Board Flashcards
Solar Cycle
11 year cycle which has a 4 year rise and 7 year decline
Van Allen Radiation Belts
2 concentric, donut shaped regions of stable, trapped charged particles that exist because the geomagnetic field near the earth is strong and field lines are closed
Atmospheric Drag
Affects low orbiting objects, less than 1000 km. Energy deposited in the earth’s upper atmosphere by charged particle bombardment heats the atmosphere, causing it to expand outward over a period of time.
Geosynchronous Orbit
Satellite with an average altitude of approximately 19,300 nautical miles. Satellite rotates once around earth in as long as it takes for earth to rotate around once
FSM
Fleet SIPR Messaging System. Point to point connection between ship and NOC. Faster, more reliable record message traffic delivery to ships.
MUA
Master Update Authority. NCTAMS PAC. The single point for directory updates.
What is RI
Routing Indicators. GENSER RI’s, Begin with the letter R and are seven characters in length
What is OSRI
Originating Station Routing Indicator. Ships derive by using the first 4 letters of the routing indicator of the Fleet NARC assigned to the servicing NCTAMS/NCTS system to which they will transmit, suffixed by FRI assigned to the fleet/mobile unit
What is NARC
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FRI
Fleet Routing Indicator. Three letter designator assigned to the fleet/mobile unit
FL 1
Start of Message and Sequence Number
FL 2
Routing Indicator
FL 4
Security Label
FL 5
DTG
FL 6
Originator
FL 7
Action Address
FL 8
Info Address
FL 9
Exempt Address
FL 11
Break
FL 12
Text
FL 13
Break
FL 14
Confirmation
FL 15
End of message validation
ZBZ
Corrupt
ZUJ
Stand by
ZEV
Acknowledged
ZUG
Negative
ZUE
Affirmative
ZES
Incomplete
What are the unique four letter designators that identify broadcasts
PMUL - NCTAMS PAC
LMUL - NCTAMS LANT
IMUL - NCTAMS PAC (ALTERNATE)
-First letter identifies naval communication area and second letter identify single or multiple channel broadcast.
BCA
Broadcast Control Authority. Central hub where all message traffic sent to or received by submarines and shore stations gets disseminated.
BKS
Broadcast Keying Stations. Introduces message or facsimile traffic into the Fleet Broadcast Network by generating a key stream of broadcast-bound information to the BCS for specific channel allocation before being forwarded to the BRS for broadcast transmission.
BCS
Provides all the technical aspects of affecting a Fleet Broadcast, which include assembling key streams received from the various broadcast keying stations into specific broadcast channels and delivering a composite key stream to the Broadcast Radiating Station for transmission
ORM
Operation Risk Management. Decision making tool used to minimize risk
ORM Steps
Identifying Hazards Assessing Hazards Making Risk Decisions Implementing Controls Supervising
Instruction that governs safety and mishap reporting
OPNAVINST 5102.D
Navy & Marine Corp Mishap & Safety Investigation, Reporting, & Record keeping manual
Hazard severity and the 4 categories
Assessment of the expected consequence, defined by degree of injury or occupational illness that could occur
- Category I - may cause death or loss of asset or grave damage
- Category II - severe injury, or property damage
- Category III - minor injury or property damage
- Category IV - minimal threat to personnel safety or property
Mishap Probability and subcategories
Assessment of the likelihood that given exposure to a hazard an accident will result
- Sub-Category A - Like to occur immediately
- Sub-Category B - Probably will occur in time
- Sub-Category C - May occur in time
- Sub-Category D - Unlikely to occur
RAC
Risk Assessment Code. Structured process to identify and assess hazards
- Critical Risk
- Serious Risk
- Moderate Risk
- Minor Risk
- Negligible Risk
How long do SITREPs have to be kept
5 years
3 objectives of first aid
Save lives, prevent further injury, prevent infection
Methods of controlling bleeding
Direct pressure, pressure point, tourniquet
Methods of clearing an obstructed airway
- Standing abdominal thrust
- Reclining abdominal thrust
- Standing chest thrust
- Reclining abdominal thrust
HERO
Hazards of Electromagnetic Radiation to Ordnance
HERP
Hazards of Electromagnetic Radiation to Personnel
HERF
Hazards of Electromagnetic Radiation to Fuels
Types of PPE
Respirators, Hand protection, Foot protection, Eye protection, Face protection, Skin/Body protection, Hearing protection
Naval Doctrine
WIPLOC
- Naval Warfare
- Naval Intelligence
- Naval Planning
- Naval Logistics
- Naval Operations
- Naval Command and Control
Seven Principles of Naval Logistics
FEARSSS Responsiveness Simplicity Flexibility Economy Attainability Sustainability Survivability
First navy ship named after an enlisted man
Osmond Ingram
DD 255
First enlisted man killed in WWI
Navy Birthday
13 October 1775
Three classes of naval vessels that existed an inception of the navy
Ship of the line
Frigates
Sloops of war
Hand Salute origin
The hand salute was done because most palms were dirty from handling lines. It was hands down as it was it was considered insulting to present a dirty palm
Battle Coral Sea
Aircraft passed each other in the clouds in the worlds first carrier versus carrier battle
Voyage of the Great White Fleet
Left Hampton Roads, Virginia, for a round the world cruise to show the flag and demonstrate the strength of the U.S. Navy
Battle of Normandy
Largest amphibious operation in history
Midway
Turning point of the Pacific war
Guadalcanal
After three days of bitter fighting, the Japanese naval forces retreated and US Marines were able to secure the island of guadalcanal
Battle of Leyte Gulf
Final blow to the Japanese navy on October 23, 1944
Mercury 3
Alan B Shepard
Gemini 3
John W Young
Apollo 11
Neil Armstrong
Apollo 17
Eugene Cernan and Ronald Evens
STS-1
All navy crew
On-the-roof-gang
A total of 176 enlisted radio operators were specially trained at a unique school located on the roof of the old Navy Dept building
Purple code
Japanese Cipher Machine. Code named purple because of the binders used by Japan
USS Liberty
Mistakenly attacked by Israeli forces in “six day war”
USS Pueblo
While off Wonsan,North Korea, Pueblo was attacked by local forces and seized
Landing at Inchon
Secured by Marines in less than 24 hours
Hainan Island EP-3 Incident
A mid-air collision between a USN EP-3 ARIES II signals surveillance aircraft and a People’s Liberation Army Navy J-Bll interceptor fighter jet resulted in an international dispute between the US and China
USS Stark
Two Iraqi missiles struck the Side. 37 sailors were killed
State the qualities that characterize the Navy/Marine Corps team as instruments to support national policies
Readiness, Flexibility, Self sustainability, Mobility
Levels of war
Tactical, operational, strategic
National Security Act of 1947
Created the CIA. Serves as the primary civilian intelligence gathering organization in the government
RADM Hopper
Worked on the Mark I and Mark II electromechanical computing machine
First computer
ABC was the first computer in 1937
John Walker
Convicted of selling classified information to the Soviets. Reason we have TPI today
Oldest Intelligence Organization
General Order 292 established the Office of Intelligence in the Bureau of Navigation
When was ONI established and by who
Established in 1880s by LT Mason
First CIO/DNI
Chief Information Officer/Director of National Intelligence.
John Negroponte on April 21, 2005
Two departments combined to form ONI
Department Library and Office of Intelligence
OPCON and ADCON
Operational Control - commander in charge of the overall operation of forces
Administrative Control - Commander in charge of the individual unit’s administrative needs
FLTCOM
Fleet Commander. Overall responsible for the operations in the Fleet in their AOR
TYCOM
Type Commander. Responsible for the operation of their specific platform, such as surface, air, sub, expeditionary
PACOM
Pacific Command. Camp Smith, HI.
EUCOM
European Command. Stuttgart, Germany
JFCOM
Joint Forces Command. Norfolk and Suffolk, VA
SOUTHCOM
Southern Command. Miami, FL
CENTCOM
Central Command. Tampa, FL
NORTHCOM
Northern Command, Paterson AFB, CO
SOCOM
Special Operations Command. MacDill AFB, FL
TRANSCOM
Transportation Command. Scott AFB, IL
STRATCOM
Strategic Command. Offutt AFB, NE
AFRICOM
Africa Command. Stuttgart, Germany
CYBERCOM
Created in 2009. Naval Network Warfare Command was recognized to fill the role
2nd Fleet
Atlantic Ocean
3rd Fleet
Pacific Ocean, East Pac
4th Fleet
Africa and South America
5th Fleet
Central Command AOR waters
6th Fleet
Med, North Atlantic
7th Fleet
Western Pacific and Indian Oceans
10th Fleet
Cyber Command
TF
Task Force. A temporary grouping of units, under one commander formed for the purpose of carrying out a specific operation or mission.
TG
Task Group. A component of a naval task force organized by the commander of a task force or higher authority
TU
Task Unit. A component of a naval task group organized by the commander of a task group or higher authority
TE
Task Element. A component of a naval task unit organized by the commander of a task unit or higher authority
AG
Aerographer’s Mates. Navy’s meteorological and oceanographic experts
CTI
Linguists.
CTM
Maintenance technicians
CTN
Monitor, identify, collect and analyze information, provide data for digital network products
CTR
Crypto Technicians Collections
Operate state of the art computer systems to conduct information operations, and collect analyze and exploit signals of interest to report worldwide threats
CTT
Electronic Intelligence
Operate electronic sensors and computer systems to collect, analyze, and disseminate Electronic Intelligence
IS
Intelligence Specialists. Analyze intelligence data
IT
Perform core and specialty functions of Communications Operations, message processing, network administration and security
DISA
Defense Information Systems Agency. Engineers and provides command and control capabilities and enterprise infrastructure to assure a global net-centric enterprise
NCDOC
Navy Cyber Defense Operations Command.
Over see entire navy network
NSA
National Security Agency. Provide for the signals intelligence mission of the US
Secretary of the Navy
Ray Mabus #75
Commander in Chief
President Obama #44
Secretary of Defense
Mr. Hagel. #24
CNO
ADM Greenert #30
MCPON
MC Stevens #13
ODCR
Officer Distribution Control Report
Command Master Chief
Total enlisted must be 250 or greater
AMD
Activity Manpower Document
-Total force manpower requirements
Evaluation report
Enlisted E-1 to E-9
Fitness report
All officers
Page 2
Dependant Infor, SGLI, emergency information
Page 4
Qualifications, education, training
Page 13
Administrative remarks
OPREP-3 PINACLE
Used to notify the National Command Authority. Events that could result in local, national, or international public reaction
OPREP-3 NAVY BLUE
Used to provide the CNO and other appropriate commands with information concerning incidents of military, political or press interest which are of high Navy, vice national interest
OPREP-3 NAVY BLUE UNIT SITREP
Used to provide higher authority or other potentially interested senior with notification of an incident not meeting oprep-3 special interests
SGLI
Servicemans Group Life Insurance
Officer accession programs for enlisted personnel
STA-21, LDO/CWO, MECP, OCS, Flying Warrant Officer
Purpose of 3M/PMS System
Maintenance and Material Management/Planned Maintenance System. Provides efficient and uniform methods of conducting and recording preventative and corrective maintenance
DPAS
Defense Property Accounting System. Used to track physical accountability of personal property
DLR Program
Depot Level Repairable. Repairable items for which the condemnation should be made at the depot level
NRFI DLR
Not Ready For Issue Depot Level Repairable
- Turn-in - requires turn-in to a repair facility
- RIP- Remain in Place, repairable components that cannot be removed until receipt of a replacement item
MAM
Maintenance Assistance Module.
-Parts used for isolating faults within an avionics system or test set
NSN
National Stock Number. Has 13 digits
APL
Allowance Parts List.
AEL
Allowance Equipage List.
-Durable items that are not consumed in use and are essential to the ships mission
NC
Not Carried
NIS
Not In Stock
DD Form 200
Survey Form
CHRIMP
Consolidated Hazardous Material Reutilization and Inventory Management Program.
-Serves as a fundamental element of the Navy’s lifecycle control and management of hazardous material
DRMS
Defense Reutilization Marketing Service.
-Provides services in the reuse, transfer, donation, sale or disposal of excess property
ServMart
A self service store operated by an ashore supply activity. It provides a ready supply of relativity low cost items frequently required by customers in the area
OPTAR
Operating Target. The estimate of the amount of money that will be required by an operating unit to perform assigned tasks
Red Cross
Immediate Precedence may be assigned. Also called an AMCROSS.
ADNS
Automated Digital Networking System.
-Primary function is to connect Navy shipboard networks to other ship and shore networks for transfering IP data of various classification levels
CUDIXS
UHF SatCom
- Up to 60 subscribers
- Narrative message traffic
INMARSAT
-Used as a last means
-International Maritime Satellite
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GINGERBREAD
Intruder on the line
EEFI
Essential Elements of Friendly Information.
-IIdentify specific items of information which if acquired by an adversary would degrade the security of military operations
BEADWINDOW
Real-time procedure which brings to the immediate attention of circuit operators that EEFI disclosure has or may have occurred
River City
- Used to secure all communications off the ship.
- 4 different levels
- Level 1 is the most restrictive and level 4 is the least restrictive
Routine
R
6 hours
Priority
P
3 hours
Immediate
O
30 minutes
Flash
Z
10 minutes
CRITIC
W
3 minutes