Which mission is described as Agile Combat Employment?

• A. EIS mission
• B. WHCA mission
• C. ACS mission
• D. ACE

Answer: (D)

Agile Combat Employment centers on dispersing forces across multiple, austere locations and rapidly reconstituting capabilities to stay ahead in a contested environment. The idea is to maintain a high tempo by using smaller, cross-trained teams, modular basing, and rapid asset maneuver, so no single base becomes a critical vulnerability. This is the ACE mission: executing airpower from a network of adaptable sites rather than relying on one large, fixed base. The other named missions cover different, non-ACE functions—expeditionary information systems, presidential communications, and related command-and-control tasks—so they don’t embody the adaptive, dispersed approach described by ACE.