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| What are the Six areas that Comprise Naval Doctrine? |
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Naval Warfare
Naval Intelligence
Naval Operations
Naval Planning
Naval Command and Control |
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| describes the inherent nature and enduring principles of naval forces. |
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| What is Naval Intelligence |
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| points the way for intelligence support in meeting the requirements of both regional conflicts and operations other than war. |
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| develops doctrine to reaffirm the foundation of U.S. Navy and Marine Corps expeditionary |
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| addresses the full range of logistical capabilities that are essential in the support of naval forces |
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| examines planning and the relationship between our capabilities and operational planning in the joint and multinational environment. |
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| What is Naval Command and Control |
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| provides the basic concepts to fulfill the information needs of commanders, forces, and |
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| State the seven principles of Naval Logistics |
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Responsiveness
Simplicity
Flexibility
Economy
Attainability
Sustainability
Survivability |
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| Providing the right support at the right time, at the right place. |
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| Avoiding unnecessary complexity in preparing, planning and conducting logistic operations |
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| Adapting logistic support to changing conditions |
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| Employing logistic support assets effectively. |
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| Acquiring the minimum essential logistic support to begin combat operations. |
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| Providing logistic support for the duration of the operation. |
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| Ensuring that the logistic infrastructure prevails in spite of degradation and damage. |
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| What was the first navy ship named after an enlisted man? |
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| The first American killed in action during World War I was Gunner's Mate First Class Osmond K. Ingram. |
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| What three classes of naval vessels existed at the inception of the navy? |
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Ships-of-the-line
Frigates
Sloops-of-war |
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| These were the battleships of the sailing days. These ships were the largest of all sailing warships and carried 64 to over 100 guns of various sizes. |
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| These were the cruisers of the 18th century. These cruisers were next in size, usually smaller and faster than average ship-of-the-line. They generally carried 28 to 44 guns. |
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| These were the small sailing warships. They carried 10 to 20 guns. |
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| It is a centuries old custom, and it probably originated when men in armor raised their helmet visors so they could be identified. |
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| Whenever the national ensign is being carried by a color guard and passed by you, as in a parade, for example, you should stand ( if sitting) and render a salute until ensign has passed. If in civilian clothes, the same rules apply as during the national anthem: hat or hand over your heart. |
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| A very old custom of how a merchant ship salutes a naval vessel by dipping the ensign as they pass by. |
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| In the old days it took as long as 20 minutes to load and fire a gun, so that when a ship fired her guns in salute, thereby rendering herself temporarily powerless, it was a friendly gesture. |
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| The importance of Battle of Coral Sea |
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| The two fleets never saw each other. The battle was fought entirely with aircraft launched from carriers |
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| Voyage of the Great White Fleet |
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| sent around the world by President Theodore Roosevelt from 16 December 1907 to 22 February 1909 consisted of sixteen new battleships of the Atlantic Fleet. The fourteen-month long voyage was a grand pageant of American sea power. The squadrons were manned by 14,000 sailors. They covered some 43,000 miles and made twenty port calls on six continents. |
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| The largest amphibious operation in history. The greatest armada ever assembled carried out minesweeping, shore-bombardment, amphibious operations, and transported supplies and troops. |
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| The turning point of the war in the Pacific when the battle ended, the Japanese had lost four carriers, one heavy cruiser, and 258 aircraft. |
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| In a last-chance effort to salvage the Philippines, the Japanese sent a naval force to attack the U.S. Fleet. Their plan backfired and the operation was a complete failure: It was the deciding catastrophe for their Navy |
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| 05 May 1961 Alan B. Shepard, USN First U.S. manned space flight. Demonstrated the ability to achieve manual control under weightlessness |
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| 23 Mar 1965 Gemini 3 John W. Young, USN First U.S. two-man space mission; first spacecraft to maneuver from one orbit to another; 3 Earth orbits |
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| 16 to 24 Jul 1969 Apollo 11 Neil A. Armstrong, Civilian (Former naval aviator) First manned lunar landing; the LEM descended to the lunar surface where astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin spent 21.5 hours deploying scientific instruments and collecting samples |
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| 07 to 19 Dec 1972 Apollo 17 Eugene A. Cernan, USN, and Ronald E. Evans, USN Seventh and final lunar landing mission. |
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| 12 to 14 Apr 1981 STS-1 (Columbia) John W. Young, USN and Robert L. Crippen, USN First orbital test flight of Space Shuttle. All Navy crew. Crew tested opening and closing of cargo bay doors, emergency donning of pressure suits, and testing of basic systems |
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| A total of 176 enlisted radio operators were specially trained at a unique school located on the roof of the old Navy Department Building where they were trained to intercept and analyze foreign radio communications. |
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| Purple was the name used by the US military to identify the most secure diplomatic cryptographic system used by the Japanese Foreign Office during, and just before, World War II. It was not a code, but an electromechanical cypher |
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| The Attack on the USS Liberty |
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| She was sent to collect electronic intelligence in the eastern Mediterranean. On the afternoon of 8 June 1967, while in international waters off the Sinai Peninsula, Liberty, though clearly marked as a U.S. Navy ship, was struck by Israeli aircraft |
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| The Capture of the USS Pueblo |
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| Navy intelligence) which was boarded and captured by North Korea. It is the only ship of the U.S. Navy currently being held captive |
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| Commanded by U.S. Army General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Normandy assault phase, code-named "Neptune" (the entire operation was "Overlord"), was launched when weather reports predicted satisfactory conditions on 6 June |
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| State the qualities that characterize the Navy/Marine Corps team as instruments to support national policies |
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A Ready Force
A Flexible Force
A Self-sustaining Force
A Mobile Force |
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| State the three levels of war |
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Tactical
Operational
Strategic |
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| Discuss the National Security Act of 1947 |
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| The National Security Act of 1947 mandated a major reorganization of the foreign policy and military establishments of the U.S. Government |
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| State when and why the current Navy Core Values were developed |
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| Throughout its history, the Navy has successfully met all its challenges. America's naval service began during the American Revolution, when on Oct. 13, 1775, the Continental Congress authorized a few small ships. Creating the Continental Navy. Esek Hopkins was appointed commander in chief and 22 officers were commissioned, including John Paul Jones. From those early days of naval service, certain bedrock principles or core values have carried on to today. |
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| Discuss when and why the Sailor’s Creed was developed reason 1 |
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| The “Sailor's Creed” was written by a “Blue Ribbon Recruit Training Panel” in 1993 at the direction of Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Frank Kelso, who personally participated in the final edit of the working group's proposal |
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| Discuss when and why the Sailor’s Creed was developed reason 2 |
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| All of the personnel in the uniform of Naval Service are Sailors first and in addition, they are officers, chiefs, petty officers - aviators, Seabees, surface warriors and submariners |
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| Discuss when and why the Sailor’s Creed was developed reason three |
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| This is an important point impacting unity and esprit de corps in the United States Navy |
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| State Grace Hopper's contributions to the U.S. Navy |
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| A pioneer in the field, she was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, and she developed the first compiler for a computer programming language |
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| State the name of the first computer and where was it located |
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| ENIAC was the first general-purpose electronic computer. |
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| State where the first computer was located |
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| It was designed to calculate artillery firing tables for the United States Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory, but its first use was in calculations for the hydrogen bomb. |
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| The world's first operational packet switching network, and the predecessor of the contemporary global Internet |
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| when was ARPNET developed |
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| 1968 - DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) contracts with BBN (Bolt, Beranek & Newman) to create ARPANET |
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| What was the first five node of ARPNET (1970) |
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UCLA
Stanford
UC Santa Barbara
U of Utah
BBN |
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| State the oldest intelligence organization in the U.S. Navy |
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| Office of Naval Intelligence |
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| Explain when ONI was established and by whom it was founded |
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| ONI was established on March 23, 1882 by then Secretary of the Navy William H. Hunt. |
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| LT. Theodorus Bailey Myers Mason |
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| Name the two departments that were combined to form the ONI? |
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| The Department Library and Office of Intelligence were combined and placed under the direction of the Chief of the Bureau of Navigation |
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