What triggers the Communications Guard role within a unit?

• A. When a unit assumes responsibility for admin reports to HOME PLATE
• B. When a unit loses communications
• C. When a unit changes its mission
• D. When a unit enters high altitude

Answer: (A)

Communications Guard is activated when the unit assumes responsibility for admin reports to HOME PLATE. This role exists to protect and manage the transmission of those administrative reports, ensuring they are prepared, transmitted, and acknowledged in a timely and secure manner. Once the unit takes on those admin reporting duties, the guard becomes responsible for overseeing the communications path, coordinating retries, and flagging issues to maintain a reliable information flow to HOME PLATE. Other triggers—loss of communications, a change in mission, or entering high altitude—do not establish this guard because they relate to restoring comms, adjusting tasks, or environmental factors, rather than the administrative reporting handoff that defines this role.