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6 areas of naval doctrine
Command and control, operations, warfare, logistics, intelligence, planning
7 principles of naval logistics
Flexibility, economy, attainability, responsiveness, simplicity, sustainability, survivability
1st navy ship named after enlisted person
Osmond Ingram
3 classes of ship at inception
Ships of the line, frigates, sloops of war
Battle of coral sea
7-8 May 1942 - first carrier v carrier battle
Great white fleet
16 dec 1907, demonstration of NAVYs strength
Battle of Normandy
6 jun 1944 - largest amphibious assault
Battle of midway
3-5 June 1942 - turning point of the pacific war
Battle of Guadalcanal
13-15 nov 1942 - sinking of USS Juneau , loss of 5 Sullivan brothers
Battle of Leyte gulf
23 Oct 1944 - ending point of pacific war
Mercury 3
5 May 1961 - first US manned space flight by Alan Shepard
Gemini 3
23 Mar 1965 - first US 2 man mission , three earth orbits. Edition of John w Young
Apollo 11
16-24 Jul 1969 - first lunar landing . Neil Armstrong
Apollo 17
7-9 Dec 1972 - 7th and final lunar landing
On the roof gang
176 Navy / marine personnel , radio personnel trained at school located on roof of an old navy department building from 1928-1941, cornerstone of naval cryptology . 6 survivors
Purple code
1938 - color binder the US cryptanalyst kept Japanese foreign office decryptions in
- documents movement of troops in Tokyo
Attack on the USS liberty
Naval research technical ship doesn’t receive 20nm stand off message due to mishandling of message, attacked by Israeli fighter planes
Attack on USS PUEBLO
North Korea , environmental research ship captured by North Korea in 1968 . 1st naval ship to be hijacked in 150 years
D day landing
Normandy France, largest amphibious attack, used METOC to determine best weather
Hainan islands
1APR2001 emergency destruction occurred and Chinese figured out SIGINT and IMINT setup
Bletchley park
U.K. Main decryption establishment in WWII
Navajo code talkers
Developed by Philip Johnston, may 1942 created the Navajo code
3 levels of war
Tactical, operational, strategic
National security act 1947
Merged dept of war and dept of navy to become DOD
Grace hopper
1943 Came up with debugging , USS hopper (ddg 70)
1st computer and location
ENIAC - university of Pennsylvania
Arpanet
Advance research project agency network
Johnny walker
Convicted of espionage , spied for soviets from 1968-1985
Oldest intel organization
ONI - office of naval intelligence
Founded by William Hunt (secnav) march 23, 1882
