4C - Air And Space Expeditionary Force

Front 1

What is codified practices on how best to employ AF power?

Back 1

Doctrine

Front 2

What is the mechanism for managing and scheduling forces for expeditionary use?

Back 2

Air and Space Expeditionary Force

Front 3

What is vital to understanding how best to employ AF power and the proper way to organize/deploy it?

Back 3

AEF doctrine

Front 4

Which concept is a means to provide forces and support on a rotational, and thus, a relatively more predictable basis?

Back 4

AEF

Front 5

What is used to manage the battle rhythm of the force in order to meet CCDR's requirements?

Back 5

AEF force generation construct

Front 6

What's the four major elements of an AEF structure?

Back 6

Readily available force
Enabler force
In-place support
Institutional force

Front 7

What is the length of an AEF life cycle?

Back 7

24 months

Front 8

What facilitates readiness of the AEF to respond to plan requirements?

Back 8

Baseline 6 month AEF vul period

(All assigned forces are on call at that time)

Front 9

Who determines the AF's operational policy for meeting and sustaining CCDR rotational requirements?

And who approves any deviation to the operational rotation policy?

Back 9

CSAF

Front 10

The operational rotation policy requires Airmen to deploy for a baseline of how many days?

Back 10

179 days

Front 11

Which force includes common user assets, such as global mobility, SOF, and personnel recovery forces, space forces, and other uniquely categorized forces that provide support to organizations within/outside DoD?

Back 11

Enabler force

Front 12

Which force consists of those forces assigned to organiations responsible to carry out SECAF functions at the AF level?

Back 12

Institutional force

Front 13

What is a process to align force apportionment, assignment, and allocation methodologies in support of the National Defense Strategy, joint force availability requirements, and joint force assessments?

Back 13

Global Force Management

Front 14

What provides comprehensive insight into the global availablility of US military forces?

Back 14

Global Force Management

Front 15

What are the two supporting specific processes of the Global Force Management allocation process?

Back 15

Rotational (annual)
Emergent (crisis)

Front 16

What is a unit type code?

Back 16

Potential capability focused on accomplishing a specific mission that a branch provides

Front 17

Who provides validated tempo band placement to their applicable HAF, DCS, or equivalents for approval?

Back 17

HAF Functional area managers

Front 18

In which task force does the USAF present required capabilities to the JFC?

Back 18

AETF

Front 19

What is the organizational structure for USAF forces in response to operational tasking?

Back 19

AETF

Front 20

What three components are part of the AETF?

Back 20

Single, clearly designated commander
Appropriate C2 mechanisms
Tailored and fully suported forces

Front 21

What is the largest organization of an AETF?

Back 21

Numbered AEF

Front 22

Which unit/org is capable of establishing an expeditionary air base and exercise C2 of subordinate units at geographically separated locations?

Back 22

Air Expeditionary Wing

Front 23

What is normally the smallest INDEPENDENTLY deployable AETF?

Back 23

Air Expeditionary Group

Front 24

Who does the AEG/CC report to when deployed as part of an AETF with other AEGs/AEWs?

Back 24

COMAFFOR

Front 25

What unit is the basic warfighting organization of the AF and the building block of the AETF?

Back 25

Air Expeditionary Squadron

Front 26

What is the basis for the AEF schedule?

Back 26

AEF capability library

Front 27

What cycle-length does the AEF schedule operate on that aligns with the GFM cycle? And when does it align in the year?

Back 27

Two twelve-month life cycles
Fiscal year

Front 28

What are posturing UTCs based on?

Back 28

Funded military authorizations on an organizations unit manpower document (UMD)

Front 29

What makes up an AEF vulnerability period?

Back 29

One AEF block/pair from each tempo band

Front 30

Who determines the need to reach forward?

Back 30

SECDEF

Front 31

What are all Airmen given that corresponds to an AEF vul period?

Back 31

AEF indicator

Front 32

What three things do surge methods include?

Back 32

Reach forward
Reach deeper
Rebrand ARC

Front 33

When is functionality not considered in surge?

Back 33

When an area realigns and is continuously in that tempo band

Front 34

When are surge ops NOT used?

Back 34

Exercises
Rotational presence

Front 35

When should reach forward be used?

Back 35

For initial increase

Front 36

What is the maximum sustainable utilization rate while maintaining AF readiness levels 1 and 2?

Back 36

1:2

Front 37

What is considered readiness category level 1?

Back 37

Unit ready for FULL wartime missions

Front 38

What is considered readiness category level 2?

Back 38

Unit ready for MOST wartime missions

Front 39

In which band should areas that are experiencing demand consider involuntary recall?

Back 39

Band D

Front 40

How many AEF vul periods in a tempo band will Airmen be assigned?

Back 40

Only ONE

Front 41

Which status of Airmen will NOT be assigned to a position that would require them to deploy again with less than the dwell for their tempo band?

Back 41

Inbound (PCS/PCA)

Front 42

Airmen disqualified during the vul and upon return to deployable status may be utilized when?

Back 42

Immediately upon return

Front 43

When are new AEF schedules established?

Back 43

Every 12 months

Front 44

Tempo band breakdown?

Back 44

B - 1:4
C - 1:3
D - 1:2
E - 1:1