102 Naval Heritage and Doctrine Fundamentals Flashcards
What are the six areas of naval doctrine?
Naval Warfare, Naval Intelligence, Naval Operations, Naval Logistics, Naval Planning, and Naval Command and Control
Which component of naval doctrine describes the inherent nature and enduring principles of naval forces?
Naval Warfare
Which component of naval doctrine points the way for intelligence support in meeting the requirements of both regional conflicts and operations other than war?
Naval Intelligence
Which component of naval doctrine develops doctrine to reaffirm the foundation of U.S. Navy and Marine Corps expeditionary maritime traditions?
Naval Operations
Which component of naval doctrine addresses the full range of logistical capabilities that are essential in the support of naval forces?
Naval Logistics
Which component of naval doctrine examines force planning and the relationship between our capabilities and operational planning in the joint and multinational environment?
Naval Planning
Which component of naval doctrine provides the basic concepts to fulfill the information needs of commanders, forces and weapon systems?
Naval Command and Control
What are the seven principles of Naval Logistics?
Responsiveness, Simplicity, Flexibility, Economy, Attainability, Sustainability, and Survivability
Which principle of Naval Logistics provides the right support at the right time, at the right place?
Responsiveness
Which principle of Naval Logistics avoids unnecessary complexity in preparing, planning and conducting logistic operations?
Simplicity
Which principle of Naval Logistics employs logistic support assets effectively?
Flexibility
Which principle of Naval Logistics employs logistic support assets effectively?
Economy
Which principle of Naval Logistics acquires the minimum essential logistic support to begin combat operations?
Attainability
Which Principle of Naval Logistics provides logistic support for the duration of the operation?
Sustainability
Which principle of Naval Logistics ensures that the logistic infrastructure prevails in spite of degradation and damage?
Survivability
What was the first navy ship named after an enlisted man?
Osmond Ingram (DD 255)
When was the Osmond Ingram (DD 255) Launched?
February 28th, 1919
Who was the first enlisted man killed in action in World War I?
Osmond Ingram
When was the destroyer Cassin (DD 43) torpedoed?
October 1917
What is centuries old, and probably originated when men in armor raised their helmet visors so they could be identified?
Hand Salute
Salutes are customarily given with which hand?
Right
When may a sailor salute with their left hand?
When right arm or hand is injured
When may people in the Army or Air Force salute left handed?
Never
True or False: A soldier or airman may salute sitting down or uncovered?
True
In what position should you salute from?
Attention
When saluting your upper arm should be where in relation to the deck or ground?
Parallel
When saluting your forearm should be inclined at what angle?
45 degrees
When saluting your hand and arm should be what?
Straight
When saluting your palm should be what?
Slightly inward
When saluting your thumb and fingers should be what?
Extended and joined
When saluting the tip of your forefinger should be touching what slightly to the right or the right eye?
Cap beak
When saluting an officer how long should you hold your salute?
Until the officer returns or acknowledged it
When would chief or senior chief petty officer rate the same salute as an officer?
When performing duties normally assigned to an officer
Each person in the naval service, upon coming on board a ship of the Navy, shall salute what?
National Ensign
After stopping on the upper platforms of the accommodation ladder, or the shipboard end of the brow, facing the national ensign, and rendering the salute who will they salute next?
Officer of the Deck
On leaving the ship how will you render your salutes in relation to boarding the ship?
Inverse order
When passed by or passing the national ensign being carried, uncased, in a military formation, all persons in the naval service shall do what?
Saltue
Merchant ships “salute” Navy ships by doing what with their Ensigns?
Dipping
When a merchant ship of any nation formally recognized by the U.S. salutes a ship of the U.S. Navy, it lowers its national colors to what?
Half-Mast
When is the only time a Naval vessel will dip their ensign?
To answer a salute, they never salute first
A ship that fired her guns in salute did so as a friendly gesture, making herself powerless for the duration of the salute because in the olden days it took how long to load and fire a gun?
20 minutes
The gun salutes prescribed by Navy Regulations are fired only by ships and stations designated by whom?
Secretary of the Navy
On Washington’s birthday, Memorial Day, and Independence Day, and to honor the President of the United States and heads of foreign states a national salute of how many guns are fired?
21
How many guns are used to salute an Admiral?
17
How many guns are used to salute a Vice Admiral?
15
How many guns are used to salute a Rear Admiral?
13
How many Guns are used to salute a Commodore?
11
Gun salutes are fired in what intervals?
five seconds
Gun salutes are always fired in what way?
Odd Numbers
What three classes of naval vessels existed at the inception of the navy?
Ships-of-the-line
Frigates
AND Sloops-of-war
What were the battleships of the sailing days?
Ships-of-the-line
What ships were the largest of all sailing warships?
Ships-of-the-line
Ships-of-the-line carried how many guns of various sizes?
64-100
What ships were cruisers of the 18th century?
Frigates
What were next in size, usually smaller than average ships-of-the-line and usually faster?
Frigates
Frigates carried approximately how many guns?
24-44
Which ships were small sailing warships?
Sloops-of-war
Sloops-of-war carried approximately how many guns?
10-20
When was the Battle of Coral Sea fought?
7-8 May 1942
How was the U.S. alerted to a large Japanese force moving to the Coral Sea to seize Port Moresby on the southwest coast of New Guinea?
Breaking of the Japanese Navy Code
During the battle of Coral Sea the Japanese operation centered around dozens of troop transports and how many carriers?
Three
During the Battle of Coral Sea the Americans met the Japanese with how many of their own carriers?
Two
What is the major significance of the Battle of Coral Sea?
It was the world’s first carrier vs. carrier battle
During the Battle of Coral Sea which American carrier was lost?
USS Lexington
When did the Great White Fleet leave Hampton Roads, Virginia, for a round-the-world cruise to show the flag demonstrating the strength of the U.S. Navy?
December 16,1907
When was the Invasion of Normandy?
June 6, 1944
What was significant about the Invasion of Normandy?
It was largest amphibious operation in history
When was the Battle of Midway?
3-5 June 1942
What was the turning point of the Pacific War?
Midway
During the Battle of Midway how many ships did the Japanese have in their armada?
160
During the Battle of Midway who was the Japanese Commander-in-chief?
Admiral Yamamoto
During the Battle of Midway how many carriers did the Japanese have?
Four
During the Battle of Midway how many battleships did the Japanese have?
Eleven
During the Battle of Midway how many carriers did the Americans have?
Three
During the Battle of Midway how many battleships did the Americans have?
Zero
Who was leading the Americans during the Battle of Midway?
Admiral Nimitz
Which three U.S. Carriers were involved in the Battle of Midway?
Hornet, Enterprise, and Yorktown
When was the Battle of Guadalcanal?
13-15 November 1942
How many days of fighting did it take for the Japanese naval forces to retreat, allowing U.S. Marines to secure the island of Guadalcanal?
Three
Which U.S. Naval ship was involved in the battle of Guadalcanal?
USS Juneau
Navy Policy was to place members of the same family on different ships but an exception was made for which group of 5 brothers? After their loss the Navy reinstated the family separation policy.
Sullivan Brothers
When the USS Juneau was torpedoed and lost the Sullivan Brothers along with how many crew members were lost?
700
When was the Battle of Leyte Gulf fought?
October 23, 1944
What was significant about the Battle of Leyte Gulf?
It was the final blow to the Japanese Navy
What was one of the main conditions that led to the formation of the U.S. Navy?
“Taxation without Representation”
When was the first Continental Congress meeting?
September 5th, 1774
When did the colonists appoint George Washington as Commander in Chief of the Continental American Army?
June 15th, 1775
What is the U.S. Navy’s date of birth?
October 13th, 1775
On October 13th, 1775 the Second Continental Congress ordered the purchase of how many vessels?
Two
Who was the first Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Navy?
Esek Hopkins
The first squadron of the Continental Navy was put to sea on what date?
February 1776
Naval forces have been organized for fighting at sea or form the sea for more than how many years?
2,000
What four qualities characterize most modern naval forces as political instruments in support of national policies?
Readiness, Flexibility, Self-sustainability, and Mobility
Being able to establish and maintain a forward-based, stabilizing presence around the world allows naval forces to be what?
Expeditionary
What are the three levels of war?
Tactical, Operational, and Strategic
Which level of war involves the details of individual engagements?
Tactical
Which level of war concerns forces collectively in a theatre?
Operational
Which level of war focuses on supporting national goals?
Strategic
Which war was a strategic-level and global war, included operational-level combat in the Pacific theater consisting primarily of U.S. led maritime, war and supported allied land campaigns?
World War 2
Sustained naval and joint operations are made possible by a logistic support system that has which two major components?
Fleet based and strategic sustainment assets.
Which sustainment assets include replenishing ships of the combat logistics force providing direct fleet support, combat service support units, mobile repair facilities, and advanced logistic support hubs?
Fleet Based
What is provided by air and sea assets that are shared by all services?
Strategic Sustainment
What depends upon our ability to project and sustain U.S. forces in all theaters of operations?
Successful global response to contingencies
What resources in the form of fleet-based sustainment assets and strategic assets provide naval expeditionary forces and joint and multinational forces the ability to operate in peacetime and in war whenever and whenever our national interests demand?
Integrated Support
Our ability to move and sustain forces at great distances from our shores is critical to which component of our military strategy?
Forward Presence
When military action is one of the potential responses to a situation threatening U.S. interests, a plan is prepared using which two methods?
Joint deliberate-planning process or Crisis-action procedures
U.S. military strength is best enhanced by which three things?
Deliberate peacetime analysis, Planning, and Exercises
What is a commander’s complete description of a concept of operation?
Operation plan
Which plan shows ways the force will be supported?
Logistics
which plan sequences the movement of the force and its logistical support into the theater?
Deployment
What includes the commander’s estimate, deciding possible courses of action, preparation of the mission statement and its execution strategy, situation analysis, and formulation of the commander’s intent?
Concept of Operations
