Common Core Flashcards
What are the components of ORM
- Identify Hazards
- Assessing Hazards
- Making risk decisions
- Implementing controls
- Supervising
4 Categories of hazard severity
- Category 1: May cause death
- Category 2: May cause severe injury
- Category 3: May cause minor injury
- Category 4: Presents minimal threat
4 Categories of mishap probability
- Sub-Category A: Likely to to occur immediately of short period of time
- Sub-Category B: Probably will occur in time
- Sub-Category C: May occur in time.
- Sub-Category D: Unlikely to occur.
Define RAC’s
Risk Assessment Code; Combines elements of hazard severity and mishap probability
What are the 5 RAC’s
- Critical
- Serious
- Moderate
- Minor
- Negligible
Name the 4 required mishap reportable items
- Government property damage
- On duty civilian and on/off duty military injury
- Work related injury that requires care beyond first aid
- Any other incident of interest
Name the 11 pressure points
- Jaw
- Temple
- Collar Bone
- Neck
- Inner Upper Arm
- Inner Elbow
- Wrist
- Upper Thigh
- Groin
- Knee
- Ankle
HERO
Hazardous Electromagnetic Radiation to Ordinance
HERP
Hazardous Electromagnetic Radiation to Personnel
HERF
Hazardous Electromagnetic Radiation to Fuels
Define HAZMAT
Any material because of its quantity, concentration, or physical/chemical characteristics, pose hazards to human health or environment
Describe an MSDS
-Material Safety Data Sheet; Lists specific information and precautions for various substances
Examples of PPE
- Respirators
- Hand Protection
- Foot Protection
- Eye Protection
- Face Protection
- Skin/Body Protection
- Hearing Protection
Discuss the 6 Navy Doctrines; WIPLOC
- Warfare
- Intelligence
- Planning
- Logistics
- Operations
- Command and Control
Seven principles of Naval Logistics
- Flexibility
- Economy
- Attainability
- Responsiveness
- Simplicity
- Sustainability
- Survivability
Name the 1st Navy ship to be named after an enlisted man
- USS OSMOND INGRAM
- Ingram was the first enlisted man killed in WW2
What conditions led to the formation of the US Navy
Taxation without representation led to revolt in the original 13 colonies
Discuss Battle of Corral Sea
7-8 May 1942; first carrier vs. carrier battle fought solely by aircraft
Discuss Battle of Midway
3-5 Jun 1942; Turning point in the Pacific War
Battle of Leyte Gulf
Final blow to Japanese Navy; Largest battle in WW2
Discuss Gemini 3
First 2 person space flight
Apollo 17
The 7th and final lunar landing mission
Discuss On the Roof Gang
Enlisted radio operators were specially trained at a unique located on the roof of the old Navy Department Building; laid the cornerstone Naval Cryptology
Discuss Capture of USS PUEBLO
- 23Jan68; ELINT and SIGINT research ship which was boarded and captured by DPRK.
- North Korea claimed the ship strayed into their territorial waters.
- PUEBLO is still held by DPRK in the Wonsan Harbor and used as a museum ship; It’s the only US ship still held captive.
Discuss Bletchley Park
- AKA Station X, located in Buckinghamshire, England
- During WW2, site of the UK’s main decryption establishment, the Government Code and Cypher School
- Ciphers generated by the German Enigma and Lorenz Machines
- High level intel produced, codenamed ULTRA, provided crucial assistance to the Allied War effort and is credited by some with having shortened the war by 2 years
Discuss the Attack on USS STARK
- In 1987, an Iraqi jet fighter fired missiles at USS STARK; killing 37, wounding 21
- It is the only successful anti-ship missile attack on a USN warship
- Board of inquiry cited lapse of training requirements and tax procedures
Discuss 3 levels of war
- Strategic
- Operational
- Tactical
Discuss National Security Act of 1947
- Signed by POTUS Truman in 1947
- Established the CIA
- War Department and Navy Department merged into DoD under SECDEF
- Created Department of Air Force
State RADM Grace Hopper’s contributions to the Navy
- Led development of COBOL
- Coined the term debugging for fixing glitches
- First female Admiral
State the name of the first computer
ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) ; created in 1942 at University of Pennsylvania
Discuss impact of the John Walker espionage case
A retired warrant officer, he spied for the Russians from 1968-1985; allowing Soviet Union to make SIGNIFICANT gains in naval warfare
Oldest intelligence organization of the USN
Office of Naval Intelligence