2020 NJROTC National Academic Exam Practice

Newton

One of the leading early scientists who was responsible for formulating a number of laws dealing with motion.

Dispersal

The key to survival in atomic warfare is

Survival

The most basic of all human needs such as food , water, sleep, air, and pain relief, all support the ______ of a human being.

Fighters

This aircraft's function is to gain air superiority

Habitability

What describes those features needed for the crew to comfort and living conditions

A form of limited war in which a major power avoids direct military involvement by having satellite states engage another major power or its allies

What is a proxy war?

the rights of each individual to be protected

What is the basic requirement pertaining to individual rights of both military and civil law?

Safety first

What is the first rule when working with lines and wires?

Trough

What is the lowest part of a wave?

ZEBRA

What is the material readiness condition set on ships before going to sea or when entering port during war

F/A-18 Super Hornet

What is the name of the newest aircraft in the US Navy?

The Persian Gulf is very shallow

What is the reason there is a large variety of fish living in the Persian Gulf?

The Battle-ax or Spade

What is the staff ornament for the national ensign, when displayed on the nine and a half foot pole in the NJROTC color guard?

Fusion

What is the term for the combustion of two or more elements to form a third element?

The Naval Research and Development program

What program was essential to the security and national independence of the united states during the Cold War?

Luminosity

What refers to the brightness of a star as compared to the brightness of the sun

harbor charts

What term is described as large scale charts most commonly used to navigate and anchor in bays, coves, and rivers?

appropriation

What term is used to refer to the setting aside of money for a specific use?

Constituted authority

what can be defined as "to give authority figures lawful power to make and enforce the rules"

Jupiter

What is the planet that has a mysterious "great red spot" in its hemisphere?

Psychrometer

What is the term for two ordinary thermometers mounted together on a single strip of material

E-6A Mercury

What aircraft serves as the Navy's communication relay for the fleet ballistic missile submarines and airborne command post for strategic forces?

Airframe, propulsion system, guidance system and warhead

What are the four parts of guided missiles?

reproduction, heredity, variation in fitness or organisms, variation in individual characters among members of the population.

What are the requirements for a successful evolution?

Organization of American States (OAS) and North Atlantic Territory Organization (NATO)

What are the two main collective defense arrangements in which the United States is an active participant

Pounds

What are the units of force in the metric system?

Troposphere

What atmospheric layer is the ocean of air immediately above the earths surface

Hooghly River Cyclone

What was the greatest natural catastrophe of history, a 1737 typhoon that killed 300,000 people?

The admission of new states into the Union as either slave or free states

What was the major political difference that caused the Southern states to break away from the union 1860

4

1 degree of longitude is equivalent to how many minutes?

Bomber, design

A B-17 is a _________and the 17th _________________.

homing guidance system

A missile guidance system which depends on the missile picking up and tracking a target by means of radar, optical, or heat -seeking device is called the

Deck divisions

A seaman apprentice (SA) reporting on board ship from boot camp is usually assigned to one of what divisions?

satisfy combat needs

A ship's organization is set up to

Rises over

A warm front is formed when a warm air mass _____ a cold air mass.

Sling psychrometers

Aboard naval ships, what special type of psychrometers are used to speed up the process of getting accurate wet- and dry-bulb readings?

USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72)

Aboard what carrier did President Push declare major combat had ended follow the capture of Baghdad?

2,000

About how many U.S. Marines were kept behind to cover for the retreating UN troops?

3,000-3,500

About how many long-range nuclear warheads had to be reduced within a decade of the signing of the START II treaty?

60,000

About how many troops landed on Leyte by 20 October 1944?

2/5

About how strong is the Sun's gravitational pull on the oceans compared to the Moon's?

39 miles per hour

Above what sustained wind velocity are hurricanes, typhoons, and tropical storms given names?

Instruction Conduction, Instructor present but allows Cadet Commander to conduct, Instructor present but makes Cadet Commander conduct, Cadet Commander presides and another officer conducts.

According to the CRM, what are the four ways to conduct a staff meeting?

cyber bullying, invasion of privacy, scams, information permanence. security, the principle of unintended consequence

According to the CRM, what are the pitfalls of social media?

Navy/Air Force: E-3, Army/Marine Corps: E-2

After taking part in NJROTC for three years, what pay grade could you enter the different branches of service at?

Admiral Chester W. Nimitz

After the defeats in the Pacific, who took over the Commander in Chief role of the Pacific Fleet?

Battle of the Java Sea

After what battle were the Japanese free to capture the island of Java?

Columbia

Against what government did Panamanians revolt against?

Admiral Thomas Kinkaid's supporting naval forces and Mitscher's Fast Carrier Force

Against what groups were the first Japanese Kamikaze suicide plane attacks recorded?

Lockheed Starliner

Aircraft produced by what company made first sightings of the rings of Uranus in 1977?

Mercury and Venus

All planets have moons with exception of

Fundamental

All sovereign states have rights. Some rights are regarded as

7 meters long

All vessels over what length at anchor must display a black ball day shape?

indicating she needs help

Anna has a 26% body fat. Her body fat percentage is ________.

2,400

Approximately how many American servicemen were killed at Pearl Harbor?

1,000 mg

Approximately how many milligrams of cholesterol is produced by your liver daily?

85%

Approximately what percent of U.S. Naval forces were actively deployed during World War 2?

3/4

Approximately what percent of the atmospheric weight is below the stratosphere?

80%

Approximatley what percent of international trade goods are transported through the oceans?

96%

Approximatley what percent of seawater is pure water?

Lake Maracaibo

Around what brackish bay are the Venezuelan oil fields found?

Luminous tail

As a comet is heated mire, dust and ionized gas particles are pushed away from the head by the pressure of the suns radiation. They move away and form a

ammonia and methane

As the Earth was cooling, what two poisonous gases were dissipated by the Sun's radiation?

Oyashio Current

As the Kuroshio current spreads out north of Japan, what current does it pass closely south of, coming out of the Bering Sea?

thirteen

At about how many knots do whitecaps begin to form?

Dew point

At higher altitudes, what has to be reached for a cloud to be formed?

"Column Right (Left), MARCH"

At the halt or in march while in column, to change direction 90 degrees right or left, the company commander orders

Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan

At what air base was a full-scale replica of Bin Laden's compound built for U.S. practice runs of Operation Neptune Spear?

Battle of Mobile Bay

At what battle did Admiral Farragut shout his famous words; "Damn the torpedoes!"?

Underway during daylight in a foreign port; when ships are required to be dressed or full dressed; when going alongside a foreign vessel; when an officer or official is embarked on an official occasion; when in uniform and a flag or general officer, a unit commander, a commanding officer, or a chief of staff is embarked in a boat of his or her command or in one assigned to his or her personal use, and at other times as may be prescribed by the senior officer present

At what times is the national ensign displayed from boats of the Navy?

Mount Suribachi

Atop what mountain is the famous photo of U.S. Marines raising a flag during the attack on Iwo Jima?

Traversal of the Northwest and Northeast Passages

Before the 19th century, what was the main focus of countries regarding the Arctic Ocean?

Eight

Between 1962 and 1975, how many Orbiting Solar Observatories were launched into orbit to study the sun?

United States to Western European NATO allies and oil-rich countries in the Middle East

Between what areas are the most important military sea-lanes?

32-212 degrees farenheit

Between what temperatures is water a liquid?

United States East Coast to Western Europe

Between what two areas do the main shipping lanes in the Atlantic go?

Stratosphere and mesosphere

Between what two layers of the Earth's atmosphere is the chemosphere, or ozone layer, located?

283

By 2005 the number of U.S. ships had decreased from 589 to how many ships?

450,000 personell, 100 U.S. Navy ships

By the end of 1990, about how many U.S. military personell and ships were engaged in operations in support of Operation Desert Shield?

air temperature, water vapor content, and pressure

Changes in weather are caused by

Compass direction or compass point of origin from which the wind blows

Conventionally, how is wind direction specified?

3 paces

During all drill movements, the unit leader remains centered at a distance of _________ from the squad.

Libya

During the Arab Springs movement, what nation saw the most violent fighting?

1,100

During the Pacific war, approximately how many merchant vessels were sunk by the United States Submarines?

Major General Horatio Gates

During the battle of Saratoga, who was the commander of American troops?

Rabaul

During the battles for Guadalcanal and New Guinea in late 1942, what was the major Japanese base in Southwest Pacific?

Iron and Nickel

During the formation of Earth, what were the two primary metal crystals that sunk to the center of the earth and became the core?

Magma/Lava

During the formation of the earth, what broke through the surface and expelled gas and solid materials?

Five

During the mid-watch, how many bells would ding at 0230?

Hurricane Katrina

During what hurricane was the highest surge on record recorded?

Friction, pressure, heat, light, chemical action, and magnetism

Electromotive force may be produced by

Second, Fourth, and Fifth fleets

FWC Norfolk provides weather forecasting for fleet operations and training for which fleets?

Third, Fifth, and Seventh fleets

FWC San Diego provides weather forecasting for fleet operations and training for which fleets?

Commanding Officer

Fill in the blank about the Command duty officer: This officer represents the _______ when he or she is off the ship or otherwise unavailable

Cloud computing

Fill in the blank: A more recent milestone for internet technology with great promise for the future is the increasing use of so-called ____________, wherein application programming and data is stored on a number of remote sites accessible via the internet.

Centerline

Fill in the blank: A ship is divided lengthwise in half by the __________.

takes on the characteristics

Fill in the blank: An air mass ________________ of the surface over which it forms.

Cold War

Fill in the blank: Because of the events of the ________ ______, it is now generally recognized that the rules of war apply in all armed conflicts of an international nature, regardless of whether or not war is formally declared?

24 miles

Fill in the blank: By established convention, if the entrance to a bay or gulf is _________ or less in width, a line can be drawn seaward of the narrows at the entrance.

Mean Sea Level (MSL)

Fill in the blank: Elevation is the height, or vertical distance, of a point on the earth's surface above or below ______________.

Kon-Tiki

Fill in the blank: In 1947, explorer Thor Heyerdahl dragged a plankton net behind his balsa wood raft, named __________, and collected a small amount of edible plankton, which he then ground into a salty paste.

Santa Barbara, California

Fill in the blank: In February 1942 the Japanese Submarine I-17 surfaced near ______________________ and shelled an oil refinery.

Time exposures

Fill in the blank: In astronomy, successful observation of more distant planets, stars, and galaxies require ____________.

Small stuff

Fill in the blank: Line less than 1 3/4 inches in circumference is called __________ and is identified by the number of threads in the line.

One's temper

Fill in the blank: Losing _________ is usually considered to be a personal weakness and usually does not improve the effectiveness of the leader and his or her status withing the organization.

Filariasis

Fill in the blank: On Togatabu Island in 1942, the 14th artillery and the 404th Engineer Battalions were part of a task force preparing to attack Guadalcanal. However, the majority of these troops contracted a mosquito-borne disease called ___________ and were medically evacuated without seeing combat.

W

Fill in the blank: Ventilation fittings marked with a ___ are never closed.

Work

Fill in the blank: When a force acts through a distance, ____ is said to have been done.

more perfect Union; Blessing of Liberty

Fill in the blanks: We the People of the United States, in Order to form a ____________, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the _________ to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Saturation point, boiling point

Fill in the blanks: When the air contains all the water it can at a given temperature and pressure, humidity is said to be at 100%, called it's ___________, or _______________.

sit and reach

Flexibility, which is using the entire range of motion of a muscle, is best measured by which exercises?

hygroscopic nuclei

Fragments of matter that are present in the atmosphere and essential to cloud formation are called

Georgetown, Guyana

From what port are large amounts of bauxite ore exported?

1992-2006

From what time period was Yugoslavia briefly reconstituted as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia by Serbia and Montenegro?

Leads to more demands

Giving in to demands for tribute and ransom usually

best for commercial fishing

High underwater plateaus with an abundance of marine vegetation are

Method of planting, final planted position, mode of operation, and the detonating mechanism

How are mines classified?

Color, pattern of flashes, and timing interval

How are navigation lights identified?

single or parallel lines with horizontal track marks

How are railroads marked on a map?

Psychrometer

How are relative humidity and dew point traditionally measured?

The clearing of mangrove swamps and diking them with mud.

How are the mullet, shrimp, and crab ponds in Southeast Asia created?

Barometer

How are variations in atmospheric pressure measured?

F=ma

How can Newton's second law be expressed mathmatically?

I=E/R

How can Ohm's law be expressed mathematically?

Observed from air or from a bridge, the luminous wake of a ship or periscope is visible and clearly reveals the vessel's position, course, and speed

How can bioluminescence be detrimental to amphibious landings and other naval operations?

Distance = rate x time

How can the speed of sound be calculated?

16,400 feet

How deep is the deepest point of the South Caribbean Sea?

David Bushnell

How designed an built the submersible Turtle during the Revolutionary War?

By passing the Two-Ocean Navy act, allowing the president to build a fleet for each ocean.

How did Congress expand the Navy?

Using carrier task forces for a variety of hit-and-run raids

How did Nimitz feel he could best defend the sea-lanes to Australia?

St. Lawrence Seaway

How did Sea Lampreys enter the Great Lakes?

Tracking mechanisms

How do larger telescopes compensate for the Earth's rotation and revolutions?

Knots

How do meteorologists measure wind speed?

Add or subtract the variation at your location to the magnetic bearing

How do you convert magnetic to true direction?

They place six different kind of carp into a pond. The grass carp consumes surface vegetations, two midwater dwellers east phytoplankton and zooplankton, and three bottom-feeders eat mollusks, worms, and the feces of grass carp.

How does China's ecological fish farming system function?

As a funnel cloud on the forward edge of a fully developed cumulonimbus thunderstorm cloud.

How does a tornado form?

It weakens sound transmissions

How does biological fouling impair sonar gear?

Obtains lines of position from radio waves to determine the ship's location

How does electronic navigation work?

Aircraft or rockets drop dry-ice crystals or silver-iodide crystals into potential rain clouds, then encourage water to form around the foreign substance and fall as rain

How does modern rainmaking occur?

It has three oxygen atoms rather than two

How is Ozone different than typical oxygen?

Standard acceleration of Gravity

How is acceleration often measured?

After a cold front pushes a warm front aloft and converges with another cold front on the other side, the convergent front that remains is an occluded front

How is an occluded front formed?

In terms of degrees, minutes, and seconds of arc

How is measurement along a meridian or parallel expressed?

Along the propeller shaft from high-pressure areas to low-pressure areas

How is properller thrust transmitted?

Strategy has always been concerned with the politics, economies, and planning that goes on before the battle.

How is strategy different then tactics?

Electromagnetic waves

How is the Sun's energy transmitted?

Sun's effect on the Earth's magnetic field

How is the magnetosphere formed?

Thickness and curvature of the lens or the radius of curvature of it's mirror

How is the magnifying power of a telescope determined?

Displacement in tons

How is the size of a ship given?

Parts per thousand (ppt)

How is the total salt in seawater traditionally expressed?

From true north located in the true north

How is true nautical direction measured?

Horizontal distance between two successive crests

How is wavelength measured?

500 meters (1,640 feet)

How large must the safety zone around an oil rig installation be under the Continental Shelf Convention?

38 minutes

How long did Operation Neptune Spear take to execute?

180 million years ago

How long did it approximatley take for India to move 5,500 miles across the Indian Ocean?

88 days

How long does it take Mercury to complete a full orbit around the Sun?

6,076 feet

How long is a nautical mile?

4 hours

How long is the traditional naval ship watch?

350

How many Japanese planes were shot down during the Marinas Turkey Shoot?

19,000

How many Marines and sailors were wounded as a result of the attack on Iwo Jima?

2,400

How many Marines were killed on the first day of the invasion of Iwo Jima?

About 500,000

How many Navy sailors remained following the rapid demobilization after World War 2?

Over 4,000 sailors and 68 ships

How many Navy sailors were killed and how many ships were lost during the Battle of Okinawa?

over 10,000

How many US Marine and sailors helped clear the harbor and assist in relief efforts?

49

How many US aviators were lost following the Battle of the Philippine Sea?

Eight

How many US intelligence agencies fall under the Department of Defense?

146 articles

How many articles make up the Uniform Code of Military Justice?

Two

How many counts is the cadence for a facing movement?

Six

How many feet are in a fathom?

3.26

How many light years are in a parsec?

15

How many members are in the Security Council?

435 members

How many members are in the house of representatives?

1.15

How many miles are in a knot?

115

How many military maxims were written by Napoleon Bonaparte?

Eight

How many navy ships participated in Operation Unified Assistance?

189

How many people were killed as a result of the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon?

370,000

How many people were killed by a devastating tsunami in late December 2004 in the Indian Ocean Basin?

220,000

How many people were killed during the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti?

155

How many personell are in the crew of a Fleet ballistic Missile Submarine?

746 watts

How many watts are in one horsepower?

They may not be confined, put in correctional custody, given extra duty, or reduced in rank

How may officers not be punished?

126 trillion horsepower

How much energy does the Sun bombard Earth with each second?

0.98 psi

How much psi is in a bar?

14.696 psi

How much psi is in one atmosphere?

Get the victim emergency help as soon as possible

How should you treat frostbite?

13,677 feet

How tall is the Mauna Loa?

Time exposures

How to astronomers use single-frame CCD cameras?

When the pirates came aboard the USS Bainbridge, a contingent of Navy SEALS that had taken concealed firing positions on the fantail opened fire, killing three of the four pirates.

How was Captain Richard Phillips rescued from the pirates?

2.6 miles wide

How wide was the widest ever recorded tornado?

stimulant

If a drug, drink, or other substance speeds up the activity of the mind or body, it is considered to be a _______.

The Baltic, Mediterranean, the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea, the Caribbean, and the Sea of Japan

If restrictions on passage through straits were imposed, access to what areas would be severely impeded?

0730, a half hour

If you are working the morning watch and hear seven bells, what time is it and how long before your watch ends?

Physical Fitness Ribbon with Bronze Lamp

If you received 8 total points in the cadet challenge, what award(s) would you receive?

Abraham Maslow

In 1950, what psychologist proposed a "Hierarchy of Human Needs"?

USS Stark (FFG 31)

In 1987, what U.S. frigate was attacked by exocet missiles fired from an Iraqui aircraft?

Errant U.S. satellite 130 miles above the Pacific Ocean

In 2008, what did a SM-3 missile fired from an Aegis cruiser shoot down?

USS Maersk Alabama

In April 2009, four heavily armed Somali pirates boarded what American container-ship and took Captain Richard Phillips hostage?

45,000 troops, 300 tanks

In August 1996, how many troops and tanks did Hussein attempt to march towards UN-protected Kurdish territory in Northern Iraq?

General National Congress

In August 2012, the transitional Libyan rebel government turned over power to what permanent government?

insubordination

In March 1951, General MacArthur sent a letter to Joseph Martin, the minority leader in the House of Representatives, attacking the president's war policies. When the leader was made public, what did President Truman relieve MacArthur for?

able and willing

In Readiness Level 4, the follower is ___________.

Marine Corps Color Bearer

In a 5 member joint Navy and Marine Corps color guard, what flag-bearer should be in the middle?

The bitter fate of the POW/MIA sailors

In a POW/MIA table, what does the slice of lemon on the bread plate represent?

soup spoon

In a formal military setting, what is directly to the right of the dinner knife?

Kenya and Tanzania

In early August 1998, U.S. embassies in what two nations were destroyed by terrorist car bombs?

15 fathoms

In fathoms, how long is a standard shot on an anchor cable?

Secretary of Defense

In matters of National Security, who is directly underneath the President in the chain of command?

ballast

In order for a submarine to surface once submerged it must force water out of its __________ tanks.

The secret orders of Marshal Petain to the Vichy French in Casablanca to join with de Gaulle's Free French forces

In response to what action did Hitler's armies occupy all of France?

dictators

In the 1920s and 1930s many politically troubled European countries were taken over by

Coxswain

In the Navy, what is the term for the person in charge of a powerboat, the crew, and any passengers?

An unnamed hurricane that struck Galveston, Texas in September 1900, killing between 6,000 and 12,000 people

In the United States, what was the most damaging natural disaster in history, and where did it strike?

18,000 miles

In the atmosphere, traces of gaseous elements, such as helium, are present as far out as

Northern Alliance, a loose collection of rebel Afghan tribes

In the beginning of Operation Enduring Freedom, what group performed most of the ground fighting?

1030

In the forenoon watch aboard a vessel, at what time would 5 bells ding?

United States Merchant Marines

In times of war, what organization is the primary naval carrier of supplies for the armed forces?

The Coast Guard

In times of war, what organization joins the Navy?

Persian Gulf-area oil fields and Western Europe

In what areas are the heaviest seabound bulk cargo traffic?

Red Sea

In what body of water does the Red Tide occur?

Tunisia

In what country did violent protests erupt in December 2010 following the public self-immolation of a protester?

Meeting

In what crossing situation are both vessels give-way?

Open circuit

In what kind of circuit is the flow of electricity interrupted?

Disciplined and efficient groups

In what kind of groups are high morale present?

Thermosphere

In what layer of Earth's atmosphere does the International Space Station orbit?

Keflavik, Iceland

In what location in the eastern Atlantic does the U.S. Navy maintain an important air base?

Inches or millimeters

In what measurements are the diameter of guns larger than 3 inches in bore measured?

World War I

In what war did military geography begin to be considered?

World War II

In what war had every aspect of geography start to become important?

1946

In what year did Congress authorize the formation of the Office of Naval Research?

1993

In what year did Congress repeal the Combat Exclusion Law, allowing women to serve on combatant ships and aircraft?

2002

In what year did Task Force 500 become a combined task force including ships from four other nations?

2010

In what year did the Department of the Navy allow qualified junior women officers to serve on fleet ballistic-missile submarines?

1949

In what year did the Soviet Union detonate its first nuclear bomb?

1846

In what year was Neptune discovered?

1951

In what year was the Maritime Commission abolished and taken over by the Maritime Administration?

1999

In what year was the Panama Canal turned back over to Panama by a treaty with the United States?

1938

In what year was the U.S. Hurricane Warning System set up?

1453

In what year was the first recorded use of naval gunfire?

Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ)

In what zone do most hurricanes and typhoons form?

c) Make a mark on the straight-edged paper at the beginning point's center of mass.

In which of these steps in measuring curved-line distance has a critical step been omitted? a) Pivot the paper to align it to the next straight portion of the distance. b) Make marks short straight distances on the map as you proceed. c) Make a mark on the straight-edged paper at the beginning point's center of mass. d) At the ending point, use the bar scale to read the distance from the marks on the paper.

Captain Charles Wilkes, San Jacinto

James Mason and John Slidell were both en route to European countries as diplomats aboard the British steamship Trent. Who intercepted them and what was the name of his ship?

the followers, the leader, the job to be done

Leadership depends upon

186,000 MPS

Light travels at ________

Ordance locators

Mine hunting operations are conducted by highly trained personnel who operate devices called

Ruso-Japanese War (1904-1905)

Mines were considered only a defensive weapon up until what war?

specific goals the nation seeks to advance , support or protect its interest

National objectives are

Troposphere

Nearly all the Earth's clouds are in what layer?

South Carolina

On 20 December 1860, what state seceded from the Union?

Beirut Airport, 241

On 23 October 1983, a suicide bomber drove a truck full of explosives into the UN headquarters building. Where was this building and how many Marines and naval personell were killed?

DEFCON 2

On 24 October 1962, what readiness condition were U.S. military forces placed into for the first and only time in history?

Major Nidal Hasan

On 5 November 2009, at Fort Hood, Texas, what Army psychiatrist opened fire on enlisted personell, killing thirteen and injuring thirty?

Commodore Isaac Chauncey and Sir James Yeo

On Lake Ontario, who were the two opposing commanders undergoing a shipbuilding race?

Omaha Beach

On what beach on D-Day did the Allied forces encounter stiff resistance from dug-in German troops?

19 October 1781

On what date did General Cornwallis surrender?

Enhanced Fujita (EF) scale

On what scale are the strengths of tornadoes rated?

Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale

On what scale are the strengths of tropical cyclones rated?

USS Birmingham, USS Pennsylvania

On what ships did Eugene Ely complete his first successful shipboard takeoff and landing?

Trade winds

Once formed, tropical cyclones are primarily steered by what winds?

Natural convection

Once in the atmosphere, water vapor is moved from place to place or from one altitude to another by what process?

Enlisted personnel

Only what kind of personnel may be tried by a summary court martial?

communications using satellites links and low frequency transmission which can be sent or received around the globe

Over the horizon communication means

toxic personalities

Psychologists use the term ________ ________ to refer to people who never have a nice thing to say about anyone or anything.

Delegate authority

Regardless of the leadership approach, what is it frequently necessary for leaders to do to get the job done?

Manganese, Nickel, Copper, Titanium, and Lead

Rich beds of what metals have been found on the Indian Ocean floor?

Gas and dust

Scientists believed that what is now our solar system began about 4.5 billion years ago as a large cloud of ______ and ______ from the big bang

meteor shower

Sometimes the Earth crosses a part of a former comet path. The tiny particles are remaining from the comet then collide with our atmosphere , producing a

increased inland reach of sea power and nuclear power

The 2 major technological developments since World War 2 are

Winter in the Northern Hemisphere.

The Earth is closest to the Sun in the

Nuclear

The Forrestal class carriers were designed to launch planes carrying what kind of bombs?

ARS

The Navy's rescue and salvage ships have the designation _________.

mutual and inseparable

The Preamble to the Bill of Responsibilities says that freedom and responsibility are ________and _______.

Bashar al-Assad

The Syrian civil was started against what Syrian president?

Satellites

The US hurricane warning system receives most of its information from

monitoring the dismantling of USSR weapons and the disposal of fissionable material

The US intelligence resources in the 1990s changed emphasis from the counting and tracking of nuclear weapons in the USSR to

Philippines, Hawaii and Guam

The United States acquired what territories as the result of the peace treaty ending the Spanish-American War?

National Liberation Front

The Vietcong were members of what communist group?

maneuvering

The __________ board is used to construct a relative motion plot, whereby the motion of other vessels and the wind relative to your own vessel can be plotted as an aid to avoid collisions and determine the true wind. It can also be used to solve many other more advanced types of problems.

First lieutenant

The __________ directs deck evolutions and the care of the ship's exterior

The U.S. Capitol/The White House

The actions of the passengers of United Airlines flight 93 saved the lives of countless citizens and may have saved the ________ and the ____________.

leader

The autocratic style of leadership is centered on the

abyss

The bottom of the ocean is referred to as the deep ocean, the deep sea, the deep ocean basin or the

sense of responsibility

The cadet who has the ability to see what must be done and takes care of obligations for his or her unit is showing a

Center of Gravity

The center of a ship, around which the ship appears to move, is the ________________.

Carbon dioxide

The concentration of what gas is thought to play a major role in the rates at which lower atmospheres absorb heat from Earth and radiate it out to space?

intermediate lines

The contour lines that fall between the index lines are the _________________contour lines. They are more finely drawn and they do not show the elevation number.

Naval Research Laboratory

The corporate and development laboratory of the office of naval research is the

Operation Desert Storm

The day after Hussein did not leave Kuwait by the deadline, Operation Desert Shield changed into what?

CSS Tennessee

The defeat of what Confederate ship marked the end of their Navy?

Centers of Action

The difference between land and sea temperatures causes the pressure belts of the primary wind circulation to be broken up into high and low pressure areas known as what?

Yorktown

The end of fighting in the colonies was marked by the British loss at

Saturn

The exploration of this planet by the Pioneer and Voyager spacecraft is considered to be among the greatest scientific achievements of the 20th century

increased use of steamships for transoceanic commerce, completion of a railroad across the Isthmus of Panama, and clipper ships were expensive to build and operate.

The fast decline of the clipper ships after 1855 was caused by

The Moon

The gravitational pull of this celestial body is the main cause of tides on Earth.

Newport, New London, Norfolk, King's Bay Georgia and Mayport.

The main U. S. naval bases on the East Coast of the United States are located at

Tycho

The most conspicuous crater on the moon is located in its southern hemisphere. What is this craters name ?

Oliver Hazard Perry in the Battle of Lake Erie.

The naval battle that kept the Great Lakes and Northwest Territory for America was fought and won on 10 September 1813 by

magnesium and bromine

The only chemicals currently taken from ocean water commercially are

Straight of Malacca

The pacific ocean extends from the Bering Strait to the

Northern, Baltic Fleets

The principal Russian naval fleets in Europe are the

Economic zone of the sea

The region extending beyond the 12 mile territorial sea to about 200 miles out, and in which nations are claiming varying degrees of jurisdiction over living and mineral resources, is called the

increases

The relative humidity of an air mass ___________ as that air mass cools.

mature stage

The second stage of a thunderstorm is called the __________.

Boatswain

The ship's __________ is a highly qualified warrant officer specialist in deck evolutions, and is the right-hand assistant to the first lieutenant.

Mercury

The smallest of the inner planets in our solar system is

static electricity

The source of lightning in thunderhead clouds is

cirrus, cumulus, and stratus.

The three basic cloud types are

Intentions, Capabilities, and Vulnerabilities

The three basic considerations that dominate the evaluation of an external threat are

water vapor, cooling air, and hygroscope nuclei.

The three elements necessary for the formation of a cloud are

68

The total number of signal flags is

Atomic Theory of Matter

The true cause of electricity was found with the development of

Peripherals

Through what input/output devices do Computers interface with the outside world?

NASA's Magellan

Through what orbiter is most of our current information of Venus produced?

Thermonuclear Fusion

Through what process did the Sun's core first form and begin to shine?

Transpiration

Through what process do plants on land add water vapor to the air?

Binary number systems

Through what system do electronic digital computers perform computations and store data?

Using tidal motion turbines

Tidal energy can be used to generate electricity by

Competence at marlinspike, deck, and boat seamanship; letter of recommendation from leading petty officers and/or division officer; and the passing of a written exam on deck seamanship

To qualify for the E-3 rating, what requirements must be satisfied by the seaman apprentice?

USS Carl Vinson

To what ship was Bin Laden's body transported to in the North Arabian Sea to be buried at sea?

ship-to-shore communications, precision navigation, and combat information and intelligence and weather forecasting

Today's space and satellite systems are used for most

Across the Arctic Ocean

Under the aerospace school idea, where would the East-West confrontation occur?

Desertion in time of war, mutiny, sedition, or spying

Under what charges is Capital Punishment allowed under the UCMJ?

Combat systems or deck department

Under what department are an embarked Marine Corps. detachment assigned to?

President Franklin Roosevelt

Under what president did any substantial American naval warship building resume?

Thermonuclear fusion

Under what process did hydrogen atoms fuse to form helium and cause the protosun to shine?

Oceanography

Under what subject would one study deep-sea ridges, seamounts, and underwater trenches?

Water vapor

Water accumulates in the atmosphere as what gas?

David Bushnell

What American Inventor attempted to break the British Blockade of the Delaware River with floating kegs of gunpowder during the American Revolution?

USS Lexington

What American carrier was forced to be abandoned during the Battle of the Coral Sea and was sunk by one of her escort destroyers?

Hipparchus

What Ancient Greek Philosopher first observed a supernova?

People's Liberation Army/Red Chinese

What Chinese army of 200,000 strong launched a major offensive against the UN forces in the Yalu on 25 November 1950?

Iran, Peoples republic of China, and Pakistan

What Countries share a border with Afghanistan?

Mines

What German Weapon was the most deadly at D-Day?

U-505

What German u-boat was boarded by U.S. Antisubmarine forces in June 1944?

Hiryu

What Japanese carrier escaped the dive-bombing raid during the Battle of Midway?

Shoho

What Japanese carrier was sunk on 7 May 1942?

Oscar-8, Major General

What Marine Corps pay grade has an insignia of two attached silver stars?

Olympus Mons

What Martian volcano is the size of Nebraska?

Admiral Arleigh Burke

What Navy admiral and former chief of naval operations stated "A well-disciplined organization is one whose members work with enthusiasm, willingness, and zest, as individuals and as a group, to fulfill the mission of the organization with expectation of success"?

Time Critical RIsk Management

What ORM term involves a quick, committed-to-memory process and set of skills that allow people to manage risk when executing a plan or event?

Nikita Khrushchev

What Russian premier claimed the U.S. charges were lies and said the quarantine was an act of "piracy" that would lead to war?

USS Vincennes (CG 49)

What U.S. Aegis cruiser shot down an Iranian civilian airliner, killing 290 civilians?

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Cape Cod, MA

What U.S. institute has worked out a similar system to China's ecological fish farming system with oysters, abalone, and flounder?

USS Pueblo

What U.S. intelligence-gathering ship was captured in January 1968 in North Korea?

Task Force 150

What U.S. task force was ordered by U.S. Central Command to conduct antipiracy patrols as a result of piracy in the Gulf of Aden?

Guided-missile destroyer USS Cole (DDG 67)

What U.S. vessel suffered a large hole blown in her port by two terrorist suicide bombers in August 2000, killing 17 U.S. sailors and injuring 39?

Department of State

What US department handles most of our country's foreign relations?

USS Cavalla

What US submarine sunk the Japanese carrier Shokaku?

USS Samuel B Roberts (FFG 58)

What US vessel was nearly cut in two by a mine but saved by her crew in April 1988?

Death, confinement for life, dishonorable discharge, bad conduct discharge, dismissal of an officer, and total forfeiture of pay during the remaining period of a person's obligated service

What additional punishments may be levied by a general court martial in addition to those that may be levied by a special court martial?

Living conditions, food, quarters, discipline, pay, duties, and feeling of importance

What affects morale of an individual?

Anglo-German Naval Limitation Agreement

What agreement did Hitler abolish in 1939?

Spitfires

What aircraft did the British use to counter the attack of the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain?

F6F Hellcats

What aircraft intercepted Japanese zeros coming from Guam and nearby bases to attack Task Force 58?

V-22 Osprey

What aircraft is a helicopter that can turn into a propeller airplane after takeoff?

EA-18g Growler

What aircraft is the premier electronic warfare aircraft used by the Navy?

The Sixth Amendment

What amendment provides the right of trial by jury?

The Fourth Amendment

What amendment regards Search and Seizure?

Combat cargo officer

What amphibious ship billet has charge of loading and unloading troops, billeting and messing of troops, and cargo logistics?

Robert Byrd Telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia

What and where is the largest radiotelescope?

Bullets meant to expand on impact

What are "dumdum" bullets?

Solid combustible materials or explosives

What are Class A fires caused by?

Flammable liquids

What are Class B fires caused by?

Electronic or electrical malfunctions

What are Class C fires caused by?

Combustible metals

What are Class D fires caused by?

Personal protection, nutrition, and health

What are a survivor's three necessary things to stay alive?

Projections at the joint between the side plating and bottom plating

What are bilge keels?

A series of electromagnetic waves transmitted at constant frequency and amplitude

What are continuous waves?

Encoded communications

What are cryptographic operations?

Circular systems of currents

What are gyres?

Willy-willies, Bagyo

What are hurricanes referred to in Australia and the Philippines?

Clutch

What are old, discarded oyster shells referred to as?

White, red, and green lights shown by all vessels underway at night or in poor visibility conditions

What are running lights?

Long watertight spaces along the bottom of a ship

What are shaft alleys?

Know yourself and seek self-improvement, be technically proficient, seek and take responsibility for your actions, make sound and timely decisions, set the example, know your people and look out for their well being, keep your workers informed, develop a sense of responsibility in your workers, ensure that tasks are understood supervised and accomplished, train as a team, use the full capabilities of your organization.

What are the 11 principles of Leadership?

Military Sealift Command, Maritime Administration, Sealift Readiness/VISA programs, Active Merchant Fleet Sealift Readiness Program, Effective U.S.-controlled ships, and foreign-flag ships

What are the 6 available methods of shipping for U.S. National Defense requirements?

Law enforcement in United States territorial waters, port security, safety and maintenance of navigational aids, search and rescue for those lost at sea, interdiction of illegal drug trafficking, pollution control, and immigration control

What are the Coast Guard's responsibilities?

Foot-pounds, newton-meters

What are the English system and SI system units of work?

Ground radar and Airborne surveillance

What are the Navy's biggest assets for interdicting drugs?

Eradication of Global Terrorism, eradication of piracy, humanitarian missions, and ballistic-missile defense (BMD) of our homeland

What are the Navy's four primary goals in the new millennium?

satellites

What are the Navy's primary outlet for long distance and data communication?

Typhoons

What are the Pacific equivalent of hurricanes?

Gribbles

What are the animals that attack submarine cables and underwater pipelines, gnawing through wooden pilings, rubber, and plastic insulation?

Design and guidance system

What are the artifical forces affecting a missile's trajectory?

Parallel rulers, a protractor, and dividers

What are the basic instruments used in plotting?

Amino acids

What are the building blocks of proteins?

Green and red horizontally banded buoys

What are the color markings on preferred channel buoys?

Catfish, trout, salmon, tilapia, and hybrid striped bass

What are the common fish harvests in U.S. fish farming?

Officer or chief petty officer in charge, a scene leader to supervise all on-site activities, a phone talker, messengers, and personnel equipped with a special oxygen breathing apparatus (OBA)

What are the components of a repair party?

Electrode

What are the conductors by which the current leaves or returns to the elctrolyte?

Clarify, Restate, Acknowledge, Summarize, and Frame

What are the different effective listening techniques?

Verbal, conceptual, perceptual, motor, problem solving, and emotional

What are the different kinds of learning?

Senior Naval Science Instructor, members of Congress, the Senate, Vice President, and President

What are the different nomination sources for federal service academies?

Formation of the unit, presentation and honors, inspection or trooping the line, and march in review.

What are the different parts of a review?

Preventing stress overload, relaxation, letting off steam,

What are the different strategies to eliminate stress?

Waders, Birds of the Open Sea, and Penguins

What are the different subgroups of Seabirds?

Turtles, marine iguanas, sea snakes, and ocean crocodiles

What are the different subgroups of marine reptiles?

Spar buoy, can buoys, nun buoy, bell buoy, whistle/horn buoy, gong buoy, lighted buoy, and combination buoy

What are the different types of buoys?

Reviews, Awards/Decorations, Parades, and funerals/special ceremonies

What are the different types of ceremonies?

displacement, repression, rationalization, projection, acting out, and denial

What are the different types of defense mechanisms?

aerobic, anaerobic, isotonic, isometric, and isokinetic

What are the different types of exercise?

Penetrating projectiles, fragmenting projectiles, special purpose projectiles, illuminating projectiles, incendiary projectiles, chaff projectiles, and non fragmenting projectiles

What are the different types of projectiles?

Scrapes/abrasions, cuts/incisions, tears/lacerations, and punctures

What are the different types of wounds?

Coiling down, faking down, and flemishing

What are the different ways to lay out any line larger than small stuff?

Signals (SIGINT), communications (COMINT), electronic (ELINT), photo (PHOTINT), and human (HUMINT

What are the differetn types of intelligence?

17,000 miles long by 8,500 miles wide

What are the dimensions of the Great Red Spot?

Telling, Selling, Testing, Consulting, Joining

What are the five defined approaches to leadership?

Military sealift, transport of strategic material, direct support of military operations, use as auxilary combatants, and support of foreign policy

What are the five important ways in which the U.S. merchant marine is to aid in national defense?

Preset gyro, inertial, homing, command, or beam rider

What are the five kinds of guidance systems?

Northrop Grumman/Newport News, Northrop Grumman/Ingalls, General Dynamics/Electric Boat, General Dynamics/Bath Iron Works, Northrop Grumman, Avondale

What are the five largest U.S. shipyards?

Troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere

What are the five layers of Earth's atmosphere, from closest to the surface up?

Stratus, Nimbostratus, Stratocumulus, Cumulus, and Thunderheads

What are the five main kinds of low clouds?

Manil, sisal, hemp, cotton, and flax

What are the five main plants through which the natural fibers of line are sometimes made?

U.S. Naval Observatory (USNO), Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC), Naval Oceanography Operations Command (NOOC), fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC) and Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVO)

What are the five major component commands with NMOC?

Chukchi, East Siberian, Laptev, Kara, and Barents

What are the five seas on the Asian side of the Arctic Ocean?

Planning and direction, collection, processing, analysis and production, and dissemination

What are the five stages of the intelligence cycle?

Bottom-dwelling fishes, large carnivorous fishes, sturgeons, commercial fishes, and lungfish

What are the five subgroups of fish?

Airframe, Propulsion, Guidance, and the warhead

What are the four basic components of a guided missile?

Strait of Gibraltar, Bosporus Strait, the Dardanelles, and the Suez Canal

What are the four choke points of navigation associated with the Mediterranean area?

Cold front, warm front, stationary front, and occluded front

What are the four different kinds of fronts?

Acquisition, distribution, sustainment, and disposition

What are the four elements of logistics?

Strategic Deterrence, Sea Control, Projection of Power Ashore, Naval Presence

What are the four elements of the Naval mission?

I'm not Ok, you're OK; I'm not Ok, you're not OK; I'm OK, you're not OK; I'm OK, you're OK

What are the four life positions/attitudes defined in "I'm OK, You're OK"?

Open the airway, assess breathing, assess circulation, and assess disability

What are the four life-saving steps?

Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), National Security Agency (NSA), National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), and the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA)

What are the four main DOD intelligence agencies?

Restriction of mobility, weakness to surveillance, vulnerability to interdiction, and limitations on intelligence gathering

What are the four main adverse affects of international law of the sea on Navy Missions?

Amphibious craft, utility boats, officers' boats, and inflatables

What are the four main types of Naval small craft?

Retreating, Standing Still, Detouring, and Encountering

What are the four main ways people handle conflict?

Mineral phosphorus/phosphorescence, radioactive minerals, cool gases, and bioluminescence

What are the four natural sources of luminescence?

To capture territory from which a land or air operation can be launched and supported, to prevent enemy use of selected territory or facilities, and to destroy enemy facilities, interrupt their communications, and cause them to spread their forces

What are the four principal objectives of amphibious operations?

Refraction, reflection, diffraction, and trapping

What are the four propogation effects?

Distinguished Cadet, Physical Fitness, Unit Service, and Color Guard

What are the four ribbons that can be worn upside down?

Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking

What are the four skills necessary for communication?

Telling, Selling, Participating, and Delegating

What are the four styles of Leadership?

Preparatory, Executor, Combined, and Supplementary

What are the four types of commands?

Mangrove, primary, secondary, and high mountain

What are the four types of tropical jungle?

Low, middle, high, and towering

What are the fourcloud altitude classes?

Air warfare, undersea warfare, surface warfare, strike warfare, amphibious warfare, mine warfare, and information warfare

What are the fundamental tasks of Naval Warfare?

Make people feel confident in their ability, stay in touch with individual's problems and wishes, be consistent and fair in assigning duties and in giving rewards and punishments, show people that he or she respects them and is proud to be with them, keep well informed of attitudes, be acessible, participate in planning and carrying out unit activities, actively supervise lower-ranking leaders to be sure they do their jobs with the unit's welfare in mind, see that people have plenty of opportunities for further education, be friendly and tactful, and know each individual by name

What are the general rules for building high morale?

Whale shark, basking shark

What are the largest and second-largest fish in the oceans?

Jellyfish

What are the largest forms of zooplankton?

Sands and Gravels

What are the largest mining operations in the Atlantic Ocean for?

Fore and aft

What are the lengthwise words for direction on a ship?

flaghoist, flashing light, semaphore

What are the main Navy visual communications methods?

Tuna and Shrimp

What are the main commercial catches in the Indian Ocean?

Repair parties

What are the main components of DCA's damage control organization?

Destructive sarcasm, intimidation, boredom, frustration, fatigue, lack of purpose, and sense of failure

What are the main conditions that hinder learning?

Extreme temperatures, intense solar and cosmic radiation, unfiltered infrared/ultraviolet light, and X-ray radiation

What are the main dangers of the exosphere?

Lead and Cobalt

What are the main exports from Casablanca and Morocco?

Capture/salvage, theft/espionage/observation/photography, interception of communications, electronic tracking devices, communication traffic analysis, cryptanalysis, and carelessness of personnel

What are the main means by which Classified material becomes compromised?

The concept of freedom of the high seas, the concept of the territorial sea, and the concept of special contiguous zones

What are the main precepts of the international law of the sea?

Hoisting signal flags and mooring lines

What are the main uses of single- or double-braided synthetic line?

Operations, combat systems, engineering, supply, and air

What are the major departments of a ship?

Mission, armament, protection, seaworthiness, stability, maneuverability, speed, endurance, and habitability

What are the major factors present in the intended construction and design of any naval vessel?

2 minimum, 8 maximum

What are the minimum and maximum quantity of side boys for high-ranking officials?

Seismograph

What are the modern instruments that measure seismic acitivty?

Sheet/map name, bar scales, printing note, and legend

What are the most commonly used pieces of marginal information?

Nerve gases

What are the most deadly gases used in chemical warfare?

The Chinooks of the Rockies; the Santa Anas of southern California, and the foehns of the Swiss and French Alps.

What are the most famous mountain winds?

Shrimp and Menhaden

What are the most important commercial fishing operations in the Gulf of Mexico for?

Shrimp, Crab, Lobster, and Squid

What are the most important fisheries for in the Northern Pacific?

Containerships

What are the most productive intermodal ships in the U.S maritime service?

An increase in the importance of naval firepower in land warfare, an increase in the effectiveness of naval as compared with land based firepower, and an increase in the importance of amphibious warfare

What are the most significant results of the increase in range of naval weapons?

Phobos and Deimos

What are the names of Mars' two moons?

Weather satellites

What are the newest forecasting tool available for meteorologists?

Feeling that one's work is important, opportunity to do interesting work, opportunity for self-development and improvement, good pay, chance for advancement, respect as an individual, change to produce work of high quality, knowing what is going on in the organization, and high degree of freedom on the job

What are the nine main motivational factors?

objective, offensive, mass, economy of force, maneuver, unity of command, security, surprise, and simplicity.

What are the nine principles of war?

Aviation Weather Center, Climate Prediction Center, Space Environment Center, Storm Prediction Center, National Hurricane Center, Ocean Prediction Center, and three others

What are the nine specialized centers that are a part of NCEP?

Arctic Semipermanent Low, and Antarctic Permanent Low

What are the northern and southern names for the Polar Front Zone?

Carbon, phosphorus, nitrogen

What are the nutrient raw materials?

Hydrogen and Helium atoms

What are the only two atoms to exist in the exosphere?

Cone snails and cephalopods

What are the only two members of the mollusk group with a venomous sting or bite

Hagfish and Lampreys

What are the only two types of jawless fish?

Lecture, lecture with audiovisuals, demonstration, role playing, case study, discussion, and cooperative learning

What are the primary methods for learning?

Radio sonobuoys, Magnetic anomaly detection, Dipping sonar, infrared detection, and towed arrays of sensors

What are the primary sensors to locate and attack submarines in the modern-day Navy?

Ammonia crystals

What are the primary substance inside the clouds of Saturn?

A propelling charge and a projectile

What are the principal components of a full round of gun ammunition?

Breadth of territorial sea, passage through the straits, fisheries, the seabed, marine pollution, and scientific research

What are the principal issues UN Law of the Sea conferences deal with?

Responsiveness, simplicity, flexibility, economy, attainability, sustainability, and survivability

What are the principles of logistics?

Define the objective, mass forces, maneuver, take the offensive, economize force, achieve unity of command, maintain simplicity, achieve surprise, and maintain security.

What are the principles of war?

Mercury and barium

What are the sea's main heavy metal pollutants?

Petroleum, heavy metals, radioactive materials, chemical and synthetic compounds, litter, organic pollutants, and biological pollutants

What are the seven main groups of pollutants?

Strategic nuclear sufficiency, strong conventional capability, adequate peacetime general forces, smaller U.S. active forces. emphasis on strong research and development, security assistance for the defense of friendly nations, and meeting the U.S. military needs with an all-volunteer service.

What are the seven principles of current U.S. strategy?

Supply, maintenance, transportation, engineering, health services, other services

What are the six functional areas of logistics?

Carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals, and water

What are the six nutrients your body requires?

Two or more lines of bearing, a distance arc and a line of bearing, two or more distance arcs, a visual range and a distance arc, a visual range and a line of bearing, two simultaneous visual ranges

What are the six possible components of combination lines of position used to obtain fixes?

Deliberate initiation, accidental initiation, miscalculation, misunderstanding, entanglement, and irrational acts

What are the six primary causes of general war?

integrity, loyalty, commitment, energy, decisiveness, and selflessness

What are the six traits of an effective leader?

Friction, pressure, heat, light, chemical action, and magnetism

What are the six ways to generate voltage?

Barracuda

What are the six-eight foot fish with knifelike canine teeth feared more than sharks in some areas of the West Indies?

Protozoans

What are the smallest animals of the zooplankton group?

CCC (charge-coupled device) cameras

What are the special electronic digital cameras used in observatories?

Reducing your fat intake, exercise, food control/choice, and measuring your body fat

What are the steps used in fat control?

Show and tell, repetition, and performance

What are the steps, in order, of a demonstration procedure?

Introduction, presentation, and summary

What are the steps, in order, of a lecture?

Special warfare, ocean surveillance, intelligence, electronic warfare, and logisitics

What are the supporting tasks of Naval Warfare?

Instant, stabbing pain; within thirty minutes, the victim may scream or thrash around wildly from the pain, then may low consciousness and die

What are the symptoms of a weeverfish sting?

dizziness, weakness, drowsiness, headache, mental confusion, breathing difficulties, heartbeat irregularities, unusual breath odor, discoloration of lips and mucous membranes, nausea, vomiting, rashes or burns on skin, and/or unconsciousness

What are the symptoms of inhaled poisoning?

Pale/bluish/clammy skin, restlessness/nervousness, thirst, bleeding, confusion/loss of awareness, breathing rapidly, nausea/vomiting, blotchy/bluish skin around mouth and lips, and fainting.

What are the symptoms of shock?

Offensive power, defensive strength, logistical independence, command and control, and tactical nuclear weapons capability

What are the tactical capabilities of Navy general forces?

Top- crest Bottom- trough

What are the terms meaning the top and the bottom of a wave?

Lighted zone, twilight zone, dark zone

What are the three 'zones' that the oceans can be divided into?

Nuclear Power Program, Advanced Electronics Program, and Advanced Technical Program

What are the three Navy advanced programs for promising enlisted personell?

Top Secret, Secret, and Confidential

What are the three U.S. classifications of information, in descending order of importance?

The US will honor all of its treaty commitments; the United States will provide a shield if an aggressive nuclear power threatens the freedom of an ally or if the survival of the nation is considered vital to US security; and in cases involving other aggression, the US will furnish military and economic assistance when requested, but the US will look to the nation to assume primary responsibility of its own defense.

What are the three aspects of the policy of US continued commitment?

Capabilities, intentions, and vulnerabilities

What are the three basic considerations in evaluating possible external threats to a nation's national security?

X-RAY, YOKE, and ZEBRA

What are the three basic material conditions of Navy readiness?

Compressor, combustion chamber, and a turbine

What are the three basic parts of gas turbines?

Humanity, chivalry, and military necessity

What are the three basic principles underlying the rules of civilized warfare?

know your business; know yourself; know your personell

What are the three basic things to remember as you develop leadership abilities?

Search radars, fire-control radars, and special radars

What are the three categories of Navy radars?

Tropical depressions, tropical storms, and hurricanes/typhoons

What are the three categories of tropical cyclones?

Major, intermediate, and minor

What are the three categorizations of naval guns?

Ambassadors, envoys/ministers, and charges d'affaires

What are the three classes of heads of diplomatic missions

Art/skill of handling a vessel, skill in use of deck equipment, and care and use of various kinds of line

What are the three components of seamanship?

Advection fog, Steam fog, and Radiation fog

What are the three different groups of fog?

Reevaporation back into the atmosphere, rising and freezing into ice crystals, or coalesce with other droplets and fall as rain, snow, or sleet.

What are the three different outcomes for hygroscopic droplets riding air currents?

Control of territory claimed, will of people reflected in government and the preparedness of the new state to honor international obligations

What are the three factors considered by the United States to grant diplomatic recognition?

Sea cows, seals, and whales

What are the three groups of marine mammals. excluding the sea otter and polar bear?

Earless, eared, and walrus

What are the three groups of seals?

Summary, special, and general

What are the three kinds of Couts-Martial?

Cirrus, Cirrostratus, and Cirrocumulus

What are the three kinds of high clouds?

Open chock, closed chock, and roller chock

What are the three kinds of mooring chocks?

Bright nebula, dark nebula, and planetary nebula

What are the three kinds of nebulae that can be observed?

UnRep, ConRep, and VertRep

What are the three kinds of replenishment?

Air-to-surface, air-to-air, and surface-to-air

What are the three main classifications of air warfare?

General announcing system, sound-powered telephones, and messengers

What are the three main communication systems used in the damage control organization?

Transciever, antenna, and control circuitry

What are the three main components of a cell phone that allows the device to communicate with cellular networks?

Render assistance to anyone lost at sea, proceed with all possible speed to rescue of people in distress, and post-collision assistance to the other ship, crew, and passengers

What are the three main duties of Commanding Officers of U.S. Navy warships under international law?

Zebrafish, scorpionfish, and stonefish

What are the three main groups of scorpionfish?

Amplitude, Frequency, and Pulse modulation

What are the three main methods by which a carrier wave may be modulated to convey information?

Physics, chemistry, and astronomy

What are the three main topics of physical science?

Port-side-to landing, Starboard-side-to landing, and Making use of the current

What are the three main types of landing a small craft?

Titanium, Zircon, Monazite

What are the three mineral sands mined off the coast of Queensland, Australia?

Strait of Gibraltar, Strait of the Skagerrak, Strait of Kattegat

What are the three most important strategic waterways in the Atlantic?

Gross decontamination with saltwater washdown, detailed decontamination conducted by repair-party personnel, and flame burning/acid dips/sandblasting at a ship repair facility

What are the three phases of decontamination?

Win-lose, Lose-lose, win-win

What are the three possible outcomes of any conflict?

Deterrence, flexible response, and forward strategy

What are the three principal elements of U.S. national military strategy?

Fixed, flashing, and occulting

What are the three principle patterns of light flashes, called characteristics?

Fuel, heat, and oxygen

What are the three sides of the fire triangle?

Permanently organized legal system or government, fixed territory, and the ability to enter into associations with other states

What are the three specific characteristics of a sovereign state?

Medical, dental, and supply

What are the three staff departments?

Cumulus, mature, and dissipating

What are the three stages of thunderstorm development?

the leader, the followers, and the job to be done

What are the three things that effective leadership depends on?

Arterial, venous, and capillary

What are the three types of bleeding?

Cirrus, cumulus, and stratus

What are the three types of clouds?

Alcohol-filled, thermocouple-based, and infrared.

What are the three types of thermometers in use today?

Dry-dock launched, side launched, or float-off launched

What are the three ways in which ships can be launched?

Deck watches and navigational watches

What are the two basic kinds of enlisted watches?

Captains Mast (NJP) and Court Marshals

What are the two basic kinds of official naval disciplinary action?

Active sonar and passive sonar

What are the two basic modes of operation for sonar?

What is the system or component unit supposed to do? and How well is the system or component supposed to do it?

What are the two basic questions that must be addressed by any newly-designed weapon system or component?

Ballisitic and aerodynamic

What are the two basic types of missile trajectories?

Known to unknown and concrete to abstract

What are the two best learning progressions?

Alaskan Current and California Current

What are the two branches of the Kuroshio Current?

Airborne early-warning (AEW) aircraft and Combat Air Patrol (CAP) fighters

What are the two defense of a carrier strike group from surprise air attack?

Aneroid and mercurial barometers

What are the two different kinds of barometers used by the Navy?

Physical Courage and Moral Courage

What are the two different kinds of courage?

Mechanical waves and electromagnetic waves

What are the two different kinds of electronic waves?

Leadership Theory and Leadership Laboratory

What are the two different subsets of Naval Science Four curriculum?

Internal/intrinsic and external/extrinsic

What are the two different types of motivation?

Autocratic to Democratic

What are the two extremes of leadership styles?

Longitudinal waves and Transverse waves

What are the two forms of waves?

Immediate-action and improvised

What are the two general types of shelters?

Altocumulus and Altostratus

What are the two kinds of middle clouds?

Neglect of duty or deliberate violation

What are the two kinds of military offenses?

Local and long-range forecasting

What are the two kinds of weather reporting?

1) Bigger droplets move around slowly, eventually bumping into other droplets and combining, 2) In higher-altitude clouds, ice crystals and water droplets form near each other. The droplets evaporate, and the resulting vapor collides with ice crystals and condenses into snow or ice pellets that fall towards Earth

What are the two known ways for Coalescence to occur?

Training and experience

What are the two main elements of ability?

Lack of reference points and perspective of the observer

What are the two main factors that make it difficult to estimate wave height?

Pesticides/herbicides and biphenols

What are the two main groups of chemical and synthetic pollutants?

Electronic digital computers and analog computers

What are the two main kinds of computers?

Displacement and planing

What are the two main kinds of hulls on small boats?

Nylon and Kevlar

What are the two main kinds of synthetic line?

Continental shelves and deep ocean floor

What are the two main levels in the Earth's relief?

UNREP and VERTREP

What are the two main logistics operations currently used by the United States Navy?

Antwerp, Belgium; and Bremerhaven, Germany

What are the two main ports for U.S. forces in Germany to receive support?

Rights of existence and self-defense

What are the two main rights of a sovereign state of particular interest to that state's armed forces?

Being self-started and self-controlled

What are the two main signs of someone's motivation?

Set realistic criteria, and make realistic assessments

What are the two main tasks of self-evaluation?

Protect the long supply lines to our forces; and keep the sea-lanes open to our allies, especially Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Thailand, Australia, and New Zealand

What are the two main tasks of the U.S. Navy in event of a war in the Pacific?

CO2 and purple-K powder

What are the two main types of portable extinguishers?

Newtonian reflector and cassegrain reflector

What are the two main types of refracting telescope?

Low-frequency radio and communication satellite links

What are the two main ways in which Over-the-horizon radio communication is performed?

Area defense and point defense

What are the two major tactical concepts in the design of guns and missile systems?

Dry suit and hot water suit

What are the two modern types of deep sea diving suits?

Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) tankers and Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) tankers

What are the two most specialized types of tankers?

Van Allen radiation belts

What are the two natural rings?

A turnbuckle and a pelican hook

What are the two parts of a chain stopper?

Technical charge and specification(s)

What are the two parts of a formal written disciplinary report?

Prominences and Solar Flares

What are the two primary ejections of hot gas produced by sunspots on the Sun?

Hydrogen and Helium

What are the two primary elements that make up Jupiter's atmosphere?

Deperming and degaussing

What are the two principal methods of treating a steel-hull ship?

The vessel must be commissioned as a part of Naval forces of a state with the authority to display an appropriate flag or pendant, and must have a commander from the state's military forces and the crew must have military discipline

What are the two specific requirements for a ship to be called a warship?

1) One or more leaders of electrified air run between two oppositely charged regions, establishing a circuit for the second stroke. 2) The second stroke leaps along the leaders and strikes the ground to complete the circuit.

What are the two steps of lightning occurrences?

OK4R and PQRST

What are the two study methods mentioned in the Naval Science One textbook?

Tidal bore/surge current

What are the two terms for the event where a tidal current sweeps up a river whose mouth opens directly into the sea?

Refracting and reflecting

What are the two types of astronomical telescopes?

Marine sanitation devices (MSDs) and collection, holding, and transfer systems (CHTs)

What are the two types of marine sewage systems the Navy is equipped with?

Cold-front occlusion and warm-front occlusion

What are the two types of occluded fronts?

Polar orbiting and geosynchronous

What are the two types of satellites?

Inches of mercury or millibars

What are the two ways in which Barometers can be graduated?

Scale and numerical scale

What are the two ways or expressing scale?

Plug the hole and establish/maintain flood boundaries

What are the two ways to control flooding if the ship's outer hull is pierced?

B complex and C vitamins

What are the water soluble vitamins?

Observations made by leaving a camera or electronic detector shutter open for a period of time

What are time exposures?

Opposite

What are wind movements in the Northern Hemisphere as compared to the Southern Hemisphere?

Article 11

What article of the UCMJ punishes drunken and/or reckless driving?

Mediterranean Basin

What basin supports a fishing industry twice as valuable of that of an oceans?

Santiago de Cuba

What battle in the Spanish-American war was won on the Fourth of July?

The Battle of Stalingrad

What battle in the winter of 1942-1943 resulted in a change of tides on the eastern front and the Russians taking over 330,000 prisoners?

HMS Dreadnought

What battleship did Great Britain release in 1907 that boasted two and a half times the firepower than all other battleships in existence at the time?

USS Maine

What battleship was mysteriously sunk in Havana on 15 February, 1898?

Personnel officer

What billet assigns enlisted personnel according to the ship's bills and is responsible for all enlisted service records?

Petty Officer of the Watch

What billet heads the enlisted in the port deck watch section?

Chaplain

What billet is responsible for religious activities on the ship?

Naval aviators

What billets head the operations and air departments on an aircraft carrier?

Aircraft and intercontinental missiles

What caused the shattering of the Continental School Idea?

Dinoflagelletes

What causes the Red Tide?

Runaway Greenhouse Effect

What causes the abscense of water and oxygen on Venus's surface?

El Nino

What causes upwelling to stop?

Any energy source that disturbs the water surface

What causes waves in a liquid?

Supermassive black holes

What celestial body is in the center of most galaxies?

Skin is cut or torn all the way through so that it gapes open; mat, muscle, or tendons are visible; bleeding is heavy and does not slow or stop after applying pressure for 15-20 minutes; soil or other debris cannot be washed from the wound; there is loss of function such as the inability to move a cut finger; it is on the face; it is on the bottom of the foot; its source is a rusty or dirty object, or an animal or human bite

What characteristics make a wound serious?

Iron Oxide

What chemical present in Mars' soil gives it it's red color?

Mumbai

What city had the highest incidence of terrorist attacks outside of a war zone in the first decade of the new millennium?

Dunkirk

What city were 340,000 British Soldiers were evacuated despite attacks from the Luftwaffe?

Forrestal-Class Carriers

What class of aircraft carrier did Congress authorize the building of following the Korean War?

Prepare for Inspection

What command is first given by the Company Commander at the designated time for inspection?

Peripheral devices

What components of computers allow information to be input or output, stored, retrieved, transmitted, displayed, or printed?

Belgium, Britain, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, and the United States

What countries initially joined NATO?

Argentina

What country attacked and took control of the Falkland Islands in early 1982?

Czechoslovakia

What country did the Communist Part execute a coup in in 1948?

England

What country's codebreakers where able to decipher the code used by the German Kriegsmarines?

The rotation of Earth on it's axis

What creates the Coriolis effect?

Interaction between the solar wind and Earth's atmosphere

What creates the aurora borealis?

Labrodor Current

What current brings icebergs that have calved from Greenland glaciers into the North Atlantic shipping lanes?

North Equatorial Current

What current carries warmer waters northwestward along the West Indies on the rim of the Caribbean Sea?

Methane Cycle

What cycle replenishes Titan's atmosphere?

The rank of the officer aboard

What determines a Navy vessel's seniority when rendering honors?

Dosimeter

What device is used to measure the amount of radiation?

Cleat

What device welded to the deck is used for fastening a line or wire?

The traditions of local self-government and the habits of free association

What did Alexis de Tocqueville see as a source of American Civic Spirit?

Formosa and Pescadores Islands, as well as control of Port Arthur

What did China cede to Japan following the SIno-Japanese War?

Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I)

What did President Nixon and Soviet Premier Brezhnev sign in 1972?

Passed a bill classifying Japanese as "undesirable orientals", prohibiting them from entering the United States under any circumstances.

What did United States congress do in 1924 that angered Japan?

U.S. citizens hunting any marine mammals in U.S. waters or the high seas, and importation of marine mammals or any products made by them into the U.S.

What did the Marine Mammal Protection Act prohibit?

Created the Department of Defense, Departments of the Navy, Air Force, and Army, Joint Chiefs of Staff, CIA, and National Security Council.

What did the National Security Act do?

The U.S. flew two U.S. Air Force nuclear-capable B-2 stealth bombers across the Korean Peninsula to demonstrate American resolve to maintain it's nuclear shield over South Korea

What did the U.S. do in response to North Korea's declaration of war on South Korea?

Limited total tonnage of capital ships and placed limitations on the tonnage and armament of the ships and cruisers.

What did the Washington Naval Disarmament Treaty do?

Four Heavy Cruisers

What did the allies lose as a result of the Battle of Savo Island?

Iron ore

What do Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo-Santos primarily export to the U.S.?

polar

What do mathematicians call the type of plot used on a maneuvering board?

Gale warning

What do two red pennants, or a white light over a red light at night displayed at a National Weather Service installation signal?

Hurricane warning

What do two square red flags black centers, or two red lights with a white light in between at night displayed at a National Weather Service installation signal?

glucose

What do we call the principal carbohydrate that circulates in your blood and is used by your cells for energy?

Improvised Explosive Device

What does "IED" stand for?

airway, breathing, circulation

What does ABC stand for in first aid?

Antiballistic missile

What does ABM stand for?

Airborne early-warning

What does AEW stand for?

Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery

What does ASVAB stand for?

Boatswain's Mate of the Watch

What does BMOW stand for?

Closest points of approach

What does CPA stand for?

Dead Reckoning

What does DR stand for?

Deep submergence rescue vessel

What does DSRV stand for?

frequency, intensity, and time

What does FIT stand for?

Floating instrument platform

What does FLIP stand for?

Lightweight type

What does LWT stand for?

Naval Criminal Investigative Service

What does NCIS stand for?

Plan position indicator

What does PPI stand for?

Self-contained underwater breathing apparatus

What does SCUBA stand for?

Ship's inertial navigation system

What does SINS stand for?

Sound Surveillance System

What does SOSUS stand for?

Size up the situation, Use all your senses, Remember where you are, Vanquish fear and panic, Improvise, Value living, Act only after thinking, and Live by your wits

What does SURVIVAL stand for?

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

What does UAV stand for?

Uniform Code of Military Justice

What does UCMJ stand for?

American Legation, United States Naval Attache

What does ULUSNA stand for?

Weapon control system

What does WCS stand for?

Serious

What does a Risk Assessment Code of 2 mean?

Storm warning

What does a single square red flag with a black center, or two red lights at night displayed at a National Weather Service installation signal?

Emergency destruction bill

What does each naval ship, large aircraft, or facility have in case of imminent capture by an enemy to prevent the compromisation of classified information?

Electromagnetic waves

What does every electronic device use for basic operation?

32 and 37 ppt

What does ocean salinity typically vary between in ppt?

Sea conditions dangerous to small craft are forecasted for the area.

What does one red pennant, or a red light over a white light at night displayed at a National Weather Service installation signal?

Grid-Magnetic Angle

What does the G-M in G-M angle stand for?

Man overboard

What does the Oscar signal flag indicate?

Light waves and high energy X-rays

What does the Sun's radiant energy consist of?

All the agencies and individuals who produce intelligence in the United States

What does the US intelligence community consist of?

Commander of Troops

What does the abbreviation COT stand for?

Surface action group

What does the abbreviation SAG stand for?

Learn Adopt Think Act Reevaluate

What does the acronym LATAR stand for?

Vertical and/or Short Take Off and Landing

What does the aircraft designation 'V' mean?

Cold Weather

What does the mission-modification designation 'L' mean?

Damage control center (DCC), repair lockers, and repair parties

What does the shipboard damage control organization consist of?

Black circle in the middle of a yellow square

What does the signal flag for India look like?

early stages of planning or development

What does the special use designation 'Z' stand for?

Both the circulatory and nervous systems

What does weeverfish venom attack?

Distance of the high from the low and difference of pressure

What does wind strength depend on?

USS Bismark Sea

What escort carrier was sunk by Japanese Kamikaze pilots during the assault on Iwo Jima?

"talk test"

What exercise is used as a way to check your exercise intensity?

Gender, age weight and height, amount of food in stomach, concentration of alcohol in beverages consumed, volume of alcohol consumed, rate of consumption and absorption

What factors affect someone's Blood Alcohol Concentration?

Size, how empty the stomach is at time of consumption, state of health/fatigue, mental attitude, speed and quantity of consumption

What factors influence the effects of alcohol on the human body?

"We're eyeball to eyeball and I think the other fellow just blinked."

What famous quote did Secretary of State Dean Rusk make regarding the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Seventh Fleet

What fleet had as many as five aircraft carriers operating around "Yankee Station"?

Tenth Fleet or Fleet Cyber Command

What fleet is in charge of Navy cyber forces to execute the full spectrum of computer network operations, cyber warfare, electronic warfare, information operations, and signal intelligence capabilities and missions across the cyber, electromagnetic, and space domains?

TWA Flight 800

What flight crashed into the sea off the coast of Long Island, killing 230 passengers and crew in July 1996?

Radiation fog

What fog is caused by the heat that the Earth radiates, forming only at night over a land surface?

Buoyant force

What force influences the ability of an object to sink or float?

The Report and Disposition of Offense(s), NAVPERS 1626/7

What form is submitted to an executive officer for initiating and preferring charges against an enlisted person?

Fort Fisher

What fort was key to Confederate defenses at the mouth of Cape Fear River?

Discharge current from the propeller, suction current caused by the propeller drawing in water from astern, the sidewise pressure of the blades, and the normal steering effect of the rudder

What four forces affect a boat's steering when backing?

Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Arctic Ocean, Afro-Asian Ocean

What four ocean areas are of prime strategic importance to the United States?

Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn

What four planets make up the big four?

The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961

What gathering established the three classes of heads of diplomatic missions?

Hague Peac Conventions

What gatherings first recognized that the avoidance of war should be attempted as the ultimate goal in all cases?

The location of its conception

What gave the Nice Theory its name?

Brigadier General Anthony C. McAuliffe

What general gained instant fame when he responded to a German Commander's demands for surrender with "Nuts!"

General Billy Mitchell

What general proved in a 1921 test that an airplane could sink a battleship with bombs?

General Douglas MacArthur

What general was ordered from the Philippines to take command of Australian defenses and famously promised the Filipinos "I will return."?

color

What generally indicates the purpose of a buoy?

Liddell Hart

What great strategist famously said to "seek a situation so advantageous that if it does not of itself produce the decision, its continuation by a battle is sure to achieve this"?

Free Syrian Army

What group in the Syrian Civil War is U.S. backed with supplies and air support?

Russian Space Pioneers

What group of people are most craters on the dark side of the moon named after?

Hunter-Killer Groups

What group of ships was highly effective in the destruction of German U-boats in World War 2?

Potsdam Conference

What had declared that Korea would be temporarily divided?

The enclosure of Zuyder Zee, a shallow bay off the North Sea

What has the biggest tidal energy project of the Dutch been during most of the last century?

Lobster

What high-value seafood is caught from the New England coast, the Caribbean, Brazil, and South Africa?

Marine fouling

What important marine biological problem is the greatest economic problem to the Navy?

Self-Confidence

What important quality of a leader should mainly grow in relation to professional knowledge?

Faith

What in a cause is essential to victory, and a weakening of it may be followed by a loss of morale, disintegration, and defeat?

Gyrocompass

What instrument is fitted on most larger naval ships and always points true north?

Sextant

What instrument is used in celestial navigation to measure the altitude between a heavenly body and the visible horizon?

Personal example, good organization/administration, and personal moral responsibility

What is Effective Leadership based on?

An attempt to obtain information about a foreign government covertly through the use of spies and other means

What is Espionage?

The right of vessels of one nation to navigate peacefully through the territorial waters of another

What is Innocent Passage?

Distance of arc north or south of the equator

What is Latitude?

Distance of arc east or west of the equator

What is Longitude?

A system of radio signals broadcast by groups of transmitting stations of known position used for long range navigation

What is Loran?

The ability to stand up for one's beliefs, to call things as one honestly sees them, and to admit a mistake.

What is Moral Courage?

Standards of Conduct

What is Navy regulation 1110?

Service Examinations

What is Navy regulation 1145?

Direct Communication with the Commanding Officer

What is Navy regulation 1151?

Alcoholic Beverages

What is Navy regulation 1162?

Equal Opportunity and Treatment

What is Navy regulation 1164?

Fratenization Prohibited

What is Navy regulation 1165?

Supremacist Activities

What is Navy regulation 1167?

Triton

What is Neptune's largest moon?

A body at rest tends to remain at red and a body in motion tends to remain in motion

What is Newton's first law of motion?

Whenever a body exerts a force upon a second body, the second exerts an equal but opposite force back upon the first

What is Newton's third law of motion?

Deeds of daring with the risk of death and a willingness to attempt a mission in spite of danger.

What is Physical Courage?

Bahrain

What is Sitra's main oil-exporting port and has a U.S. Naval Base home to the U.S. Fifth Fleet?

Titania

What is Uranus' largest moon?

A bomb with radioactive materials dispersed by conventional explosives

What is a "dirty bomb"

A research platform that can flip from a horizontal position to a vertical one. The laboratory remains 50 feet above water, and the stern with measuring and sounding instruments is plunged 300 feet deep into the water.

What is a FLIP ship?

A form of visual communication using hand flags for short distance communications between ships

What is a Semaphore?

The ability to see and do what must be done

What is a Sense of Responsibility?

A free-moving underwater research vessel somewhat like a submarine that can take photos, collect samples, stay at great depths, and allow scientists to look through strengthened glass ports

What is a bathyscaphe?

Chain of natural events in which plants and animals take in foods and chemicals, release wastes during their lifetimes, reproduce, and then die and decompose.

What is a biological life cycle?

A strong mushroom-shaped fitting on a pier around which the eye or bight of a ship's mooring line is placed.

What is a bollard?

A long pole built of steel

What is a boom?

A boat consisting of two fairly shallow v-shaped hulls connected by it's upperworks

What is a catamaran?

There is frictional drag between the raindrops and the surrounding air causing the storm to dissipate.

What is a characteristic of the final stage of a thunderstorm?

An extremely accurate timepiece used in navigation

What is a chronometer?

Intermediate-scale charts used to navigate a vessel whose position may be determined by landmarks, lights, buoys, or soundings offshore.

What is a coastal chart?

A convoy system protects merchant shipping by clustering a group of merchant ships with armed military ships.

What is a convoy system?

A pointed, round, wooden tool used for splicing fiber lines

What is a fid?

A partial deck at the bow above the main deck

What is a forecastle deck?

Any circle whose plane passes through the Earth's center

What is a great circle?

Underwater mountains with flat peaks

What is a guyot?

Current of air that moves swiftly from west to east along the Earth

What is a jet stream?

Formal rules put into effect by duly constituted authorities

What is a law?

Vertical development

What is a mandatory characteristic of a cloud to have a thunderstorm occur?

A standard plotting sheet to determine what other vessels and the wind are doing in relation to your vessel

What is a manuevering board?

A tapered steel tool used for separating strands of rope

What is a marlinspike?

Any object that can be projected or thrown at a target

What is a missile?

A palm and a needle

What is a permanent whipping made out of?

A non acceptable person that must be removed

What is a persona non grata?

A chemical compound that burns at a rapid rate rather than detonate or explode

What is a propellant?

A dip or low point between two areas of higher ground

What is a saddle?

A coral island that continues to subside and disappearing beneath the surface

What is a seamount?

A map marker showing the depth of water

What is a sounding?

A front where neither airmass advances on the other

What is a stationary front?

A form of power projection meant to seize, damage, or destroy an objective

What is a strike?

A cylinder plugged with watertight filler material

What is a stuffing tube?

A padeye of extra strength located on the stern used for towing operations

What is a towing padeye?

Command with a broad continuing mission under a single commander and composed of significant assigned components of two or more military departments

What is a unified or specified command?

Constitutional Law

What is all law in the United States called?

Antisubmarine Rocket

What is an ASROC?

Defense in depth

What is an AW ship formation providing to the vessels?

Large body of air with roughly the same temperature and humidity

What is an air mass?

Chief Engineer

What is another name for the engineering officer?

Hydrologic cycle

What is another name for the water cycle?

opposition to foreign control

What is anticolonialism?

Brightness of a star as it appears to a viewer on Earth

What is apparent magnitude?

Fish farming

What is aquaculture?

Crosswise across the ship

What is athwartships?

Fast attacks with motor vehicles and tanks supported by dive-bombers; introduced by Germany

What is blitzkrieg and who introduced it

Air heated by the Earth rises and is replaced by cooler air descending from higher altitudes

What is convection?

Particles of animal or plant matter

What is detritus?

The management of international relations by which these relations are adjusted and managed by ambassadors and envoys

What is diplomacy?

Sargasso Sea?

What is directly in the middle of the Gulf Stream currents?

Neap tides

What is formed when the tidal forces of the Moon and Sun are at approximate right angles to each other?

energy of position within a gravitational field

What is gravitational energy?

A proper sense of right or wrong

What is honor?

Whistles, sirens, bells, and underwater acoustics

What is included in sound communication?

Projectile devices such as guns and launchers and other equipment needed to operate and control weapons

What is inert ordnance?

Solid waste of society and ships at sea

What is marine litter?

The drive or desire to do a particular thing

What is motivation?

Actual behavior and output of a person in a job

What is performance?

Spring tide

What is produced when the forces of the Moon and Sun are either working together or directly opposed?

When one part of a surf line develops drag and changes direction because of shallower water.

What is refraction?

Action of a rotating propeller

What is screw current caused by?

Sound navigation and rangin

What is sonar short for?

Hygroscopic condensation nuclei

What is term for tiny particles of dust, sand, pollen, smoke, and salt mixed with water vapor and cooled into tiny droplets?

The area of Africa and Eurasia that would be the second goal of a nation under MacKinder's ideology to conquer

What is the "World Island"

Court of Military Appeals

What is the "supreme court" of military appeals?

Humidity

What is the 1 percent water vapor in the atmosphere called?

To provide forces able to conduct prompt, sustained combat on land as well as stability and reconstruction operations, as needed.

What is the Army's mission?

Change between the highest and lowest frequencies heard and source frequency

What is the Doppler shift?

"information acquired on a national scale, usually about a rival, but sometimes about an ally or a neutral country"

What is the Encyclopedia Britannica definition of military/political intelligence?

A law that protects people from lawsuits as long as the rescuer acted in good faith without compensation and administers first aid correctly and without malicious misconduct or gross negligence

What is the Good Samaritan Law?

Area of electrically charged particles influenced by turbulences on the sun

What is the Ionosphere?

Headquarters, six national centers, six regional support centers, and twelve national specialized centers.

What is the National Weather service composed of?

FWC; Norfolk, Virginia and San Diego, California

What is the Navy abbreviation for fleet weather centers, and where are they located?

The Harpoon

What is the Navy's antiship cruise missile?

Lack of funding for adequate numbers of trained personnel, ships, and aircraft.

What is the Navy's biggest issue in supporting the pace of operations in support of these worldwide missions?

ForceNet

What is the Navy's new command, control, communication, computer, and intelligence network?

Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command (NMOC)

What is the Navy's weather agency?

CSG

What is the abbreviation for a modern carrier strike group?

NavComSta

What is the abbreviation of a naval communication station?

RICE (rest, ice, compression, and elevation)

What is the acronym for first aid procedures for bone, joint, and muscle injuries and what does it stand for?

23.5 degrees

What is the angle at which Earth is inclined from the perpendicular to the plane of its orbit of revolution?

26 million square miles, 12,600 feet deep

What is the approximate area and average depth of the Indian Ocean?

1.1 million square miles; 4,921 feet deep

What is the approximate area and average depth of the Mediterranean sea?

59 million square miles; 12,800 feet deep

What is the approximate area and average depth of the Pacific Ocean?

7 million square miles; 13,100 feet deep

What is the approximate area and average depth of the Southern Ocean?

29 Million Square miles

What is the approximate area of the Atlantic Ocean?

180,000 square miles

What is the approximate area of the Black Sea?

One million square miles

What is the approximate area of the Caribbean Sea?

169,000 square miles

What is the approximate area of the Red Sea?

78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, 1% other gases

What is the approximate composition of air near the Earth's surface?

.0004 in

What is the approximate diameter of a moisture droplet in a cloud?

.004 to .35 in/.1 mm to .9mm

What is the approximate diameter range of a raindrop?

5-inch nylon

What is the approximate size of the nylon mooring line of a destroyer?

Fifteen-thirty feet

What is the approximate size range of an Orca?

Strait of Gibraltar

What is the area of water exchange between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea?

Optical Interferometry

What is the astronomical observation technique that involves grouping refracting telescopes in groups of two to three?

3,400 feet deep, 4.7 million square miles

What is the average depth and approximate area of the Arctic Ocean?

12,800 feet

What is the average depth of the Atlantic Ocean?

4,960 feet

What is the average depth of the Gulf of Mexico?

72-84 beats per minute

What is the average resting heart rate?

-40 to -50 degrees farenheit

What is the average temperature of the stratosphere?

42 miles

What is the average width of the continental shelves?

Polar Front Zone

What is the belt of low pressure in the area of 60 degrees north and south latitudes called?

Mercator Projection

What is the best-known map or chart projection?

Magnetopause

What is the boundary between the magnetosphere and solar winds called?

The day-to-day conduct of all actions involving units of the U.S. fleet in oceans of the world

What is the broad definition of Naval Operations?

Entrance hall or foyer

What is the building counterpart to a quarterdeck?

60 steps per minute

What is the cadence of slow time?

Core

What is the center of the Earth?

Gold Oak Leaf

What is the collar device of an Oscar-4 in the Marine Corps?

Three blue boxes surrounded by a silver outline

What is the collar insignia for a Whisky-4 in the Navy?

Officer country

What is the collective term for officers' living spaces?

A strong watertight bulkhead at the after end of the forepeak tank

What is the collision bulkhead?

The collar device is an eagle and two stars perched on a fouled anchor.

What is the color device of a Cadet Master Chief Petty Officer?

A USN fouled anchor

What is the color insignia for an Echo-7 in the Navy?

50% infrared wavelengths, 40% visible spectrum, and 10% ultraviolet

What is the composition of the Sun's energy when it hits the top of the atmosphere?

40 inches

What is the correct distance between ranks in Cadet formations?

Army-Marine Corps-Navy-Air Force-Coast Guard

What is the correct order of march in a peacetime inter-service parade or review?

North Atlantic Drift

What is the current that begins to form when the Gulf Stream begins to spread out and turn eastward?

Plate Tectonics

What is the currently accepted theory regarding the movement of the continents and all major geologic structures?

Java Trench; 24,442 feet deep

What is the deepest point in the Indian Ocean and how deep is it?

Puerto Rico Trench; 28,231 feet deep

What is the deepest point in the North Atlantic, and how deep is it?

Marianas Trench; 36,161 feet deep

What is the deepest point in the Pacific Ocean and how deep is it?

South Sandwich Trench; 27,113 feet deep

What is the deepest point in the South Atlantic, and how deep is it?

Abyssal Plain; 15,091 feet deep

What is the deepest point of the Arctic Ocean and how deep is it?

Cayman Trench; 25,216 feet

What is the deepest point of the North Caribbean Sea, and how deep is it?

Harbors, towns, or cities having access to the sea and containing facilities for cargo handling and ship maintenance of all kinds.

What is the definition of a Seaport?

large body of water opening up to sea

What is the definition of a bay?

a bay-like body of water that connects two or more inlets or parts of sea

What is the definition of a sound?

the power or right to give commands, enforce obedience, take action, or make final decisions

What is the definition of authority?

Armed encounters, other than incidents, in which one or more major powers or their proxies voluntarily restrict their actions in order to prevent escalation to general war.

What is the definition of limited war?

Neptune

What is the densest gaseous planet?

Position of the sun and turbidity of the water

What is the depth at which light penetrates water influenced by?

SSBN

What is the designation for a ballistic missile submarine?

CVN

What is the designation for a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier?

MCM

What is the designation of a Mine countermeasures ship?

The temperature to which air must be cooled at constant pressure and constant water-vapor content to reach its saturation point

What is the dew point?

Spectrum-luminosity diagram

What is the diagram use to plot luminosity and absolute magnitude of stars, also known as a Hertzsprung-Russel diagram?

85,500 miles

What is the diameter of Jupiter?

865,000 miles

What is the diameter of the Sun?

2,160 miles

What is the diameter of the moon?

Anchored ships have one anchor down whereas moored ships have two

What is the difference between a ship being anchored or moored?

An inland whistle is a signal of intent, whereas an international whistle is a signal of execution

What is the difference between a whistle sounded inland and in international waters?

An order enables reasoned obedience, whereas a command calls for immediate blind obedience

What is the difference between an order and a command?

Apprehension is the taking of a person into custody, whereas arrest is the restraint of a person by an order directing that person to remain within certain specified limits

What is the difference between apprehension and arrest?

Mean time uses an imaginary sun that always circles the Earth in exactly twenty-four hours, and apparent time uses the actual Sun.

What is the difference between mean time and apparent time?

Restriction is the limited of an accused person to specified areas while still be required to perform military duties, whereas confinement in brig or jail is physical restraint depriving a person of freedom.

What is the difference between restriction and confinement?

Large revolving dome

What is the distinguishing feature of an observatory?

Motivation

What is the drive or desire to do a particular thing and the force that causes a person to move toward a goal?

Wavelength in meters=3x10^8/frecuency in cycles per second

What is the equation relating frequency and wavelngth of an electromagnetic wave?

The Doldrums

What is the equatorial belt of light and variable converging winds called?

9:00

What is the excellent run time for a 17-year old female cadet?

Coordination of all departments; assignment of personnel and upkeep of their records; preparation and maintenance of ship's organization bills and orders; supervision and coordination of work, exercises, training, and education; supervision of loading and berthing plans; navigatio; and supervision of ship's correspondence

What is the executive officer responsible for?

Marine Ecology/Biological Oceanography

What is the field or research that is concerned with marine organisms and their environment?

"Bring the ship to life and set the watch"!

What is the first order read by the CO during the commissioning of a ship?

Set the best example possible

What is the first rule of leadership?

First ensure their basic needs are satisfied

What is the first thing a leader must do when looking to motivate a group?

tinder

What is the first thing you need to start a fire?

Voltage/electromotive force

What is the force that causes electricity to move through a conductor?

Friction

What is the force that must be dealt with for all moving earthbound objects?

ZT=GMT-ZD

What is the formula for converting Zone Times to GMT times or Zone Descriptions?

Velocity=frequency x wavelength

What is the formula governing soundwaves?

Cell

What is the fundamental unit of a battery?

to build loyal and committed juniors, it is important to first be loyal and committed to them

What is the golden rule of loyalty?

100 million

What is the highest amount of eggs an adult oyster can produce in one laying?

Thermosphere

What is the highest level of the ionosphere?

Self-actualization/personal fulfillment

What is the highest need on Maslow's hierarchy?

Gaeta

What is the home port of the U.S. Sixth Fleet Flagship?

The outer walls of the ship

What is the hull?

The measurement of thermal infrared light energy emitted by a body

What is the infrared thermometer based on?

Anemometer

What is the instrument used to determine the direction and speed of relative wind?

Anemometer

What is the instrument used to measure wind speed?

Voltmeter

What is the instument designed to measure voltage in an electrical circuit?

The process by which information is acquired, gathered, transmitted, evaluated, analyzed, and made available as finished intelligence for policy makes and military commanders to use in decision making and action.

What is the intelligence cycle?

Regulations for the Prevention of Collisions at Sea (COLREGS)

What is the international law of the sea for "rules of the road"?

Organizes all the welfare, recreational, and athletic activities, as well as arranging tours for the sailors in foreign ports

What is the job of the special services officer?

Valles Marineris

What is the largest canyon on Mars' surface?

Cuba

What is the largest island in the Caribbean?

Titan

What is the largest of Saturn's moons?

Hull

What is the largest part of a boat, the part that floats in the water?

Mantle

What is the layer of the Earth's crust underneath the Lithosphere?

Asthenosphere

What is the layer of the Earth's crust underneath the mantle?

Broadcast R/T

What is the least secure mean of electronic communication?

Callao Painter

What is the local name for the phenomenon where seabirds and fish die in famines, and the thick hydrogen sulfide from their decaying bodies paint's ship's hulls black?

Mesosphere

What is the lowest level of the ionosphere?

IEDs (improvised explosive devices)

What is the main cause of recent U.S. veterans with debilitating head injuries or amputations?

High nutrient content that encourages rapid plankton and algae growth, using up oxygen and creating 'dead zones'

What is the main danger of organic pollutants?

Fluorocarbon gas release

What is the main depleting factor on the ozone layer?

The emphasis of corrective actions in military leadership.

What is the main difference between civilian and military leadership?

How much gas and cosmic dust become locked together by gravity

What is the main factor determining what kind of star is made?

Large mid-ocean ridge system

What is the main feature of the Indian Ocean?

Packing materials

What is the main portion of current marine litter?

The Hydrogen Sulfide layers had a corrosive effect on metal

What is the main problem for a Navy operating in the Black Sea?

Safety of the ship

What is the main responsibility of the Commanding Officer of a ship?

Strait of Malacca

What is the main route between Asia and Europe?

Greenland-Iceland-United Kingdom Gap (G-I-UK)

What is the main strategic point for defense of allied shipping in the North Atlantic?

Dijibouti

What is the major African port on the Horn of Africa?

San Diego, California

What is the major U.S. naval base on the west coast that serves as the headquarters for the U.S. Third Fleet?

In land warfare, private enemy or neutral property must be left undisturbed, whereas in sea warfare, it is subject to confiscation from a belligerent

What is the major distinction between limitations on land and sea warfare?

Carbon Dioxide

What is the majority of Mars' atmosphere composed of?

Charon

What is the mate planet of Pluto?

94

What is the maximum amount of curl-ups a 15-year old male cadet can log?

Ten feet

What is the maximum length of a moray eel?

Astronomical Unit (AU)

What is the measurement for the average distance it takes the sun's light to reach us?

Ferrule

What is the metal piece at the bottom of the flag called?

Two

What is the minimum amount of Defense Meteorological Satellite Program satellites in polar orbits at one time?

80 degrees farenheit

What is the minimum water temperature required for a hurricane to develop?

Provide the President, National Security Council, and other policymakers on matters relating to national security.

What is the mission of the CIA?

The Big Bang

What is the modern scientific theory of origin of the universe?

Practical salinity units (PSU)

What is the more precise measure for expressing the total salt in seawater?

Atomic time/universal coordinated time (UTC)

What is the most accurate kind of time?

Northwest Pacific

What is the most active ocean basin for typhoon development?

A conspiracy, culminating in a coup that overturns an established government.

What is the most common progression of a revolutionary war today?

Breakwater

What is the most common structure built to protect harbors?

Alcohol-filled

What is the most common thermometer?

Electronic digital computer

What is the most common type of computer?

Marline

What is the most common type of small stuff?

Allied invasion of the Gallipoli Penninsula

What is the most famous amphibious operation of World War 1?

Mistral in southern France

What is the most famous valley wind system?

Veracruz

What is the most important Mexican port?

The Gulf Stream

What is the most important current affecting the United States and its entire Atlantic Seaboard?

National Centers for Environmental Predictions (NCEP)

What is the most important national centers organization?

Obedience

What is the most important quality for a leader to instill in their personnel?

Panama Canal

What is the most important strategic spot in the Caribbean?

Hygrometers

What is the most modern electronic instrument using a precisely determined dew-point temperature or changes in electrical capacitance or resistance to measure and present readouts of relative humidity?

Courage

What is the most traditional trait of a leader?

Plane of the ecliptic

What is the name for Earth's orbit around the Sun?

Ion

What is the name for a charged atom?

Nebula

What is the name for a large cloud of gas in space?

Almanac

What is the name for a publication that provides long-range weather predictions for the year ahead?

Graving basins

What is the name for a system of locks that hold in forty-foot tidal waters in some harbors to keep the skips afloat?

Waterspout

What is the name for a tornado that forms over water?

Protosun

What is the name for an infant sun?

Monsoons

What is the name for seasonal winds characteristic of South and Southeast Asia?

Heliosphere

What is the name for the area beyond the Sun's atmosphere full of energetic particles of solar wind and extending from twenty sola radii to the heliopause?

Horse Latitudes

What is the name for the area of 30 degrees north and south latitudes that features sinking and accumulating air?

La Nina

What is the name for the effect that follows El Nino?

Ship's boatswain

What is the name for the first lieutenant's assistant chief warrant boatswain?

Coma

What is the name for the halo made of frozen gases surrounding the nucleus of a comet?

Microburst

What is the name for the leading gust of wind in a thunderstorm?

Bow shock

What is the name for the phenomenon where oncoming solar wind compresses the magnetosphere to about 40,000 miles from Earth?

Magnetotail

What is the name for the phenomenon where the far side of the magnetosphere is distended into a comet-like tail between 3-4 million miles long?

Seeding

What is the name for the premeir modern rainmaking technique?

Economic zone

What is the name for the region extending beyond the 12 mile territorial sea to about 200 miles out?

Kuiper Belt

What is the name for the region of the solar system beyond Pluto extending from 30 to 55 AU from the Sun?

Dangerous semicircles

What is the name for the semicircles on the side of the dangerous quadrants?

Cyberspace

What is the name for the sum total of all the world's computers, servers, and interconnecting networks?

Photosphere

What is the name for the surface of the sun?

Regolith

What is the name for the thick dust layer present on the moon?

Trade winds

What is the name for the winds that blow from the northeast in the latitude belt from 0 to 30 degrees?

Polar northeasterlies

What is the name for the winds that blow from the northeast in the latitude belt from 60 degrees to the North Pole?

Prevailing westerlies

What is the name for the winds that blow from the southeast in the latitude belt from 30 to 60 degrees?

Maria

What is the name for the younger rocks on the moon full of solidifed lava and dust?

Binaries

What is the name for two stars that orbit each other?

Vom Kriege

What is the name of Karl von Clausewitz's influential dissertation on strategy?

Office of Naval Intelligence

What is the name of the Navy's intelligence organization?

Camp Delta

What is the name of the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, staffed by Army guards and Navy medical personell that serves as a holding and interrogation facility for al-Qaeda, Taliban, and other terrorist detainees?

Ballast tanks

What is the name of the fillable water tanks inside a submarine allowing it to submerge or surface?

The winds of Gibraltar

What is the name of the infamous valley wind system that is always a concern for the 6th Fleet in the western Mediterranean Sea?

Pangea

What is the name of the original supercontinent?

Meridians

What is the navigation term defined as the imaginary lines running through the poles and around the Earth?

Cyber Warfare

What is the newest form of information warfare?

Proxima Centauri, 26.4 trillion miles away

What is the next closest star and how close is it?

Fighting Redcocks

What is the nickname of the Strike Fighter Squadron VFA-22?

Fairness

What is the one key to sucessful leadership, as defined by the NS II textbook?

Starfish ring

What is the only artificial ring inside the magnetosphere?

It's coarse skin will produce severe abrasion on contact

What is the only danger to come from the giant devil ray, or manta ray?

a funeral

What is the only occasion in which slow time is utilized?

The creation of artificial reefs that serve as habitats for plant and animal life?

What is the only positive of marine litter?

Surface, air, and subsurface search; electronic warfare; aircraft when airborne and under combat or operational control of the ship; collection, display, analysis, and dissemination of intelligence information; preparing operations plans; planning of seamanship evolutions; gathering weather information; and communications

What is the operations department responsible for?

687 Earth Days

What is the orbital period of Mars?

Mussels

What is the other main shellfish that is farmed besides oyster?

Exosphere

What is the outer fringe of the Earth's atmosphere called?

Ogive

What is the pointed nose of a projectile called?

Burning

What is the preferable method for retiring a flag?

Iodine Tablets

What is the preferred method of purifying water?

A lighthouse is on the shore and a light tower is offshore

What is the primary difference between a lighthouse and a light tower?

Sleet freezes from the outside in, whereas hail freezes from the inside out

What is the primary difference between sleet and hail?

The inner belt contains primarily high-energy protons and the outer belt contains primarily high-energy electrons

What is the primary difference in content between the two Van Allen radiation belts?

Tuna

What is the primary fish captured by U.S. purse seiners?

Bathythermograph (BT)

What is the primary instrument used to check the temperature of water at various depths?

Coordinate the efforts of their personnel for a common goal

What is the primary job of a military leader?

Tomahawk

What is the primary long range surface-to-surface missile used by the US Navy?

Piloting

What is the primary means of navigation when entering or leaving port and in coastal navigation?

Tin

What is the primary metal mined off the shores of Thailand, Malaysia, and Sumatra?

To advance the knowledge of ocean, coastal, and seabed areas for the purpose of increasing the effectiveness of naval as well as other military weapons systems

What is the primary objective of the Navy's oceanographic program?

Sink enemy submarines

What is the primary objective of the submarine's basic mission?

Circulating water cycle

What is the primary system of a nuclear power plant?

Prism

What is the primary tool for seeing the visible spectrum of light?

Nansen bottle

What is the primary tool for taking samples of ocean water?

TH-57 Sea Ranger

What is the primary training aircraft used by the United States Navy?

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

What is the principal U.S. agency that is focused on the oceans and atmosphere?

Air-launched homing torpedoes

What is the principal weapon of Modern USW helicopters?

National Weather Service (NWS)

What is the principal weather agency in the United States?

Coalescence

What is the process by which cloud droplets grow to a size large enough to fall as rain, snow, or sleet by combining with one another?

To develop an efficient organization of personnel trained to accomplish a common goal

What is the purpose of discipline in the military services?

2,440 kilometers

What is the radius of Mercury>

A maximum time of one hour

What is the recommended maximum time length for a staff meeting?

The award's ribbon may be worn on the uniform higher in precedence than NJROTC ribbons, but the wear of the associated medal or it's miniature equivalent is not authorized.

What is the regulation for the wear of active duty ribbons and badges?

Neatly trimmed and tailored, shall not extend below a point level with the middle of the ear, shall end with a clean shaven horizontal line.

What is the regulation on male sideburns?

authorized, but shall not be visible

What is the regulation regarding a female cadet wearing necklaces in uniform?

The right of a state to have representatives in other states for carrying on diplomatic negotiations and receive similar representatives from other states.

What is the right of legation?

Penetrate the storm at an altitude of about 1/3 of the storm's height

What is the rule for airplane pilots if they must fly through a thunderstorm?

Cosmology

What is the science concerned with the nature of the universe and it's origin?

Aerodynamics

What is the science that deals with the motion of bodies moving through air and other gases.

Density

What is the scientific term used to describe how much of a material is present per unit of volume?

AGM

What is the service designation of air-to-surface missiles?

Continental Slope

What is the sharp descent at the end of the continental shelf called?

3 diagonal stripes travelling from the top right-hand corner to the bottom left-hand corner

What is the sleeve insignia for an Echo-3 in the Navy?

Three chevrons, 4 rockers, and a globe with an eagle and anchor

What is the sleeve insignia of an Echo-9 special in the Marine Corps?

Minke Whale

What is the smallest Baleen whale?

Strait of Bab el Mandeb

What is the southern choke point in the Red Sea?

A single convex objective lens, at the far end, with another convex eyepiece lens on the other side

What is the structure of the refracting telescope?

Astronomy

What is the study of the stars and heavenly bodies, including their composition, motion, position, and size?

Atmospheric diving suit

What is the suit used for the deepest dives in the oceans?

Multiplexing

What is the technique where multiple analog signals and digital data streams are incorporated into a single data wave?

High Seas

What is the term defined as "all parts of the sea that are not included in the territorial sea or in the internal waters of a state"?

General War

What is the term defined as "armed conflict between major powers in which the total resource of the belligerents are deployed and the national survival of a major belligerent are in jeopardy"?

Continental Shelf

What is the term defined as "the seabed and subsoil of the submarine areas adjacent to the coast, but beyond the territorial sea, to a depth of 200 meters or beyond to where the depth of the superjacent waters allows exploitation of the natural resources"?

Meteoroids

What is the term defined as a chunk of rock or metal orbit in in space not more than a meter in size>

Leader

What is the term defined as a column, specifically used when referring to lightning?

Quarantine

What is the term defined as a limited and selective blockade directed against specific prohibited cargo/contraband?

Swell

What is the term defined as a long, smooth wave coming from a distant storm center?

Habitable zone

What is the term defined as a region neither too hot nor too cold to support life?

Fraternization

What is the term defined as a relationship between a senior becoming overly familiar with personnel of lower rank?

Support relationships

What is the term defined as a relationship between subordinate commanders when one unit or organization can aid, protect, complement, or sustain another force?

Scupper

What is the term defined as a rubber or metal drain along the bulwarks that allow water to run off the deck during rain or heavy seas?

Integrated circuit

What is the term defined as a set of electronic components connected by ultrathin conductors printed on small silicon wafers called chips?

Moral Courage

What is the term defined as a show of firmness in difficult situations where the danger of death or injury is not an immediate concern?

Law

What is the term defined as a statement that describes and predicts the future outcome of events?

Solar wind

What is the term defined as a stream of charged particles emanating from the Sun at speeds up to 900,000 miles per hour?

Raid

What is the term defined as a sudden destructive attack against a limited area or facility?

Almanac

What is the term defined as a timetable for the movement and location of the planetes and is also called an ephemeris?

Wind

What is the term defined as air in motion?

Dark Matter

What is the term defined as an undiscovered material present in space that cannot be seen with telescopes and does not emit, reflect, or absorb light or any other electromagnetic radiation?

Transverse frames

What is the term defined as girders attached to the keel running athwartships and supporting the shell plating?

Breccia

What is the term defined as impact material from crashing meteors?

Topography

What is the term defined as land features?

Fjords

What is the term defined as long, narrow inlets from the sea?

Rays

What is the term defined as material ejected from impact craters?

Cycle

What is the term defined as one complete sequence of values of the strength of the wave as it passes through a point in space?

Research

What is the term defined as prolonged investigation over time?

Meteorites

What is the term defined as remnants from a meteor strike?

Asteroids

What is the term defined as small bodies that orbit the Sun in the same direction as the planets?

Front

What is the term defined as the boundary between warm and cold air masses?

Center of gravity

What is the term defined as the center of mass on a ship?

Acceleration

What is the term defined as the change in velocity per unit of time?

Weather

What is the term defined as the condition of the atmosphere?

Fetch

What is the term defined as the distance that wind blows over water?

Supernova

What is the term defined as the explosion of a star?

Double bottom

What is the term defined as the honeycomb structure in the bottom of a ship creating by transverse and longitudal frames?

Orbital period

What is the term defined as the length of time required for an orbital body to complete a full rotation around the Sun?

Power

What is the term defined as the rate at which work is done or energy is gained or expended?

Relative Humidity (RH)

What is the term defined as the ratio of the amount of water vapor the air actually contains to the maximum amount that air at that temperature and pressure could contain, expressed as a percentage?

Sea Power

What is the term defined as the sum of a nation's capabilities to implement its interests by using the ocean areas for political, economic, and military activites in peace or war to obtain national objectives?

Truck

What is the term defined as the top of the mast?

Tide

What is the term defined as the vertical rise and fall of water?

Migratory lows

What is the term defined as traveling low-pressure cells frequently found in the Polar Front?

Ebb

What is the term defines as the fall of the tide that pushes water away from shore?

Deck

What is the term for a "floor" on a ship?

Pulsars

What is the term for a celestial body that radiates energy at very precise intervals?

Flying bridge

What is the term for a elevated platform with an auxiliary helm and engine controls seen on some powerboats?

Retrograde

What is the term for a kind of moon that orbits in an opposite direction of the planet it orbits?

Prograde

What is the term for a kind of moon that orbits in the same direction of the planet it orbits?

Main frame

What is the term for a large, immobile computer for corporate and government accounting, transactions, and data processing?

personal relations

What is the term for a leader's associations with seniors, peers, juniors, and the general public?

Cloud

What is the term for a mass of hygroscopic nuclei that have soaked up moisture from water vapor in the air?

Radar telescope

What is the term for a modified radiotelescope that can direct powerful microwave-frequency beams at celestial objects and receive the echos back when they rebound to earth?

"Blackshoes"

What is the term for a nonaviation personnel typically in the deck department?

Grand Marshal

What is the term for a person who organizes and directs a street parade?

Learning plateau

What is the term for a point in time where further learning improvement comes very slowly?

Tanker

What is the term for a ship designed to carry liquid cargo in bulk quantities?

Browser

What is the term for a software tool that is used to locate information on the internet?

Annular Eclipse

What is the term for a solar eclipse where the Moon will leave a ring of the Sun's corona visible?

Observatory

What is the term for a structure with at least one large telescope with computer driven aiming machinery?

Frost

What is the term for a subatcne similar to dew, but formed only at temperatures below freezing?

Conductor

What is the term for a substance that permits the free motion of alarge number of electrons due to its atomic structure?

Optical properties

What is the term for a substance's ability to transmit light?

Server

What is the term for a system of software running on one or more linked computers to provide a resource to a user on a computer network and/or the Internet?

Main sequence star

What is the term for a typical star in the Milky Way?

Pulsar

What is the term for a very young and dense neutron star spinning at incredible rates?

Q ship

What is the term for a vessel that looks like a cargo vessel but has camouflaged weapons?

Collateral duties

What is the term for an extrabillet in addition to a sailor's typical duties?

Vector quantity

What is the term for an object that has both magnitude and direction?

Banks

What is the term for an underwater plateau with an abundance of marine vegetation?

Chemical energy

What is the term for energy within a substance that can be released as heat by a chemical reaction?

Strategic Geography

What is the term for evaluating areas on Earth's surface that are important from a military standpoint?

Raw Information

What is the term for material collected from all sources about a given subject or country?

Freezing rain

What is the term for precipitation that becomes a supercooled liquid or mush that freezes on contact?

Guano

What is the term for seabird droppings that are 'mined' for high-end fertilizer?

Merchant marine ships

What is the term for ships engaged in commerce that carry goods and liquids that carry goods from one place to another over the world's oceans and waterways?

Radio sonobuoys

What is the term for small, expendable floating hydrophone units that are dropped into an area of a suspected submarine?

Sea

What is the term for smaller, partially enclosed subdivisions of the oceans?

Landlubber

What is the term for someone who knows nothing about the sea?

Supersonic speed

What is the term for speed faster than the speed of sound?

Rip current

What is the term for strong, seaward-moving currents that occur on some shores and return excess water seaward?

"Area of Decision"

What is the term for the aerospace school's area of overlap between various air dominance areas?

nebula

What is the term for the beginning stage of a star's life as a cold, dark gloud of gas and dust?

Fault lines

What is the term for the boundaries in the tectonic plates?

Storm surge

What is the term for the dramatic rise in seawater level near storms making landfall?

Ocean Basins

What is the term for the five areas of the World Ocean divided by the continents?

Supernova

What is the term for the giant explosion during the death of a Giant star, then followed by the collapse of the core into a neutron star?

Mesosphere

What is the term for the lower part of the mantle?

Medium

What is the term for the material or space through which waves travel?

Corona

What is the term for the outer layer of the Sun's atmosphere?

Lithosphere

What is the term for the outer rigid crust of the Earth?

Lee Helmsman

What is the term for the person who stands watch at the engine-order telegraph on the bridge?

Freeboard

What is the term for the portion of the boat above the waterline?

Super-refractivity

What is the term for the property of extreme bending of light rays?

Mach number

What is the term for the ratio of the body's speed to the speed of soun in that part of the atmosphere?

Geopolitics

What is the term for the relationship between geography and politics?

Divisions

What is the term for the smaller composition of departments of a ship?

Convection

What is the term meaning a vertical circular flow caused by heat differences in the water?

Submarine Fan

What is the term meaning an enormous plain of mud and silt?

Quasar

What is the term meaning an incredibly energy-rich area surround by black holes?

Phytoplankton

What is the term meaning microscopic marine plants that start the sea food chain?

Turbidity Currents

What is the term meaning rapidly moving underwater currents carrying debris and sediments?

Green energy

What is the term meaning renewable energy produced without fossil fuels?

circumpolar

What is the term meaning surrounding one of the earth's poles?

Byte

What is the term of a group of 8 binary numbers?

Crust

What is the term referring to the Earth's surface?

Topography

What is the term referring to the form of the Earth's surface?

Atoll

What is the term referring to the strand of coral islands around an old volcanic rim?

Convergence

What is the term that dictates that air flows towards the center of a low-pressure area?

Divergence

What is the term that dictates that air must always flow outward from the center of a high-pressure area?

Cyclone

What is the term that is defined as an atmospheric disturbance characterized by rapid circular air flow around a low-pressure center?

Period

What is the term that measures how long it takes for a complete wave to pass a certain point?

Dogfight

What is the term when aircraft engage each other with shorter range guns in close range?

Ohms

What is the unit to measure resistance in an electrical circuit?

Ampere/amp

What is the unit used to measure the rate at which an electric current flows?

Only from sunrise to sunset on buildings and on stationary flagstaffs, or 24 hours a day when properly illuminated

What is the universal custom of displaying the United States Flag?

W=f x d

What is the work formula?

La Rance Tidal Power Station

What is the world's first large-scale successful tidal plant?

Shiwa Lake Tidal Power Station

What is the world's largest tidal power plant?

Fukushima meltdown

What is the worst case of nuclear pollution in the new millenium?

Carrying flag halyards and navigational and signal lights

What is the yardarm used for?

Telling things the way they are, without deception

What is truthfulness?

The seaward and downward thrust of a wave after it breaks onto the beach?

What is undertow?

It orbits in a reverse direction to most of the other planets

What is unique about Venus's orbit?

Radio-reflecting layers are present

What is unique about the thermosphere?

Boatswain's Chair

What is used for a personnel transfer during ConRep?

Iceland, the Azores, Ascension Island and Tristan de Cunha

What islands emerge above sea level on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?

P-3 reconnaissance aircraft

What kind of Navy aircraft collided with a Chinese fighter jet over the South China sea in April 2001?

Combined Commands

What kind of command is given without voice inflection?

menhaden fishing

What kind of commercial fishing is the most mechanized?

Longshore currents

What kind of currents are a groin built to prevent?

Kinetic Energy

What kind of energy is energy of motion?

Milkfish

What kind of fish are raised in shallow brakish ponds with fertilizer?

Advection fog

What kind of fog is air0-mass fog produced by air in motion or to fog formed in one place and transported by wind to another?

alienated follower

What kind of follower takes a negative approach to his/her job as a follower, always complains, criticizes every idea, and questions every unit policy?

Fluid Friction

What kind of friction is often referred to as "drag"?

Negative items

What kind of items do not produce much motivation?

Reasoned obedience

What kind of obedience allows for personal initiative in carrying out an order?

Blind obedience

What kind of obedience is automatic response to orders?

Polar plot

What kind of plot is a maneuvering board?

Hydroid

What kind of poisonous invertebrate is a Portugues man-of-war?

Dipping sonar

What kind of sonar equipment can be used by helicopters to detect submerged submarines?

Red Dwarves

What kind of star are the majority of stars in the Milky Way?

Red Dwarf

What kind of star is Proxima Centuari?

Radiotelescope

What kind of telescope uses a dish-like antenna to gather radio waves from space?

Dark energy

What kind of theoretical energy accounts for spacial observation anomalies?

Roll-on roll-off (RoRo) ships

What kind of vessel has ramps and large hold openings to accommodate containerized or unitized cargo, or wheeled and tracked vehicles?

Chemical, biological, and radiological (CBR)

What kind of warfare may only be authorized by the President of the United States?

Longitudinal Mechanical wave

What kind of wave is Sound?

Medical establishments, hospital zones, museums, churches, and buildings housing religious organizations

What kinds of buildings are subject to special protection from bombings?

Square knot, bowline, single/double becket bends, round turn, two half hitches, and the clove hitch.

What knots, bends, and hitches are most Navy men and women expected to know how to tie?

Mississippi River Delta

What landform continues to grow into the Gulf of Mexico from sediments carried down from interior North America?

Military Law

What law is the law regulating the military establishment including the military justice system?

Law of conservation of energy

What law states that within a closed system, energy cannot be created or destroyed?

Lithosphere

What layer is divided into tectonic plates?

Magnetosphere

What layer surrounds and overlaps the exosphere?

Ngo Dinh Diem

What leader of the Republic of Vietnam refused to allow elections and sparked a civil war?

Joining

What leadership approach features a group decision and the leader following?

Consulting

What leadership approach features a leader's presentation of the problem and asking the group for ideas?

Telling

What leadership approach features little freedom to the group and all authority belonging to the leader?

Testing

What leadership approach features the leader state a problem, pick a possible solution, let the group react, then making a decision?

Self-Confidence

What leadership trait helps eliminate the fear of failure and is developed with increased experience, skills, professional knowledge, and positive attitude?

Sense of Humor

What leadership trait is essential to relaxing a team in a stressful situation?

Top Secret

What level of security classification is assigned to material that could result in great damage to the nation if revealed?

Culverins

What long-range guns did the English utilize to defeat the Spanish Armada in 1588?

Anchor windlass

What machine is used to hoist a bow anchor?

Battle of Lepanto

What major battle marked the end of the age of the galley?

The recoil of the gun ejecting the spent powder case and reloading a new one

What makes a gun automatic?

It is a vast area of floating, native plants that float because of their air bladders.

What makes the Sargasso Sea so unique?

Captain John Winslow, Kearsarge

What man defeated Semmes' CSS Albama in a single-ship duel, and what was the name of his vessel?

Commodore Stephen Luce

What man was instrumental in starting a system of training for enlistedmen and the establishment of Naval War college?

Quartermaster's notebook

What manual does the Quartermaster of the watch maintain?

Bluejacket's Manual

What manual states that when offense against good order and discipline are punished by proper naval authority, punishment is imposed for three reasons: deterrence, encouragement of duty, and to set an example?

Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917

What marked the first time a communist political party ever gained control of an entire nation?

Heliopause

What marks the transition into deep space?

Great Observatories Program

What massive program did NASA begin in 1990?

Maganese

What metal is found in large underwater belts totalling about 1.35 million square miles in the Pacific?

Commodore Perry's mission to Japan

What mission was regarded as the most important "peacetime battle" of the nineteenth century?

Ensure that his/her group's work gives the group the reward of belonging, status, and getting ahead

What must a leader do next for motivation once basic needs have been satisfied?

Evaluating and reporting correctly on the extent of damages; controlling and extinguishing all kinds of fires; giving first aid and transporting injured to battle dressings; detecting, identifying, and measuring nuclear radiation as well as biological and chemical agents, and carrying out decontamination procedures; and performing the special duties assigned to their parties

What must repair parties be capable of?

Great Britain

What nation agreed on a settlement of the Alaskan-Canadian boundary favorable to the United States?

Italy

What nation formed the Rome-Berlin axis with Germany?

Japan

What nation has complete naval superiority in the Pacific?

Israel

What nation has joined the U.S. in threatening to take unilateral military action against Iran if it continues to enrich Uranium to the degree that is can be used to build nuclear weapons?

U.S., Canada, Russia, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland, and Sweden

What nations are in the arctic council?

Russia and Iran

What nations are supporting the Assad government in the Syrian Civil War?

Depth Charge

What new weapon was designed by the British early in the war and specifically tailored to defeating submarines?

Southern Orcean

What ocean surrounds Antarctica and is therefore circumpolar?

Any noncapital offense punishable under the UCMJ, and some capital offenses if authorized by the president

What offenses are under the jurisdiction of a special court-martial?

First Lieutenant

What officer is in charge of all deck seamanship evolutions?

the First Lieutenant

What officer is in charge of lifeboats, rafts, life jackets, and other survival equipment?

First Lieutenant

What officer is in charge of the anchor detail?

The engineering officer; and the damage control assistant (DCA)

What officer is the damage control officer, and who is he/she assisted by?

Executive officer

What officer is the line officer next in rank to the Commanding Officer?

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

What organization funded the birth of the modern internet?

International Astronomical Union

What organization hosts the world's leading astronomers?

National Ocean Service (NOS)

What organization publishes Tide Tables and Tidal Current Tables?

Department of Commerce

What organization would pay for additional defensive features on merchant vessels in the event of a national emergency?

Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization

What organization wrote The International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972, also known as the COLREGS?

Andromeda Galaxy

What other galaxy is accelerating towards the Milky Way that will cause it to collide with the Milky Way in 3.75 billion years?

Stack

What part of the ship provides air to the main propulsion engines and exhausts smoke and hot gases from them?

Echo-6, Staff Sergeant

What pay grade in the Marine Corps features a sleeve insignia of three chevrons, crossed rifles, and one rocker?

93%

What percent of South Vietnam's population was under government control in 1970?

Radio detection and ranging

What phrase is the acronym Radar developed from?

9-10 points

What point values could you have earned if awarded the Physical Fitness with a silver lamp?

Appeasement

What policy did Britain and France first undertake when dealing with Hitler and Mussolini?

Containment

What policy was emphasized in Truman Doctrine?

President Nixon

What president authorized renewed bombing of North Vietnam?

The principle that when two dissimilar metals are in contact, a voltage will be produced between them when they are heated

What principle is the thermocouple thermometer based on?

Bernoulli's Principle

What principle states that in a closed system, the decrease of one element of streamlined fluid flow must increase another to counterbalance it?

Pioneer 10

What probe discovered Jupiter?

Cool the burned area with water/ elevate the burned part

What procedures should you do when treating a second degree burn?

Thomas Anthony Harris

What psychologist wrote the book "I'm OK, You're OK" in 1969?

Nautical Chart Symbols, Abbreviations, and Terms, Chart No.1

What publication chart contains explanations of symbols used on navigation charts?

Brigadier General

What rank was Ulysses S. Grant when he captured Fort Henry?

Air Force U-2s

What reconnaissance aircraft captured the photos of Russian nuclear building programs in Fidel Castro's Cuba?

Sluice gates

What regulated flow channels or gates are opened at low tide in a dam to spin turbines and generate electricity?

Investigators

What repair team members are the first ones on the scene of the fire and aim to locate it?

Freedom to communicate with the home government, safety/security of self/staff/family, inviolability of home and embassy, and certain jurisdictional immunity such as freedom from criminal and civil laws

What rights do ambassadors and military attaches enjoy in their host countries?

The sponsor breaks on the bow a gaily wrapped bottle of champagne, wine, or water, saying "I name you in the name of the United States" and sometimes "May success always attend you"

What ritual is performed by the female sponsor following the playing of the national anthem?

Einstein's Theory of Relativity

What rules govern the movement of bodies in space?

Leatherback

What sea turtle species can exceed six feet in length and weigh over half a ton?

Nicaragua Rise

What separates the two basins in the Caribbean Sea?

Guided-Missile Destroyers

What ship has the designation DDG?

USS Housatonic

What ship was sunk by the H.L. Hunley?

USS Alfred

What ship was the first American naval flag raised on in 1775?

A triangular blue field of stars

What should the end result of a folded American flag look like?

Hotel

What signal flag indicates "I have a Pilot on board"?

Weeverfish

What small marine fish bury themselves in the mud, leaving only their heads exposed, then dart out with poisonous fins erect and strike the victim?

General ocean sailing chart

What small-scale charts show the approaches to large areas of the coast?

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

What special agency conducts advanced research?

accountability

What special burden do Civilian leaders carry less of?

Strait of Sicily

What strait divides the Mediterranean?

International Association of Lighthouse Authorities (IALA) System B

What system of buoys is used on all navigable waters of the United States?

Vertical Envelopment

What tactic entails the airlift of troops and equipment to landing areas behind the selected assault breach?

Planetshine

What term describes the occurrence where the moon's dark side it illuminated by reflected Earthlight?

Naval telecommunications

What term includes all the communications effort within the Department of the Navy?

Self-discipline

What term is an inner quality of control of yourself, coming from your prior experience and training?

Boiler

What term is defined as a boxlike casing containing hundreds of water-filled steel tubes near the top, arranged so heat from fireboxes underneath them passes over them, turning water into steam that pushes into turbines?

Treaty

What term is defined as a contract between independent nations and depends for its enforcement on the interests on the governments that are parties to it?

Red Giant

What term is defined as a greatly expanded main-sequence star in its last stages of life?

Battery

What term is defined as a group of gun mounts of the same size, normally controlled by the same point?

Harbor Chart

What term is defined as a large-scale chart that shows harbors and their approaches in detail?

Extratropical low

What term is defined as a low-pressure weather system outside the tropics?

Theater

What term is defined as a military geographic area or responsibility?

Vector

What term is defined as a plotted line used to represent any quantitiy that has both magnitude and direction?

Rigging

What term is defined as all wires, ropes, and chains supportings masts or kingposts, and operating booms and cargo hooks?

Convention

What term is defined as an informal rule that has become a part of our culture through usage and custom?

Daybeacon

What term is defined as an unlighted structural aid to navigation?

Loyalty

What term is defined as faithful and enthusiastic devotion to one's country?

Military Strategy

What term is defined as physical violence or the threat of such violence, that seeks victory through strength in arms?

Pollutants

What term is defined as substances that damage marine processes or cause loss or restricting of an ocean resource?

Scope of chain

What term is defined as the amount of chain veered when anchoring?

Sound intensity

What term is defined as the amount of energy or power in a sound wave at any given time?

tactics

What term is defined as the art and science of fighting battles?

International law

What term is defined as the body of rules under which the nations of the world deal with each other?

National Strategy

What term is defined as the combination of the capabilities of a nation to attain national interests or objectives?

Upwelling

What term is defined as the movement of deeper water to the surface?

Counterintelligence

What term is defined as the protection of a nation's secrets?

Magnitude

What term is defined as the relative brightness of a celestial body?

Cosmology

What term is defined as the study of the universe?

Grand Strategy

What term is defined as the use of national power and influence to attain national security objectives?

Oceanography

What term is referred to as "the application of sciences to the phenomena of the oceans, including the study of their forms and their physical, chemical, and biological features?"

Personality

What term is the ability to talk to large groups and still make each person feel that they are being talked to alone?

espirit de corps.

What term is the feeling of being proud of the other people in the same group?

Halyard

What term is the rope by which a flag is raised on a flagpole?

Hertz

What term is used instead of cycles per second in most physical sciences?

Packet(s)

What term is used to define ships sailing on a schedule?

ridgeline

What term is used to refer to a line of high ground with changes in elevation along its top?

projection

What term is used to refer to falsely attributing one's own unacceptable feelings or impulses to another?

posterity

What term is used to refer to future generations?

Discipline

What term means an orderly way of doing things that guides people towards the right actions?

Honesty

What term means refusing to lie, cheat, or steal?

leeward side

What term means the side of an island facing away from the wind?

Turbidity

What term measures the amount of suspended materials in water?

aptitudes

What term refers to talents or skills that you have or can develop with practice or training?

insight

What term refers to the ability to understand a hidden or inward truth?

Luminosity

What term refers to the brightness of a star as compared to the Sun?

Relief

What term refers to the different elevations and form of the Earth's surface?

Aptitude

What term refers to the potential skills and abilities of a person in the future?

Broadband

What term refers to the simultaneous use of a broad range of carrier-ave frequencies with bandwidths of 6 MHz?

Old Northwest Territory

What territory had Britain ceded to the United States following the American Revolution?

Soryu, Kaga, and Akagi

What three Japanese carriers were sunk by the dive-bomb raid during the Battle of Midway?

USS Bainbridge (DDG 96), USS Halyburton (FFG 40) and USS Boxer (LHD 4)

What three U.S. navy ships were dispatched following word of the hostage situation regarding Captain Phillips?

USS Indiana, USS Massachusetts, and USS Oregon

What three battleships were created under the Naval Act of 1890?

Belgium, the Netherlands, and France

What three countries did Germany conquer in 1940?

temperature, pressure, and salinity

What three factors affect the speed at which sound travels through seawater?

wind speed, wind duration, fetch

What three factors influence wave height?

Marlin, sailfish, and tuna

What three fish are targeted by Japanese and South Korean long-liners?

The Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland

What three former Soviet satellite states joined NATO in 1999?

Strategic nuclear deterrence, Overseas-deployed forces, and security of the sea lines of communication

What three functional roles in the U.S. national military strategy are the Navy responsible for?

Good Health, Energy, and Optimism

What three leadership attributes cannot exist without each other, and few appreciate until they are lost?

Terrier, Tartar, and Talos

What three missiles were in the Navy's second line of fleet defense during the 1960's and 1970's, often described as the '3 Ts'?

Spain, China and Korea

What three nations caused problems for the U.S. Navy between 1871 and 1875?

Wardroom, staterooms, and engine rooms

What three spaces on a ship are actually referred to as "rooms"?

No one wants their personal affairs pried into; many people like to talk about themselves to someone who they trust, who will listen and understand; the key to getting acquainted is a sincere and unselfish interest in the people being approached

What three things should a leader remember when starting a conversation?

Echo Sounders (Fathometers)

What tool provides a rapid mean of finding the depth of water over which a vessel is travelling?

Tact

What trait is the ability to use good judgement to speak and act in a diplomatic way to avoid offending one's seniors, peers, or juniors?

United Arab Emirates and Qatar

What two Persian Gulf countries control the valuable pearl fisheries?

USS Lexington and USS Enterprise

What two aircraft carriers avoided destruction at Pearl Harbor because they were delivering planes?

Bristleworms and Bloodworms

What two annelids have tufted, silky bristles in a row along each side to penetrate skin and create a pale, hot, swollen, numb, and itchy area on contact?

Navy and Marine Corps.

What two branches of service where primary res ponders to terrorism during the Iran-Iraq war?

Grand Fleet and Channel Fleet

What two fleets did Great Britain utilize during World War One?

Never make a regulation that you cannot or will not enforce and take immediate, fair action that leaves no doubt in the mind of the offender about the reason for the reprimand or punishment

What two fundamental rules apply to consistency in military disciplinary action?

Kiska and Attu

What two islands were captured by the Japanese at the beginning of the Battle of Midway?

Common Sense and Good Judgement

What two leadership traits enable a person to make good decisions?

Operating forces and the naval shore establishment

What two main parts of the Navy are the responsibility of the Chief of Naval Operations?

India and Pakistan

What two nations exploded nuclear test devices in response to the other doing so in Spring 1998?

Attack by Air Force stealth B-2 bombers or Navy SEAL ground commandos

What two options were discussed for the raid on Bin Laden's Compound?

NASA and the European Space Agency

What two organizations are cooperatively working on the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory?

Right-front quarter in the Northern Hemisphere and the left-front quarter in the Southern Hemisphere

What two quadrants are 'dangerous quadrants'?

Turboprop Bear and Supersonic Badger

What two reconnaissance aircraft did the Soviets use in the Cold War?

Indus River and Ganges-Brahmaputra

What two river systems have build submarine "fans" into the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal?

Responsibility and Accountability

What two special burdens go on a Navy leader besides authority?

Maine and Washington state

What two states are main producers of salmon?

Beaufort Wind Scale and Correlative Sea Disturbance Scale

What two wind scales can be used to estimate wind speed?

arterial bleeding

What type of bleeding corresponds to blood loss from an artery?

Steam fog

What type of fog is a subset of Advection fog and is formed by air saturation?

Exocet missiles

What type of missile, fired from Argentine attack planes, caused Britain to lose two frigates and a transport ship?

Wolf-Pack Tactics

What u-boat tactic did German Admiral Donitz use to inflict heavy losses on the Allies?

Mid-Atlantic Ridge

What underwater mountain range separates the two Atlantic Ocean sub-basins?

Functional air wings

What unit are Naval air forces broken down into?

Decibels

What units are used to calculate relative intensity?

Stand-on vessel

What vessel is required to maintain course and speed during passing?

Aegis cruisers and Arleigh Burke-class destroyers

What vessels are the typical carriers of an ARSOC?

The strategy of preparing better defense positions behind the breach with the aid of natural terrain

What was "defense in depth"?

Shift personell to u-boats and begin unrestricted submarine warfare

What was Germany's Naval strategy following the decision to avoid battle with their High Seas fleet?

Quickly invade France and hold Russia at bay, then use the newfound sea access to invade Britain

What was Germany's strategy?

Marginal Crescent

What was MacKinder's name for the geographic rimland of Eurasia that would be the first goal of a nation under his ideology to conquer?

Code name given to the Allied invasion of North Africa planned for 8 November 1942

What was Operation Torch?

Training given to local government officials, civil servants, teachers, dock managers, builders, farmers, industrialists, medical personell, and police forces.

What was Vietnamization?

Agreement between Britain and America, put the U.S. Navy into the war on the side of the allies and called for secret meetings between American and British chiefs of staff to make strategic plans

What was the ABC-1 Staff Agreement?

The British Commonwealth

What was the Commonwealth of Nations formerly known as?

Tora

What was the Japanese code word meaning complete surprise?

Treaty worked out between Frank Kellogg (Calvin Coolidge's Secretary of State) and Aristide Briand (French Foreign Minister). Under it's terms, fifteen nations tried to outlaw war by agreeing to not use threat of war in dealings with each other.

What was the Kellog-Briand pact?

Allowed the United States to "loan" war materials to Great Britain

What was the Lend-Lease act?

USS Langley

What was the Navy's first aircraft carrier?

Destroying the compound, fearing that it would remain a shrine to a massive Pakistani intelligence failure

What was the Pakistani government's response to the raid?

Treaty on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms, cut total number of strategic warheads in each country by 25-30%.

What was the START I treaty?

New Orleans

What was the South's largest and most important port city?

The establishment of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON)

What was the Soviet response to the creation of NATO?

USS Maddox

What was the U.S. destroyer first attacked by Vietnamese patrol boats in the Gulf of Tonkin?

Operation Anaconda

What was the Union Naval operation used in the civil war called?

Mining of Haiphong Harbor

What was the action taken by President Nixon that led to North Vietnamese coming back to the peace table?

Late Heavy Bombardment

What was the astronomical time period between 4.1 and 3.8 billion years ago?

Fukishima

What was the coastal nuclear power plant that melted down following a joint tsunami-magnitude 9 earthquake disaster?

Operation Overlord

What was the code name of the Invasion of Normandy?

Operation Desert Fox

What was the codename for the 4-day bombing campaign against Hussein's WMD research and development installations, as well as strikes against the barracks and command headquarters of the Republican Guard Army?

Operation Deliberate Force

What was the codename for the August/September 1995 Navy/Marine Corps. raid from the carrier Theodore Roosevelt and an Italian airbase to attack air strikes on Serbian military positions southeast of Sarajevo?

Operation Restore Hope

What was the codename for the December 1992 UN-sponsored relief operation to bring food supplies and restore order to Somalia?

Operation Neptune Spear

What was the codename for the Navy SEAL raid on Bin Laden's compound?

Operation Chromite

What was the codename for the amphibious landing on Inchon?

Operation Just Cause

What was the codename for the combined invasion force of 12,000 U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps. troops meant to remove Noriega from power?

Operation Anvil-Dragoon

What was the codename for the invasion of France?

Operation Downfall

What was the codename for the invasion of Japanese home islands?

Operation Desert Shield

What was the codename for the largest U.S. military and naval force deployment since the Vietnam War?

Operation Odyssey Dawn

What was the codename for the multi-nation operation against pro-Qaddafi forces that started as a bombing campaign?

Operation Unified Assistance

What was the codename for the recovery effort following the December 2004 tsunami?

Operation Noble Eagle

What was the codename for this homeland defense effort?

Halley's Comet

What was the earliest short-period comet?

Ho Chi Minh Trail

What was the famous overland supply route used by communists through the Laotian and Cambodian jungles?

Nautilis

What was the first SSN used in the United States Navy?

Sputnik 1; Soviet Union

What was the first artificial satellite successfully launched, and by what country?

USS George Washington

What was the first ballistic missile submarine?

ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network)

What was the first computer network called?

The Polaris

What was the first intermediate-range nuclear-tipped ballistic missile?

USS Monitor

What was the first ironclad used by the Union Navy?

Wolmi-Do

What was the first island taken during Operation Chromite?

A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower

What was the first maritime strategy document issued jointly by all three maritime services?

Western Hemispheric Defense

What was the first phase of U.S. Grand Strategy?

Pioneer 5

What was the first satellite designed to study the Sun?

Stardust

What was the first spacecraft launched by Nasa to study comets?

The Holland

What was the first submarine bought by the Navy?

Taliban government in Afghanistan

What was the first target of U.S. military forces following 9/11?

USS Nautilis

What was the first vessel to ever reach the North Pole under the ice?

INF (Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty

What was the important treaty signed between the U.S. and the USSR in 1987?

Report and track belligerent ships and aircraft approaching the United States or the West Indies

What was the job of the Neutrality Patrol?

Berlin Airlift

What was the massive airborne supply operation in response to the Berlin blockade?

Eastern European Mutual Assistance Treaty/Warsaw Pact

What was the military counterpart to NATIO in the Easter bloc nations?

The defeat of the USS Chesapeake by the HMS Shannon on 1 June 1813

What was the most important Naval loss in the War of 1812?

New Ironsides

What was the most powerful Union ironclad during the Civil War?

Skylab

What was the name of America's first space station?

USS Providence

What was the name of Lieutenant John Paul Jones' sloop?

Air Power: Key to Survival

What was the name of Major De Seversky's 1950 book?

Henderson Field

What was the name of the allied airstrip built on Guadalcanal?

Das Kapital

What was the name of the book written by Karl Marx that is seen as the basis of modern communism?

The Alliance

What was the name of the ship that traitorously fired broadsides into the Bohomme Richard instead of the Serapis?

Sojourner

What was the name of the solar-powered land rover carried on the Mars Pathfinder?

Triremes

What was the naval vessels used by the Greeks to defeat the Persians at Salamis?

Vichy France

What was the new French government set up after an armistice with Germany called?

"Reds"

What was the nickname for North Korean Communists?

"Shock and Awe"

What was the nickname used to describe the initial military attacks during Operation Iraqi Freedom?

Mobile Riverine Force

What was the official name of the "Brown-water Navy" created during the Vietnam War?

Material Systems Commands

What was the old Navy Bureau system replaced with during the aftermath of the Vietnam War?

Continental Drift Theory

What was the original theory regarding the movement of the continents?

USNS Mercy (T-AH-19)

What was the primary Naval hospital ship during Operation Unified Assistance?

Capturing the port of Casablanca

What was the primary objective of Operation Torch?

Iran-Iraqui War

What was the principal event in the 1980s that caused the rise of terrorism?

It is necessary for the national defense and proper growth of foreign and domestic commerce that the United States shall have a merchant marine of the best equipped and most suitable types of vessels sufficient to carry the greater portion of its commerce and serve as naval auxiliary in time of war or national emergency

What was the purpose of the Jones Act of 1920?

Geronimo Echo KIA

What was the radio code meaning that Bin Laden was killed?

700 miles

What was the range of Soviet IRBMS during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

1,200 nautical miles

What was the range of the Polaris A-1 submarine-launched ballistic missile?

USS Florida

What was the recently converted guided-missile special operations submarine that participated in Operation Odyssey Dawn?

Limited Interventionism

What was the second phase of U.S. Grand Strategy?

Arab Spring Movement

What was the series of protests called that started with Tunisia and spread to Egypt and many other Arab nations?

Typhoon Haiyan, Samar Island

What was the strongest tropical cyclone to ever hit land, and where did it first make landfall?

Fast Carrier Task Force

What was the term for the new carriers added to the Pacific fleet in 1944?

Iron Curtain

What was the term given to the barrier between the West and Communism?

Containment of Communism

What was the third phase of U.S. National Strategy?

USS Nautlis

What was the world's first nuclear-powered submarine?

Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

What was the worst oil-pollution catastrophe in history called?

Barracks security watch

What watch is maintained in all shore station barracks for protection against fire, for the safety of personnel and material, and for carrying out routines?

Gertrude

What waterborne sound communications method uses an underwater telephone system associated with submarine or destroyer sonar equipment?

Cloudiness, precipitation, and thunderstorms.

What weather is typical around a front?

Cover/hold the Hawaii-Midway line to maintain communications with the West Coast and maintain communications between the West Coast and Australia by holding a line drawn north to south from Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Islands, through Midway to Samoa, then southwest to New Caledonia and Port Moresby.

What were Admiral King's first instructions to Admiral Nimitz?

Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, and Macedonia

What were Yugoslavia's six republics turning it's brutal civil war starting in 1991?

Wilmington, Charleston, Savannah, Pensacola, Mobile, Galveston, and the entrances to the Mississippi River

What were the South's major cotton ports?

Luna missions

What were the Soviet counterparts to the Apollo missions?

Resolutions passed by Congress giving the president a "free hand" to employ necessary measures to repel any armed attack or prevent further aggression.

What were the Tonkin Gulf Resolutions?

Rolling Thunder

What were the bombing raids by Air Force B-52 bombers on enemy targets during the Vietnam war called?

Navy Yards and Docks; Construction, Equipment, and Repairs; Provisions and Clothing; Ordnance and Hydrography; and Medicine and Surgery

What were the five original bureaus created in the 1815 departmental system?

Large quantities of undeveloped third world countries, steady increase in the interdependence of nations, inland reach of sea power, and nuclear technology

What were the four major developments emphasizing the importance of the oceans made after World War II?

American submarines doubled their size and carried greater fuel and torpedo loads

What were the key differences between American Pacific submarines and German U-Boats?

hydrogen-filled rubberized-silk and paper balloons that carried small incendiary and antipersonnel bombs.

What were the largely ineffective "wind ship weapons"?

USS Hornet and USS Enterprise

What were the last two U.S. operational carriers in the Pacific during World War Two?

The United States, Constitution, and Constellation

What were the names of the three ships built under the Navy Act?

Two U.S. Air Force F-11 crewmen

What were the only losses during this combined raid?

No U.S. citizens can hunt any species of animal on the Endangered Species List or damage their habitat

What were the provisions of the Endangered Species Act?

restrictive communist policies, low productivity, lack of modern technology, and emphasis on military spending

What were the reasons for the weak Soviet economy?

Over-dependence on Submarines, the assumption of demoralization of American Troops, and the forcing of different mindsets upon American Naval Leadership

What were the three Japanese Miscalculations in the attack on Pearl Harbor?

The convoy system, hydrophone/triangulation, and the depth charge

What were the three World War 1 developments for finding and sinking enemy submarines?

National Weather Service, the Navy, and the Army Air Corps.

What were the three main organizations that aided in the creation of the U.S. Hurricane Warning System?

The Luisitania and the Arabic

What were the two British passenger liners sunk by u-boats that pushed the Unite States into the war?

Glasnost (new openness in foreign relations) and Perestroika (internal political and economic reforms)

What were the two different liberal reform policies adopte by Gorbachev?

Lockheed U-2 and SR-71 Blackbird

What were the two main 'spy planes' developed during the 1960s and 1970s?

Introduction of the zebra mollusk into the Great Lakes and a sprawling marine wed called hydrillaWha

What were the two major instances of biological pollution in the 1990s?

USS Carl Vinson and USNS Comfort

What were the two naval ships that responded to the 2010 earthquake in Haiti?

Hydrogen and Water Vapor

What were the two primary gases in the formation of Earth's atmosphere?

Massive Retaliation and Flexible response

What were the two stages of Containment of Communism?

A Granny Knot

What will a landlubber who tries to tie a square knot often come out with?

They will constantly check on their own people, distrust their records and reports, and therefore performing his/her duties less efficiently

What will happen if a leader fails to show trust in his/her subordinates?

With Liberty

What words in the Pledge of Allegiance symbolize freedom from outside control?

An object that reflects all light

What would the properties of an item with 100 reflectance be?

The lesson's objective, intended audience, identification of any training aids or equipment, technique of instruction, outline of material, model of assessing effectiveness, and a closing/summary

What, at minimum, should a lesson plan entail?

Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle

When Halsey's striking force sailed into Japanese territories with several Army B-25s, who commanded the aircraft when they attacked Tokyo, Nagoya, and Kobe?

The two vessels are on a collision course.

When a bearing of an approaching vessel remains constant (does not change significantly), what situation is developing?

nomination

When a naval science instructor submits a student's name for the honor of attending the Naval Academy, the student has received a/an _________.

1999 by the Columbia

When and by what ship was the Chandra X-ray observatory launched into orbit?

Explorer 1 in 1958

When and by what were the Van Allen radiation belts first discovered?

1927 by Belgian astronomer Georges Lemaitre

When and by who was the Big Bang proposed?

December 1995; Dayton, Ohio

When and where was a treaty signed ending the civil war by the presidents of Bosnia, Herzegovina, Croatia, and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to respect the sovereign equality of one another?

27 April 1805; the captured port city of Derna

When and where was the American flag first raised over captured enemy soil?

1 November 1952, Eniwetok Atoll

When and where was the first hydrogen bomb detonated?

Tangshan, China 1976

When and where was the largest disaster of all time from a single earthquake?

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; 31 May 2013

When and where was the widest ever recorded tornado?

Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, southern India, and other nearby nations; December 2004

When and where was the worst disaster of all time from a single tsunami?

1805; to estimate the wind speeds from effects on sails

When and why was the Beaufort Wind Scale developed?

1600 to 1800 and 1800 to 2000

When are the two dogwatches of the day?

Applying a tourniquet

When dealing with heavy blood loss, what is the last resort?

18 April 1943

When did Admiral Yamamoto and his staff set out on an ill-fated inspection trip to Japanese bases in the Solomons, where American long-range fighters intercepted his plane and killed him?

December 2011

When did Congress formally end the prohibition of LGTBQ+ personell from both sexes from serving in the U.S. Armed Forces?

1973

When did Congress pass the Endangered Species Act?

1972

When did Congress pass the Marine Mammal Protection Act?

11 December 1941

When did Germany and Italy declare war on the United States in World War 2?

August 1988

When did Iran and Iraq finally sign a truce that ended most of the Iran-Iraq war?

28 October 1962

When did Khrushchev finally agree to the United States' terms?

2009

When did NASA launch the Kepler Space Telescope?

30 March 2013

When did North Korea declare it was in a 'State of War' with South Korea?

March 2010

When did North Korea torpedo and sink a South Korean patrol boat?

30 January 1968

When did North Vietnamese Communists and Vietcong suddenly strike at major South Vietnamese cities?

8 October 2001

When did Operation Enduring Freedom begin?

17 March 2003

When did President Bush issue Saddam Hussein an ultimatum, giving him 48 hours to leave the country or face war?

20 August 1998

When did President Clinton order cruise-missile attacks on terrorist training camps led by Osama Bin Laden and a factory in Sudan that manufactured chemical weapons for him?

1 September 2010

When did President Obama end Opertion Iraqi freedom?

4 July, 1863

When did Vicksburg surrender?

January 2013

When did the Department of Defense lift a statutory ban that prohibited women from serving in front-line combat assignments?

27 May 1942

When did the Japanese Combined Fleet set out towards Midway?

2 September 1945

When did the Japanese foreign minister and representatives of the Imperial General Staff board the USS Missouri and sign the surrender document?

June 2002

When did the U.S. formally redraw from the 1972 antiballistic-missile (ABM) defense treaty?

17 March 2011

When did the UN Security Council establish a "no-fky" zone over Libya?

24 October 1945

When did the United Nations organization officially come into being?

1961

When did the United States first break diplomatic ties with Cuba?

Law of the Sea Conference in 1978

When did the United States join the majority of other maritime powers in accepting the 12 mile territorial sea?

1977

When did the United States resume a low-key relationship with Cuba?

8 April 1991

When did the cease-fire in Kuwait become permanent?

1979

When did the establishment of full diplomatic relations between the U.S. and China begin following the Vietnam War?

9 January 1945

When did the invasion of Luzon begin?

March 1989, Exxon Valdez

When did the largest oil tanker spill in U.S. history occur, and what tanker split the 1,260,000 barells of crude oil?

11 March 2011, magnitude 9

When did the largest-ever earthquake to hit Japan land, and what magnitude was it?

18 December 2011

When did the last U.S. troops leave Iraqi territory?

May 1801

When did the pasha of Tripoli declare war on the United States?

Parade Rest

When going to attention from at ease in a platoon, what motion should be performed when the Commander calls "Platoon, "?

cleaned with vinegar and a through washing with water

When gold buttons on a Service Dress Blue uniform become tarnished, how should they be cleaned?

Four billion years ago

When is it estimated that the Earth had cooled to about it's current size and temperature?

does not turn their heads

When marching with two or more squads and the command EYES RIGHT (LEFT) is given, the base squad?

30-36 inches

When marching, how large should a step be?

"National Colors"

When mounted on a flagstaff and carried by an individual on foot, or displayed or cased in a fixed location, what should the national flag be called?

"Organizational standard"

When mounted on a vehicle, what is the organizational flag referred to as?

All vehicles come to a complete stop. Occupants sit quietly until the last note of music is played before resuming travel.

When on a military base in a vehicle and the first note of the National Anthem is played, what is done?

No

When part of a detail at work or in ranks, should an officer be saluted?

It goes faster

When the temperature, pressure, and salinity increase in water, what happens to the speed of sound in water?

30 inch

When undergoing the movement "Countermarch", members of a color guard should take a _______ step.

19 February 1945

When was D-Day for the invasion of Iwo Jima?

15 January 1991

When was Hussein's deadline to evacuate all his forces out of Kuwait before UN military action?

28 April 1945

When was Mussolini was captured and killed by Italian antifascist guerrillas while trying to escape to Switzerland?

21 June 1945

When was Okinawa secured?

15 April 2013

When was the Boston Marathon bombing?

In the years following the 9/11 terrorist attacks

When was the Bush Doctrine developed?

2002

When was the Department of Homeland Security established?

1983

When was the Domain Name System established?

1964

When was the Geneva Convention on the Continental Shelf made effective?

1915

When was the Hydrophone invented?

1794; three

When was the Navy act passed and how many frigates were built as a result of it?

1948

When was the Organization of American States founded?

May 2010

When was the U.S. Cyber Command formed?

1845

When was the U.S. Naval Academy established?

1873

When was the U.S. Naval Institute established?

27 January 1973

When was the accord signed during the Vietnam War calling for the immediate halt of all fighting and the departure of American advisors?

27 July 1953

When was the armistice ending the Korean war signed?

4 October 1957

When was the beginning of the Space Age?

6 August 1945, B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay

When was the bombing of Hiroshima, and what aircraft delivered the atomic bomb?

15 April 1986

When was the combined attack carried out against Libyan terrorist bases?

12 January 2010

When was the devastating earthquake in Haiti that killed about 220,000 people?

Operation Desert Storm (1991)

When was the first recorded use of a "smart" weapon?

Late 1972, Apollo 17

When was the last moon landing, and what was the name of the vessel?

2009

When was the long-standing U.S. policy barring travel and financial dealings of U.S. citizens with Cubans reversed?

2013

When was the transitory belt between the two Van Allen radiation belts discovered by NASA?

15 July 2010

When was the well capped during the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill?

1775

When were the "Rules for the Regulation of the Navy of the United Colonies" developed?

16 October 1941, where a U.S. Destroyer was damaged by a U-boat torpedo, killing 11 men

When were the first casualties suffered by the United States from Germany and how were they inflicted?

Chesapeake Bay, Carolina Coasts, and Florida Coasts

Where are blue crabs caught in excessively high quantities?

In the Boatswain's locker

Where are most shipboard rope and line stored?

Ionosphere

Where are the auroras created?

Boston, New York, Charleston, Baltimore, and Norfolk

Where are the major U.S. Atlantic ports?

Houston, Texas; and New Orleans, Louisiana

Where are the major U.S. ports on the Gulf Coast?

Oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico and the North Sea

Where are the most important mining operations in the Atlantic?

Western Europe and Asia

Where are the primary areas for oyster farming?

McMurdo Sound, South Pole, and Palmer Peninsula

Where are the three U.S. research stations in Antarctica?

Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn

Where are the two places where the Earth recieves the most direct sunlight?

Sheath of the doral and pectoral spines

Where are the venom glands of some marine catfish located?

Appomattox Court house, in the home of Wilmer McLean

Where did Lee surrender?

Guadalcanal

Where did the Japanese attempt to construct an airfield in July 1942?

Malay Peninsula

Where did the Japanese land to push towards the British base at Singapore?

Panmunjom

Where did the United States and the USSR undergo more than two years of fruitless negotiations during the Korean War?

Alamorgordo, New Mexico

Where did the United States successfully explode the world's first atomic bomb?

Flying Fish Channel

Where did the attacking ships have to weave through to land on Inchon?

Oklahoma City Federal Building

Where did the terrorist bomb explode in April 1995, killing many innocent people?

Directly below large thunderhead clouds

Where do local lows form?

Oort Cloud

Where do most comets originate?

The greater part of the North Equatorial Current in the Pacific

Where does the Kuroshio Current originate?

Peruvian and Chilean coasts between the shoreline and northward-flowing Humboldt Current

Where does the most remarkable upwelling occur?

High northern altitudes

Where especially are extreme tidal currents somewhat common?

Cienfuegos, Cuba

Where in Cuba is the U.S. base to support submarine operations?

Eye wall

Where in a hurricane is the maximum wind intensity?

Diego Garcia

Where in the Indian Ocean did the United States build a communications station and naval support facility?

Axial Trough

Where in the Red Sea are pools of boiling hot brine found?

asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter

Where is Ceres located?

Area of heaviest precipitation

Where is a thunderstorm most turbulent?

Tropopause

Where is the "jet stream" located?

Mediterranean Sea

Where is the 6th fleet based?

Honolulu, Hawaii

Where is the Central Pacific Hurricane Center based?

Norfolk, Virginia

Where is the Fleet Forces Command based?

Reunion

Where is the French Indian Ocean naval force based?

The Hague, Netherlands

Where is the International Court of Justice?

Above the stratosphere but below the mesosphere

Where is the Ionosphere?

Miami, Florida

Where is the National Hurricane Center based?

Camp Springs, Maryland

Where is the National Weather Service headquarters?

Stennis Space Center, Mississippi

Where is the Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command based?

Washington DC

Where is the Naval Research Laboratory located?

Charleston, South Carolina

Where is the Nuclear Field (NF) school located?

Sutherland, South Africa

Where is the Southern African Large Telescope located?

Stuttgart, Germany

Where is the U.S. Africa Command headquartered?

Fort George G. Meade, Maryland

Where is the U.S. Cyber Command headquartered?

Along the seacoast between high and low tide marks

Where is the best place to find food in the wilderness?

UDT-SEAL Mueum in Fort Pierce, Florida

Where is the bullet-pockmarked pirate lifeboat from the first raid on the USS Maersk Alabama on display today?

Sevastopol

Where is the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea fleet?

Vladivostok

Where is the headquarters of the Russian Pacific Fleet?

Manama, Bahrain

Where is the home port of the U.S. Fifth Fleet Flagship?

Yokosuka, Japan

Where is the home port of the U.S. Seventh Fleet?

Chajnantor Plateau, in the Atacama Desert in Chile

Where is the largest array of radiotelescopes located?

In a telescope at Mount Graham Observatory

Where is the largest one-piece primary reflector mirror in the world?

Yerkes Observatory at Williams Bay on Lake Geneva, Wisconsin

Where is the largest refracting telescope in the world?

Ocean Cay, Bahamas; argonite sands

Where is the largest single offshore mining operation in the world, and what does it dredge up?

The Persian Gulf

Where is the leading oil-producing area in the world?

Panama City, Florida

Where is the major naval support activity on the Gulf Coast?

Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

Where is the most important U.S. naval base in the Caribbean?

Doldrums belt

Where is the only permanent low-pressure area on Earth?

Quarterdeck

Where is the primary watchstation for in-port watchstations?

Toulon

Where is the principal French naval base?

The Office of the Judge Advocate General of the Navy

Where must the finding of any court martial that awards severe punishment such as Bad Conduct discharge be sent?

Beyond the 3-mile limit

Where was President Franklin Roosevelt's Defensive Sea Area before World War 2?

Mogadishu

Where was an Army Black Hawk helicopter shot down and resulting in a vicious gunfight where 18 Americans died and over 80 were wounded?

Hungnam

Where was the "greatest amphibious operation in reverse" conducted?

Saipan

Where was the battle that saw 127,000 troops on 535 ships travel 3,000 miles from Pearl Harbor and land 20,000 marines to capture an airfield?

Abbottabad, Pakistan

Where was the compound where Osama Bin Laden was killed?

Tehran, Iran

Where was the embassy taken over by radical Iraqi students, where they held 52 American citizens and diplomats hostage for 444 days?

Leavenworth High School (Kansas) in 1917

Where was the first NJROTC unit?

Cherrapunji, India; 1,041.78 inches

Where was the greatest rainfall ever recorded, and how much rain was recorded?

Bonn, Germany

Where was the international conference that laid the framework for political reconstruction of Afghanistan?

North Sea Mine Barrage

Where was the largest minefield during World War One?

Charleston Harbor

Where was the last Continental Naval Squadron captured?

Operation Desert Storm

Where was the standoff land attack missile originally used?

Deben Estuary, Great Britain

Where was the tidal mill mentioned in records as early as 1170 and still in operation today built?

Luzon-Formosa-China coast geographic triangle

Where were the Allies trying to reach by late 1944?

Florida

Where were the South's salt mills based?

Apollo 13

Which Apollo mission did not successfully land on the moon, suffered an oxygen-tank explosion, and saw its crew return to Earth safely using the lunar landing module as a lifeboat?

Sir Halford J. Mackinder

Which British geographer published an alternate theory to Mahan's in "Democratic Ideals and Reality?

Admiral Michael Mullin

Which Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff called Pakistan's army chief to inform them about Operation Neptune Spear?

John Walker

Which Navy Warrant Officer led a ring of espionage in the 1970s and 1980s, directly relating to the Soviet Union's rapid advancement in submarine technology?

General Manuel Noriega

Which Panamanian dictator was indicted on drug-trafficking charges by a U.S. federal grand jury?

Boris Yeltsin

Which Russian president signed the START I treaty with President George H. W. Bush?

Article 137

Which article of UCMJ directs particular articles of the code be carefully explained to every enlistee at the time of entry in active duty?

Executive department

Which department is the Duty master-at-arms under?

Admiral Vernon Clark

Which former Chief of Naval Operations wrote Sea Power 21?

Frederick the Great

Which grand strategist developed the concept of interior lines?

Selling

Which leadership approach features the leader making a decision, then persuading the group that is the best way?

indivisible

Which of the words of the pledge of allegiance says that our country is incapable of being divided during troublesome times?

Fatigue, lack of purpose, and feeling of failure

Which of these conditions tend to hinder learning?

nicotine

Which of these is the drug in tobacco that may act as a stimulant and cause addiction?

c) ____________allow the victim to move.

Which one of these directions for treating fractures cannot be completed correctly with the words "Do not"? a) ____________put the victim in a car to hurry to the hospital. b) ____________splint the fracture in the position in which you found it. c) ____________allow the victim to move. d) ____________try to set the bone.

d) High humidity increases the risk of dehydration because sweat does not evaporate as rapidly.

Which one of these statements about heat injuries does NOT contain an error? a) In high temperatures, people who work outside are susceptible to dehydration, but not people who are outside exercising. b) In heat exhaustion, large amounts of fluids are lost, causing less blood flow to vital organs and resulting in a type of stroke. c) Since salt is also lost through perspiration, you should consume extra salt in hot weather. d) High humidity increases the risk of dehydration because sweat does not evaporate as rapidly.

The Honorable Leon Panetta

Which secretary of defense officially declared the war in Iraq over at a flag-lowering ceremony in Baghdad on 15 December 2011?

blind

Which type of obedience is called for when an automatic response to orders is required?

chaff

Which type of special purpose projectile is normally used to confuse enemy search and fire-control radar?

Stand-on vessel

Which vessel usually has right-of-way responsibility?

CSS Virginia.

Which vessel was destroyed by its own crew after the Battle of Hampton Roads?

Mikhail Gorbachev

Who became premeir of the Soviet Union in 1985?

The President, secretaries of the military services, a flag officer in command of a Navy or Marine Corps unit or activity, a general officer in command, the commanding officer of a naval station or larger shore territory beyond the continental limits of the United States, and other commanding officers specifically designated by the president or service secretary.

Who can call a general court-marshal?

The Secretary of the Navy with input from the CNO

Who choses the name of a new ship?

Karl von Clausewitz

Who claimed tactics are the "formation and conduct of single combats in themselves?"

Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita

Who commanded the 'bait' force of the main body of the Japanese Mobile Fleet?

General Winfield Scott

Who commanded the American army of 14,000 strong that took Mexico City on 14 September 1847?

Vice Admiral Graf von Spee

Who commanded the German cruisers operating in the Pacific?

Admiral Patricio Montojo

Who commanded the Spanish squadron that opposed Admiral George Dewey in Manilla Bay?

Rear Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher

Who commanded the Yorktown carrier group?

General H. "Stormin' Norman" Schwarkopf

Who commanded the allied ground offensive into Kuwait and southern Iraq on 23 February 1991?

Lieutenant Edward Stevens

Who created the NJROTC?

Secretary of State George Marshall

Who declared the Marshall plan?

Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort

Who developed the Beaufort Wind Scale?

Admiral Spruance

Who did Admiral Fletcher turn tactical command over to after his flagship was destroyed by Japanese dive-bombers?

General Erwin Rommel

Who did Hitler send with his Afrika Corps into North Africa in 1940?

Sir William Herschel

Who discovered the planet Uranus?

The President, Vice President, Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, and the Secretary of Defense

Who does the National Security Council consist of?

Vice Admiral Hyman G. Rickover

Who earned the title of the "Father of the Nuclear Navy"?

Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa

Who had operational command of the Japanese Mobile Fleet?

Secretary of the Navy

Who has policy control over the Navy R&D organization?

Ferdinand de Lesseps

Who headed the ill-fated French company that attempted to build the Panama Canal in 1881?

Rear Admiral Grace Hoope

Who helped to design and build early prototypes of computers in the 1950s and was the first compiler and first widely used maker of computer programming languages?

Admiral Elmo Zumwalt

Who initiated the update to person ell administrative practices?

Auguste Piccard

Who invented the bathyscaphe?

Sir Issac Newton

Who invented the first reflecting telescope?

Matthew Fontaine Maury

Who is regarded as the founder of modern oceanography?

Hugo Grotius

Who is the "father of international law"?

Austrian physicist Christian Doppler

Who is the Doppler effect named after?

Reactor Officer

Who is the department head of a reactor department?

Admiral Arleigh Burke

Who is the longest serving Chief of Naval Operations and one of the great Naval heroes in World War II?

The senior member of the special court-marshal, unless a military judge is detailed

Who is the president in a court martial?

Ho Chi Minh

Who led communist guerrillas against the French in Indochina following the Korean War?

Lieutenant Stephen Decatur, Jr.

Who led the daring raid to burn the Philadelphia so Tripoli could not use it?

Jeremiah O'Brien

Who led the group of Maine backwoodsmen in the first sea fight of the Revolution?

Bao Dai

Who led the group of anticommunist nationalists in the State of Vietnam?

General Walton Walker

Who led the major offensive to break out of the Pusan Perimeter on the day of the Inchon landing?

Mao Zedong

Who let the communists that drove the government of Nationalist China to Taiwan in December 1949?

A military judge and at least 5 members

Who must a general court marshal consist of, at minimum?

Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan

Who relieve Luce as the president of Naval War College?

Admiral John Dahlgren

Who replaced Admiral Samuel Dupont in the attack on Fort Sumter?

Dictator Muammar Quaddafi

Who ruled Libya and was killed by Libyan rebel fighters during the Arab Springs movement?

NASA

Who sponsored the Near Earth Object Program?

General Matthew Ridgeway

Who took command of the Eighth Army on 26 December 1950?

The Honorable Donald Rumsfield

Who was Secretary of Defense during the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom?

George Bancroft

Who was Secretary of the Navy at the beginning of the Mexican War?

Admiral Ernest King

Who was commander in Chief of the United States Navy during World War Two?

Admiral Karl Donitz

Who was in charge of German U-boat operations?

Americans, British, Dutch, and Aulstralian

Who was in the ABDA defense command?

Captain Samuel Barron

Who was ordered to replace Preble during the war with Tripoli?

Vice Admiral William "Bull" Halsey

Who was selected as the man to strike the Japanese bases?

Admiral George Anderson

Who was the Chief of Naval Operations during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Admiral Soemu Toyadu

Who was the Commander in Chief of the Japanese Navy during the Battle of the Philippine Sea?

Norwegian oceanographer Fridtjof Nansen

Who was the Nansen bottle named after?

Admiral Cervera

Who was the Spanish Admiral in charge of the Spanish fleet during the Spanish-American War?

Captain James Richard Dacres

Who was the commander of the Guerriere in it's ill-fated battle against the USS Constitution?

Vice Admiral William McRaven

Who was the director of JSOC at the time of Operation Neptune Spear and was given the order to carry out the operation on 1 May 2011?

Colonel Muammar al-Qaddafi

Who was the erratic Libyan leader directly sponsoring terrorist attacks in the 1980s?

Hamid Karazai

Who was the first democratically elected president of Afghanistan?

Sun Tzu

Who was the first famous military strategist?

David Farragut

Who was the first man to become a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy?

Syngman Rhee

Who was the first president of South Korea?

Ghazi al-Ujayk al-Yawr

Who was the first president of the Iraqi Interim Government?

Alexander the Great

Who was the first western grand strategist?

Mohammad Siad Barre

Who was the longtime president of Somalia that fled at the beginning of the Civil War?

Major Alexander de Serversky

Who was the major U.S. Air Force strategist who was a critic of Mahan's and MacKinder's theories, believing they were obsolete following the invention of modern aircraft and guided missiles?

Captain Raphael Semmes

Who was the most successful Confederate cruiser skipper?

General Douglas MacArthur

Who was the supreme commander of all United Nations forces during the Korean War?

Admiral Elmo Zumwalt

Who was the youngest Chief of Naval Operations ever in the United States Navy?

Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, and Abraham Clark

Who were the New Jersey Delegates that signed the United States Declaration of Independence?

Greece and Persia

Who were the belligerent nations at the Battle of Salamis in 480 BC?

Crete/Cretans

Who were the first European people to use sea power?

Hannibal of Carthage and Scipio Africanus of Rome

Who were the two rulers of opposing areas in the Second Punic War?

Niccolo Machiavelli

Who wrote The Prince?

King Hammurabi of Babylon

Who wrote the first known code of law?

Galileo Galilei

Who's work did Newton use as a starting point for his laws of motion?

Because his/her acomplishments speak for themselves

Why can a truly great person afford to be modest?

Heart Attack

Why did Kim Jung-il die?

deferral of costly maintenance for their radar and weapon systems, reduction in the expected length of refueling cycles of the nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, and the ending of service lives if carrier aircraft.

Why have Aegis cruisers and destroyers been at a state of degraded readiness?

Because it is encrypted electronically

Why is it nearly impossible for an unauthorized listener to decrypt a Naval message?

To create new bases on captured territory

Why were the Naval Construction Battalions formed?

Working khaki

With what uniform is the wearing of ball caps authorized?

50,000

Within a few weeks after 9/11, about how many reservists of all services had been given mobilization orders?

U.S. Seventh Fleet

Within hours of the earth/tsunami combination that hit Japan, what fleet was deploying ships to the area and in what kind of operation?

USS Ramapo

Years ago, what Navy tanker reported a 114-foot wave?

Stories written to incite an emotional response

Yellow Journalism

a machete

Your best aid to survival in the jungle is _________.

innocent passage

__________ is the right of vessels of one nation to navigate peacefully through the territorial waters of another nation.

Dissatisfaction with the status quo, a cause, and a carefully directed organization

what are the three prerequisites for a successful revolution?

Newtonian motion

what is the name for all motion slower than the speed of light?

International rules

Vessels of all nations that travel the high seas must obey the ____

8/1/1947

In what month and year did President Nixon resign ?

d) The mistakes people make in dealing with desires fortunately always have only short-term effects

Which of these statements about desire is NOT accurate? a) Dealing wisely with desires requires a perspective that allows people to see things as they really are. b) In the process of fulfilling desires, people often make mistakes and create poor choices. c) Desires often are sources of psychological and emotional motivation. d) The mistakes people make in dealing with desires fortunately always have only short-term effects

International court of justice

Which organization is responsible for settling disputes between countries and commercial enterprises?

John Roberts

Who replaced William Rehnquist as chief justice of the supreme court ?

Matthew Ridgeway

Who took command of the 8th army after the death of General Walton Walker?

Admiral Hewitt

Who was responsible for the first invasion of southern France during day light

Esek Hopkins

Who was the first commander of the Continental Navy?

To escape the high insurance and wage costs associated with United States registry

Why are the "effective US - controlled " ships licensed under foreign flags?

It is as applicable today as it was when it was written and forms the basis of military strategy for today's leaders.

Why is the Art of War so important ?

mass

___ Is the quantity of material contained in a body

gases

____ as well as liquids exert upward buoyant forces

Weather Satellites

________ are the newest forecasting tool available to the meteorologist.

Secure

in general visual communication is preferred over the means of communicating because its

Coma

The head of a comet usually containing a nucleus is known as a(n)

over 95 percent water

Chemically, seawater is

be fewer than the number of calories your body burns

If you want to lose weight, the number of calories you consume each day must _______.

No trapped particles above or below the poles

Illustrations of Earth show Earth as the center of a doughnut hole around which various radiation belts circle. At the north and south poles of the earth there are

Have a national goal to build a navy that would be second only to that of Great Britain

In 1901, Theodore Roosevelt became president after the assassination of President McKinley. What was his goal regarding the United States Navy?

to seize, retain, and exploit the initiative

In the principles of war , take the offensive means

"At Close Interval, Dress Right, DRESS"

On this command, individuals providing interval place the heel of their left hand on their hip with the elbow in line with their body and members gaining interval move by short steps until their right arm touches the elbow of the individual to the left.

second

Newton's ______ law of motion states that the acceleration of a body is directly proportional to forcing upon it.

United Nations

The International; Maritime Consultative Organization is responsible for developing the International rules of the road. What agency do they work for ?

Disc

The Milky Way Galaxy takes on a shape of a

The individual cadet

The focus of the NJROTC program is

The Netherlands

The international court of justice is located in

Continued dumping of sewage and industrial waste into these waters

The major cause of serious pollution problems in inland and coastal waters of the world is

Subic Bay, Philippines

The major naval base for logistic support of the U.S Fleet engaged in Vietnam operations was located at

To centralize responsibility for the imagery and mapping needs of the US government

The mission of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency is

lobsters

What arthropods are caught along the New England, Caribbean, and South African coasts and sold for high value high value

France , Russia , and Britain

What countries made up the Allied Powers during World War 1?

Defense Mechanisms

What term is used to refer to behaviors that people use to deal with anxieties and stress?

officers boats

What type of boat is a smaller traditional looking power boat with cabins intended to carry senior officers and other ship officers?

Steve Irwin

What world known reptile figure died from his heart being pierced by a stingray as he swam with the creature while filming a new tv show on the Great Barrier Reef?

British common and royal navy admiralty law

When the first "rules for regulations of the navy of the united colonies" were established in 1775 they were based largely on

Japan

Which nation agreed in 2005 to allow US nuclear powered aircraft carrier fleets to be based in one of its ports?

B) Control tower

Which of the following supplies / elements are NOT used to ensure safety in an orienteering event? a) Safety lane b) Finish time c) Control tower d) First Aid Kits

Monitoring and tracking progress of tasks

Which of these behaviors of group leaders is most effective in lessening group stress?