TACP CDCs V2 Exam Questions

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TACP CDCs V2 Exam Questions TACP members operate at their aligned Army echelon which can range from - ✔✔Battalion to Corps Which is the Army's HIGHEST echelon that trains and operates as a comb ... ined arms team? - ✔✔Division Which type of Army division is PRIMARILY a powerful offensive force - ✔✔Armored Which Army unit has the mission to close with the enemy using available firepower and controlled maneuvers? - ✔✔Brigade Which Army command staff member is responsible for all fires on surface targets to include air support? - ✔✔Fire Support Coordinator (FSCOORD) Which Army Command staff member is responsible for planning and coordinating fire support and suppression of enemy air defense? - ✔✔Fire Support Coordinator (FSCOORD) Which Army echelon has a dedicated Army airspace command and control (A2C2)? - ✔✔Division Which Army liaison officer supports the Control and Reporting Center (CRC) and handles realtime Army airspace management issues? - ✔✔Airspace management liaison Officer Which Army liaison officer mantains capabilities, locations and status of air defense artillery (ADA) systems? - ✔✔Air Defense Liaison Officer Which Army liaison officer advises the Air Force weapons officer on employment of Air Defense Artillery (ADA)? - ✔✔Air Defense Liaison Officer How does the Air Force organize its forces overseas? - ✔✔Geographical How many Major Commands (MAJCOMS) does the Air Force have to accomplish its mission? - ✔✔Nine How many wing commands are found in the Air Force structure - ✔✔Three Which Theater Air Control System (TACS) element is the wing commander's command and control element? - ✔✔Wing Operations Center (WOC) In garrison, TACP falls under the operational control of what unit? - ✔✔Air Support Operations Group (ASOG) TACP operations fall under what two general categories? - ✔✔Liaison and Control In a TACP, which member integrates air support sorties with the Army unit scheme of maneuver? - ✔✔ALO In a TACP, which member may conduct drop zone operations when drop zone support team is NOT available? - ✔✔Air Mobility Liaison Officer Which Army echelon is an Air Support Operations Center(ASOC) normally collocated with - ✔✔Corps Who does the Corps ALO or ASOC director report to? - ✔✔The air operation centers director or commander Which radio net is used by the ASOC to interface with other Theater Air Control System (TACS) units? - ✔✔Command and control net Which radio net is used to direct and control aircraft engaged in theater air support? - ✔✔Tactical Air Direction Net Which theater air control system (TACS) element coordinates strategic operations within the theater airlift management system and collocates with the Air Operations Center (AOC)? - ✔✔Air Mobility Element (AME) Which Theater Air Control System (TACS) element provides near real time to efficiently execute the battle plan? - ✔✔Joint surveillance, target attack radar system (JSTARS) How many divisions are found at the Air Operations Center (AOC) - ✔✔Five Normaly how many hours will an air tasking order (ATO) cover? - ✔✔24hrs Which document from the AOC provides operators critical guidance on how to execute the ATO? - ✔✔Special instructions (SPINS) The battlefield coordination detachment (BCD) is the land commander's (LCC) liaison and is collocated with the? - ✔✔Air Operations Center (AOC) How many sections are within the battlefield coordination detachment structure? - ✔✔Six Which section within the BCD ensures the synchronization between the current air operations and the current Army operations? - ✔✔Operations Which section within the BCD exchanges information with the CRC, land component HQ, and ADA HQ? - ✔✔Air defense Which section within the BCD maintains identification codes of all Army forces (ARFOR) airspace users including fire support and unmanned aerial vehicle? - ✔✔Airspace management What is the function of Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR)? - ✔✔Acquiring and processing information The ISR term "tasking authority" simply means who? - ✔✔Owns the system What is the name of the CRITICAL PIECES of intelligence that a commander must know about the enemy and the operational environment by a particular time in order to plan and execute a successful mission? - ✔✔Priority intelligence requirements (PIR) What is the name of any specific time-sensitive, ad hoc requirement for intelligence information or products to support an on going operation or crisis NOT necessarily related to the standing requirements? - ✔✔Request for information (RFI) the science portion of command deals with the study and method of a body of facts and processes based on principals from? - ✔✔The physical or material world What should leadership provide to influence their people in order to accomplish the mission? - ✔✔Purpose, Direction, and Motivation What are the elements that make up the control portion of the Command and Control (C2) system? - ✔✔Information, communication, structure How many types of suppression of enemy air defenses (SEAD) are there? - ✔✔Two What do planners consider if an air operation exposes friendly aircraft to an enemy's air defense? - ✔✔The availability and capability of SEAD capable systems What are the objectives of electronic warfare (EW)? - ✔✔Control, exploit, enhance For offensive electronic warfare (EW) what is required for a more sophisticated jamming? - ✔✔More intelligence in the jammer Which type of targets is the focus for joint tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP)? - ✔✔High importance to the enemy Which term of joint tactics, Techniques and procedures (TTPs) consists of operations to divert, disrupt, delay, or destroy the enemy's surface potential before it can be used effectively against friendly forces? - ✔✔Air Interdiction (AI) Air interdiction attacks on which type of targets interferes with an adversaries ability to mass, maneuver, withdraw, supply, and reinforce surface targets? - ✔✔Command and Control (C2) systems In order for CAS to be effective, all of the following conditions are required EXCEPT for? - ✔✔inauspicious environmental conditions What effects can a commander produce by orchestrating CAS with other surface and air operations - ✔✔Operational What ensures that the execution of CAS is on the right target and reduces the possibility of fratricide? - ✔✔Terminal control Which battlefield operation requires special care to identify friendly forces and ensure that they are NOT subject to direct attack or weapons effects from CAS ordinance? - ✔✔Rear operations Which battlefield operation with CAS gives the maneuver force commander freedom of movement? - ✔✔Offensive operations Which battlefield operation with CAS can cause the enemy to deploy prematurely? - ✔✔Defensive operations The ability to mass joint fire support at a decisive point and to provide the supporting fires needed to achieve the commander's objectives relies on? - ✔✔Coherent planning What channel does a request for preplanned CAS mission flow through up to higher echelons? - ✔✔Fire support coordination element Preplanned CAS requests are categorized as either scheduled or? - ✔✔On call What information can "on call" requests for CAS specify? - ✔✔Airborne or ground alert Which channel does the mission data for preplanned requests funnel down through back on the requestor? - ✔✔Ground maneuver forces channel What advice does the corps Air Liaison Officer (ALO) give to the corps G3/S3 Air if on call close air support (CAS) is unavailable? - ✔✔Forward the request to battlefield coordination detachment (BCD) at the AOC Who allocates CAS and decides to divert other CAS missions to the corps requesting additional missions? - ✔✔Land component commander (LCC) How do commanders take full advantage of the battlefield opportunities to maintain the momentum of an offensive action or reduce operational and tactical risks? - ✔✔By massing firepower Which planning consideration within the Mission, Enemy, Troops, Terrain, and Time (METT-T) determines which CAS will be employed? - ✔✔Enemy Which planning consideration within the Mission, Enemy, Troops, Terrain, and Time (METT-T) can limit communications and visual line of sight (LOS) for identifying the target or aircraft? - ✔✔Terrain What is the basic consideration of CAS missions involving laser guided weapons (LGW) besides coordination of of laser capable designators and ordinance - ✔✔Attack parameters What is the primary or standard map datum in use today? - ✔✔WGS-84 How many grid coordinate digits make up the standard for target location while using MGRS? - ✔✔6 Many GPS receivers can compute quick, accurate coordinate conversions provided the - ✔✔Users are properly trained Which condition for effective CAS permits CAS to function more effectively and denies that same advantage to the enemy? - ✔✔Air superiority Which condition for effective CAS allows for a commander to exploit fleeting battlefield opportunities? - ✔✔Prompt response Which fire support coordination measure (FSCM) is established and adjusted by the land forces commander, usually at the corps echelon? - ✔✔Fire Support Coordination Line (FSCL) Which fire support coordination measure (FSCM) allows conventional or improvised conditional indirect fires to engage targets at anytime within the zone of the establishing headquarters without additional coordination? - ✔✔Coordinated fire line Which fire support coordination measure (FSCM) prohibits all fires into an area without prior clearance? - ✔✔No-fire area Fratricide is unwanted, undesirable and what? - ✔✔Avoidable Which term employs the concept that describes the unintended physical damage to any noncombatant persons, property or environments occurring incidental to military operations? - ✔✔Collateral damage Which type of weapon is NOT applicable for estimating the damage from employment under the collateral damage estimates? - ✔✔Non-kinetic Which term describes the capability to rapidly and accurately identify friendly, enemy, and neutral forces, manage and control the battle space, and minimize the risk of fratricide? - ✔✔Combat identification (CID) Which factor or condition of Positive Identification (PID) identifies the capacity of a person to process information, which makes it difficult to maintain situational awareness? - ✔✔Human factor Which factor or condition of Positive Identification (PID) addresses a certain type of knowledge that is difficult and time consuming to acquire? - ✔✔Operational Within how many meters of the target should a visual mark impact near the target to ensure a successful attack? - ✔✔100 Within how many seconds prior to CAS ordinance impact should the target marks from indirect fire munitions appear? - ✔✔30-45 Within how many meters of the target should a target mark from indirect fire be from the target to be efficient enough to direct CAS aircraft? - ✔✔300m How many types of categories of CAS missions are there? - ✔✔Three Who does the responsibility for the expenditure of ordinance rest with? - ✔✔Maneuver force commander What is bomb damage assessment (BDA) used for? - ✔✔Updating the enemy order of battle What are the four characteristics of a bomb? - ✔✔Body, tail, fusing and guidance How do pilots aim rockets at a target? - ✔✔By pointing the nose of the aircraft at the target What is the minimum number of satellites a JDAM must acquire for mid-course guidance? - ✔✔Four What is the nomenclature of the MK-84 2,000 lb bomb when converted into a JDAM? - ✔✔GBU-31 Which homing system has a camera mounted in the nose of the weapon aligned to the axis of that weapon? - ✔✔Television Which homing system is NOT night capable or under conditions of low visibility, and is NOT usable against camouflage targets - ✔✔Television The SA-8 and Roland are examples of which surface to air missile system? - ✔✔Short range air defense missile system Which type of missiles is characterized as fixed sites? - ✔✔Long-range air defense missile system Why are MANPADs and short range air defense (SHORAD) systems your PRIMARY threat when conducting CAS? - ✔✔These systems are found in the forward deployed areas Which system uses a fire direction and control method of continuous fire, aided by observing and correcting the flight path of the tracer rounds into the target? - ✔✔Antiaircraft machine guns Which antiaircraft artillery system has a caliber range of 20mm to 57mm? - ✔✔Light antiaircraft artillery Which system can be either towed or self propelled and a crew of three or four usually operate it? - ✔✔Light anti-aircraft artillery Which antiaircraft artillery has a caliber range of 75mm to 130mm? - ✔✔Medium anti-aircraft artillery Which priority requires the causality to be evacuated within four hours? - ✔✔Priority What information goes in line two of the medivac 9 line? - ✔✔Radio frequency and callsign Which line of the medivac 9 line is used for marking the landing zone. - ✔✔Line 7 Which line of the medivac 9 line form identifies weather the landing zone is contaminated with nuclear, biological, chemical agents? - ✔✔Line 9 [Show More]

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