Nursing /NCO Promotion Board Study - Board Questions Part 1
What is the highest peacetime award for valor?
The Soldiers medal
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What is the highest peacetime award for valor?
The Soldiers medal
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What is unified land operations?
The army’s war fighting doctrine. How the army seizes retains and exploits the initiative to gain and maintain a relative advantage.
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Methods for human waste disposal?
Straddle trench Mound latrine Burn out latrine Deep pit Bore hole latrine Pail latrine Urine soak pits
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What are the key elements of command?
Authority Responsibility
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What is leadership?
Influencing people by providing purpose, direction, and motivation to accomplish the mission and improve the organization.
What is toxic leadership?
Self centered attitudes, motivations, and behaviors that adverse effects on subordinates, the organization, and mission performance.
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
What is the highest peacetime award for valor? | The Soldiers medal |
What is unified land operations? | The army’s war fighting doctrine. How the army seizes retains and exploits the initiative to gain and maintain a relative advantage. |
Methods for human waste disposal? | Straddle trench Mound latrine Burn out latrine Deep pit Bore hole latrine Pail latrine Urine soak pits |
What are the key elements of command? | Authority Responsibility |
What is leadership? | Influencing people by providing purpose, direction, and motivation to accomplish the mission and improve the organization. |
What is toxic leadership? | Self centered attitudes, motivations, and behaviors that adverse effects on subordinates, the organization, and mission performance. |
Primary tasks for DSCA? | Support for domestic disasters Support for cbrn incidents Domestic civil LE agencies Other designated support |
Primary purpose of DSCA? | Save lives Alleviate suffering Protect property |
What do fires forces create? | Responsive, scalable, accurate fires providing unprecedented reach and mobility. |
Task of fires war fighting function? | Deliver fires Integrate army, joint, and multinational fires Conduct targeting |
What is palatable water? | Water which is pleasing to taste, but which may be unsafe. |
What is fires? | The use of weapons systems to create specific lethal or non lethal effects on a target. |
What is EA? | Electronic attack |
What is AMD? | Air and missile defense |
What is the US Army? | Americas sons and daughters, men and women of courage and character, and leaders of consequence bond together in a profession of arms. |
2 positions during PMI? | Foxhole Prone unsupported |
Maximum effective range? | The greatest distance at which a soldier can be expected to deliver a target hit. |
What is a communicable disease? | Transmitted from person to person or insect to person. |
What is a DA form 4950? | Good conduct medal |
3 northwest used on a map? | Grid north Magnetic north True north |
What does the ACS symbol stand for? | Heart is for giving Cross is for help Gyroscope is for stability |
What is the purpose of acronyms and abbreviations? | Shorter versions of doctrinal and military terms for ease of speaking of writing. |
Who establishes Army policy for developing doctrinal terms? | TRADOC |
Examples of sexual harassment? | Verbal Non verbal Physical |
What is a single display of relevant information based on common data shared by more than one command? | Command operational picture. |
What is a DA form 2442? | Certificate of achievement. |
What are the leader attributes? | Character Presence Intellect |
What is the army's operational concept? | United land operations |
What does protection achieve? | Preserves the combat power potential of the force by providing capabilities to identify and prevent threats and hazards and to mitigate their effects. |
What is protection? | The preservation of the effectiveness and survivability of mission related military and non military personnel, equipment, facilities, information, and infrastructure. |