Date: May 2012
(ArmyG1) The Functional Area (FA) 56 Chaplain will act as staff officer for all matters in... (Read More) (ArmyG1) The Functional Area (FA) 56 Chaplain will act as staff officer for all matters in which religion impacts on command programs, personnel, policies and procedures. They will coordinate/direct a complete program of religious ministries, including workshops, pastoral counseling, religious education, and other activities for active and retired military personnel and their family members. Some of their duties may include: those which normally pertain to the duties of a clergy person as they may be prescribed by law and modified by the organizational mission and environment and to provide leadership for moral, ethical and human self-development programs. The enlisted CMF 56 (Chaplain Assistant) will shape the environment to accomplish the Commander’s Religious Support mission by providing technical expertise in religious support operations and the impact of religion on the unit and the mission. Chaplain Assistants have three core capabilities: Integrate Religious Operations, Spiritual Readiness, and Basic Human Interaction tasks into the unit mission. Chaplain Assistants integrate religious support operations in the total Joint, Interagency, Intergovernmental and Multi-National (JIIM) environment, within the contemporary operating environment (COE) at the tactical, operational and strategic levels.Hide

Date: May 2012
(ArmyG1) The infantryman supervises, leads, or serves as a member of an infantry activity ... (Read More) (ArmyG1) The infantryman supervises, leads, or serves as a member of an infantry activity that employs individual small arms weapons or heavy anti-armor crew served weapons, either vehicle or dismounted in support of offensive and defensive combat operations.Hide

Date: May 2012
(ArmyG1) The career management field (CMF) 51 (enlisted) is involved in the acquisition, l... (Read More) (ArmyG1) The career management field (CMF) 51 (enlisted) is involved in the acquisition, logistics, and technology (AL&T) for the Army. Some of their major duties are: provide operational and contingency contracting support to deployed forces and DoD agencies; manages, performs, and administers contracting functions for commodities, services, and construction using simplified acquisition procedures, negotiation and other approved methods; uses automated contracting systems to prepare, process, and analyze transactions and products; acts as a business advisor, buyer, negotiator, administrator, and contracting officer; and they support all functions of contingency operations. The Functional Area (FA) 51 (officer): manages the activities of the Material Developer and supports the missions of the Combat Developer organizations involved in the conception, research, development, engineering, test and evaluation, contract management and acquisition of material and automated information systems for the Army, from requirements formulation through the disposal of obsolete systems; participates in all aspects of the systems acquisition from the review of the Mission Area Analysis, Battlefield Development Plan, and the Army Modernization Memorandum, resulting in a material solution, through all Life Cycle System Management Model phases outlined in DoD Directive 5000.1, Defense Acquisition. The officer will serves as project officer in organizations involved in the requirements formulation, development and acquisition of new material systems or major modifications to existing systems. Ensures proper interface between the system design and support program, and monitors system development to ensure the system design and support characteristics satisfy the operational requirements at the lowest life cycle cost.Hide

Date: May 2012
(GoArmy) An adjutant general officer is responsible for providing personnel support that a... (Read More) (GoArmy) An adjutant general officer is responsible for providing personnel support that affects Soldiers’ overall welfare and well-being, while assisting commanders by accounting for and keeping Soldiers combat-ready. Some of the job duties will include: principal advisor to the battalion commander for all matters concerning human resource support for all assigned and attached personnel; responsible for supervising all strength management/strength distribution actions; and assignment as a platoon leader: responsible for training, readiness, health and welfare of 20 Soldiers and the accomplishment of wartime missions.Hide

Date: April 2012
Combined Joint Task Force (CJTF) - 101 was the responsible task force for Regional Command... (Read More) Combined Joint Task Force (CJTF) - 101 was the responsible task force for Regional Command (RC) - East from April 2008 through June 2009. It is located at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan and is named from its assigned unit, the 101st Airborne Division out of Fort Campbell, KY. This task force gives a single joint command responsible to USCENTCOM and to the Secretary of Defense for all military functions in the country. It establishes a full-time senior presence. The commander on the ground developed very close personal and professional relationships with Afghan military and political leaders, as well as senior members of the Afghan transitional authority.Hide

Date: July 2009
(ATTP 3-34.23) Combat engineering provides tactical-level engineer support to combat (offe... (Read More) (ATTP 3-34.23) Combat engineering provides tactical-level engineer support to combat (offensive and defensive), stability, or civil support operations. In combat operations it is typically (though not always) focused on the support of close combat. Combat engineer units have the capability of fighting as engineers, or, if required, as infantry. Combat engineers typically provide the basic hardening and camouflage, concealment, and deception support while general engineering support is focused on longer-term survivability efforts. (FM 5-103) Combat engineers contribute to the combined arms team by performing the missions of mobility, countermobility, survivability, geospatial operations, general engineering, and fight as infantry. Mobility missions include breaching enemy minefield and obstacles, route improvement and construction, and water-crossing operations. Countermobility missions include the enhancement of fire through obstacle and minefield employment. Survivability missions enhance the total survivability of the force through fighting and protective position construction. Topographic operations engineering missions include detailed terrain analysis, terrain overlays, trafficability studies, evaluation of cover and concealment, soils maps, and other information to base mobility, countermobility, and survivability decisions. General engineering missions support theater armies with both vertical and horizontal construction capabilities. (GoArmy) Combat engineers primarily supervise, serve or assist as a member of a team when they are tackling rough terrain in combat situations. They provide their expertise in areas such as mobility, countermobility, survivability and general engineering. Their job duties may include: construct fighting positions, fixed/floating bridges, obstacles and defensive positions; place and detonate explosives; conduct operations that include route clearance of obstacles and rivers; prepare and install firing systems for demolition and explosives; detect mines visually or with mine detectors .Hide

Date: July 2009

Date: July 2009
This has been converted to CMF/FA 15 (Aviation).

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Date: July 2009
(BMC) The Brigade Combat Team Modernization (BCTMOD or BCTM) program falls under the Briga... (Read More) (BMC) The Brigade Combat Team Modernization (BCTMOD or BCTM) program falls under the Brigade Modernization command. It is comprised of the Network Integration Evaluation (NIE), Agile Process, and the Tactical Network. It is through the synchronization of the various types of technology that BCTMOD is able to improve upon and develop platforms that not only enhance the Soldiers lethality but also their survivability on the battlefield. The NIE’s primary purpose is to continue required evaluations in support of Program of Record (POR) milestones, and further advance the integration and understanding of the objective and bridge network architectures. It will also begin to establish the Objective Integrated Network Baseline, common connectivity across the Brigade Combat Team structure, and introduce industry participation into the NIE evaluation cycle. The Agile Process consists of seven phases grouped in three basic areas. Phases 0 and I focus on identifying requirements and potential solutions. These phases are continuous in nature and react to external changes from ongoing operations, advances in information technology and traditional analysis the Army conducts to modernize the force for the future. Phases II through V focus on assessing potential solutions in both a laboratory and operational environment. Candidate systems are prepared through architectural development, systems integration and Soldier training prior to executing the Network Integration Evaluation. These phases are time-driven, on an approximately 120-day cycle, based on the capacity of operational units in the Brigade Modernization Command. The final phase, VI, consists of HQDA applying analysis to TRADOC’s DOTMLPF report at the conclusion of a Network Integration Evaluation. HQDA collectively aligns requirements, programmatics, and funding COAs to implement NIE recommendations in concert with capability set fielding and ARFORGEN alignment. While the phases imply a linear Network development approach, all are collaborative in nature and continuously inform each phase. Each phase will be refined over time as the Army matures the process to accelerate technology procurement. The Tactical Network is the Capability Sets that enhance vertical and horizontal connectivity and provide an Integrated Network Baseline through the Static Tactical Operations Center down to the individual Soldier.Hide

Date: July 2009

Date: July 2009
(USAF) The Civil Air Patrol (CAP) is a Congressionally chartered, federally supported, non... (Read More) (USAF) The Civil Air Patrol (CAP) is a Congressionally chartered, federally supported, non-profit corporation that serves as the official auxiliary of the U. S. Air Force. The Civil Air Patrol performs three main functions -- emergency services, aerospace education and cadet training. CAP’s emergency services include air and ground search and rescue, disaster relief, counterdrug, and an increasing role in homeland security. Its members fly more than 95 percent of the inland search and rescue missions directed by the Air Force Rescue and Coordination Center at Langley Air Force Base, Va. CAP aircraft fly non-combat homeland security missions such as surveillance of critical infrastructure, airborne communications relay, and airlift of critical cargo. These missions are flown under the authority of the U.S. Northern Command, the Joint command responsible for the continental United States. CAP receives tasking from the air component of Northern Command, 1st Air Force, with headquarters at Tyndall AFB, Fla. CAP provides extensive support to the nation’s Gulf coast following natural disasters. During Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, CAP serviced dozens of locations across the region -- more than 1,500 CAP members volunteered to provide support ranging from aircraft missions such as search and rescue, transportation of critical personnel and supplies, and aerial imagery of flood damaged areas for civil authorities to ground team missions such as house to house searching of neighborhoods and passing out emergency supplies. In total, the CAP flew nearly 1,000 aircraft missions in support of the hurricane relief efforts. Civil Air Patrol has eight geographic regions composed of 52 wings -- one wing for each state, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia. Wings are subdivided into groups, squadrons and, sometimes, flights. There are approximately 1,600 individual units. Headquarters Civil Air Patrol is located at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., The headquarters is staffed with nearly 100 full-time civilian employees who provide administrative and logistics support to 57,000 CAP members nationwide. Although paid by the Air Force, these employees are neither Air Force civil servants or contractors, they are employees of the CAP Corporation. A small active-duty unit, Civil Air Patrol-United States Air Force is collocated with the CAP headquarters and assigned to Air University. CAP-USAF, staffed by military and Air Force civilian personnel, provides advice, assistance, liaison and oversight of CAP. Additional CAP-USAF liaison personnel are assigned to CAP regions and wings to advise and assist field units. Air Force Reserve members assist CAP through the Civil Air Patrol Reserve Assistance Program. CAP-USAF has approximately 40 active-duty military, 60 civilian and 250 reserve personnel assigned. Membership consists of approximately 23,000 cadets and more than 34,000 adult volunteers. They wear the Air Force uniform, but with distinctive CAP emblems and insignia. The Air Force provides funds for the purchase and maintenance of 530 aircraft and more than 950 vehicles to support the organization. Civil Air Patrol was founded Dec. 1, 1941. During World War II, its principal purpose was to allow private pilots and aviation enthusiasts to use their light aircraft and flying skills in civil defense efforts. In 1943, the organization came under control and direction of the Army Air Forces. Civil Air Patrol became a permanent peacetime institution July 1, 1946, when President Harry S. Truman signed Public Law 476 establishing it as a federally chartered, benevolent, civilian corporation. In May 1948, Public Law 557 made the organization the official auxiliary of the Air Force. This law, known as the CAP Supply Bill, authorized the Secretary of the Air Force to assign military and civilian personnel to liaison offices at all levels of CAP. Congress again fundamentally modified the organization in 2000. With the Floyd D. Spence National Defense Authorization Act, Congress clarified auxiliary status as a conditional state dependent on CAP performing actual services for a federal department or agency. Congress also specified the funding mechanisms the Air Force must use to provide funds to CAP for operations, maintenance, and procurement of property.Hide

Date: July 2009

Date: July 2009

Date: July 2009

Date: July 2009
(DOD) The United States Forces - Afghanistan (USFOR-A) was stood up in October 2008 as a c... (Read More) (DOD) The United States Forces - Afghanistan (USFOR-A) was stood up in October 2008 as a command and control headquarters for US forces in Afghanistan. The stand-up of the USFOR-A headquarters was intended to enable the most efficient command and control of U.S. forces in Afghanistan and ensure effective integration and coordination between U.S. and coalition forces operating under NATO/ISAF. The majority of U.S. resources and personnel not dedicated to ISAF are committed to training the Afghan National Security Forces through Combined Security Transition Command- Afghanistan. USFOR-A is responsible for the overall training mission and able to help tailor it to ensure Afghan forces are best prepared to operate with ISAF forces and provide security and stability to the nation of Afghanistan. Under this new arrangement, the approximately 20,000 U.S. forces (as of Oct 2008), operating as part of Operation Enduring Freedom, will come under the operational control of USFOR-A. The ISAF and OEF chains of command will remain separate and distinct, and U.S. Central Command will continue to oversee U.S. counterterrorism and detainee operations.Hide

Date: July 2009

Date: July 2009
Combined Security Transition Command - Afghanistan (CSTC-A) is a partner with Nato Trainin... (Read More) Combined Security Transition Command - Afghanistan (CSTC-A) is a partner with Nato Training Mission Afghanistan (NTM-A) with a stated mission of "NTM-A/CSTC-A supports ISAF & USFOR-A to enable accountable, Afghan-led security not later than 31 December 2014." The commands are required to recruit, train, and develop the Afghanistan National Security Forces (ANSF).Hide

Date: July 2009

Date: July 2009

Date: July 2009

Date: July 2009
A request for forces (RFF) is a request from a unit in order to perform a mission that exc... (Read More) A request for forces (RFF) is a request from a unit in order to perform a mission that exceeds their current capabilities. It could be a request for either equipment or personnel. (FM 3-28) When validated, the request for forces becomes an order to the supporting combatant commanders to provide the forces. In support of this process, the Army Service component commander coordinates with Department of the Army and United States Army Forces Command (for most Army units) concerning required capabilities.Hide

Date: July 2009

Date: July 2009
(FM 4-02.7) The Department odfDefense (DOD) created the CBRN consequence management respon... (Read More) (FM 4-02.7) The Department odfDefense (DOD) created the CBRN consequence management response force (CCMRF), which includes response, medical, and support units that could respond within one to three days to a catastrophic event. The CCMRF is a ready reaction force organized into three task forces comprised largely of active units that total approximately 3,600 troops. This force would report to JTF-CS during an actual event. The units that comprise the CCMRF are not focused exclusively on civil support and can be deployed overseas in support of other requirements. As a result, the units that comprise the CCMRFs are constantly changing. The CCMRF is a Title X task force comprised of both Active and Reserve Component capabilities. The CCMRF?s primary role when responding to a CBRNE event is to augment the consequence management efforts of the first responders. The CCMRF- One (Active Component) units will be assigned to USNORTHCOM on October 1, 2010. The CCMRF-Two (Reserve Components) will be placed on a prepare to deploy order while assigned to USNORTHCOM for a minimum of 24 months from October 1, 2009 through September 30, 2011. Each CCMRF will be composed of three functional task forces - Task Force Operations, Task Force Medical and Task Force Aviation - that have their own individual operational focus and set of mission skills. Their capabilities include search and rescue, decontamination, medical, aviation, communications and logistical support.Hide

Date: July 2009

Date: July 2009
(JP 1) A non Department of Defense agency of the Unites States Government. Some examples c... (Read More) (JP 1) A non Department of Defense agency of the Unites States Government. Some examples could include the Department of State, Central Intelligence Agency, or the National Security Agency. (DOD) Within the context of interagency coordination, a non Department of Defense agency of the United States Government.Hide

Date: July 2009
(428th FAB) The 428th Field Artillery Brigade trains Soldiers, Marines, and Allies in fiel... (Read More) (428th FAB) The 428th Field Artillery Brigade trains Soldiers, Marines, and Allies in field artillery core competencies in order to provide proficient integrators of lethal and non-lethal fires to the operational force. We develop competent, confident, and adaptive leaders able to lead Soldiers and Marines in the contemporary operating environment. The brigade is the cornerstone of the Field Artillery Branch. Here, Soldiers learn to be a leader and to become a member of the noblest profession: A Field Artilleryman.Hide

Date: July 2009
High priority targets (HPT) are those targets such as tanks, tankers, command post’s... (Read More) High priority targets (HPT) are those targets such as tanks, tankers, command post’s or other items that are seen as invaluable to commanders. HPT’s could also be seen as targets of opportunity.Hide

Date: July 2009

Date: July 2009