GUARANTEE A+
✔✔The mandated standard for USMTF Messages is - ✔✔MIL-STD-6040
✔✔the specification, or requirements, from which the completed set is built - ✔✔Set
Format
✔✔usually a mnemonic keyword that distinguishes the message format from all others -
✔✔Message Text Format Identifier
✔✔What are three types of sets in USMTF messages - ✔✔1. Linear Set
2. Columnar Set
3. Free-text set
✔✔a group of two or more consecutive sets that can be repeated as a group -
✔✔segment
✔✔a segment within another segment - ✔✔NESTED SEGMENT
✔✔Who is assigned the responsibility to promulgate the OPTASK LINK. - ✔✔Area Air
Defense Commander, or AADC
✔✔three Occurrence Categories that are assigned to segments, sets and fields in
USMTF messages - ✔✔1. Mandatory
2. Conditional
3. Operationally Determined
✔✔The categorization of the occurence of those fields, sets, and segments, that are
related to essential info and whose use is required - ✔✔Mandatory Occurence
✔✔Categorization of occurence of those fields, sets, and segments whose use
(required or prohibited) depends upon some pre-stated structural feature of the
message - ✔✔Conditional Occurence
✔✔Categorization of the occurence of those fields, sets, and segments related to info
whose use is determined soley by operational considerations - ✔✔Operational
Directional
✔✔What is a mandaory initial sets - ✔✔MSGID