SNCOA Module 4 Lesson 3 – Joint Organization Explained for Exams
USTRANSCOM - ANS ✔✔Tasked with the coordination of people and transportation assets to
allow the US to project and sustain forces, whenever, wherever, and for as long as they are
needed
USEUCOM - ANS ✔✔Responsible 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 - ANS ✔✔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 - ANS ✔✔Plans, organizes and executes homeland defense and civil support ,
and security cooperation to defend and secure the US and its interests
USSTRATCOM - ANS ✔✔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 - ANS ✔✔AOR includes Egypt
USJFCOM - ANS ✔✔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 - ANS ✔✔National Security
Act
, requires the President to preort regularly to Congress and the American people on the National
Security Strategy - ANS ✔✔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; - ANS ✔✔Joint
Chiefs of Staff
principal military advisor to the President, NSC, and SecDef - ANS ✔✔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) - ANS ✔✔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 - ANS ✔✔Administrative
Branch
command with a broad continuing mission under a single commander and composed of
significant assigned components of two or more Military departments - ANS ✔✔Combatant
Command
established when a mission has a specific limited objective; geographical or functional - ANS
✔✔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 -
ANS ✔✔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 - ANS ✔✔Service Component Command
USTRANSCOM - ANS ✔✔Tasked with the coordination of people and transportation assets to
allow the US to project and sustain forces, whenever, wherever, and for as long as they are
needed
USEUCOM - ANS ✔✔Responsible 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 - ANS ✔✔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 - ANS ✔✔Plans, organizes and executes homeland defense and civil support ,
and security cooperation to defend and secure the US and its interests
USSTRATCOM - ANS ✔✔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 - ANS ✔✔AOR includes Egypt
USJFCOM - ANS ✔✔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 - ANS ✔✔National Security
Act
, requires the President to preort regularly to Congress and the American people on the National
Security Strategy - ANS ✔✔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; - ANS ✔✔Joint
Chiefs of Staff
principal military advisor to the President, NSC, and SecDef - ANS ✔✔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) - ANS ✔✔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 - ANS ✔✔Administrative
Branch
command with a broad continuing mission under a single commander and composed of
significant assigned components of two or more Military departments - ANS ✔✔Combatant
Command
established when a mission has a specific limited objective; geographical or functional - ANS
✔✔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 -
ANS ✔✔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 - ANS ✔✔Service Component Command
