OPERATIONS Flashcards
What is control and assist?
Example?
Control: CIC controls aircrafts and Helio
Assist: assist and safely navigate the ship
Example McCampbell will tell the Helios where to go and what to do
What does TAO stand for?
What are TAO responsibility a?
Who stands TAO?
Tactical Actions Officer
Representative of the CO
Able to release batteries for self defense.
Dept Head, senior LDO
What does CICWO stand for?
Responsibilities?
Who stands it
Combat Information Center Watch Officer.
Assistant to TAO
Monitors comms, chat, message traffic.
Junior officers
What does EWS stand for?
Responsibilities?
Who stands it?
Electronic Warfare Supervisor
Monitors SLQ-32, GALE, and any RF waveforms.
Senior CTT
What are the warfare coordinators?
AAWC
SUWC
USWC
What does AAWC stand for?
What is there responsibility?
Anti-Air warfare coordinator
Maintain Tactical Air picture
What does SUWC stand for?
Responsibility?
Surface Warfare Coordinator
Overall in charge of surface tactical picture
What does USWC stand for?
Undersea Warfare Coordinator
Warfare Coordinators responsibility?
Maintaining situational awareness and tactical picture.
What are Air Controllers responsibility?
Direct comms with air units.
Direct them in safe direction
Communicating with them about what’s around them physically
What are the Air controllers? And what do they stand for?
AIC: Air Intercept Controller
ASTAC: Anti-Submarine Tactical Air Controller
What kind of aircraft does AIC(Air Intercept Controller) control?
Fix winged aircraft
What kind of aircraft does ASTAC(Anti submarine Tactical Air Controller) control?
Rotary wing aircraft
What is CICWS responsibilities?
Who stands it?
Supervises the enlisted watch team.
Make sure info is flowing and is clear
Assist in comms, watch stations, and info for the watch
Senior OS
What is the shipping officer responsible for?
Who do they have comms with
Making sure we don’t run into any
ships.
With lookouts and OSS operator. Relays info to the bridge
What is the Piloting officer in charge of?
In charge of watch team which takes fixes on VMS and realys that to NAV team
What is a strategic plot?
A true display of the position and tracks of friendly, unknowns, and enemy surface and subsurface forces, geographical points
Ex: CADRT
What is a Geographic plot?
Display tactical info on navigational and grid charts.
Example: VMS OR paper charts
What is surface status board and where is it located?
Contains brief status on current situation involving other SUWC units, threat sectors, weapon posture, surface warning status.
Located above SUWC
What is the Equipment Status Board and where is it located?
Contains info on current status of combat systems suite
Located above CSC
What is the Communication Status Board? Where is it located?
Contains status of radios used to communicate off the ship.
Located behind TAO
what is the Ew info board? Where is it located?
Contains current missile profiles of interest, and RF frequencies of interest.
Located in the EW module
What is purpose of data links?
Distribute real-time, near-real time or non real time contact info data amongst everyone.
What is mode 1 of IFF?
Two digit number that represents mission.
What is mode 2 of IFF?
Four digit number that represents a units name.
What is mode 3 of IFF?
Four digit number that represents a general number.
What is mode C of IFF?
Altitude in thousands of feet.
What is mode 4 of IFF?
Military see if we are talking to friendly. Like a secret handshake
What is URN-25?
TACAN
What does TACAN stand for?
Tactical Air Navigation.
What is TACAN(URN-25)?
Homing beacon telling air unit where they might find us. When voice comms are down
When voice comms are down what can air unit use to find us?
TACAN
What does DDRT stand for?
Digital Dead-Reckoning Tracer
What does CADRT stand for?
Computer Assisted Dead-Reckoning Tracer
What is CADRT used for?
Table that use to hunt for submarines.
What does VMS stand for?
What is it and what does it do?
Voyage Management System.
Digital charts. Computes navigation input and displays location of ship.
See hazards around ship
Define air warfare areas? AAW
Establish air dominance. Defend HVU(High value unit) against airbourn threats
Define surface warfare area? SWU
Defend against any floating threat. Make sure safety of navigation. In condition 3 posture will monitor ASW (anti submarine warfare ops)
Define sub surface warfare area?
Track and identify any subsurface threats. Protect HVU
What does MIO stand for and what does it do?
MARITIME INTERDICTION OPERATIONS.
Aim to delay, disrupt, or destroy enemy forces or supplies en route to battle route.
What does NEO stand for and what does it do?
Non-combative Evacuation Operations.
Evacuate civilians from a another country
What is important about the AGER-2 (USS PUEBLO)?
What type of ship was it?
Was captured by North Korea on January 23, 1968
Research ship
What is a F/A 18 Hornet/Growler?
Fighter/striker
What is F-35 joint Strike Fighter?
Fighter
What is P-3 Orion?
Maritime patrol
What are the 4 radio/ voice messages?
Flash
Immediate
Priority
Routine
What is EEFI?
And what does it do?
Essential Elements of Friendly Information.
A table used to give a two digit number to an unauthorized transmission
Example: bead window 07
What is Gingerbread?
An unauthorized station on the net . Someone who shouldn’t be listening.