Prepare for your Army NCO Board or promotion with these ADP study guide questions and answers. This guide covers Army Doctrine Publications including leadership, operations, and training.
Q: What does ADRP/ADP1 cover?
Answer: The army
Q: When was the American Continental Army Established?
Answer: 14 June 1775
Q: How many campaign and battle streamers does the Army flag have?
Answer: Over 180
Q: What does the uniform of the Army represent for families?
Answer: A source of both pride and anxiety knowing the sacrifice ahead.
Q: What does the uniform of the Army represent for veterans?
Answer: One of the most important period of their lives, pride in awards and decorations, and sometimes intense emotional and physical distress.
Q: What does the uniform of the Army represent for soldiers?
Answer: For soldiers it means that they have become part of something far bigger than themselves, a chance to serve their country and change the world. It also means danger, long separations, grinding fatigue, and stress.
Q: What does the uniform of the Army represent for the American Civilians?
Answer: Soldier represent patriotism, and selfless service, men and women who the nation takes pride in.
Q: What is land domain?
Answer: It is the most complex of all combat domain and also where most countries having a defense a some are unable to afford an Navies, Air Forces, and form of defenses.
Q: What is unified land operations?
Answer: It is the synchronization of our efforts between joint services, other agencies, other partner nations, and other military forces from other partner nations.
Q: What is the main goal of unified land operations?
Answer: To combine offensive tasks, defensive tasks, stability task, and defensive support of civil authorities in coordination with joint services, other agencies, other partner nations, and other partner military forces from partner nations.
Q: The Army vision captures three strategic rolls what are they?
Answer: Prevent, shape, and win.
Q: What is is meant by the army roll to prevent?
Answer: It means that countries believe that our force is credible, unbeatable, rapidly deployable, highly trained, well equipped, always ready to help our allies, and protect the U.S interest.
Q: What is is meant by the army roll to shape?
Answer: The Army’s roll to shape is to assist other nations in shape their own training and their military strength to be able to defend themselves.
Q: What is is meant by the army roll to win?
Answer: We must be able to attack and defend against enemy ground forces.
Q: What U.S. Code governs the army?
Answer: Title 10 United States Code (USC)
Q: What department of defense directive (Dodd) governs the army?
Answer: Dodd 5100.01
Q: What gives the president authority as the commander and chief?
Answer: The constitution.
Q: Who determines the size and organization of the Army?
Answer: Congress.
Q: Where does congress get the authority to determine the size and organization of the Army?
Answer: The constitution.
Q: Where does the army gets is mission from?
Answer: Title 10 USC and DODD 5100.01.
Q: What is the army mission?
Answer: To fight and win the nations wars through prompt and sustained land combat, as a part of the joint force.
Q: How does the Army accomplish its’ mission?
Answer: Organizing, equipping, and training Army forces for prompt and sustained combat incidents on land;
Q: What is the dual nature of the Army?
Answer: A military department; apart of the armed forces; and a military profession.
Q: What are 5 essential characteristics of our profession?
Answer: 1. Trust 2. Honorable Service 3.Military Expertise 4. Stewardship of the Profession 5. Esprit De Corps
Q: What 5 things does the Army’s ability to fulfill its strategic role and discharge its responsibilities to the Nation depends on?
Answer: Trust between Soldiers. 2.Trust between Soldiers and Leaders. 3. Trust between Soldiers and Army Civilians. 4. Trust among Soldiers, their Families, and the Army. 5. Trust between the Army and the American people.
Q: What is the Motto of the Army’s Seal?
Answer: This We’ll Defend
Q: What does Ethics provide to the Army Profession?
Answer: It provides the moral basis for why our Army exists.
Q: Where does our Army get its Ethics heritage?
Answer: In the philosophical heritage, theological and cultural traditions, and the historical legacy that frame our Nation
Q: What are the American values and universal rights and where do they originate?
Answer: Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness,
Q: What is the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States?
Answer: 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
Q: What do Army professionals base their decisions and actions on?
Answer: on the moral principles of the Army Ethic, ensuring the protection of the inalienable rights of all people
Q: What are the 4 Legal foundations of the Army Profession?
Answer: 1. The U.S. Constitution 2. Titles 5, 10, 32, USC Treaties 3. Status-of-forces agreements 4. Law of war
Q: What are the 5 Legal foundations of the Individual as Professional?
Answer: 1. Oaths for: Enlistment, Commission, and for Office 2. USC—Standards of Exemplary Conduct 3. UCMJ 4. Rules of engagement and 5. Soldier’s Rules
Q: Who and when was the Army created?
Answer: The Continental Congress on 14 June 1775
Q: What was the mission the Continental Congress gave the Army?
Answer: To defend what would become the United States of America
Q: Who lead the first American Army?
Answer: General George Washington
Q: After the loss of Philadelphia in 1777, where did the Army winter quarter?
Answer: At Valley Forge
Q: How do Units and organizations preserve their storied histories?
Answer: By proudly displaying distinctive emblems like regimental colors, crests, insignia, patches, and mottos.
Q: Where Must Trust Always be Maintained?
Answer: between Soldiers; between Soldiers and their Leaders; among Soldiers, their Families, and the Army; and between the Army and the Nation
Q: Why is “Trust between Soldiers” so Important?
Answer: In Battle, Soldiers primarily fight for one another, not just for their Country or some ideal.
Q: What is the Catalyst to developing Trust between Soldiers?
Answer: The Army Values
Q: What does Trust at all levels of Leadership depend on?
Answer: Candor
Q: What is Candor?
Answer: 1.the quality of being open and honest in expression.
Q: What are the 7 Army Values?
Answer: 1. Loyalty2. Duty3. Respect4. Selfless Service5. Honor6. Integrity7. Personal Courage
Q: What usually keeps Professional Soldiers in the Army?
Answer: Families
Q: What is Essential to Preserving an All-Volunteer Force?
Answer: The Trust between the Army and our Soldiers’ Families; Confidence of the American Citizens
Q: What does the Army need to Provide to the Soldiers and their Families?
Answer: a Quality of Life commensurate with the Soldier’s Service to the Nation
Q: What does Trust in the Army between the President and the Congress allow the Army to Maintain?
Answer: the Readiness required to Fight and Win
Q: Do American Citizens place Special trust and Confidence in Soldiers to Serve the Nation before all other considerations in their lives?
Answer: Yes; most American Citizens Trust that Most Soldiers will Defend our Country at any Cost and do so in austere environments and extreme living conditions and at Extreme Hardships to their own personal lives
Q: What do Most Soldiers Ask of their fellow American Citizens for their Service?
Answer: to Remember their Sacrifice, not with Tangible Rewards, but with Respect and Appreciation for having done their Duty