HERITAGE AND DOCTRINE

Question 1

6 areas that comprise Naval Doctrine

Answer 1

Naval Command and Control, Naval Operations, Naval Warfare, Naval Logistics, Naval Intelligence, Naval Planning

Question 2

7 principles of Naval Logistics

Answer 2

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

Question 3

First navy ship named after an enlisted man

Answer 3

DD 255 Osmond Ingram 28FEB1919

Question 4

3 classes of naval ships at inception of navy

Answer 4

Ships of the line, frigates, sloops of war

Question 5

Hand Salute

Answer 5

Salute from a position of attention. Salute all officers, men and women, of all U.S. services and all allied foreign services.

Question 6

Battle of Coral Sea

Answer 6

7-8MAY1942, world’s first carrier vs carrier battle. US carrier Lexington was sunk and Yorktown was damaged

Question 7

Great White Fleet

Answer 7

16DEC1907, Great White Fleet left Hampton Roads, VA to demonstrate the strength of the navy

Question 8

Battle of Normandy

Answer 8

6JUN1944, largest amphibious operation in history; Carried out minesweeping, shore-bombardment, amphibious operations, & transported supplies and troops.

Question 9

Battle of Midway

Answer 9

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.

Question 10

Battle of Guadalcanal

Answer 10

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.

Question 11

Battle of Leyte Gulf

Answer 11

23OCT1944, the ending point of the war in the Pacific.

Question 12

Mercury 3

Answer 12

05MAY1961: First US manned space flight; Alan B Shepard

Question 13

Gemini 3

Answer 13

23MAR1965: First US 2 man space mission; 3 earth orbits; John W Young

Question 14

Apollo 11

Answer 14

16-24JUL1969: First manned lunar landing; Neil A Armstrong

Question 15

Apollo 17

Answer 15

7-9DEC1972: 7th and final lunar landing mission; Eugene A Cernan and Ronald E Evans

Question 16

On The Roof Gang

Answer 16

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.

Question 17

Purple Code

Answer 17

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.

Question 18

Attack on the USS Liberty

Answer 18

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.

Question 19

Attack on the USS Pueblo

Answer 19

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.

Question 20

D-Day Landing

Answer 20

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.

Question 21

Hainan Island EP-3

Answer 21

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.

Question 22

Bletchley Park

Answer 22

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.

Question 23

Navajo Code Talkers

Answer 23

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.

Question 24

3 levels of war

Answer 24

Tactical, Operational, Strategic

Question 25

National Security Act of 1947

Answer 25

26Jul1947; Merged Dept of War and DoN, would become DoD; Est National Security Council and the CIA.

Question 26

Grace Hopper

Answer 26

RADM Hopper joined the USN in 1943, retired in 1966, recalled then retired again in 1986. Died in 1992. Conceptualized programming languages that led to COBOL, USS Hopper (DDG 70) named after her, One of the first computer programmers worked on the Havard Mark I, came up with the term “Debugging” by literally removing a bug from a computer.

Question 27

1st Computer and its location

Answer 27

ENIAC (ELECTRICAL NUMERICAL INTEGRATOR AND COMPUTER), University of Pennsylvania.

Question 28

ARPANET

Answer 28

Advanced Research Projects Agency Network; precursor to the global internet. Created at MIT by DARPA (Defense ARPA), first email in 1971; First FTP 1973, Al Gore was involved in the development of ARPANET

Question 29

Johnny Walker

Answer 29

Retired CWO and communications specialist convicted of espionage. Spied for Soviets from 1968-1985 and recruited his son, Michael, and formed a spy ring. Helped Soviets decipher more than one million encrypted naval messages. AKA most damaging spy in the history of the US (arrest was a catalyst for a huge investigation within the Intel community that uncovered other spies as well). Plead guilty in late 1985; eligible for parole May 2015; Died Aug 2014.

Question 30

Oldest intelligence organization in the US Navy

Answer 30

ONI- Office Of Naval Intelligence

Question 31

When ONI was established and its founder

Answer 31

Founded by then SECNAV William H. Hunt; Est. by General Order 292 on March 23,1882.

Question 32

Which 2 departments combined to form the ONI

Answer 32

Department of Library

Office of Intelligence

Question 33

EDVR

Answer 33

Enlisted Distribution Verification Report

Question 34

ODCR

Answer 34

Officer Distribution Control Report: provided to assist admin officers with personnel accounting events

Question 35

DLPT

Answer 35

Defense Language Proficiency Test

Question 36

Brilliant on the Basics

Answer 36

Sponsorship, Mentorship, Indoctrination, Leadership, Ombudsman, Recognition