/wing commander in directing, controlling, coordinating, and execution deployments and installation exercises? |
Installation deployment officer (IDO) |
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What is the 1st step when conducting a DSAV?
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schedule the meeting with the unit |
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en coordinating a DSAV, what is provided to the unit once a meeting has been scheduled?
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The checklist that will be used during the visit |
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When accessing flow data via the TPFDD, planners may use...
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JOPES or DCAPES to query the TPFDDs their wing units are tasked under |
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What provides the basis for the minimum equipment and supplies a unit requires to support its maximum simultaneous deployment responsibility?
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The total number of AW* and DW* coded UTCs in the UTC Availability for their wing/installation |
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Who is responsible to report the status of UTCs in ART?
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unit commander |
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Unit commanders are responsible for appointing unit cargo increment monitors in writing to...
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the host Logistics Plans function |
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What is the commander's responsibility when unit shortfalls are identified upon completion of UTC taskings in ART?
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immediately identify any shortfalls to the IDO |
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UTCs reflect potential capabilities of... |
both manpower and equipment |
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The assignment of UTCs is based on.. |
functional areas |
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What is the difference between a standard and non-standard UTC?
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a standard UTC has complete movement characteristics in both the MEFPAK and TUCHA data file, while a non-standard UTC does not |
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What tells you the purpose of a UTC, describes the mission the UTC was made to support, the type of base where the UTC can be deployed, other UTCs that can provide support, the date the UTC was reviewed by the MEFPAK responsible command, and any other information pertinent to the UTC? |
Mission Capability statement (MISCAP) |
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What identifies the deployment capability and composition of the UTC?
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Special Handling Indicator (SHI) |
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What supports the USAF in developing and describing standard, pre-defined manpower and equipment force capabilities? |
Manpower and Equipment Force Packages (MEFPAK) |
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What component of the MEFPAK resides in the Logistics Module (LOGMOD) and is used to collect and store the material requirements for UTCs?
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Logistics Force Packaging Subsystem (LOGFOR) |
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Deployment data for all Department of Defense (DOD) unit type codes (UTC) is contained in which file? |
Type unit characteristics (TUCHA) |
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The process of adding a UTC to the MEFPAK, building the manpower and/or equipment detail, and getting the UTC added to the TUCHA is known as......
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UTC development |
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What is the final step in the UTC development process? |
Registration |
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A capability within a UTC that commanders must deploy as a single entity is known as..... |
a deployment echelon |
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Which is an automated family of systems used for wing-level deployments?
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Integrated Deployment System (IDS) |
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What does Cargo Movement Operations System (CMOS) support as part of the IDS?
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AF Traffic management freight functions
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As part of the IDS, which system maintains UTC logistics detail?
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Logistics Module (LOGMOD) |
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The purpose of a reclama/shortfall is to notify the...
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combatant commander that the original sourcing was not met and a new tasking request has to be submitted |
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What is the basic difference between a shortfall and a reclama? |
The shortfall is the deficiency and the reclama is the process that identifies the deficiency |
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What type of TPFDD is normally associated with programming actions for a given timeframe?
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Requirements |
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What provides a capability for planners to monitor TPFDD? |
Rapid Query Tool (RQT) |
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What enables the planner to report and track movement of TPFDD requirements? |
Scheduling and Movement |
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What provides users with a means to develop, save, and print tailored queries extracting data from JOPES core database via SIPRNET? |
Web Hoc Query (WHQ) |
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What JOPES standard reference file contains the deployment data for all approved DOD UTCs? |
Type unit characteristics (TUCHA) file |
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If the IDO does not stand up the Deployment Control Center (DCC), then who is responsible for all daily tasking requirements?
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Installation Deployment Readiness Cell (IDRC) |
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In the DCC, what Is essential for positive control?
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Robust communication |
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Why should the DCC key staff be provided with land mobile radios and cell phones? |
facilitate rapid and accurate communications |
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An installation ensures maximum utilization of deploying aircraft carrying capacity by....
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ensuring the cargo deployment function (CDF) prepares final load plans |
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Who completes final load plans to ensure maximum utilization of aircraft, ease of cargo on/offload, and safety of flight standards? |
final load planner |
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Who manages the status of cargo, updates completion times in the Schedule module of LOGMOD, identifies potential bottlenecks and works with the CDF personnel, units and the DCC to ensure cargo is processed on time? |
Controllers
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Which equipment item is not required in the CDF?
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infa-red scanners |
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Who advises commanders when personnel selected for deployment are ineligible to deploy according to the applicable Air Force Instruction (AFI) and reporting instructions? |
PDF
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The PDF is charged with maintaining accountability of deploying personnel from the time they arrive at the processing line until.....
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they leave home station |
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What is a required station of the PDF? |
medical station |
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What is not a required equipment item for the PDF? |
cable television |
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What is an equipment requirement for the UDCC? |
redeployment |
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Who collects deployment documents? |
Deployed logistics planners |
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A deployed unit commander ensures a redeployment plan is executed in accordance with TPFDD by.... |
having their logistics planner coordinate strategic airlift moves with the major command (MAJCOM) |
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At deployed sites with multiple units, who is responsible for redeploying all the units?
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Lead unit
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Who is responsible to ensure identification, destination, and cargo movement markings are clearly visible to assist transportation personnel to efficiently redeploy equipment? |
unit
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