JFC Midterm Questions And Answers
2024/2025 Update
Identify the correct definition of multinational, joint, multi service, and service doctrine. ANS✔✔ 2 or
more nations/ratified
2 services promulgated by CJCS
2 services ratified and promulgated
single service, promulgated by the service
Identify the order of precedence between multinational, joint, multi-service, and service doctrine.
ANS✔✔ Joint doctrine unless CJCS has different guidance.
State the chain of command from the president and secretary of defense to the combat commands.
ANS✔✔ President- CJCS- combatant commands
Identify the types of command authority and command relationships COCOM, OPCON, and TACON of
each level in the chain of command. ANS✔✔ COCOM- JFC
OPCON- complete control/own
TACON- tasks/ no ownership
Identify the seven tenets of air and space power. ANS✔✔ Centralized control/ decentralized control
Flexibility and versatility
Synergistic effects
Persistence
Concentration
,Priority
Balance
Define the following operational functions of air and space power: counter air, strategic attack and
counter land ANS✔✔ against the air
offensive actions
against the land
Define air interdiction, close air support, close proximity, and details integration ANS✔✔ AI diverts,
disrupts, delay and destroy/ no details integration
CAS details integration required
CP- the distance to minimize fratricide
DI- the level of coordination
Identify the basic structure components and compositions of the following air force organizational
elements: Major command, numbered air force, wing, group and squadron ANS✔✔ Regional
Theatre/Senior deployable unit
One base, one wing, one boss
Collection of squadrons
Group of fighters
Identify the four types of decisive action in unified land operations. ANS✔✔ Offensive, defensive,
stability and defensive support of civil authority
Identify the Army core competencies. ANS✔✔ Combine arms maneuver- actions to defeat
Wide area security- protect
, Identify the six tenets of unified land operation. ANS✔✔ Flexibility, integration, lethality, adaptability,
depth, synchronization
Identify the three types of brigade combat teams. ANS✔✔ Armor, infantry, and stryker
Identify the primary mission of the United States Navy and the Navy's new focus given the breakup of
the Soviet Union. ANS✔✔ Littoral operations
Identify six US Navy fundamental warfare tasks. ANS✔✔ Air, surface, undersea, mine, strike, amphibious
warfare
Identify US Navy fundamental warfare tasks performed by the carrier strike group. ANS✔✔ Air, surface,
undersea and strike warfare
Identify the Marine Corp. organization and command structure. ANS✔✔ President- CJCS- secretary of
the navy- comadant of the USMC/ combatant command/ USMC combatant command
Identify the USMC war fighting philosophy. ANS✔✔ Maneuver warfare- firepower and mobility and
combined arms
Identify the different MAGTF sizes and list them in order of combat capabilities. ANS✔✔ MEF, MEF
(forward), MEB, MEU, special purpose
Describe the reason why aviation is vital to the USMC ANS✔✔ Relatively light and limited assets
Identify the USMC agencies qualified to execute and control CAS ANS✔✔ ALO, FACC (A), anglico
Identify the five component commands of USSOCON ANS✔✔ Army special ops, Navy special ops,
Marine special ops, Air Force special ops, USSASOC