Army SOM Questions

  1. AR 350-1
    Army Training and Leader Development
  2. ADP 7-0
    Training Units and Developing Leaders
  3. ADP 6-22
    Army Leadership
  4. FM 7-22.6/TC 22-6
    The Army Noncommissioned Officer Guide
  5. What is Army Leadership
    Influencing subordinates by providing purpose, direction and motivation, to accomplish the mission.
  6. What is toxic leadership?
    Leadership incompetence as well as abusive, erratic, corrupt, and self-serving behaviors.
  7. What are the three levels of leadership?
    Direct, organizational, and strategic
  8. What are the three leader attributes?
    Character, presence, and intellect
  9. What are the three leader competencies?
    Leads, develops, and achieves
  10. What is the one requirement and expectation of “achieves”?
    Gets results
  11. Describe the Be Know Do.
    • The leader must BE the values that shape the leaders characteristics
    • The leader must KNOW their technical and tactical skills
    • The leader must DO what needs to be done to accomplish the mission, apply the know
  12. What are the Army Values?
    Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless Service, Honor, Integrity, Personal Courage
  13. What are the three training domains the Army uses?
    Institutional, operational, and self-development
  14. How do Commanders apply the operations process to training
    Plan, prepare, execute, assess
  15. Who are the primary trainers of enlisted Soldiers, crews and small teams?
    Noncommissioned officers
  16. Who is responsible for training units and developing leaders?
    Commanders
  17. What does Train as you will fight mean?
    means training under an expected operational environment for the mission
  18. What does METL stand for?
    Mission Essential Task List
  19. What is the definition of a METL?
    METL (Mission Essential Task List) is the doctrinal framework of fundamental tasks for which the unit was designed
  20. What are the TLPs (Troop Leading Procedures)?
    • 1. Receive the mission
    • 2. Issue the warning order
    • 3. Make a tentative plan
    • 4. Initiate movement
    • 5. Conduct reconnaissance
    • 6. Complete the plan
    • 7. Issue the operations order
    • 8. Supervise and refine
  21. What do subordinates provide in order to enable the Commander to assess the readiness of a mission-essential task?
    After Action Review (AAR)
  22. What are the four steps to an AAR?
    • 1. What was supposed to happen?
    • 2. What did happen?
    • 3. Improvements/Sustains
    • 4. What will be done differently next time?
  23. What Army publication is known as “training the force”?
    ADP 7-0
  24. What does NCODP stand for?
    Noncomissioned Officer Development Program
  25. What is the goal of NCODP?
    overarching Army Non commissioned Officer Professional Development Program
  26. As with all leader training and leader development, who is responsible for NCODP?
    The Commander
  27. NCODP is typically managed by whom?
    The CSM Senior NCO in the organization.
  28. What Army Regulation covers NCODP?
    AR 350-1 Chapter 4
  29. What is the purpose of AR 350-1?
    This regulation prescribes policies, procedures, and responsibilities for developing, managing, and conducting Army training and leader development.
  30. What is the number one principle of peacetime training?
    Replicate battlefield conditions
  31. Once soldiers and units have trained to the standard, how do they maintain proficiency?
    They maintain proficiency through sustainment training.
  32. How do commanders determine their units' METLs?
    Commanders determine their units' METLs based on war and external directives.
  33. What do leaders use to assess soldier, leader, and unit proficiency?
    Leaders use evaluations and other feedback to assess soldier, leader, and unit proficiency.
  34. What type of training excites and motivates soldiers and leaders?
    Training that is tough, realistic, and mentally and physically challenging.
  35. What begins the training planning process?
    Assessment
  36. What is risk assessment?
    Risk assessment is the thought process of making operations safer without compromising the mission.
  37. When was the NCO Corps born?
    14 JUNE 1775 with the birth of the Continental Army
  38. Who standardized the duties and responsibilities of the NCO Corps?
    Inspector General Friedrich von Steuben in 1778 at Valley Forge
  39. What was the name of the book that standardized the duties of the NCO Corps?
    “Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States”, commonly referred to as the blue book
  40. What part of the blue book is still with us today?
    TC 3-21.5 Drill and Ceremonies
  41. What was the Black Book, who carried it, and what was in it?
    A book the 1SG carried that contained administrative files names of everyone in the company and their professional history (AWOLs, work habits, promotions, etc.)
  42. When did the Army formally add women to its ranks?
    1942
  43. Who was the first Sergeant Major of the Army?
    SMA William Woolridge in 1966
  44. When did the Army first fight an integrated war between whites and African Americans?
    The Korean War
  45. Why should you stand by Soldiers’ honest mistakes?
    The can’t learn without them
  46. What should an NCO ensure their Soldiers understand about their mission?
    they understand their mission, know how to accomplish it and why it is important and are part of a bigger picture and every soldier has a task that supports the overall objective
  47. What three types of duties do NCOs have?
    Specified, directed, and implied
  48. What does PCC/PCI stand for?
    Precombat Checks/Inspections
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