Results for security operations

Under the Threat Awareness and Reporting Program, what are you required to report?

Any contact, behavior, or activity that suggests foreign intelligence collection, international terrorism, insider threat, or an attempt to obtain classified or sensitive information. Report it to your commander, security manager, or supporting counterintelligence office. The duty to report belongs to every Soldier, civilian, and contractor, regardless of clearance.

What are the five S's and T for handling detainees?

Search, silence, segregate, safeguard, speed to the rear, and tag. Detainees are searched for weapons and documents, kept from talking to one another, separated by rank and category, protected from harm, moved to the rear quickly, and tagged with the time, date, place, and circumstances of capture.

What are the five steps of the OPSEC process?

Identify critical information, analyze the threat, analyze vulnerabilities, assess risk, and apply OPSEC measures or countermeasures. The process is continuous, not a one-time check.

What are the nine lines of a UXO report?

Line 1, date-time group of discovery. Line 2, reporting activity and location of the item. Line 3, contact method, frequency, call sign, and point of contact. Line 4, type of ordnance, dropped, projected, placed, or thrown. Line 5, CBRN contamination. Line 6, resources threatened. Line 7, impact on the mission. Line 8, protective measures already taken. Line 9, recommended priority.

What are the three levels of classification and the damage standard for each?

Top Secret, where unauthorized disclosure could reasonably be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to national security. Secret, where it could be expected to cause serious damage. Confidential, where it could be expected to cause damage.

What do you do when you find unexploded ordnance?

Do not touch, move, or disturb it. Mark the area and back away along the route you came in. Establish a cordon that keeps people clear, report it up the chain using the UXO report, and wait for explosive ordnance disposal. Nobody in the unit renders it safe.

What is a SALUTE report?

The standard format for reporting information about the enemy. Size, activity, location, unit or uniform, time, and equipment. Report it accurately and fast, and keep facts separate from your assessment.

What is OPSEC, and what is critical information?

Operations security is the process of denying an adversary the unclassified indicators that, pieced together, would reveal friendly intentions, capabilities, or vulnerabilities. Critical information is the specific information about friendly plans and operations an adversary needs to act effectively against us. Most of what OPSEC protects is not classified.

What is the difference between a challenge and password and a running password?

The challenge and password is a two-part exchange used at a fixed point to confirm identity: one element issues the challenge, the other answers with the password. A running password is a single prearranged word used to get a friendly element through a position quickly when there is no time for the exchange, such as when moving under fire.

What three conditions must be met before a person may be given access to classified information?

The person must hold an eligibility determination at or above the level of the information, must have a valid need to know it to do their job, and must have signed a classified information nondisclosure agreement, the SF 312. A clearance by itself is not authority to see everything at that level.