NAVEDTRA 14325, Ch. 6-7, BMR

Question 1

What year was the Department of Defense (DoD) created by the United States?

Answer 1

1947

Question 2

Who heads the DoD?

Answer 2

Secretary of Defense (SECDEF)

Question 3

What year was the Department of the Navy established?

Answer 3

1798

Question 4

Which series is used for guiding unit organization?

Answer 4

OPNAVINST 3120.32

Question 5

Battle along with what other organization comprise the two ship organization elements?

Answer 5

Administrative

Question 6

Which department collects and evaluates combat and operational information as well as conducts
electronic warfare?

Answer 6

Operations

Question 7

Which department operates, cares for, and maintains all propulsion and auxiliary machinery?

Answer 7

Engineering

Question 8

Who directly represents the Commanding Officer in maintaining shipboard general efficiency?

Answer 8

XO

Question 9

Who is the voice of all enlisted personnel having direct access to the Commanding Officer?

Answer 9

CMC

Question 10

What is the basic unit of shipboard organization?

Answer 10

Division

Question 11

Which department is responsible for official correspondence, personnel records, and directives?

Answer 11

Administrative

Question 12

What is the relationship of juniors and seniors within an organization called?

Answer 12

Chain of Command

Question 13

What requires individuals to be accountable for the performance of their assigned tasks within an
organization?

Answer 13

Responsibility

Question 14

What is the ability of personnel to report, explain, or justify every action taken?

Answer 14

Accountability

Question 15

The chain of command extends from nonrated personnel all the way to whom?

Answer 15

President of the United States

Question 16

What is the general work that goes on about the ship’s deck and the equipment used called?

Answer 16

Deck seamanship

Question 17

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?

Answer 17

Marlinespike seamanship

Question 18

Which equipment is used for anchoring and mooring with anchors?

Answer 18

Ground tackle

Question 19

How many feet make up a standard shot of anchor chain?

Answer 19

90

Question 20

What is the opening in a bulwark or life rail that gives access to a brow or an accommodation ladder?

Answer 20

Gangway

Question 21

What types of ramps are used between ships or between the ship and a pier?

Answer 21

Brows

Question 22

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?

Answer 22

Camels

Question 23

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?

Answer 23

Fenders

Question 24

What are the main thing used aboard ships and boats to secure mooring lines?

Answer 24

Deck fittings

Question 25

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?

Answer 25

Hauling out to the boom

Question 26

What is a noncommissioned waterborne vessel that is not designated as a service craft called?

Answer 26

Boat

Question 27

What are boats carried aboard ship that can be hoisted from and lowered into the water known as?

Answer 27

Ship’s boats

Question 28

What are waterborne craft designed for special use called?

Answer 28

Service craft

Question 29

What is the halfway point between the bow and stern and the sides of the boat called?

Answer 29

Amidships

Question 30

What is usually used to describe the area inside the boat or an object nearer the centerline of the boat?

Answer 30

Inboard

Question 31

What describes the furthermost area from the boat’s centerline or beyond the side of a boat?

Answer 31

Outboard

Question 32

What is the art of handling and working all kinds of fiber and wire rope?

Answer 32

Marlinespike seamanship

Question 33

What is fiber rope in the Navy generally referred to as?

Answer 33

Line

Question 34

How many times stronger is nylon compared to manila?

Answer 34

2.5

Question 35

What is used for mooring lines, particularly at the bow and stern?

Answer 35

Spring lay

Question 36

How many strands make up most of the line used in the Navy?

Answer 36

Three

Question 37

Line up to what circumference size is referred to as small stuff?

Answer 37

1 3/4 inches

Question 38

Line from 1 3/4 inches to about 4 inches is manufactured in what size graduations?

Answer 38

1/4-inch

Question 39

Up to what percent can nylon be stretched before it breaks?

Answer 39

50

Question 40

What are the bindings on the ends of rope that keep the rope from unlaying called?

Answer 40

Whippings

Question 41

What form eyes, secure cords, or lines around objects?

Answer 41

Knots

Question 42

What bend lines to or around objects?

Answer 42

Hitches

Question 43

What are used to secure two lines together?

Answer 43

Bends

Question 44

What permanently join two lines or form eyes or loops in the end of a line?

Answer 44

Splices

Question 45

What can be used to permanently join two lines as long as a slight enlargement of the diameter is not important?

Answer 45

Short splice