TSGT PDG COMPREHENSIVE EXAM UPDATED QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Air Reserve Component - ✔✔Consist of the Air National Guard and Air Force
Reserve to form a significant part of our aerospace capability
✔✔Specialized Mission Wing - ✔✔performs a specialized mission and usually does not
have aircraft or missiles assigned
✔✔Operational Command - ✔✔consist of Strategic, tactical, space, or defense forces,
or of flying forces that directly support such forces
✔✔Major Commands - ✔✔Major Air force Subdivision having a specific portion of the
Air Force Mission
✔✔Squadron - ✔✔basic Unit in the Air Force and can be either a mission unit or a
functional unit
✔✔Air Staff Function - ✔✔assist the secretary of the Air Force in carrying out his
responsibilities
✔✔Air Force Material Command - ✔✔delivers war-winning expeditionary capabilities to
the warfighters through development and transition of technology, professional
acquisition management, exacting test and evaluation and world-class sustainment of
all Air Force weapon systems.
✔✔Numbered/Named flights - ✔✔lowest level unit in the Air Force and primarily
incorporates smaller elements into an organizied unit
✔✔Squadrons - ✔✔consist of mission unit or functional unit
✔✔Joint Staff - ✔✔assist members of the joint Chiefs of Staff in carrying out their
assigned responsibilities. Consist of more than 1,500 military and civilian personnel and
is composed of approximately even numbers of officers from the Army,Navy, and Air
Force.
✔✔functional Flights - ✔✔usually part of a squadron and composed of elements that
perform specific mission
✔✔Air Education and Training Command - ✔✔Mission includes recruiting, training, and
educating Airmen to deliver airpower for America
, ✔✔Air Force Reserve Command - ✔✔provides combat ready forces to fly, fight and win
in defense of the United States and its interests. Citizen Airmen accomplished this by
providing operational capability, strategic depth, and surge capacity.
✔✔Close air Support - ✔✔air action by fixed and rotary wing aircraft against hostile
targets that are in close proximity to friendly forces and that require detailed integration
of each air mission with the fire and movement of those forces.
✔✔Contested combat airspace - ✔✔medium risk exist to U.S. and coalition aircraft
✔✔Counter Air - ✔✔integrates offensive and defensive operations to attain and
maintain a desired degree of air superiority
✔✔Joint Force Commanders - ✔✔authorize to exercise combatant command or
operational control over a joint force
✔✔Mission Capability Statement - ✔✔Short paragraph describing the mission
capabilities that higher headquarters planners expect of a specific unit type code
✔✔Segregation - ✔✔guarantees that the whole will never be greater than the sum of it's
parts.
✔✔Unity of Command - ✔✔principle of war that states concentration of efforts for every
objective under one responsible commander is necessary to gain the most effective and
efficient application of airpower
✔✔Global force management - ✔✔Process the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to assign forces to combatant commanders for mission
accomplishment and allocate additional forces to combatant commanders in the event
of contingency operations
✔✔24 Month AEF Cycles - ✔✔Cycles includes periods of normal training, preparation,
and deployments vulnerability
✔✔Doctrine is about using domains, not owning domains. This is characterized by: -
✔✔an integration of efforts and avoiding ownership arguments
✔✔Versatility - ✔✔is the ability to employ airpower effectively at the strategic,
operational and tactical levels of warfare
✔✔Economy of Force - ✔✔judicious employment and distribution of forces. It allocates
minimum essential resources to secondary efforts.
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Air Reserve Component - ✔✔Consist of the Air National Guard and Air Force
Reserve to form a significant part of our aerospace capability
✔✔Specialized Mission Wing - ✔✔performs a specialized mission and usually does not
have aircraft or missiles assigned
✔✔Operational Command - ✔✔consist of Strategic, tactical, space, or defense forces,
or of flying forces that directly support such forces
✔✔Major Commands - ✔✔Major Air force Subdivision having a specific portion of the
Air Force Mission
✔✔Squadron - ✔✔basic Unit in the Air Force and can be either a mission unit or a
functional unit
✔✔Air Staff Function - ✔✔assist the secretary of the Air Force in carrying out his
responsibilities
✔✔Air Force Material Command - ✔✔delivers war-winning expeditionary capabilities to
the warfighters through development and transition of technology, professional
acquisition management, exacting test and evaluation and world-class sustainment of
all Air Force weapon systems.
✔✔Numbered/Named flights - ✔✔lowest level unit in the Air Force and primarily
incorporates smaller elements into an organizied unit
✔✔Squadrons - ✔✔consist of mission unit or functional unit
✔✔Joint Staff - ✔✔assist members of the joint Chiefs of Staff in carrying out their
assigned responsibilities. Consist of more than 1,500 military and civilian personnel and
is composed of approximately even numbers of officers from the Army,Navy, and Air
Force.
✔✔functional Flights - ✔✔usually part of a squadron and composed of elements that
perform specific mission
✔✔Air Education and Training Command - ✔✔Mission includes recruiting, training, and
educating Airmen to deliver airpower for America
, ✔✔Air Force Reserve Command - ✔✔provides combat ready forces to fly, fight and win
in defense of the United States and its interests. Citizen Airmen accomplished this by
providing operational capability, strategic depth, and surge capacity.
✔✔Close air Support - ✔✔air action by fixed and rotary wing aircraft against hostile
targets that are in close proximity to friendly forces and that require detailed integration
of each air mission with the fire and movement of those forces.
✔✔Contested combat airspace - ✔✔medium risk exist to U.S. and coalition aircraft
✔✔Counter Air - ✔✔integrates offensive and defensive operations to attain and
maintain a desired degree of air superiority
✔✔Joint Force Commanders - ✔✔authorize to exercise combatant command or
operational control over a joint force
✔✔Mission Capability Statement - ✔✔Short paragraph describing the mission
capabilities that higher headquarters planners expect of a specific unit type code
✔✔Segregation - ✔✔guarantees that the whole will never be greater than the sum of it's
parts.
✔✔Unity of Command - ✔✔principle of war that states concentration of efforts for every
objective under one responsible commander is necessary to gain the most effective and
efficient application of airpower
✔✔Global force management - ✔✔Process the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to assign forces to combatant commanders for mission
accomplishment and allocate additional forces to combatant commanders in the event
of contingency operations
✔✔24 Month AEF Cycles - ✔✔Cycles includes periods of normal training, preparation,
and deployments vulnerability
✔✔Doctrine is about using domains, not owning domains. This is characterized by: -
✔✔an integration of efforts and avoiding ownership arguments
✔✔Versatility - ✔✔is the ability to employ airpower effectively at the strategic,
operational and tactical levels of warfare
✔✔Economy of Force - ✔✔judicious employment and distribution of forces. It allocates
minimum essential resources to secondary efforts.
