NAVPERS 15555D- Navy Military Funerals

Question 1

What section of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 required the Department of Defense to provide Military Funeral Honors to all eligible veterans, upon request, beginning January 1, 2000?

Answer 1

Section 578

Question 2

The funeral honors ceremony shall, at a minimum, consist of the folding and presentation of the American flag and the playing of what?

Answer 2

Taps

Question 3

What term means a decedent who served in the active military, naval, or air service (as defined in 38 U.S.C. § 101(24)) and who was discharged or released from the military under conditions other than dishonorable?

Answer 3

Veteran

Question 4

Who may waive the Military Funeral Honors requirement if it is considered necessary to meet the requirements of war, national emergency, contingency operation or other military requirements?

Answer 4

Secretary of Defense

Question 5

Members who die while on active duty or who have been awarded the Medal of Honor, shall be provided a detail consisting of the following: 6 body bearers, a how many person firing detail, an Officer-in-Charge (OIC) or a Petty Officer-in-Charge (POIC) and a bugler?

Answer 5

7

Question 6

The eligibility for funeral honors of members who die while in an appellate leave status will be determined on a case-by-case basis by whom?

Answer 6

Commander Navy Personnel Command

Question 7

When personnel are limited, military funeral honors may be efficiently rendered by a detail of how many members and the OIC/POIC?

Answer 7

Eight

Question 8

If possible, the firing detail should be positioned approximately how many feet from the foot of the grave, aligned to fire in the general direction of, but not directly at, the grave or mourners?

Answer 8

100

Question 9

When the remains of the deceased have been cremated, only how many body bearers are needed to transport the urn and folded flag from the vehicle containing the cremains to the grave?

Answer 9

Two

Question 10

In the event of an active duty death, the next of kin may request the services of a Navy chaplain through the what?

Answer 10

CACO

Question 11

In naval funerals, when the National Ensign is draped over the casket, what part of the flag is over the left shoulder of the deceased?

Answer 11

Blue Field

Question 12

The regulations for the disposition of remains and inurned cremated remains (cremains) from a naval vessel, or inurned cremains from a naval aircraft are set forth by what?

Answer 12

Bureau of Medicine and Surgery

Question 13

Requests to conduct committal of remains casketed in a metal casket or inurned cremains at sea from a ship, or to disperse cremains from an aircraft should be referred by the what (in the case of active duty members)?

Answer 13

CACO

Question 14

Any change in the schedule that would cause a delay to exceed the how many weeks disposition of remains at sea date, the MMSO should advise the next of kin and the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) of the change?

Answer 14

10

Question 15

Committal at sea of remains shall be conducted outside the 3-mile limit, off the continental shelf, and a depth greater than how many fathoms?

Answer 15

100

Question 16

Dispersion of cremains at sea from an aircraft shall not be performed less than how many miles from the nearest land?

Answer 16

3

Question 17

Who shall coordinate arrangements for delivery of remains or cremated remains to either the ship at dockside for committal at sea or to the commanding officer of the activity responsible for dispersion of cremated remains at sea from an aircraft?

Answer 17

MMSO

Question 18

There are two component parts of the ceremony of at sea disposition: What are they?

Answer 18

Religious and military

Question 19

Disposition at sea is normally accomplished within how many weeks from the time the responsible Fleet Commander-in-Chief is notified of a request?

Answer 19

8 to 10

Question 20

The Commanding Officer of a ship directed to conduct an at sea disposition will, within how many days after the committal, mail to the next of kin a personal letter giving the date and time of committal and include photographs or video tape of the ceremony, the commemorative flag and a chart showing where the burial took place?

Answer 20

10