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Lesson Index: [ Introduction | Lesson Objective | Overview | Expeditionary Operations | Evolving National Security Strategy | Basing Changes | Basing Changes, continued | Current National Security Strategy | Temporary Basing | From Containment to Engagement | AEF Characteristics | Traditional Organization | AEF Organization | AEF Construct | Force Requirements | Force Composition | Force Composition, continued | AEF Employment Concept | Lead Wing | Lead Mobility Wing | AEFs in Joint Forces | AEF Cycle | AEF Cycle, continued | AEF Rotation Schedule | AEF Force Alignment | Expeditionary Combat Support | AEF Vision Across the Spectrum | AEF Issues | Lesson Recap | Summary | Quiz ]

Title: Quiz

Voice: Here are a few questions to test your knowledge of the previous lesson material. These questions are for your self-assessment only and are not recorded. Read each choice carefully, then click on the link to check your answers. At the end of each question is a link to the relevant lesson page for that question. To get back to this quiz page, use your browser back feature (ALT + Left Arrow in IBM’s Home Page Reader). The next and back buttons on each page will only take you sequentially through the lesson pages.

• A. Prior to the fall of communism, the personnel strength and number of forward operating bases hindered the Air Force’s ability to support a strategy of “global engagement.”
• B. While events since the Cold War Era have led to a smaller budget, decreased manning, and fewer forward-operating bases, changing world events have caused the operational tempo to increase.
• C. Significant decreases in both personnel and forward basing coupled with a four-fold increase in deployments have made it increasingly difficult to implement a national security strategy of “containment.”

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Relevant lesson page: Basing Changes

• A. utilizes the Air Reserve Component more effectively than it has been used in the past.
• B. enhances Air Force operations by restructuring the traditional alignment of forces.
• C. alters how the Air Force supports operational plans of theater CINCs.

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Relevant lesson page: AEF Characteristics

• A. change the traditional view of force deployment and revolutionize the “expeditionary” mindset as part of Air Force culture.
• B. mix squadrons with supplementary capabilities drawn from different branches of the military services.
• C. distribute deployment loads by pre-identifying as many deployable people and assets as possible.

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Relevant lesson page: AEF Construct

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