An example of allocation is:

• A. Assigning all fires to the highest-priority unit.
• B. Prioritizing which components receive the theater-wide share.
• C. Determining the number of fires available in the theater.
• D. Distributing the allocated fires to specific units.

Answer: (D)

Allocation means distributing a defined pool of resources to the recipients who will use them. After you’ve identified how many fires are available theater-wide, the next step is to spread that allocation to the specific units that will employ them. The statement that describes distributing the allocated fires to individual units perfectly matches this idea, since it turns the overall pool into actionable assignments for units in the field.

The other descriptions reflect different steps or outcomes not about this distribution: assigning all fires to one unit isn’t allocating across units; prioritizing which components get the theater-wide share concerns who gets a share rather than how that share is divided among units; and determining the total number of fires available is about figuring the resource amount, not the act of distributing it.