MSLC STAFF 1-9 TEST AND PRACTICE EXAM NEWEST ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE 200 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+

What is the primary purpose of staffs? (2)

Support the Commander
Assist subordinate commanders, staffs, and units

What do staff activities focus on?

Assisting the commander in accomplishing the mission

What do staffs support the commanders with? (3)

Making and articulating timely decision
Make recommendations
Prepare plans and orders

Staffs synthesize this information and provide it to the commanders as ___________ ___________ to help commanders build and maintain their situational understanding/

running estimates

What do effective staffs establish and maintain?

High degree of coordination and cooperations with staffs of their subordinate echelons.

How do staffs become effective?

By FIRST understanding their higher echelon HQs operations and commander's intent
Nesting their unit's operations with their higher HQ

Staffs keep units outside their own HQs well __________.

Informed

What do staffs keep civilian organizations informed with?

relevant information according to their security classifications and their need to know

What does staff do after receiving information?

pass that information to the appropriate HQ

The key is __________, not__________.

Relevance;Volume

Information should reach recipients based on what?

Their need for it

What does staff do when forwarding information?

Sending staff highlights key information for each recipient
Clarifies the commander's intent

Regardless of their career field or duty billet, all staff sections share a common set of duties and responsibilities: (13)

Managing information w/in their area of expertise
Building & Maintaining running estimates
Conducting staff research & analyzing problems
Performing intel preparation of the battlefield
Developing info requirements
Advising & informing the commander
Providing recommendations
Preparing plans, orders, and other staff writing
Exercising staff supervision
Performing risk management
Assessing operations
Conducting staff inspections & assistance visits
Performing staff administrative procedures

What are the characteristics of effective staff members? (8)

Competent
Bring Clarity
Exercise initiative
Apply critical & creative thinking
Adaptive
Flexible
Disciplined & Self Confident
Team Players

What are the 3 considerations for structuring staff?

Mission
Broad area of expertise (functional responsibilities)
Regulations and Laws

Who do NCOs serve alongside in all staff sections?

staff officer

NCOs execute _________________ as those of their staff officer.

similar duties

What do NCOs provide in their particular staff section?

Experience and Continuity

Staff NCOs display the same ____________ characteristics as effective staff officers

Characteristics

What is a staff section?

A grouping of staff members by area of expertise.

What are the 3 basic types of staff officers?

Coordinating
Special
Personal

What are functional responsibilities?

duties and responsibilities inherent in an area of expertise

Who is the commander's principal staff officer?

Chief of Staff or Executive Officer

COS or XO Responsibilities (5)

- Coordinating & Directing work of the staff
- Establishing & Monitoring the HQ battle rhythm
- Representing the CO when authorized
- Ensuring effective liaison exchange w/ higher echelon, lower, and adjacent units
- Supervising the sustainment of the HQ, activities of HQ, and HQ BN or Company

Who are the coordinating staff officers and what do they do?

Commander's Principal Staff Assistants

They advise, plan, & coordinate actions of special staff officers w/in area of expertise

What are coordinating staff officers' authority limited to?

Advising, planning, and coordinating w/in their individual fields of interest

What do organizations commanded by general officers have?

G-staffs

What do organizations commanded by field grad officers have?

S-staffs

What are the coordinating staff positions?

G1/S1 Personnel
G2/S2 Intelligence
G3/S3 Operations
G4/S4 Logistics
G5 Plans
G6/S6 Signal
G8 Financial Management
G9/S9 Civil Affairs Operations
Chief of Fires or Deputy Fire Support Coordinator (DFSCOORD)
Chief of Protection
Support operations officer (SPO)

What is G1/S1?

Matters concerning human resources, military & civilian, and typically the senior adjutant general officer in the command

What does G1 focus on?

Strength reporting
Personnel Readiness
Information Management
Casualty Operations
Coordinating, Monitoring, Synchronizing other programs

3 HR core competencies

Man the Force
Provide HR Services
Personnel Information Management

What does G1/S1 prepare?

Tab A (Human Resources Support)

Tab E (Band Operations) to Appendix 2 (Personnel Services Support) of Annex F (Sustainment)

Responsibilities of G1 or S1?

- Managing the organization & administration of HQ
- Providing information services (publications, printing, distribution)
- Providing admin support to military & civilians; non US forces, foreign nationals & civilian internees; legal action

What is G2/S2?

- chief of the intelligence warfighting function
- principal staff officer for providing intelligence to support center & future operations & plans

Primary role of G2/S2?

Provide the CO the most complete & timely intelligence available

What is G2/S2 responsible for?

- writing Annex B (Intelligence)
- input to the G3/S3 for refinement of Annex L (Information Collection)

G2/S2 coordinate activities & systems that facilitate understanding what?

Threat
Terrain
Weather
Relevant aspects of an OE (population, groups, organizations)

G2/S2 Responsibilities (8)

- Overseeing intelligence cell
- Provide to CO assessments of key groups & populations
- ID gaps in intel & developing collection strategies
- Disseminating intel products
- Managing or Supervising security programs
- Recommend changes to information collection plan based on changes of situation and weather
- Leader the staff in IPB
- Ensuring ongoing intelligence operations are collecting information

What is G3/S3?

Responsible for all matters concerning training, operations, and plans

Division level: force development and modernization

What is G3/S3 responsible for?

Preparing Annex L (Information)
Coordinates with G9/S9 for preparing Annex V (Interorganization-Interagency Coordination)

What are the responsibilities of the coordinating staff of G3/S3? (10)

- Aviation Officer
- CBRN Officer
- Cyber Electromagnetic Warfare Officer
- Engineer
- Force Management Officer
- IO Officer
- LNOs
- Psychological Operations Officer
- Space Operations Officer

What are the responsibilities of the Force Development & Modernization of G3/S3? (3)

- Reviewing, analyzing, & recommending a planned or programmed force structure
- Fielding new weapons & equip systems
- Allocating manpower resources to sub. commands w/in established ceilings & guidance

What is the G4/S4?

Responsible for assessing the logistics required for achievement of the CO OBJ.

What does G4/S4 prepare?

Annex F (Sustainment)
Annex P (Host-Nation Support)
Annex W (Operational Contract Support)

What are the responsibilities of the G4/S4 sustainment plans and operations? (6)

- Logistics plan to support operations
- Coordinating w/ G2/S2 and G3/S3 and engineers to catalog topographic foundation data
- Coordinating w/ G1/S1 and G3/S3 to man, train, and equip replacement personnel
- Coordinating w/ support unit CO on current & future support capability of the unit
- Coordinating the selection of main supply routes & support areas
- Assessing sustainment task organization

What are the responsibilities of the Supply G4/S3? (5)

- Supply requirements
- Coordinating all classes of supply (not Class 8)
- Requisition, Acquisition, and Storage of Supplies
- Recommend sustainment priorities & supply rates
- Calculate & recommend to G3/S3 basic loads and determining supply rates

Whats are the responsibilities of the Maintenance G4/S4? (4)

- Equipment readiness status
- Maintenance workload requirements (not medical)
- Coord. equip. recovery & evacuation ops
- Maintenance timeslines

What are the responsibilities of the Transportation G4/S4? (5)

- Conduct operational & tactical planning
- Plan admin troop movements
- Coord. transportation assets for other Services
- Coord. w/ G9/S9 for host nation support
- Coord. special transport requirements to move the CP

What are the responsibilities of the Services G4/S4? (5)

Coordinating:
- construction of facilities
- field sanitation
- orgnizational clothing & indiv. equipment exchange
- unit spill-prevention plans
- providing food preparation, water purification, mortuary affairs, aerial delivery, laundry, & showers

What operations does G5 plan for?

For planning operations for the mid- to long-range planning horizons.

What is G5?

Leads staff in preparing plans and orders to meet the commander's guidance.

What does G5 prepare?

Annex A (Task Organization)
Annex C (Operations)
Annex M (Assessment)

What is the responsibilities of plans and orders? (4)

- Prepare & coord. OPLANs, concept plans, and OPORDs
- Conduct mission analysis of higher echelon HQ plans and orders
- Review sub. supporting plans and orders
- Coord & synchronize warfighting functions

What are the responsibilities of the Planning & Supervisory G5? (4)

- Review sub. supporting plans and orders
- Oversee operations beyond the scope of current order
- Develop plans, orders, branches, and sequels
- Develop policies & directive products

What is G6/S6?

All matters concerning communications

Responsibility include what for G6/S6?

network operations jointly consist of Department of Defense information network (DODIN) operations

network transport

information services

spectrum management operations

information management w/in the units AO

What does G6 prepare?

Annex H (Signal)

What are the responsibilities of the G6/S6? (5)

- Ensure Co can always communicate securely
- Determine supportability & feasibilty of the signal plans
- Manage communication assets
- Determine specific or unique communications & network requirements
- Secure the network

What is the G8?

Financial Management and is part of the sustainment warfighting function

What is G8 primary responsibility?

to provide advice & guidance to the Co, staff, and sub. units on the use of missiong-essential funding to ensure operational success & protect funds from fraud, waste, and abuse

What does G8 prepare?

Tab B (Maintenance) to Appendix 2 (Personnel Services Support) of Annex F (Sustainment)
Appendix 4 (Financial Management) of Annex F (Sustainment)

What are the responsibilities of the G8? (5)

-Provide comptroller advice to the CO & budget estimates
- Conduct planning & synchronization with the fiscal triad
- Provide policy & fiscal guidance
- Receive funding from higher echelon HQ
- Estimate, track, and report costs for specific operations to support data call requests to higher HQ

What is G9/S9 responsible for?

All matter concerning civil affairs & civil military operations

What must G9/S9 evaluate during mission analysis?

civil considerations

What is G9/S9 designated to provide to the CO?

Actionable civil information that will increase the CO's awareness & understanding of the civil component.

What does G9/S9 prepare?

Annex K (Civil Affairs Operations)
Coord. with G3/S3 for preparation of Annex V (Interorganization-Interagency Coordination)

What does G9/S9 staff planning perform for and exercises staff supervision over? (5)

- Attached civil affairs units
- Civil consideration integration
- Extension of the CO's mission command
- Civil Affairs working group & civil-military operations working group
- Feedback to the commander concerning results of nonlethal effects & establishes lines of effort

What is DFSCOORD responsible for?

Synchronizing & coordinating fire support for the G3 who integrate fire support into plans & operations

What does the DFSCOORD prepare?

Annex D (Fires)

What are the responsibilities of the DFSCOORD? (5)

- Planning, preparing, executing, & assessing all fires tasks
- Developing w/ the CO & G3, a scheme of fires to support the operation
- Planning & coordinating fire support tasks
- high payoff target list, target selection standards, and an attack guidance matrix
- ID named & target areas of interest, high payoff targets, & additional events that may influence position of fire support tasks

At brigade and below, the __________________________________________________ serves as a ____________ staff officer for coordinating and synchronizing fires for the BDE and BN.

Fire Support Officer (FSO); special

FSO prepares what?

coordinated by S3 and prepares Annex D (Fires)

What is the responsibility of the Chief of Protection?

Principal advisor to the CO on all matters relating to the protection warfighting function

Who typically serves as the chief of protection are the theater Army & Corps level?

Provost Marshal

Who is not assigned as chief of protection?

BDE or lower echelon HQ

What does Chief of Protection prepare?

Annex E (Protection)

What are the responsibilities of the Chief of Protection? (5)

- Directing analysis, planning, and coord protection functions & missions
- Advising the CO on the allocation & employment of all assigned or attached protection assets
- Chairing the protection working group
- Coord. input & making recommendations to the CO on assets to be included in the critical & defended asset lists
- Monitoring & assessing the protection effort

Where is a Support Operations Officer only authorized?

Sustainment Headquarters

What is a support operations officer?

develops the plan the sustainment command will execute to support the G4/S4 sustainment concept

What are the responsibilities of the SPO? (5)

- Advising CO on support requirements versus support
- External support requirements for supported units
- ensure they remain consistent w/ current & future operations
- planning & monitoring support operations
- preparing & distributing the external server support SPO that provides guidance

What is Special Staff?

Helps the CO & other staff members perform their functional responsibilities.

How are special staff officers and their sections organized?

According to professional or technical responsibilities

Name some of the special staff officers:

Air & Missile Defense Officer
Air Liaison Officer
Aviation Officer
CBRN Officer
Civilian Personnel Officer
Cyber Electromagnetic Warfare Officer
Dental Surgeon
Engineer
Equal Opportunity Advisor
Explosive Ordnance Disposal Officer
Force Management Officer
Foreign Disclosure Officer
Historian
IO Officer
KMO
LNO
Military Deception Officer
Operations Security Officer
Operations Research Officer
Personnel Recovery Officer
Provost Marshal
Psychological Operations Officer
Secretaries of the general staff
Space Operations Officer
Staff Veterinary Officer
Staff Weather Officer
Surgeon
Transportation Officer

What are personal staff officers?

They work under the immediate control of the Commander

By ________ or ________, personal staff officers have a unique relationship with the commander.

Law; Regulation

What regulations require the inspector general, staff judge advocate, and chaplain to be members of the commander's personal staff?

AR 20-1
AR 27-1
AR 165-1

Name some of the Personal Staff:

Aide-de-camp
Chaplain
Inspector General
Internal Review Officer
Public Affairs Officer
Safety Officer
Staff Judge Advocate
Surgeon

What is the IG responsible for?

Advising the commander on the command's overall welfare & state of discipline

IG is a ______________________________ to the commander.

confidential advisor

Who is IG authorized for?

General officers in command positions

What does the IG prepare?

Annex U (Inspector General)

What are responsibilities of the IG? (5)

- inspection policy
- effectiveness of the organization inspection program
- conducting inspections
- receiving allegations & conducting investigations & investigative inquiries
- monitoring trends, both positive & negative

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