HERITAGE AND DOCTRINE Flashcards
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6 areas that comprise Naval Doctrine
Naval Command and Control, Naval Operations, Naval Warfare, Naval Logistics, Naval Intelligence, Naval Planning
7 principles of Naval Logistics
Flexibility, Economy, Attainability, Responsiveness, Simplicity, Sustainability, Survivability
First navy ship named after an enlisted man
DD 255 Osmond Ingram 28FEB1919
3 classes of naval ships at inception of navy
Ships of the line, frigates, sloops of war
Hand Salute
Salute from a position of attention. Salute all officers, men and women, of all U.S. services and all allied foreign services.
Battle of Coral Sea
7-8MAY1942, world’s first carrier vs carrier battle. US carrier Lexington was sunk and Yorktown was damaged
Great White Fleet
16DEC1907, Great White Fleet left Hampton Roads, VA to demonstrate the strength of the navy
Battle of Normandy
6JUN1944, largest amphibious operation in history; Carried out minesweeping, shore-bombardment, amphibious operations, & transported supplies and troops.
Battle of Midway
3-5JUN1942, turning point of the Pacific war. Yorktown was sunk.
JN-25 (Japanese Code) was decrypted by CAPT JOSEPH ROCHEFORT. His team worked in “Station Hypo” in Pearl Harbor. They found out the Japanese were going to attack Midway. Cryptology helped Adm. Nimitz know what to do with his carrier.
Battle of Guadalcanal
13-15NOV1942, USS Juneau was torpedoed, 5 Sullivan brothers along with 700 others were lost. Because of this, Navy policy concerning family member separations was reinstated.
Battle of Leyte Gulf
23OCT1944, the ending point of the war in the Pacific.
Mercury 3
05MAY1961: First US manned space flight; Alan B Shepard
Gemini 3
23MAR1965: First US 2 man space mission; 3 earth orbits; John W Young
Apollo 11
16-24JUL1969: First manned lunar landing; Neil A Armstrong
Apollo 17
7-9DEC1972: 7th and final lunar landing mission; Eugene A Cernan and Ronald E Evans
On The Roof Gang
176 (150 Navy and 26 Marines) enlisted radio operators trained at a school located on the roof of the old Navy Department Building during 1928-1941. Trained to intercept and analyze foreign radio communications. Formed the vanguard of the US Naval Communications Intelligence and laid the cornerstone of Naval Cryptology. Only 6 survivors. First class held 01OCT1928.
Purple Code
1938: Japanese cipher used by the Japanese Foreign Office – they thought it was secure. Named for the color binder the US cryptanalyst kept the Japanese Foreign Office decrypts in. Germany-Tokyo communications.
- Broken by the US Army and documented movement of troops in Tokyo.
Attack on the USS Liberty
Location: Between Israel & Egypt.
A naval research technical ship that did not get the 20 nm stand-off message from the Israeli forces due to mishandling of message. As a result, they were attacked by Israeli fighter planes.
Attack on the USS Pueblo
Location: North Korea
An environmental research ship captured by North Koreans in 1968; 1st naval ship to be hijacked in 150 years. Emergency destruction occurred. North Koreans took over the entire ship, reversed the communication equipment, and read the message traffic. Back in the US, Johnny Walker helped and sold naval secrets to the Soviets. If he was not caught, the leakage of naval tactics and submarine locations would have resulted to possible loss of lives of American sailors.
D-Day Landing
Location: Normandy, France
Launched amphibious invasion (practiced MILDEC before the attack) and used METOC to determine the best weather for invasion by knowing tides and moonlight illumination.
Hainan Island EP-3
1APR2001: Chinese J-811 collided with an EP-3 which was forced down. Emergency destruction occurred. Chinese removed pieces of equipment and figured the SIGINT & IMINT setup.
Bletchley Park
AKA Station X. During WW II Bletchley Park was the site of the UK’s main decryption establishment, the Government Code and Cypher School. Was an ENIGMA decipher.
Navajo Code Talkers
Came from Philip Johnston. Believed Navajo is an unwritten language of complexity which made it unintelligible to anyone without extensive exposure and training. No alphabet or symbols. May 1942, first 29 Navajo recruits attended boot camp. At Camp Pendleton, Oceanside, CA, this group created the Navajo code. They developed a dictionary and numerous words for military terms.
3 levels of war
Tactical, Operational, Strategic
