Heritage and Doctrine

Question 1

Six Areas that Comprise Navy Doctrine

Answer 1

Warefare, Intelligence, Operations, Logistics, Planning, and Command and Control

Question 2

7 Principles of Navy Logistics

Answer 2

Flexibility, Economy, Attainability, Responsiveness, Simplicity, Sustainability, and Survivability

Question 3

First Navy Ship Name after enlisted Man

Answer 3

USS Osmond Ingram; Ingram was the first enlisted man killed in action in WWI

Question 4

First sub used in Naval Warfare

Answer 4

The Turtle, meant to be used to attached explosives to ship’s hull when in harbor. Was ultimately destroyed on transport.

Question 5

First US flagship and who commanded it

Answer 5

Alfred, named after Alfred the Great. Commanded by Commodore Esek Hopkins

Question 6

What led to the formation of the U.S. Navy

Answer 6

Congress created the Continental Navy in 1775 prior to and to use during the Revolutionary War. As the war came to an end, the lack of support and funding, the Navy was disbanded. Nearly a decade later, US merchants were exposed to pirates and the Naval Act was passed to reestablish the Navy in 1794.

Question 7

Three Classes of Navy Vessels

Answer 7

Ships-of-the-Line: Battleship of the day; Largest; Carried 64-100 guns of various sizes
Frigates: Cruisers of the 18th Century; next in size, carried 28-44 guns
Sloops-of-War: small sailing warship, carried 10-20 guns

Question 8

Military Customs and Courtesies

Answer 8

Hand Salute, Saluting the Ensign, Dipping the Ensign, Gun Salute: always in sets of odd numbers

Question 9

Battle of the Coral Sea

Answer 9

Japanese and the U.S. launched all their planes against each other. They passed each other unseen in the clouds in the first world’s first carrier versus carrier battle. Japanese carrier was damaged. US carrier Lexington was sunk, the Yorktown was damaged

Question 10

Voyage of the Great White Fleet

Answer 10

Exercise to demonstrate Naval Strength. Left Hampton Roads, VA to go on a world cruise to show the flag

Question 11

Battle of Normandy

Answer 11

Largest amphibious operation in history

Question 12

Battle of Midway

Answer 12

Turning point of the Pacific War. US breaking Japanese code was key element; Japanese sank the Yorktown

Question 13

Battle of Guadalcanal

Answer 13

Navy policy was to place family members in separate ships. They made an exception for the 5 Sullivan brothers and they all died when the USS Juneau was torpedoed. The policy was reinstated after the incident

Question 14

Battle Leyte Gulf

Answer 14

The last major naval battle in WWII. The Japanese lost the Phillipines.

Question 15

Mercury 3

Answer 15

first manned Space flight

Question 16

Gemeni 3

Answer 16

First U.S. two-manned space mission. First spacecraft to maneuver from one orbit to another; 3 Earth orbits

Question 17

Apollo 11

Answer 17

First manned lunar landing

Question 18

Apollo 17

Answer 18

Seventh and final lunar landing mission

Question 19

STS-1

Answer 19

First orbital test flight of a space shuttle; All Navy Crew.

Question 20

On-The-Roof- Gang

Answer 20

enlisted radio operators were trained to intercept and analyze foreign radio comms at a unique school located on the roof of the old Navy Department Building.

Question 21

The Purple Code

Answer 21

PURPLE was a machine cipher system used by the Japanese for comms with major diplomatic posts

Question 22

Battle of Midway

Answer 22

The Japanese planned to lure aircraft carriers into a trap and occupy Midway. American cryptographers determined the location and date of the planned attack and the U.S. Navy prepared its own ambush.

Question 23

Attack on USS Liberty

Answer 23

USS Liberty found itself stuck in the middle of an Arab-Israeli war and was attacked by the Israeli. No cause was clear and Israel claimed an identification area.

Question 24

Capture of USS Pueblo

Answer 24

North Koreans attacked the Pueblo. Once man was killed while destroying crypto material. Capture of the ship remains to this day as the largest single loss of such sensitive material

Question 25

D-Day Landing

Answer 25

U.S. Allies conducted a deception operation using double agents and fake radio traffic.

Question 26

Landing at Inchon

Answer 26

Seven days before the main attack on Inchon, a joint CIA-Military recon team was placed to gather info about the enemy and environment.

Question 27

Hainan Island EP-3 Incident

Answer 27

U.S. Recon plane carrying a crew collided with a Chinese fighter, forcing the craft to make an emergency landing in China

Question 28

Bletchley Park

Answer 28

Government Code and Cipher school was based in London but needed a safer place with Hitler on the move. Bletchley Park was the perfect location, named Station X, the Enigma Cipher was broken here.

Question 29

Navajo Code Talkers

Answer 29

They took part in every assault the Marines conducted in the Pacific from 1942-1945, transmitted messages in their native tongue, a code the Japanese never broke

Question 30

Attack on the USS Stark

Answer 30

During Iran-Iraq War, Iragi jet fighter fired missiles at the Stark. Only successful anti-ship missile attack on a U.S. Navy Warship

Question 31

EC-121 Shoot down

Answer 31

USN EC-121 was on a SIGINT recon mission and was shot down by North Korean Aircraft over the Sea of Japan. Only debris were recovered during search and rescue

Question 32

Qualities that characterize Navy/Marine Corps team as instruments to support national policies

Answer 32

Readiness
Flexibility
Self-sustainability
Mobility

Question 33

Three Levels of War

Answer 33

Tactical
Operational
Strategic

Question 34

National Security Act of 1947

Answer 34

Mandated major reorganization of foreign policy and military establishments of the U.S. Government. Act established the CIA, the War Department and the Navy Department merged into a single DoD under SecDef

Question 35

When and Why current values were developed

Answer 35

In 1992, CNO Kelso adopted the Navy core values Honor, Courage, and Commitment to provide principles to guide our Sailors

Question 36

When and Why Sailor’s creed was developed

Answer 36

Written by the Blue Ribbon Recruit Training Panel in 1993 at Admiral Frank’s direction and that every recruit be given a copy and commit it to memory.

Question 37

Grace Hopper’s contributions to the Navy

Answer 37

Joined and retired, then joined and retired a second time.
pioneered computers and programming.
coined the terms “bug” and “debugged”

Question 38

Name of the first computer and its location

Answer 38

Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) developed by Professor John Antanasoff at Iowa State. Never became fully functional. The ENIAC was the first functional computer at the University of Pennsylvania

Question 39

ARPANET and when it was developed

Answer 39

ARPA (Advance Research Projects Agency) was developed by President Eisenhower to respond to USSR’s launch of Sputnik. ARPANET was the Computer Network Project and the start of the internet

Question 40

Impact of the John Walker espionage case

Answer 40

CWO Walker led the most devastating spy rings ever unmasked in the US. Him, with his brother, son, and friend compromised US Navy Crypto systems and classified info from 1967-1985. single most damaging espionage case involving the U.S. Navy

Question 41

oldest intelligence organization in the U.S. Navy

Answer 41

Office of Naval Intelligence

Question 42

When the ONI was founded and by whom it was founded

Answer 42

Established on March 23, 1882 by William Hunt, SecNav

Question 43

The first CIO/DNI

Answer 43

Chief Intelligence Officer Theodorus Bailey Meyers Mason

Question 44

Two Departments combined to form the ONI

Answer 44

Department Library and Office of Intelligence

Question 45

Alan Turing’s contribution to Information Warfare field

Answer 45

Invented the Turing Machine: precursor to modern computer
developed two of the first post war computers
deciphered critical comms from the Germans
Developed Turing Math that enabled computers to solve any equation.
Credited with pioneering what we know now as Artificical Intelligence and a test against human intelligence “Turing Test”