Question 1

STEP Stands for

Accepted Answer

Select, Train, Educate, Promote

Question 2

NCOPDS Stands for

Accepted Answer

Noncommissioned Officer Professional Development System

Question 3

ACT stands for

Accepted Answer

Army Career Tracker

Question 4

IDP Stands for

Accepted Answer

Individual Development Plan

Question 5

S in STEP

Accepted Answer

Selection for promotion is based on your potential to serve at increasing levels of responsibility, stemming from a leader's or promotion board's assessment. This assessment takes into account mastery of knowledge, skills, and attributes for your current grade. Those chosen will exemplify a true NCO: someone who leads, trains and educates, cares for Soldiers and equipment, and maintains and enforces standards. Leaders must continually assess how Soldiers perform in their current rank and identify those who show the capacity and potential to perform at higher levels of responsibility.

Question 6

The T in STEP

Accepted Answer

Through training, NCOs achieve the tactical and technical competence that builds confidence and adaptability. Training should occur daily under challenging and realistic conditions, even when deployed. This helps you develop the ability to exercise mature judgement and initiative under stress. This training includes directed or mandatory training common individual and leader tasks, warrior battle drills, unit mission essential list-based collective tasks, and MOS skills.

Question 7

The E in STEP

Accepted Answer

NCO education consists of DLC and NCOPDS. This education will better prepare you for the complexities of today's operational environment while reinforcing the benefits of a deliberate, continuous, sequential, and progressive professional development strategy.

Question 8

The P in STEP

Accepted Answer

Once you are fully trained and educated, meet all prerequisites for promotion pin-on, and are established as promotable to the next rank, you can be promoted. Promotable Soldiers must be competient in the following areas:
- The Army Profession
- Professional competence
- Team building
- Adaptability
- Lifelong learning
-Comprehensive fitness

Question 9

Basic Leader Course (BLC)

Accepted Answer

BLC prepares the specialist/corporal for duties and responsibilities as a sergeant. Using the Leadership Requirements Model (LRM) through a holistic approach, learners will develop skills in written and oral communications, critical and creative thinking, problem solving, leadership, counseling, drill and ceremonies, how to train Solders, character development, troop leading procedures, and how to build effective teams. As a result, learners will be able to train, lead, and conduct operations at the team level.

Question 10

Advanced Leader Course (ALC)

Accepted Answer

Consists of 2 components, the technical and the leader core competencies (LCC).

Question 11

Army Career Tracker (ACT)

Accepted Answer

Provides a means to create an integrated approach that synchronizes professional development across three domains (operational, institutional, and self-development); provide individual assessment and feedback capabilities; and allow each Soldier or Civilian to collectively view Army training, experiential learning, and education data from a single interface that provides a common training picture as well as their lifelong learning strategy.

Question 12

Saluting the Flag and the National Anthem

Accepted Answer

The US Flag must never be dipped by way of a salute or compliment. The organizational color will be dipped in salute in a military ceremonies while the national anthem of the US, "To the Colors," or a foreign national anthem is playing. It will also be dipped when rendering honors to organizations and individuals during the conduct of military ceremonies.

Question 13

Cannon Salutes

Accepted Answer

Cannon salutes will be fired with a commissioned officer present. Salutes will not be fired between retreat and reveille, on Sundays, or on national holidays (excluding Memorial Day and Independence Day). However, international courtesy or other special occasions could require an exception. Cannon salutes generally will be rendered only to officers and officials of four-star or equivalent grade or higher.

Question 14

Who is Entitled to Honors?

Accepted Answer

Except in the case of the President, a former President, or President-elect of the US, honors are rendered only when a person of high importance visits a military installation that is not their own station. These individuals include the Speaker of the House of Representatives, General of the Army, and the chairman and Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to name only a few.

Question 15

What is the Charge to the Noncommissioned Officer?

Accepted Answer

The Charge of the NCO is a statement of responsibilities recited by NCOs during promotion ceremonies. The Charge to the NCO explains the vital role of Army leadership. By reciting this charge, the NCO promises to epitomize discipline, uphold the traditions and standards of the Army, as well as understand and respect the chain of command.

Question 16

The NCO Vision

Accepted Answer

The NCO Vision is a verbalization of the goals of the NCOs. Grounded in heritage, values, and tradition, the NCO Vision is to embody the warrior ethos; value perpetual learning; and to be capable of leading, training, and motivating Soldiers. The NCO Vision states that we must always lead by example, train from experience, maintain and enforce standards, take care of Soldiers, and adapt to a changing world.

Question 17

TC 7.22-7

Accepted Answer

"What often sets the Army apart as on institution steeped in history is the commitment to observing Army customs and traditions. It is customs and traditions, strange to the civilian eye, but solemn to the Soldier, which keeps the person in uniform motivated during times of pace. In war, they keep the warrior fighting at the front. Educating Soldiers on the importance of observing customs and traditions is key to leader development."

Question 18

What Types and Forms of Assistance are Available?

Accepted Answer

2 types: Emergency financial assistance, and assistance to surviving spouses, orphans, and dependent children of deceased Soldiers. Typically interest-free loan

Question 19

What is the Army Emergency Relief Program?

Accepted Answer

AER is the financial assistance organization dedicated to serving their own.

Question 20

GPS Program

Accepted Answer

Transition Goals, Plans, and Success Program: A package of activities and curriculum specifically designed to provide eligible service members with the targeted set of knowledge, skills, documentation, and assistance required to meet the Career Readiness Standards (CRS) to enable a successful transition from active duty back to civilian life.

Question 21

The Five-Day Core Curriculum

Accepted Answer

5 day core curriculum program. Starts with the MOS code Crosswalk, a curriculum that helps service members translate the skills and experience acquired in the military into credentials that are appropriate for civilian jobs. This program helps them translate their MOS experience to civilian sector occupations, and helps to identify any gaps in their training that need and helps to identify any gaps in their training that need filling. It then moves t personal Financial Planning, which provides service members with the tools needed to ID their financial responsibilities. Service members will create a 12 mo, post-separation budget to prepare them for the financial realities of civilian life and ensure their financial security. Also included are mandatory VA Benefits Briefings, that provide e

Question 22

Assessments and Individual Counseling

Accepted Answer

Pre-Separation Counseling is mandatory counseling provided to eligible service members by TAP staff or command career counselors to inform them of all the services, benefits, curriculum, and assessments during and after their release from active duty.
Fill out DD Form

Question 23

Capstone Event

Accepted Answer

A mandatory component of the Transition GPS where commanders verify that Service members have met CRS and have a solid Individual Transition Plan (ITP). the purpose is to evaluate the service member's preparedness to successfully transition from mil to civ life. It is a two-step process that will consist of an in-depth review conducted by TAP staff and verification based on service member's ITP. The from needed for this portion of the transition process is DD Form 2958.

Question 24

Military Life Cycle Transition Model

Accepted Answer

Outlines key "touch points" throughout a service member's career to align his or her Military career with their civilian career. It also promotes Career Readiness Standards (CRS) service members must meet long before separating from Active Duty and enables a well-planned, organized progression of skills building as they prepare for transition into civilian life.

Question 25

How many campaign and battle streamers does the Army Flag have?

Accepted Answer

over 180

Question 26

What gives the President the Authority as the Commander and Chief?

Accepted Answer

The Constitution

Question 27

Who determines the size and organization of the Army?

Accepted Answer

Congress

Question 28

Where does Congress get the authority to determine the size and organization of the Army?

Accepted Answer

The Constitution

Question 29

What ADP/ADRP covers The Army?

Accepted Answer

ADP/ADRP 1

Question 30

What is the most important determinant of combat power?

Accepted Answer

Leadership

Question 31

What is the U.S Army's greatest strategic asset; providing depth, versatility, and unmatched experience to the joint force?

Accepted Answer

The all-volunteer force

Question 32

What does trust at all levels of Leadership depend on?

Accepted Answer

Candor

Question 33

What usually keeps professional Soldiers in the Army?

Accepted Answer

Families

Question 34

The Army's Vision captures the three strategic roles of the Army what are they?

Accepted Answer

Prevent, Shape, and Win

Question 35

What Department of defense directive governs the army?

Accepted Answer

DODD 5100.01

Army DLC 1 (Distributed Leader Course)

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