Deployed Disaster Relief

Question 1

What disease caused 60,000 casualties in 1942 during the war campaign in Guadalcanal?

Answer 1

Malaria

Question 2

What two major diseases led to the disbanding of Merrill’s Marauders?

Answer 2

Malaria and Dysentery

Question 3

What problem incapacitated the Allied and American units when they moved into an abandoned German war camp in the North African desert?

Answer 3

Overpopulation of flies flying around that caused sickness (dysentery)

Question 4

What were the causes for losing over 13,000 people during the invasion of Sicily before and after the attack?

Answer 4

Malaria and Sand Fly Fever

Question 5

What are OOTWs?

Answer 5

Operations Other Than War

Question 6

What are some of the conditions that lead to OOTWs?

Answer 6

Peacekeeping, peacebuilding, peace enforcement, and humanitarian efforts

Question 7

What system is DOD-directed?

Answer 7

Joint Operation Planning & Execution System (JOPES)

Question 8

When resources are planned to be sent to the theater of operations in a transportation-feasible flow, what is the collection of information called?

Answer 8

Time-Phased Force & Deployment Data (TPFDD)

Question 9

What is the WMP?

Answer 9

USAF War & Mobilization Plan: A classified document which provides commanders current policies, planning factors, and forces conducting and supporting wartime operations

Question 10

Define medical intelligence.

Answer 10

Provides info about location like climate, environment, people, medical capabilities

Question 11

In the absence of an officer in the public health office, who may be appointed as the MIO?

Answer 11

Experienced NCO

Question 12

At what times should an MIO either recommend measures or report findings when a unit is scheduled for deployment?

Answer 12

Before, upon arrival, and all throughout the deployment.

Question 13

What is the twofold purpose of the medical mission in wartime?

Answer 13

Return sick and injured personnel back to duty.
Contingency to transport for further care.

Question 14

What is UTC?

Answer 14

Unit Type Codes

Question 15

How can we effectively use the historical information from nuclear, biological, and chemical events?

Answer 15

Give education and limit repeating history.

Question 16

The nuclear accident at Three Mile Island caused no immediate danger to radiation, but what concerns do experts have about the accident?

Answer 16

Longterm effects and effects on the food chain

Question 17

In 1995, it was revealed that Iraq had sophisticated biological warfare agents. What were they?

Answer 17

Botulinum toxin, anthrax, and aflatoxin

Question 18

When was the first recorded use of chemical weapons?

Answer 18

423 BC, during the Peloponnesian War

Question 19

What accident occurred in Russia on 26 April 1986?

Answer 19

The Chernobyl factory accident

Question 20

What NBC agents were used by Iraq in 1986?

Answer 20

Chemical agents, specifically mustard and nerve agents

Question 21

What causes most of the destruction during a nuclear weapon detonation?

Answer 21

Blast

Question 22

Which two blast components are caused by blast injuries?

Answer 22

Wind and wave

Question 23

What type of fires would be caused by a nuclear weapon detonation?

Answer 23

Fireball

Question 24

What are the biological hazards from “fallout”?

Answer 24

Whole-body irradiation from the ground; beta particles on the skin; internal damage from inhaled alpha and beta particles

Question 25

What type of radiation presents the greatest inhalation hazard?

Answer 25

Alpha and beta particles

Question 26

How much of an immediate radiological hazard would an air blast produce on the ground?

Answer 26

Little

Question 27

How does a nuclear burst result in radioactive contamination?

Answer 27

By attaching to rain droplets that fall to the ground and contaminate the food chain

Question 28

What type of nuclear detonation occurs where the fireball contacts the ground?

Answer 28

Surface blast

Question 29

Which type of burst is the most hazardous nuclear detonation?

Answer 29

Surface blast

Question 30

Why is the use of biological warfare agents advantageous?

Answer 30

Produces death, disease, or toxicity to all living things

Question 31

How many biological agents can be released into the environment?

Answer 31

Three; bacteria, virueses, and toxins

Question 32

What are the characteristics of biological warfare agents?

Answer 32

Incubation period, difficult identification, and unlike any other

Question 33

What determines the effectiveness of biological agents?

Answer 33

The ability to overcome the resistance of the target host and the environment

Question 34

What chemical agent was developed from dye fixatives in the textile industry?

Answer 34

Pulmonary agents

Question 35

How do cyanogens affect the body?

Answer 35

They stop tissue respiration

Question 36

In what type of weather are vesicants most effective?

Answer 36

Hot weather

Question 37

What are the three examples of vesicants?

Answer 37

Mustards, phosgene oxime, and lewisite

Question 38

What is probably the first effect you will notice in a person exposed to nerve agents?

Answer 38

Begins with pinpointing of the pupils

Question 39

What are the effects of incapacitating agents?

Answer 39

Visual, mental, and physical disability.

Question 40

What are high-yield explosives?

Answer 40

Any conventional weapon or devise that is capable of a high order of destruction and/or of being used in such a manner as to kill or injure a large number of people

Question 41

What are the two categories of high-yield explosives?

Answer 41

High explosive (HE) Low-order explosive (LE)

Question 42

What are some examples of high explosives?

Answer 42

Trinitritiluene (TNT), semtex, nitroglycerin, dynamite, and ammonium nitrate fuel oil (ANFO)

Question 43

What are some examples of low-order explosives?

Answer 43

Pipe bombs, gunpowder, Molotov cocktails, and missiles

Question 44

Why did two Allied units withdraw from positions previously occupied by Germans in the North African Desert during WWII?

Answer 44

Flies spread disease from the exposed feces

Question 45

Operations other than war (OOTW) are defined as

Answer 45

military actions conducted which are not associated with large-scale combat operations

Question 46

Recent operations other than war (OOTW) have been seen in Bosnia,

Answer 46

Rwanda, Iraq, and Haiti.

Question 47

The allowance standard (AS) that lists equipment to support the FFPM4 (PAM) team mission is

Answer 47

AS 916E

Question 48

Medical intelligence (MI) is information about diseases,

Answer 48

climatic conditions and other health-related environmental factors.

Question 49

How is most medical intelligence (MI) obtained?

Answer 49

Directly from people

Question 50

When must medical intelligence (MI) be used as a preventative measure to be effective?

Answer 50

Prior to a unit's deployment

Question 51

Who appoints the base medical intelligence officer?

Answer 51

MTF commander

Question 52

In the absence of the public health officer, who is normally appointed as the medical intelligence officer?

Answer 52

4E0X1 NCO with appropriate experience

Question 53

The first country to use a nuclear weapon in warfare was

Answer 53

the USA.

Question 54

According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which nuclear accident resulted in more radioactive material being released into the atmosphere than from all nuclear tests conducted throughout history?

Answer 54

Chernobyl, Union of Soviet Socialist Republican (USSR)

Question 55

What nerve agent was unleashed on a subway station in Tokyo by a Japanese cult?

Answer 55

Sarin

Question 56

If the wind velocity exceeds how many miles per hour (mph) in the vicinity of a nuclear blast, a person will be displaced.

Answer 56

100

Question 57

What is the most likely reason that many military members suffer or die as a result of a biological attack?

Answer 57

Too much time between agent identification and cure/treatment recommendations

Question 58

What is NOT a characteristic of a biological agent?

Answer 58

All agents are rapid in action from tie of exposure to symptoms

Question 59

What is NOT one of the three primary substances comprising chemical warfare agents?

Answer 59

Plasma

Question 60

Antidote kits, such as antidote treatment, nerve agent autoinjector (ATNAA), and convulsant antidote for ner agent (CANA), treat symptoms of which type of chemical warfare agent exposure?

Answer 60

Nerve agents

Question 61

Trinitrotoluene (TNT), C-4, and nitroglycerin are all examples of what category of explosives?

Answer 61

High explosives (HE)

Question 62

What does a low-order explosive lack compare to high explosives?

Answer 62

Over-pressurization shock wave