Question: Who was the Army Chief of Staff at this time?
Answer: General Martin Dempsey

Question: What month and year was the black beret replaced?
Answer: June 2011

Question: If a soldier is in a unit in jump status, what color beret do they wear?
Answer: maroon

Question: The rifle green beret is worn by whom?
Answer: Special Forces

Question: How many military departments does the Department of Defense have?
Answer: three

Question: What does SECARMY stand for?
Answer: Secretary of the Army

Question: What does CSA stand for?
Answer: Chief of Staff of the Army

Question: At the end of 2016, how many soldiers were in the Regular Army?
Answer: 475,000

Question: How many soldiers were there in the entire U.S. Army at the end of 2016?
Answer: 1,015,000

Question: What Indian tribe was the Army's major campaign against?
Answer: Seminoles

Question: During what years did the wars between the Army and the Seminoles take place?
Answer: 1818–58

Question: What state were the Seminoles moved to?
Answer: Oklahoma

Question: What did the Army traditionally take control of to defeat the Indians?
Answer: winter food supply

Question: During what century did the Seminoles enter Florida?
Answer: eighteenth

Question: What year did the Korean War start?
Answer: 1950

Question: Who walked out of the U.N. security meeting?
Answer: the Soviets

Question: In what two countries did the American troops fight Communist forces?
Answer: Korea and Vietnam

Question: In what year did the Korean war end?
Answer: 1953

Question: In 1989, what did the Pentagon plan to reduce the army end strength to?
Answer: 580,000

Question: Which country did Iraq invade in 1990?
Answer: Kuwait

Question: What operation began in January 1991?
Answer: Desert Storm

Question: How many troops were involved in Operation Desert Storm?
Answer: 500,000

Question: How long did Operation Desert Storm last?
Answer: one hundred hours

Question: What year was the U.S. army organized?
Answer: 1775

Question: What group combined with the U.S. Army?
Answer: United States Volunteers

Question: Who raised the United States Volunteers?
Answer: various state governments

Question: What is the active component of the U.S. Army?
Answer: Regular Army

Question: What are the two reserve components of the U.S. Army?
Answer: Army National Guard and the Army Reserve

Question: What are UTAs?
Answer: unit training assemblies

Question: The U.S. Army is organized under what title of the United States Code?
Answer: 10

Question: Who does the D.C. National Guard report to?
Answer: the U.S. President

Question: What does ASI stand for?
Answer: additional skill identifier

Question: What is are combat medics duties?
Answer: provide pre-hospital emergency treatment

Question: Where do the officers go to complete their branch specific training?
Answer: Basic Officer Leaders Course

Question: If the officers want to advance their careers even further, where is that available?
Answer: Army Correspondence Course Program

Question: What does the army use for facilities while they are deployed?
Answer: tents

Question: What is the abbreviation for a tactical operations center?
Answer: TOC

Question: What does FOB stand for?
Answer: forward operating bases

Question: Where are the dining facilities called?
Answer: DFAC buildings

Question: What are the barracks used for?
Answer: sleeping quarters

Question: Which war had the most U.S. casualties associated with it?
Answer: The American Civil War

Question: What were the U.S. forces referred to as?
Answer: the "Union" or "the North"

Question: What state did not contribute any troops to the Union Army?
Answer: South Carolina

Question: In what year did the army start using fixed-wing aircraft?
Answer: 1910

Question: Who attacked New Mexico in 1916?
Answer: Pancho Villa

Question: What year did the U.S. join World War I?
Answer: 1917

Question: What date did the U.S. intervention in New Mexico end?
Answer: 7 February 1917

Question: Who was the Secretary of Defense in 1967?
Answer: Robert McNamara

Question: How many divisions did the Secretary of Defense cut the original 15 down to?
Answer: 8

Question: How many brigades did the Secretary of Defense increase the number to?
Answer: 18

Question: How many victims were killed in the attack on the Pentagon?
Answer: 125

Question: What aircraft was hijacked?
Answer: American Airlines Flight 77

Question: Did they crash into the eastern or wester part of the Pentagon.
Answer: west

Question: Who was the highest ranking official killed in the attack?
Answer: Lieutenant General Timothy Maude

Question: What is the army replacing divisions with?
Answer: brigades

Question: How will the brigades be structured?
Answer: modular

Question: Who can command any brigade?
Answer: divisional headquarters

Question: What is the primary sidearm used by the U.S. Army?
Answer: 9 mm M9 pistol

Question: What type of frag grenade is used by the U.S. Army?
Answer: M67

Question: The M18 is a type of what kind of grenade?
Answer: smoke

Question: Through what system are handguns being replacedby the U.S. Army?
Answer: Modular Handgun System

Question: What does HMMWV stand for?
Answer: High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle

Question: What is the HMMWV also known as?
Answer: Humvee

Question: The M1A2 Abrams is an example of what?
Answer: battle tank

Question: What does MRAP stand for?
Answer: Mine Resistant Ambush Protected

Question: Under what Prussian king did the German empire unite as a nation-state?
Answer: Wilhelm I

Question: What was the date of the Treaty of Frankfurt?
Answer: 10 May 1871

Question: The Treaty of Frankfurt gave Germany which Imperial territory?
Answer: Alsace-Lorraine

Question: Following the unification of Germany, who maintained great authority in international affairs for two decades?
Answer: Otto von Bismarck

Question: Which specific fear was a factor in causing World War I?
Answer: another Franco-German war

Question: What telegram had the intended effect on French public opinion?
Answer: Ems telegram

Question: Following the Ems telegram, what reaction did the French foreign minister report that he felt?
Answer: he felt "he had just received a slap"

Question: In Parliament, who was the leader of the monarchists?
Answer: Adolphe Thiers

Question: Which French prime minister believed he had done all that he could to prevent a war?
Answer: Emile Ollivier

Question: On which date did France issue a declaration of war to the Prussian government?
Answer: 19 July 1870

Question: In which battle did the Dreyse needle gun gain its fame?
Answer: Battle of Königgrätz

Question: At the start of the Franco-Prussian War, what was the age of the Dreyse gun's design?
Answer: 25-year-old design

Question: What was the Dreyse rifle's tactical range?
Answer: 600 m (2,000 ft)

Question: What was the name of the famous cannon issued to Prussian soldiers at the time?
Answer: Krupp

Question: What type of shell did the Krupp weapon fire?
Answer: a contact-detonated shell

Question: What was the date of the first action of the Franco-Prussian War?
Answer: 4 August 1870

Question: On that date, which elements were assisted by Prussian artillery forces?
Answer: Bavarian and two Prussian corps

Question: Who initially held a strong position during the battle at the border? 
Answer: General Douay of I Corps

Question: Douay's initial success was credited by what?
Answer: long-range fire of the Chassepots

Question: What threatened the French avenue of retreat?
Answer: the encirclement of the town by the Prussians

Question: What factor were the French unaware of at the start of the battle?
Answer: German numerical superiority

Question: Which French commander miscalculated the severity of the battle?
Answer: Frossard

Question: What was a key factor in Frossard's disasterous retreat to the south?
Answer: Seriously flawed communications