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A comprehensive overview of the captains career course, covering the common core final exam questions and answers. It delves into the military decision making process, the army's framework for exercising mission command, and various other topics related to army training, leadership, and operations. This resource covers a wide range of subjects, including principles of army training, types of property responsibility, principles of mission command, mission variables, decisive action tasks, forms of maneuver, fundamentals of the breach, forms of defense, obstacle effects, offensive operations purposes, characteristics of the offense, tactical enabling tasks, breaching tenets, defensive tasks and purposes, war fighting functions, types of brigade combat teams, and references covering homeland defense and defense support of civil authorities.
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Military Decision Making Process Steps - ANSWER>>1. Receive Mission
_____ the task, together with the purpose, that clearly indicates the action to be taken and the reason therefore. - ANSWER>>Mission Statement
_____ succinctly describes what constitutes success for the operation. - ANSWER>>Commanders Intent
(T/F) The Army's framework for exercising Mission Command is the Operations Process. - ANSWER>>True
Planners should consider the following major resources: - ANSWER>>Land, Facilities, Ranges, Ammunition, TADSS, OPFORS, Role Players, and Master Scenario Event (All of the above)
Unit Commanders should utilize the Operations Process for conducting training events. These steps include: - ANSWER>>Plan, Prepare, Execute, Assess (All of the above)
FM 7-0 states that a ________ supports the higher commander's guidance and supports training the unit to the selected METs. - ANSWER>>Unit Training Plan
__________ is a required automated system used to assist the Commander in planning, resourcing, and tracking individual and collect unit training tasks. - ANSWER>>Digital Training Management System (DTMS)
What is the second step of the MDMP? - ANSWER>>Mission Analysis
Which of the following is not an Army principle of leader development? - ANSWER>>Train leaders in the art of Mission Analysis
_____ and _____ are the two types of evaluations per FM 7-0. - ANSWER>>Formal and Informal
According to FM 7-0, which is NOT a principle of Army Training? - ANSWER>>Noncommissioned officers train individuals, crews, and small teams.
The primary portal to Unit Training Management (UTM) is through the Army Training Network (ATN). - ANSWER>>True
What are the three different types of briefs? - ANSWER>>1. Information
What are the briefing steps? - ANSWER>>1. Plan
CSDP is outlined in what publication? - ANSWER>>AR 710-2 Appendix B AR 735-5 Chapter 11
Army Command Policy is covered in what publication? - ANSWER>>AR 600- 20
How many types of property responsibility are there? - ANSWER>>5 (WHAT ARE THEY?)
_____ leadership is found throughout organization, not based on any particular rank or position in the organization hierarchy. - ANSWER>>Informal Leadership
_____ unified the other elements of combat power (information, mission command, movement and maneuver, intelligence, fires, sustainment, and protection). - ANSWER>>Leadership
_____ comes from leaders who do what is right for the Army, the mission, and each individual Soldier. _____ emanates from leaders who primarily focus on personal gain and lack of self- awareness. - ANSWER>>Positive Influence, Negative Influence
_____ counseling is a review of a subordinate's duty performance over the specified period. The counseling focuses on the subordinate's strengths, areas to improve, and potential. - ANSWER>>Performance
In which publications would you look to find the Counseling Process? - ANSWER>>ATP 6-22.
Select a suitable place, schedule the time, notify the subordinates well in advance, organize information, establish the atmosphere are all aspects of what stage of the counseling process? - ANSWER>>Prepare for counseling
Operational Variables - ANSWER>>PMESIP-T
METL - ANSWER>>Mission Essential Task List
What are the three types of training? - ANSWER>>1. Live
What are the six principles of mission command? - ANSWER>>1. Build cohesive teams through mutual trust.
__________ is a deliberate exposure to potential injury or less when the commander judges the outcome in terms of mission accomplishment as worth the cost. - ANSWER>>Prudent Risk
Commanders and staffs actively build and maintain __________ within the force and with unified action partners by maintaining collaboration and dialogue throughout the operations process. - ANSWER>>Shared Understanding
(T/F) Commanders inform and influence audiences both inside and outside their organizations.
What are the war-fighting functions? - ANSWER>>1. Mission Command
__________ decision making generates several alternative solutions, compares these solutions to a set of criteria, and selects the best course of action. - ANSWER>>Analytic
__________ is the meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in their representation. - ANSWER>>Information
A __________ is a difference between the actual situation during an operation and what the plan forecasted the situation would be at that time or event. - ANSWER>>Variance
(T/F) A staff's most important function is to support and advise the commander throughout planning, preparation, execution, and assessment. - ANSWER>>TRUE
(T/F) Staff Officers only communicate with higher echelons. - ANSWER>>FALSE
(T/F) Staff Officers recognize and adjust to changing conditions in the operational environment with appropriate, flexible, and timely actions. - ANSWER>>TRUE
(T/F) During operations, commanders cannot decide to reframe after realizing the desired conditions have changed, are not achievable, cannot be attained through the current operational approach, or because of change of mission or end state. - ANSWER>>FALSE
What are the mission variables? - ANSWER>>1. Mission
Known as METT-TC
(T/F) Land operations are straightforward because Decisive Action ensures separation of enemy, adversary, neutral, and friendly, with easy to distinguish characteristics. - ANSWER>>FALSE
__________ are conducted to defeat an enemy attack, gain time, economize forces, and develop conditions favorable for offensive and stability tasks. - ANSWER>>Defensive Tasks
What are the tasks that make up Decisive Action according to doctrine? - ANSWER>>1. Offensive Tasks
__________ is the arrangement of military actions in time, space, and purpose to produce maximum relative combat power at a decisive place and time. - ANSWER>>Synchronization
__________ represent Department of Defense support to U.S. civil authorities for domestic emergencies, law enforcement support, and other domestic activities, or from qualifying entities for special events. - ANSWER>>Homeland Defense and Defense Support of Civil Authorities (DSCA) Tasks
__________ is the execution of related and mutually supporting task at the same time across multiple locations and domains. - ANSWER>>Simultaneity
__________ is the extension of operations in time, space, or purpose to achieve definitive results. - ANSWER>>Depth
A _________________ is a series of tactical actions, such as battles, engagements, and strikes. - ANSWER>>Major Operation
What are the operational variables? - ANSWER>>PMESII-PT
Which of the following is not a Characteristic of the Offense? - ANSWER>>Battlefield Patience
Which ADRP covers Offensive Operations? - ANSWER>>ADP 3- 90
What are the forms of maneuver? - ANSWER>>1. Envelopment
The purpose of the Offense is to Defeat, Destroy, or __________ the enemy forces. - ANSWER>>Neutralize
What are the Fundamentals of the Breach? - ANSWER>>1. Secure
Which of the following is not an Offensive Task? - ANSWER>>Fire Support
Primary Battle Position - ANSWER>>The position that covers the enemy's most likely avenue of approach into the AO.
Alternative Battle Position - ANSWER>>The position that covers the enemy's most likely avenue of approach into the AO and occupied when the primary becomes untenable or unsuitable.
Supplementary Battle Position - ANSWER>>A supplementary position is a defensive position located within a unit's assigned AO that provides the best sectors of fire and defensive terrain
along an avenue of approach that is not the primary avenue where the enemy is expected to attack.
Subsequent Battle Position - ANSWER>>The position that a unit expects to move to during the course of battle.
Strong Point - ANSWER>>Heavily fortified position tied to a natural or reinforcing obstacle to create an anchor for the defense or to deny the enemy decisive or key terrain.
What are the forms of defense? - ANSWER>>1. Defense of Linear Obstacle
What are the obstacle effects? - ANSWER>>1. Turn
What are the offensive tasks? (ADRP 3-0 and/or ADRP 3-90) - ANSWER>>1. Movement to Contact
What are the offensive operations purposes? - ANSWER>>1. Defeat, destroy, or neutralize
Characteristics of the Offense - ANSWER>>1. Surprise
Forms of Maneuver (ADRP 3-90, Chapter 3) - ANSWER>>1. Envelopment
Tactical Enabling Tasks - ANSWER>>1. Reconnaissance
Breaching Tenets (FM 3-90.1) - ANSWER>>1. Intelligence
Defensive Tasks (ADRP 3-90) - ANSWER>>1. Mobile Defense
Defensive Purposes (ADRP 3-90) - ANSWER>>1. Deter or defeat enemy offense
Defensive Characteristics (ADRP 3-90) - ANSWER>>1. Preparation
7 Step Engagement Area Development - ANSWER>>1. Identify all likely enemies avenue of approach
What are the five kinds of battle positions? - ANSWER>>1. Primary
Definitions can be found above.
FPF - ANSWER>>Final Protected Fires: Only indirect fires line. Used to stop enemy from overrunning your location or preventing the enemy from following your retreat.
8 Principles of Sustainment - ANSWER>>1. Anticipation
War Fighting Function - ANSWER>>1. Mission Command
What are the types of Brigade Combat Teams (BCTs)? - ANSWER>>1. Infantry
Brigade Combat Teams can be augmented to meet different mission requirements and variables. - ANSWER>>True
The __________ are the ABCT's primary maneuver force. - ANSWER>>Combined Arms Battalion
Which Stability Mechanism focuses on imposing civil order? - ANSWER>>Control
ADP __________ covers Stability Operations? - ANSWER>>ADP 3- 07
Which references cover Homeland Defense and Defense Support of Civil Authorities (DSCA)? - ANSWER>>ADRP 3- ADRP 3-
The Stafford Act - ANSWER>>Authorizes the President to issue major disaster declarations - authorizes federal agencies to provide assistance to states overwhelmed by disasters
Posse Comitatus Act - ANSWER>>Prohibits use of federal troops for law enforcement
Insurrection Action - ANSWER>>Allows the President to use federal troops to enforce federal laws when rebellion against the authority of the US makes it impracticable to enforce the laws of the US
Economy Act - ANSWER>>Authorizes federal agencies to provide supplies and services to each other
Title 10, United States Code (Reserve Components) - ANSWER>>May order members, without consent, to active duty not more than 15 days a year. May retain, with consent, on active duty anytime
Title 32, United States Code (National Guard) - ANSWER>>These forces report directly to the Governor of the state
In which publication would you look to find information for Brigade Support Battalions? - ANSWER>>ATP 4-
What are the sustainment functions? - ANSWER>>1. Contracting
What are the four basic principles of the Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC)? - ANSWER>>1. Military Necessity
Symbols protected under the Geneva Convention - ANSWER>>1. Red Cross