United States Army

United States Army

Soldier Support Institute
Adjutant General School
WOAC
Interpret Unit Status
Reporting Data
Lesson #CEC42133
Practical Exercise 1
9 March 2009

STUDENT INSTRUCTIONS

OBJECTIVE: This Practical Exercise measures your ability to manage the personnel readiness data of the unit status report (USR) in the role as a Battalion USR Manager. You will demonstrate your knowledge of personnel readiness data of the USR by answering questions about USR Reporting Levels and accurately calculating the personnel measurement areas of the USR.

MATERIALS REQUIRED:

1.  #2 Pencil

2.  Blank Paper

3.  AR 220-1

4.  HQDA FY 08-10 Manning Guidance

INSTRUCTIONS:

1.  Ensure that your name, rank, class number, and date are on your answer sheet.

2.  This practical exercise consists of two parts. Part 1 consists of 15 fill in the blank questions about Unit Status Reporting. Part 2 consists of 5 questions about specific calculations that would be done without an automated USR.

3.  ALL WORK ON THIS PRACTICAL EXERCISE MUST BE ON YOUR OWN. You may NOT communicate with other students, give or receive assistance, make record of your answers anywhere but on your answer sheet, or pass on information about this practical exercise to other students.

4.  You will have 60 minutes in which to complete this practical exercise. Once you have completed the PE, bring your PE answer sheet and any scratch paper to the instructor and exit the classroom until the designated critique time.

Manage Unit Status Reporting

PART 1

1. Which of the following is not one of the sequential force pools in the ARFORGEN model?

1. Reset/train

2. Ready

3. Contingency Expeditionary Force

4. Available

2. Which of the following is not a commander responsibility outlined in the HQDA FY 08-10 Manning guidance?

1. Conducts necessary coordination with deploying and redeploying brigades to maximize readiness and to facilitate the meeting of applicable reset goals.

2. Reassign deployable Soldiers performing rear detachment/garrison duties to deploying units to the maximum extent possible.

3. Ensure Soldier’s deploying have the appropriate dwell time IAW current policies.

4. Utilize enlisted substitutions within the same grade, one grade lower, or two grades higher to fill shortages.

3. A line item number (LIN) identifies what?

1. The number of personnel authorized for a position on an authorization document.

2. The number of personnel that have completed METL training.

3. Generic nomenclature of specific types of equipment.

4. Replacement parts.

4. DRRS-A provides the Army with which of the following major improvements?

1. Moves the Army forward by utilizing a DOS based system

2. Introduces the training proficiency assessment

3. Allows better readiness reporting for high OPTEMPO conditions inherent with the GWOT.

4. For the first time, incorporates the RC and AC unit data in one database.

5. How is the category level or C-level determined?

1. Highest level attained in a measured area (P, S, R, T)

2. Lowest level attained in a measured area (P, S, R, T)

3. Average level attained in a measured area (P, S, R, T)

4. Commander’s subjective assessment of all measured areas (P, S, R, T)

6. What Mission Accomplishment Estimate band of effectiveness should be assigned to a unit when it will experience significant decreases in flexibility and increases in vulnerability in many, but not all operational scenarios?

1. 90-99 percent band

2. 80-89 percent band

3. 70-79 percent band

4. 50-69 percent band

7. The Mission Accomplishment Estimate (MAE) is?

1. An objective assessment (Only)

2. A subjective assessment (Only)

3. A commander’s assessment (Only)

4. Both 2 and 3

8. What rating level is used to report equipment on hand?

1. P-level

2. R-level

3. S-level

4. T-level

9. Pacing items must first be classified with which of the following Equipment Readiness Code (ERC) classifications?

1. ERC A

2. ERC B

3. ERC C

4. ERC P

10. Which of the following metrics is not used in calculating the overall P-level of a unit?

1. ASPER

2. AVPER

3. MSPER

4. SGPER

11. What does the formula “available strength divided by required strength” compute?

1. ASPER

2. AVPER

3. ARPER

4. APERT

12. Which of the following is not a type of unit status report?

1. Change

2. Initial

3. Final

4. Validation

13. Which of the following are required to submit a unit status report?

1. MTOE separate detachments organic to a separate brigade

2. Deployable TDA unit with a UIC ending in AA

3. USAR training divisions

4. All of the above

14. Which of the following is one of the four measured resource areas reflected in the USR?

1. Facilities

2. Resources

3. Training

4. Budget

15. Which of the following is a purpose of the USR?

1.  Enables commanders to uniformly determine and accurately report an overall level indicating the ability of their units to accomplish their wartime mission.

2.  Reflect the unit commander’s assessments of the status of resources and training in his or her unit at a specific point in time.

3.  Modernize the force without significantly degrading unit readiness.

4.  Identify resources to cross-level for unit status reporting purposes.

Interpret Unit Status Reporting Data

Part II

SCENARIO: The BN S-3 is preparing a USR pre-brief for the BN Executive Officer and comes to you as the BN S-1 to provide the latest personnel numbers to update the briefing slides. The network is down because of some problems with the generator requiring you to manually compute the numbers with the hard copy data you have available. Using the personnel data provided below for 2nd BN, 77 Infantry, perform the necessary calculations and select the correct answer.

2nd BN, 77th Infantry Personnel Data
Assigned Strength / 487 / Required Strength / 505
Available Strength / 436 / Available Senior Grade / 78
Available MOS-Q Strength / 429 / Required Senior Grade / 105

16. What is the correct entry for ASPER (Assigned Strength Percentage)?

1. 95

2. 96

3. 97

4. 98

17. What is the correct entry for AVPER (Available Strength Percentage)?

1. 84

2. 85

3. 86

4. 87

18. What is the correct entry for MSPER (MOS Qualified Percentage)?

1. 81

2. 83

3. 84

4. 85

19. What is the correct entry for SGPER (Senior Grade Percentage)?

1. 74

2. 75

3. 77

4. 79

20. What is the Personnel Level (P-Level) for 2nd BN, 77th Infantry?

1.  1

2.  2

3.  3

4.  4