NAVEDTRA 14325, Ch. 6-7, BMR Flashcards
What year was the Department of Defense (DoD) created by the United States?
1947
Who heads the DoD?
Secretary of Defense (SECDEF)
What year was the Department of the Navy established?
1798
Which series is used for guiding unit organization?
OPNAVINST 3120.32
Battle along with what other organization comprise the two ship organization elements?
Administrative
Which department collects and evaluates combat and operational information as well as conducts
electronic warfare?
Operations
Which department operates, cares for, and maintains all propulsion and auxiliary machinery?
Engineering
Who directly represents the Commanding Officer in maintaining shipboard general efficiency?
XO
Who is the voice of all enlisted personnel having direct access to the Commanding Officer?
CMC
What is the basic unit of shipboard organization?
Division
Which department is responsible for official correspondence, personnel records, and directives?
Administrative
What is the relationship of juniors and seniors within an organization called?
Chain of Command
What requires individuals to be accountable for the performance of their assigned tasks within an
organization?
Responsibility
What is the ability of personnel to report, explain, or justify every action taken?
Accountability
The chain of command extends from nonrated personnel all the way to whom?
President of the United States
What is the general work that goes on about the ship’s deck and the equipment used called?
Deck seamanship
What concerns the use and care of line consisting of forming knots, making splices, and fashioning
useful and decorative articles from small stuff and twine?
Marlinespike seamanship
Which equipment is used for anchoring and mooring with anchors?
Ground tackle
How many feet make up a standard shot of anchor chain?
90
What is the opening in a bulwark or life rail that gives access to a brow or an accommodation ladder?
Gangway
What types of ramps are used between ships or between the ship and a pier?
Brows
What are often placed between the pier and the ship to provide protection to the side of the ship while it is alongside a pier?
Camels
What are swung over the side of the ship to give bumper support against damage whenever a ship lies alongside another ship or a pier?
Fenders
What are the main thing used aboard ships and boats to secure mooring lines?
Deck fittings
Which method of securing boats are used by ships that are at anchor or moored to a buoy to rig out their boat booms for the purpose of mooring their boats well clear of the side?
Hauling out to the boom
What is a noncommissioned waterborne vessel that is not designated as a service craft called?
Boat
What are boats carried aboard ship that can be hoisted from and lowered into the water known as?
Ship’s boats
What are waterborne craft designed for special use called?
Service craft
What is the halfway point between the bow and stern and the sides of the boat called?
Amidships
What is usually used to describe the area inside the boat or an object nearer the centerline of the boat?
Inboard
What describes the furthermost area from the boat’s centerline or beyond the side of a boat?
Outboard
What is the art of handling and working all kinds of fiber and wire rope?
Marlinespike seamanship
What is fiber rope in the Navy generally referred to as?
Line
How many times stronger is nylon compared to manila?
2.5
What is used for mooring lines, particularly at the bow and stern?
Spring lay
How many strands make up most of the line used in the Navy?
Three
Line up to what circumference size is referred to as small stuff?
1 3/4 inches
Line from 1 3/4 inches to about 4 inches is manufactured in what size graduations?
1/4-inch
Up to what percent can nylon be stretched before it breaks?
50
What are the bindings on the ends of rope that keep the rope from unlaying called?
Whippings
What form eyes, secure cords, or lines around objects?
Knots
What bend lines to or around objects?
Hitches
What are used to secure two lines together?
Bends
What permanently join two lines or form eyes or loops in the end of a line?
Splices
What can be used to permanently join two lines as long as a slight enlargement of the diameter is not important?
Short splice
