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The air force atomic, biological, chemical (ABC) warfare program was formed in 1951 in response to proliferation of

Nuclear weapons after World War II by the Soviet Union.

What EM career field emblem was approved for use in 1966 by the US Army Institute of Heraldry, graphically symbolizes the components that make up the response elements, and is still in use today?

The disaster response force (DRF) emblem.

What career field award recognizes the best Readiness and Emergency Management (R&EM) flights annually.

The Colonel Fredrick J. Riemer award

After the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, a significant change to emergency management and response was the implementation of the

National Incident Management System

The Air Force complied with the directive to adopt the National Incident Management system (NIMS) by

implementing the Air Force Incident Management System.

The Air Force Chief of Staff (CSAF) approved the EM career field badge in

2006

What does the career field education and training plan (CFETP) state about wearing EM Occupational badge?

You must wear the Civil Engineer (CE) occupational badge with the EM occupational badge.

Which activities should include training and education as well as exercises, personnel qualifications, equipment certification, and the integration of planning and procedures?

Preparedness

Providing support in the emergency operations center (EOC) chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) control center, and unit control center (UCC) fall into what readiness and emergency management (R&EM) flight mission set?

Operations

What determines the number of 3E9s assigned to a flight?

Manpower authorizations

Who supervises the readiness and emergency management (R&EM) flight and analyzes the local threat of natural, technological, or man-made hazards.

Flight Chief

Who is the key EM representative for the senior AF authority and will perform the duties necessary to properly train and educate airmen on AF specific requirements such as chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) passive defense?

EM section

Which section is responsible for ensuring the civil engineer squadron accomplishes all Prime BEEF program requirements in accordance with AFI 10-210, Prime Beef Program, and Air Force pamphlet (AFPAM) 10-219, Volume 8, Prime BEEF Management?

Expeditionary engineering section

Who do senior readiness and emergency managment (R&EM) flight personnel directly report to?

Base Civil engineer

Who is responsible for enduring unit emergency management (EM) programs are managed according to AFMAN-32-1007 and AFI 10-2501?

Flight leadership

Which of the following would NOT be included in the meeting agenda?

List of People attending

The emergency management (EM) program review is designed

to facilitate integration of all functional activities affecting the installation during contingencies.

After determining briefing topics, what is the next step in preparing for an Emergency Management Working Group (EMWG) meeting?

Schedule the time and place for the meeting.

The Work Center Assignments option falls under which module of Automated Civil Engineering System-Personnel and Readiness (ACES-PR)

Personnel

Which module of Automated Civil Engineer System-Personnel and Readiness (ACES-PR) allows the user to manage equipment, mobility, the EM program stats?

Readiness

Which function of the Automated Civil Engineer System-Personnel and readiness (ACES-PR) Personnel module allows the user to add and modify records; view personnel history and/or move records to history; view, assign, and or delete additional duties; and assign personnel to work center positions.

Readiness

Which emergency management section element is responsible for all Readiness and Emergency Management flight equipment?

Logistics

Checklists for readiness and emergency management flight equipment must be prepared within how many days after the new equipment is received?

30 days

Which element of the R&EM flight is responsible for regularly reviewing EM-related allowance standards to determine if authorizations for accountable equipment items have been added, deleted, or changed?

Logistics

What document provides basic allowances of equipment normally required by Air Force activities for accomplishing the assigned mission, tasks, or duties?

Allowance Standard

Which of the following would not be found in an allowance standard

War Reserve material (WRM)



Which of the following of the following is not a suitable reason to request changes in allowance standard?

When broken equipment needs to be repaired.

Items not in an allowance standard, but required by an organization to perform its mission, may be obtained as

Special Allowances

What is used to authorize a required item that is not in an allowance standard but is already on hand?

Retention Authority

Temporarily required items are items needed for a period of

180 calendar days or less.

Unless otherwise directed by the SecDef, installations may not stock supplies solely for

Defense support to civil authorities (DSCA)

What is the key to logistics

Effective inventory managment

Which of the following is not one of the four basic steps to the inventory management process?

Establishing equipment turn in procedures

Which system is cross-service web-enabled automated tracking system designed to initiate, process, and track equipment deficiency reports from the warfighter through the investigation process?

Joint Deficiency Reporting System (JDRS)

Who must identify requirements and then budget for, obtain, store, and maintain materiel needed to accomplish their specific function's emergency management tasks in support of response plans?

Unit Commanders

The types and quantities of passive defense equipment needed by forces in the area of employment are specified in

The logistics portions of war and contingency plans.

What must you do prior to starting any equipment task?

Review all applicable technical orders for familiarization with the latest procedures.

Members appointed as technical order distribution account (TODA) representatives must complete training within how many days of assignment?

90 days

In CBRN threat areas, who must store and maintain pre-positioned materiel for additive forces according to theater reinforcement plans, base support plans, and joint support plans?

Installation Commanders.

Who ensures unit materiel, including materiel in bulk storage, is stored in facilities that provide security, accessibility, and protection from fire, extreme weather, temperature, dust, and humidity?

Unit Commanders

The R&EM flight's training element develops and maintains master lesson plans for instructor-led courses using available instructor guides created by

AFCEC/CXR

When EM training is completed the readiness and emergency management flight's training element updates

Automated Civil Engineer System - Personnel Readiness (ACES-PR)

When formal training slots are available, individual mobilization augmented (IMAs) should be

given the same consideration as active duty personnel

What can help to evaluate training issues by considering topics previously covered, thus overcoming the urge to teach favorite topics and neglect other critical areas when conducting in-house training?

Proper documentation

How often must the installation DRF's ability to respond to adversarial/human-caused, technological/accidental, and natural threads outlined in the IEMP 10-2 be exercised?

Annually

Who is responsible for exercising the ability to conduct deployed combat operations?

Any unit with a wartime mission

Which component of SMART approach to developing exercise objectives encourages developers to remember that exercises are conducted during a limited timeframe and objectives must be able to be met during that time?

Attainable

Which component of the SMART approach to developing exercise objectives encourages developers to focus on specific operations or tasks to be completed?

Task oriented

What is the first step in establishing an effective "be ready" awareness campaign?

Hazard analysis

Which element of the readiness and emergency management flight ensures emergency support function (ESF) - 5 has the ability to provide core management function in the EOC

Operations

The R&EM flight operations element ensures that every unit and agency on the installation is in compliance with the EM program by

implementing the EM program review process

Who determines which installation will train and equip geographically separated units (GSU) units in compliance with the EM program?

Majcoms

How long after the most recent emergency management program review should the unit EM reps perform self-assessment using the EM program review checklist?

6 months

Each EM program review should be coordinated with the unit EM representative and commander at least how many weeks before the visit?

2

R&EM flight leadership will submit the written EM program review assessment to the CE commander within how many duty days after the out-brief?

5 duty days

Which of the following is not a factor that will affect the size of the emergency management support team (EMST)?

Training requirments

Which element of the R&EM flight serves as the OPR for CBRN passive defense and consequence management planning?

Planning

The R&EM flight planning element is responsible for assisting with what portions of the installation risk management process?

CBRN and EM

Which group performs and documents the risk management process?

Installation's Emergency Management Working Group

Which of the following is not one of the three assessments required to be completed as part of the risk management process.

Efficiency assessment.

Which is the most important assessment tool in the risk management process for an installation's EM program

Hazards assessment

Which risk management assessment describes all resources and capabilities available both on and off the installation for incident response and recovery

Capability assessment

Which risk management assessment identifies shortfalls and steps taken to either mitigate or eliminate the shortfalls through procurement, developing support agreements, developing or revising plans, accepting risks, or some other method?

Capability Assessment

Which risk management assessment identifies areas of improvement to withstand, mitigate and deter hazards and serves as one of the foundation components for effective emergency management?

Vulnerability assessment

How often are the assessments associated with the risk management process conducted?

Annually

Which publication provides Federal Emergency Management Agency guidance on the fundamentals of planning and developing emergency operations plans?

CPG 101, Developing and Maintaining Emergency Operations plans

Which of the following is the foundation for state, territorial, tribal, and local emergency planning in the US and is the standard for EM planning used with the Air Force EM program?

CPG 101, Developing and Maintaining Emergency Operations Plans

Planners can test whether critical plan elements are sufficiently flexible by

exercising them against scenarios of varying type and magnitude.

Which of the following is not one of the planning tiers?

Deliberate

Planners typically use which approach to develop planning assumptions primarily for hazard- or threat-specific annexes to a basic plan?

Scenario-Based Planning

Which approach to planning focuses on a jurisdiction's capacity to take a course of action>

Capabilities-based planning

What establishes an agreement between parties and documents proof of the agreement and its contents?

Support agreements

For Defense Support to Civil Authorities (DSCA) response within the US, its territories and possessions, who coordinates response activities for federal agencies if the incident affects areas outside the installation's boundaries?

Department of Homeland Security

At the national level, who is responsible for EM within CONUS?

FEMA

Which plan provides comprehensive guidance for an emergency response to physical threats resulting from natural, man-made, or technological hazards?

Installation Emergency Management Plan (IEMP) 10-2

Who approves the Installation Emergency Management Plan (IEMP) 10-2

Installation Commander

What was developed and adopted to assist Air Force Emergency managers in the development process of their respective IEMP 10-2?

IEMP 10-2 Planning Tool

Units must develop and/or update implementing instruction within how many days of publication of an IEMP 10-2?

60

Who is responsible for identifying and evaluating installation facilities that may be used for shelters?

Base Civil engineer

What is used during a natural, man-made, or technological emergency condition to provide limited protection for the unprotected personnel or casualties?

Shelter-in-place

Which announcement is an emergency protocol used as a security measure to confine and restrict movement during an active shooter incident?

Lockdown

When planning supply and resupply actions to support extended shelter operations, how many days should you plan for after the onset of CBRN contamination?

7 consecutive days

Which agency is responsible for providing notification of earthquakes in order to enhance public safety and to reduce losses through effective forecasts based on the best possible scientific information?

United states geological survey (USGS)

To determine which areas in the US are at higher risk than others to an earthquake, the USGS creates seismic hazard maps that show

peak ground acceleration.

Which agency monitors ocean waves after any Pacific earthquake with a magnitude greater than 6.5?

International Tsunami Warning System (ITWS)

When is hurricane season in the Atlantic, Caribbean, and gulf of Mexico as well as in the Central Pacific Basin?

1 June 30 November

Which agency issues coastal tropical cyclone watches and warning for the US and its territories and provides watch and waning recommendations to other world Meteorological Organization Region IV meteorological services?

National Hurricane Center (NHC)

What is the nickname of the area of the US that experiences a high volume of tornadoes each year?

Tornado Alley

A boundary separating hot, dry air to the west from warm, moist air to the east is called?

A dry line

Which level of HAZMAT response is conducted when the hazard is confined to a small area that can be controlled by first responders, does not require evacuation beyond the involved structure, and poses no immediate threat to life or property?

Level 1

Which level of HAZMAT response is conducted when the hazard poses a potential threat to life or property?

Level 2

Any large number of casualties produced in a relatively short time, usually as a result of a single incident is called?

Mass Casualty Incident

Conventional explosives are the most troubling weapons of mass destruction because

they can be disperse chemical, biological, or radiological agents.

Chemical agents are based on their

Physiological effects

Which weapons are used to cause illness, injury, or death in humans, livestock, or plants?

Biological

What is the primary defense against biological weapons?

Recognition

Which of the following is not one of the three primary mechanisms by which terrorists can use radiation to carry out an attack?

Hijacking an aircraft with Nuclear weapons

A dirty bomb is another name for what kind of weapon?

Radiological Dispersion Device

Critical Water or sewer system failures can and do occur quite often, primarily as a result of

natural hazards

According to the World Food Program, what is the greatest worldwide threat to health?

Famine