SNCOA Module 4 Lesson 3: Joint
Organization Exam Questions and
Answers
USTRANSCOM - Answers -Tasked with the coordination of people and transportation
assets to allow the US to project and sustain forces, whenever, whereever, and for as
long as they are needed
USEUCOM - Answers -Resposible for US military relations with NATO and conducts
military operations, international military partnering, and interagency partnering to
enhance transatlantic security and defend the United States forward
USSOCOM - Answers -Coducts several covert clandestine missions, such as
unconventional warfare, foreign internal defense, special reconnaissance, psychological
operations, civil affairs, direct action, counter-terrorism and war on drugs operations
USNORTHCOM - Answers -Plans, organizes and executes homeland defense and civil
support , and security cooperation to defend and secure the US and its interests
USSTRATCOM - Answers -Charged with space operations, information operations,
missle defense, global command and control, intelligence, surveillance, and
reconnaissance, global strike and strategic deterrence, combating weapons of mass
destruction
USCENTCOM - Answers -AOR includes Egypt
USJFCOM - Answers -Primarily responsible for providing mission-ready joint-capable
forces and supporting the development and integration of joint, interagency, and
multinational capabilities to meet the present and future operational needs of the joint
force
passed by Congress in 1947; created the National Security Council - Answers -National
Security Act
requires the President to preort regularly to Congress and the American people on the
National Security Strategy - Answers -Department of Defense Reorganization Act
consists of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Vice Chairman, Chiefs of Staff of
the Army and Air Force, Chief of Naval Operations, and Commandant of Marine Corps;
- Answers -Joint Chiefs of Staff
, principal military advisor to the President, NSC, and SecDef - Answers -Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS)
chain of command used to employ forces and runs from the President, through the
SecDef, to the combatant commanders (CCDRs) - Answers -Operational Branch
chain of command used to recruit, organize, train and equip forces and runs from the
President though the SecDef to the Secretaries of the Military Departments - Answers -
Administrative Branch
command with a broad continuing mission under a single commander and composed of
significant assigned components of two or more Military departments - Answers -
Combatant Command
established when a mission has a specific limited objective; geographical or functional -
Answers -Joint Task Force (JTF)
general term applied to a CCDR, sbunified commander, or JTF commander authorized
to exercise combatant command (command authority) or operational control over a joint
force - Answers -Joint Force Commander
consists of a Service Component CDR and the Service forces that have been assigned
to that CCDR; JFC may conduct operations through them - Answers -Service
Component Command
DoD agencies that provide combat suport or combat service support to joint forces;
provide specialized support and operate in a supporting role
DIA; NGA; DISA; DLA; DCMA; DTRA; NSA; - Answers -Combat Support Agencies
HQ: Kelly Barracks, Stuttgart, GE
responsible for US Military relations with 53 African countries, including the islands of
Cape Verde, Equatroial Guinea, Sao Tome and Principe, along with the INdian Ocean
islands of Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, and Setchelles. - Answers -USAFRICOM
HQ: MacDill AFB, FL
AOR: Middle East, Egypt, and Central Asia
promotes cooperation among nations, responds to crises, and deters or defeats state
and nonstate aggression, and supports development and, when necessary,
reconstruction in order to establish the conditions for regional security, stability, and
prosperity. - Answers -USCENTCOM
HQ: Camp Smith, HI
AOR: from waters off the west coast of the US to the western border of India, and from
Antarctica to the North Pole