WAPS PFE 4N071 2026

A leadership tool that indicates where command involvement is needed to correct systematic, programmatic, or procedural weakness and ensure effective and efficient use of resources.

Air Force Inspector General Complaints Program

The official Air Force colors in the seal

Ultramarine blue; Air Force Yellow

Title 36, United States Code, patrotic and National Observances, Ceremonies and organizations,Chapter 1, pertains to:

patriotic and observances

The U.S flag, when displayed with another flag, against a wall from crossed staffs,

on the observer's left with its staff in front of the other flag's staff

AFI that protects the authorized uses of the Air Force Seal or any part thereof

AFMAN 33-326, Preparing OfÏcial Communications

For Drill purpose, Air Force organizations are dived into:

elements, flights, squadrons, groups, and wing

When one unit of the element must execute a different movement or the same movement at a different time

Supplementary Command

Junior members of the flag security detail

Lower the flag slowly and with dignity

how the flag should be placed

remove ,folded into a triangular shape and placed I the lid just above the decedent's left shoulder

Deployed to McCoy AFB, FL and began flying high-altitude reconnaissance flights over Cuba

SAC U-2 Aircraft

First bomber with intercontinental range

Convair B-36 Peacemaker

airlifted troops and supplies, but also debut the F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighter, flew psychological operation missions with AC-130 spectre gunship, intimidating Panamanian troops loyal to dictator Manuel Noriega

Operation Just Cause

Operation in 1986, authorized by President Reagan where F-111s mobilized to strike England

Eldorado Canyon

Recovered the HI-Jacked USS Mayaquez from Cambodian Communist forces in May 1975

Wayne Fisk

United States troop withdrawal from Iraq completed

18 December 2011

Distinguished himself as a leader in three wars: WW2, Korea, and Vietnam

General Daniel "Chappie" Jr

Date Nato leaders sign off on President Obama exit strategy from Afghanistan that called for end to combat operations and the withdrawal of the U.S-led international military force by the end of 2014.

21 May 2012

President George H.W Bush announced a no fly in Southern Iraq (Operation Southern Watch) in support of United Nation Security Council Resolution 86

26 August 1992

The incidents of ground fire that U.S aircraft withstood during the 3 1/2 year support of the UN-relief operation of Operation Provide Promise

279 Incidents

A B-26 gunner

Staff Sergeant Nyle S. Mickley

First Marine Division Success landing site that effectively cut North Korean Army supply lines deep in the South

At Inchon, near Seoul, South Korea

Command level augments core alirlift assets and retrains capability to perform an airlift role under a dual role concept

Air Refueling Wings

Document establishes policy to fully integrate the Air National Guard, Air Force Reserve, and Active Air Force into a total single force

AFPD 10-3, Air Reserve Component Forces

Is part of a squadron and is composed of several elements that perform identical mission

Alpha Flight

Reported to by Wings, groups, squadrons, and flights

Component Numbered Air Force or a Numbered Air Force

Maintains and operates a base and often provides functional support to a major command headquarters

Air Base

Consist of the Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve to form a significant part of our aerospace capability

Air Reserve Component

Performs a specialized mission and usually does not have aircraft or missiles assigned

Specialized Mission Wing

Consists of Strategic, tactical, space, or defense forces, or of flying forces that directly support such forces

Operational Command

Major Air force Subdivision having a specific portion of the Air Force Mission

Major Commands

A basic Unit in the Air Force and can be either a mission unit or a functional unit

Squadron

Assists the secretary of the Air Force in carrying out his responsibilities

Air Staff Function

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.

Air Force Material Command

Lowest level unit in the Air Force and primarily incorporates smaller elements into an organized unit

Numbered/Named flights

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 ofÏcers from the Army,Navy, and Air Force.

Joint Staff

Usually part of a squadron and composed of elements that perform specific mission

Functional Flights

Mission includes recruiting, training, and educating Airmen to deliver airpower for America

Air Education and Training 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.

Air Force Reserve Command

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.

Close Air Support

Medium risk to U.S. and coalition aircraft

Contested combat airspace

Integrates offensive and defensive operations to attain and maintain a desired degree of air superiority

Counter Air

Authorized to exercise combatant command or operational control over a joint force

Joint Force Commanders

Short paragraph describing the mission capabilities that higher headquarters planners expect of a specific unit type code

Mission Capability Statement

Guarantees that the whole will never be greater than the sum of it's parts.

Segregation

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

Unity of Command

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

Global Force Management

Cycles includes periods of normal training, preparation, and deployments vulnerability

24 month AEF cycles

Doctrine is about using domains, not owning domains. This is characterized by:

an integration of efforts and avoiding ownership arguments

It is the ability to employ airpower effectively at the strategic, operational and tactical levels of warfare

Versatility

Judicious employment and distribution of forces. It allocates minimum essential resources to secondary efforts.

Economy of Force

Consists of forces assigned to organizations responsible for Title 10 functions such as organize, train, equip, recruit, supply

Institutional force

The appropriate instrument to change force structure during an operation

Deployment Order

Is now the process supporting contingency planning within the DoD

Adaptive planning

This planning tool consist of five volumes and associates databases and is the Air Force's supporting document to the Joint Strategic Capabilities Plan

The Air Force War and Mobilization Plan System

Prepared by a parent major command and outline each unit's capabilities and contains units identification, mission tasking narrative, mission specifics, and measurable resources

Designed Operational Capabilities Statement

The primary pool from which the Air Force fulfills Global Force Management Allocation Plan requirements

Readily Available Force

The commander has two distinct means for engaging enemy land forces that supports counter land operation

Air interdiction and Close Air Support

A common perspective from which to plan,train, and conduct military operations

Joint Doctrine

Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Timem and Equipment

SALUTE

Capability necessary to reduce the loss of life and property by lessening the impact of future disaster

Mitigation

Alarm Yellow

Attack is probable in less than 30 minutes/ MOPP 2 or as directed

Implements operationals plans and priorities ,control and monitors mission-generation capabilities, and ensures installations survivability

Installation C2, in conjunction with the emergency operations center and unit control centers

Most effective method of removing chemical agents

reactive skin decontamination lotion and M295 individual decontamination kit

After an attack, the base populace should participate in CBRN detection

Every Airmen is a detector

Regardless of the type of agent, concentration, or method of attack, the best immediate protective equipment against chemical agents

the gound crew ensemble

Alarm Code Green

MOPP0 or directed

The vehicle for installation preparation and response

Installation Emergency Management Plan 10-2

Attack by ground forces is imminent or in progress

Ground Attack or bugle playing "Call to Arms"

The military installation nearest the scene of a major accident will respond to the accident unless otherwise directed by the major command or the Air Force Operation center

Initial Response Base

Provides personnel rest and relief (breaks and sleeping), work relief, and protection of logistics storage area?

Collective protection

Air Attack is imminent or in progress

Alarm Red or waving tone

Permits the application of only that degree of regulated force required for the partial or complete submission of the enemy with the least expenditure of life, time, and physical resources

Military Necessity

states that's treaty obligations of the United States are the "supreme law of the land" and the U.S Supreme Court has held that U.S international legal obligations, to include custom, is part of U.S law

Article 6 of the U.S Constitution