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how many CG units report directly to HQ?
_____star admirals (Vice Admirals) lead the Atlantic Area and the Pacific area. |
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Larger cutters (over ____ feet in length) are under control of ____ Commands (Atlantic Area or Pacific Area). A "cutter" is basically any CG vessel ___ feet in length or greater, having adequate accommodations forcrew to live on board.
Cutters at or under ____ feet in length come under control of District Commands. |
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| How many districts are in PAC area and Lant area? |
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| The Coast Guard has served proudly in almost every one of our nation’s conflicts since the birth of our constitution. Until the Department of the Navy was established in ____, the Coast Guard was the only armed force ____. |
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During the Quasi-war, the Revenue Cutter Service, forerunner of the Coast
Guard, operated ____ cutters along our southern coast in the Caribbean
Sea and along the West Indies Islands. |
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On _____, Congress authorized
the capture of armed French vessels hovering off the U.S. coast, initiating
an undeclared ___War with France (1798-99). Then, on July ___of the
same year, Congress empowered U.S. naval vessels to capture armed
French vessels anywhere on the high seas. |
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| Cutters captured __ prizes unaided and assisted in the capture of __others. A prize is the wartime capture of a ship and its cargo. |
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On its two cruises to the West Indies:
• The cutter ______ captured ___ prizes, one of which carried 44 guns
and 200 men, three times her own force. |
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during the Quasi-War, Another noteworthy cutter, the ____, recaptured the American vessels
in a memorable fight in ____ with the French privateer, Revenge.
The U.S. was successful in stopping the depredations of the French privateers against American commerce |
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| Eagle, Nancy and Mehitable, 1799 |
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The Coast Guard’s role of augmenting the Navy with shallow-draft craft
evolved out of the War of ___ with England. The cutter ______captured the first prize of this war. |
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The Coast Guard’s role of augmenting the Navy with shallow-draft craft
evolved out of the War of ___ with England |
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| what year did the Revenue cuter service augment the navy with steamships? and in what war? |
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| 1846, mexican-american war |
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| The ______ ____ is credited with firing the first naval shots of the Civil War |
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As in other wars, the cutters performed various functions. The cutter
Harriet Lane took part in the expedition to Fort Sumter in ____ to patrol the coast for commerce raiders and provide fire support for troops ashore. |
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During the Civil War, our cutters in the Navy’s service performed
____ duty along the Atlantic coast, Chesapeake Bay, and Potomac
River. Cutters were involved in the transport of troops and supplies. |
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Spain declared war on the U.S. on April 24, ____, a consequence of our
intervention in the Spain/Cuba crisis. |
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On _____, 1898 in Cardenas Bay, Cuba, the cutter _____ and torpedo
boat USS ____ were engaged in battle with Spanish gunboats and
shore batteries. With the massacre of Ensign Bagley, U.S. Navy, and the
commanding officer and half the crew wounded, Hudson rescued the craft
from destruction while under intense enemy fire |
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After German submarines deliberately sunk three American vessels, the
U.S. entered World War I on _______ |
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| during WW1, the entire Coast Guard… manpower, vessels, and units…was transferred to the Navy in April ____ |
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On September 26, ____, Tampa, after escorting a convoy from Gibraltar to the United Kingdom,was torpedoed by a
German submarine and all of the crew killed. |
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| The Tampa had served as an ocean escort to ___convoys from Gibraltar, comprising ___ vessels. |
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Following the outbreak of WW2 in Europe in 1939, the Coast Guard began
carrying out neutrality patrols on September __, _____ . On June 22, 1940,
___ security began. |
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On April 9, ___, the Coast Guard was given responsibility for coldweather
operations in Greenland. This function continued throughout the
war. The Coast Guard made the first U.S. naval capture of the war on
September 12th. The cutter ______took the Norwegian trawler Boskoe |
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Coast Guard cutters and aircraft performed extensive convoy protection
duties in the Atlantic arena. These craft are credited with sinking ___German U-boats. |
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| what are some missions the CG performed during WW2? |
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| submarine, transport, escort, SAR, water and shore patrol, rear escort |
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On August 22, ____, select reserve members were called to active duty in
support of Operation Desert Shield. A total of 950 Coast Guard reservists
were called. This was the first time in the Coast Guard Reserve’s 50-year
history that involuntary overseas mobilization occurred. |
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The Coast Guard’s involvement in Korea began years before the United
Nations took police action (commonly called the Korean War) in June
1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea. In ___, a Coast Guard
team was sent to Seoul, Korea to organize, supervise, and train a South
Korean Coast Guard. They succeeded in establishing a shipyard, supply
and communications systems, and training facilities. The team also
arranged for the transfer of ___ ships from the Japanese and American
navies. |
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In ___, the first ocean-going cutters augmented the Navy and
Coast Guard surveillance forces already in Vietnam. |
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The Coast Guard was also an effective force in the ___ Conflict
(1965-1970), performing duties uniquely suited to its specialized skills.
Shallow-draft warships and operating expertise in coastal waters were
needed for the interdiction of trawlers being used by North Vietnam for
infiltration and resupply activities. This operation was named “___ ___,” with the Coast Guard having a major role |
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Units from Activities New York were among the first military units to
provide security and render needed assistance. To protect our nation’s
coastline, ports, and waterways, __ U.S. Navy cyclone-class patrol coastal
warships were assigned to Operation Noble Eagle on ___ __…the first time U.S. Navy ships were employed jointly under Coast
Guard command. |
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Flash (Z) - As fast as possible with a goal of __ minutes.
– Immediate (O) - __ minutes
– Priority (P) - __ hours
– Routine (R) - __ hours |
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GAR (Green, Amber, Red) Model. The GAR Model addresses more
general risk concerns that involve operations planning or reassessing
risks as milestones. This model incorporates the __ elements that
affect risk in operations identified by a Coast Guard accident survey:
4 Supervision
4 Planning
4 Team selection
4 Team Fitness
4 Environment
4 Task complexity.
The GAR Model provides another way of assessing risk and may be used as an alternative to the SPE Model |
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| ___ systematic steps are involved in the ORM process |
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Usually, CG Form ___, Request for Directives, is used to order material.
A separate form must be completed for each stock point. This form may
be reproduced locally. |
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Follow the General Instructions on CG Form _____, Request for
Allowance Change; then forward the completed request to Commandant
(G-CIM). In lieu of using CG Form ____, units may make allowance
changes via telephone, e-mail, or fax. |
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The Directives, Publications and Reports Index (DPRI), COMDTNOTE
___, is a listing of publications in use by the Coast Guard. For ease in
locating publications, they are listed both numerically and alphabetically.
The DPRI consists of seven chapters. |
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Reserve members who have completed the requisite qualifying years creditable for non-regular retired pay and are
receiving retired pay (at, or after, age 60) under Chapter 1223 of 10
U.S.C. |
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Reserve members who have completed the requisite qualifying years creditable for non-regular retired pay and are not yet 60 years of age, or are age 60 and have not applied for non-regular
retirement pay. |
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Reserve members retired for physical disability under 10 U.S.C. 1201, 1202, 1204, or 1205. Members have completed
20 years of service creditable for regular retired pay, or are 30-percent
or more disabled and otherwise qualified |
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Coast Guard SELRES members are generally authorized __ paid
Inactive Duty Training (IDT) drills and at least __ paid Active Duty
for Training (ADT) days per fiscal year |
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This pool of personnel
principally consists of individuals who have had training and have
previously served in the Active forces or in the Selected Reserve |
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| Idividual ready reserve (IRR) |
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| Non-drilling IRR members are assigned to _________ |
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Coast Guard Personnel
Command (CGPC-rpm). |
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The _____ Reserve consists of reservists who are not in the Ready
Reserve or the Retired Reserve, but who are liable for involuntary recall to active duty |
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| interpersonal relationships are not allowed between Members are assigned to the same small shore unit (less than __ members |
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19__. Twin sisters Genevieve and Lucille _____ of the Naval Coastal
Defense Reserve become the first uniformed women to serve in the
Coast Guard |
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| ____. The first five African-American females enter the SPARs |
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_____. On November 1, Master Chief Yeoman Jack Kerwin becomes
the first Coast Guard E-9. |
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_____. Alex P. Haley retires as Chief Journalist after serving in World
War II and Korea. |
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____. Master Chief Yeoman Pearl Faurie becomes the first SPAR E9.
The Pearl Faurie Leadership Award is established in her honor |
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____. On August 1st, BMCM Charles L. Calhoun was instated as the
First Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard (E-10). |
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____. The Chief Petty Officer Academy Class I consists of six
MCPOs and four SCPOs who lead the way for future generations of
CPOs to attend the Coast Guard’s premier enlisted leadership
institution. Class I graduates in November 1982, their memento plaque
reads, “We Came With The Hope That Others Might Follow |
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____. Operation Desert Shield begins with 14 women Reservists
serving in the Persian Gulf. |
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The history of the Coast Guard actually begins on August __, ___ with the
ten cutters (Vigilant, Active, General Green, Massachusetts, Scammel,
Argus, Virginia, Diligence, South Caroline, and Eagle) authorized by
Congress to guard our country’s coastline against smugglers |
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The revenue Cutter Service and the U.S. Life Saving Service merged on
January 28, ___, creating today’s Coast Guard. Later on, several other
Federal agencies are merged with the Coast Guard, including the U.S.
Lighthouse Service. |
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______ was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions while
serving in the Union Army during the Civil War. 1863 and 1885 |
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Surfman _____ was a two-time winner of the Gold Lifesaving
Medal. He earned his first award while serving in the Life-Saving Service and the second while serving as a keeper in the Lighthouse Service |
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Surfman _____ single-handedly rescued ten people from the
grounded ship, Priscilla, on August 18, 1899. |
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To date, the only Coast Guardsman recipient of the Medal of Honor is
Signalman 1st Class _________, awarded posthumously for
his extraordinary heroism on September 27, 1942 at Point Cruz,
Guadalcanal. |
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Water Tender ______, a crewman of the cutter Seneca on
convoy duty during World War I. Awarded posthumously for
“services in attempting to save the British merchant steamer
Wellington after a German submarine had torpedoed her on
September 17, 1918.” |
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Machinery Technician First Class ____, USCG, was
posthumously awarded the Coast Guard Medal for “extraordinary
heroism.” Petty Officer ___ demonstrated remarkable initiative,
exceptional fortitude, and daring in spite of imminent danger in his
rescue efforts on January 11, 1991. At the time, he was serving as
emergency medical technician aboard Coast Guard Motor Lifeboat
CG-44381. |
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Be between 21 and 26 years of age before the published class
convening date for each selection period. However, there are
exceptions to the age requirements. These exceptions apply to
applicants who: |
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_________ (___) provides
upward mobility for qualified enlisted members to become commissioned
officers. PPEP allows selected enlisted personnel to attend college on a full-time basis for up to two years, with a goal of qualifying to attend
OCS. Selectees are required to complete degree requirements in 24
calendar months. Be between __ years and not yet __ years of age prior to their OCS class convening date |
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| The Pre-commissioning Program, ppep, 21-32 |
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| coast guard academy age requirement. |
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| Age. Be between 18 and 22 years of age. |
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Persons with special training and skills have an opportunity to become
Coast Guard officers through a ___ ___ process. The
programs in place are presented here. After one year of their initial
contract, selectees have the opportunity to apply for full-time university graduate or postgraduate training. If accepted, the Coast Guard pays all
tuition expenses and salary while studying. |
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| The basic eligibility requirements for a _______ are: |
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SELRES Direct Commission
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