Required Knowledge - OC Guide

Who is at the very top of the chain of command?

Commander in chief

Who is second to the commander in chief?

Secretary of Defense

OCS Honor Code

An Officer Candidate will not lie, cheat, or steal, nor tolerate those who do.

First General Order

I will guard everything within the limits of my post and quit my post only when properly relieved.

Second General Order

I will obey my special orders and perform all my duties in a military manner.

Third General Order

I will report violations of my special orders, emergencies, and anything not covered in my instructions, to the Commander of the Relief.

7 Army Values

Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless-Service, Honor, Integrity, Personal Courage

Define loyalty

Bear true faith and allegiance to the U.S Constitution, the Army, and other Soldiers.

Define duty

Fulfill your obligations

Define respect

Treat people as they should be treated

Define selfless-service

Put the welfare of the nation, the Army, and your subordinates before your own.

Define honor

Live up to all the Army values.

Define integrity

Do what’s right, legally and morally.

Define personal courage

Face fear, danger, or adversity (physical and moral).

Define LEADERSHIP

process of influencing people by providing purpose, direction, and motivation to accomplish the mission and improve the organization

8 Troop Leading Procedures

Receive the mission

Issue the Warning Order

Make a tentative plan

Initiate necessary troop movement

Conduct reconnaissance

Complete the plan

Issue the operation order

Supervise and refine

The first TLP

Receive the mission

5 Principles of Patrolling

Planning

Recon

Security

Control

Common Sense

5 Paragraph Operation Order

Task Organization

1. Situation

2. Mission

3. Execution

4. Sustainment

5. Command and Signal

What’s the first paragraph of a operation order?

Situation

SALUTE Report

Size

Activity

Location

Unit

Time

Equipment

Explain size in a SALUTE Report

Express as a quantity and echelon or size

Explain activity in a SALUTE Report

What is happening should be a concise bullet statement

Explain location in a SALUTE Report

An 8 or 10 digit grid coordinate, or an address, if appropriate

Explain unit in a SALUTE Report

Who is performing the activity? Designate the Unit or identify a group or individual

Explain time in a SALUTE Report

When the activity was observed, or if ongoing, when it was initiated

Explain equipment in a SALUTE Report

Describe/identify any equipment, expand on previous entries

Medevac Request

1: Grid coordinates for location of pickup site

2: Frequency, Call Sign and suffix

3: Number of patients by precedence

4: Special Equipment required

5: Number of patients by type

6: Security of pick up site

7: Number and type of wound/injury/illness

8: Method of Marking pick up site

9: Patient nationality and status

10: CBRN Contamination

11: Terrain description

Which lines of a Medevac request are used only in wartime?

Line 6: Security of pick up site

Line 10: CBRN Contamination

Characteristics of the offense

Surprise

Concentration

Audacity

Tempo

Terrain Analysis (OAKOC)

Observation and fields of fire

Avenues of approach

Key terrain

Obstacles

Cover and concealment

METT-TC(I)

Mission

Enemy

Troops (& support available)

Terrain (& weather)

Time available

Civil considerations

Information

War fighting functions

Intelligence

Movement and maneuver

Fires

Protection

Sustainment

Command and control

United States Preamble

We the People of the United States

in Order to form a more perfect Union,

establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility,

provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare,

and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity,

do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Oath of Office

I, [state your name] having been appointed an officer in the Army of the United States, as indicated above in the grade of _____ do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservations or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which I am about to enter, SO HELP ME GOD. (DA Form 71, JUL 1999)

What is the OCS Motto?

Now and Always!

What is Chapter 9?

Required Knowledge

9-1. Requirements. The following is the list of required knowledge. The Platoon Trainer Staff will inform the Officer Candidates of the suspense by which they must be able to recite each item verbatim.

Permanent Chain of Command

Commander in chief

Secretary of Defense

Secretary of the Army

Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

Army Chief of Staff

Chief, NGB

State Adjutant General

RTI Commander

Battalion Commander

Senior Platoon Training Officer

Company Commander

First Sergeant

Platoon Trainer Officer/NCO

Who is the RTI commander?

COL Fin P. Carey

What does RTI stand for?

Regional Training Institute

Who is the state adjutant general?

Major General Charles D. Hausman

Who is the governor of Missouri?

The Honorable Mike Kehoe

Who is the chief of the National Guard Buraeu?

General Steven S. Nordhaus

Who is the chief of staff of the Army?

General Christopher C. LaNeve

Who is the chairman, joint chiefs of staff?

General Dan Caine