SNCOA Test 2 Questions and Answers
(Latest Update 2025)
Purpose as a profession - Correct Answer ✅serve society
by effectively delivering a necessary and useful service
Each profession establishes - Correct Answer ✅a unique
subculture that distinguishes practitioners from the society
they serve (and other professions) while supporting and
enhancing society
have unique standards of performance and codes of ethics to
create and maintain their effectiveness
Professions also - Correct Answer ✅develop particular
vocabularies/terms, establish journals, and sometimes adopt
distinct forms of dress (lab coats, police uniforms, etc)
Military Professions differ in two ways: - Correct Answer
✅consequences of failure in the POA for both individual
members of the Armed Forces and the Nation are more
serious than those in any other profession
Military serves a collective client, the nation
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Examples of responsibilities - Correct Answer ✅include
recovery of a community or country devastated by natural
disaster (operation unified response-Haiti), the defeat of
enemy forces (operation Iraqi freedom) or the security of the
nation (operation noble eagle) which failure could result in
catastrophe for the nation
Second difference for military profession - Correct Answer
✅concerns individual members. We take our oaths of office
which includes understanding of 'unlimited liability' clause
where its expected its members lay down their lives for their
friends, family, or freedoms. Risking their lives with personal
sacrifices
American Proffession of Arms (American POA) - Correct
Answer ✅other nations with military considered peers.
where we differ: service orientation, distinct sub-culture, and
body of theory/specialized knowledge
Service Orientaiton (A-POA) - Correct Answer ✅essential
for an occupation to be categorized as a profession. those in
it should not be in it soley for their own material benefit.
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Have some sense of duty towards the issues. i.e. health care,
education, counseling nobility of purpose within each of us
and provides deep personal meaning to all who serve-ties to
founding document of the nation
Distinct Sub-Culture - Correct Answer ✅the most obvious
aspect of all professions
includes values, norms, symbols that are accepted by the
profession i.e. insignias, emblems, distinctive dress Clear and
controlling symbols
Distinguish between officers and noncommissioned officers
expected to exercise initiative to identify and resolve
unforeseen circumstances
Body of Theory/Specialized Knowledge - Correct Answer
✅more than technical training and skill to do a given job.
Professional competence is critical to a profession because
the service provided by professions could have beneficial or
devastating effects on the population it serves
Prolonged education and experience
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3 dimensions of POA - Correct Answer ✅Physical,
Intellectual and Moral
Physical Dimension - Correct Answer ✅warfare is a
physical 'business'. Joint force applies powerful measures to
destroy assets and resources essential to our adversaries'
interests. Nature of these situations requires considerable
physical energy, stamina, skills, and training-all have impact
on health of the force
-Air Force Fitness Program-promotes/benefits of active life-
style help increase productivity, optimize health, and
decrease absenteeism while maintaining a higher level of
readiness needed to meet this dimension of the POA.
Intellectual Dimension - Correct Answer ✅due to the
expertise required to employ joint forces in military
operations. From Strategic-expertise is exercised with other
instruments of national power (diplomatic, informational, and
economic).
-From Operational/tactical perspectives-mil professionals
exercise their expertise against intelligent adversaries
actively seeking to defeat them in life-and-death situations.
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