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What is the suicide hotline?

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1-800-273-TALK

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Consensus discussions are part of what step in meeting?

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Evaluate

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What are meeting parking lots for?

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A place where issues that are important but not relevant to the topic at hand can be parked out of the congestion of discussion.

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What is IDP used for?

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Discuss professional and personal goals

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What should you do if your roomate confides in you that they’re the victim of sexual assault?

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Provide resources and let them decide what type of report they want to make

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What position was Alexander Hamilton appointed to?

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Secretary of Treasury

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What year was hurricane Katrina?

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2005

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Where was the PSU deployed to in the early 90’s?

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Desert Storm

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The individual citation for the Meritorious Service Medal and below (not LOC) will be prepared in this format:

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Landscape, orientation on the award stationary with one inch side and top margins, and at least a two inch bottom margin where a gold seal, two inches in diameter will be embossed with the awarding authorities official seal.

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After a meeting, action plans should be broken down into managable chunks that require less than how many hours to complete?

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80 hours

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Which step of meeting facilitation are ground rules established?

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Step 3

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Radius of action for MH60

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300nm

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Radius of action for MH65

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150nm (120nm with swimmer)

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What platform can’t conduct an in air refuel for an MH60?

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225

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Who develops the training plan for the CC?

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Training Officer

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Where is dept information on a chart?

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Depths or soundings are shown in either feet, fathoms (6 feet), or meters (3.28 feet). To see which unit of measure the chart is using, check the large magenta letters at the top right corner of the chart.

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How deep must the water be to jettison COMSEC?

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6000 feet or 1000 fathoms

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If ou launch a helo and you are going 9kts, how far down the trackline will you be in 1.5 hrs?

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13.5NM

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How long must you retain CCST self evaluation?

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2 years

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How often must you exercise your EAP?

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Annually

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Where can you print out a two page financial evaluation?

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PPC website

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What does SAROPS stand for?

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Search and Rescue Optimal Planning System

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How much error should you allow for a vessel with unknown navigation capability and two engines?

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5NM

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What kind of SAROPS scenario is used for an overdue?

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Voyage

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What kind of SAROPS scenario is used when LKP, course, and speed are unknown but can be estimated?
LKP + DR
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Who prepares the CC training plan?
CC Training Board
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What scale can you weigh each search object in SAROPS?
0-10
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If your search crew is fatigued you reduce the track spacing by?
10%
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What is correction for fatigue?
Degradation of detection performance during a seach can be significant due to fatigue. The sweep widths given in the uncorrected visual sweep width tables that follow are adjusted for a normal amount of crew fatigue. If feedback from an on-scene SRU indicates search crews were excessively fatigued, reduce sweep width values by 10% (multiply by 0/9)
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Corrected sweep width takes what into account?
Aircraft speed, fatigue, weather, position of sun
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How many times to do you offset a VS search to achieve a coverage factor of 1?
3
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What is the coverage factor equation?
Sweep width (W) divided by Track Spacing (S)
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When do you open a MISLE Case?
when notification of distress has been received or a SRU has been launched
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How many days do you have to validate a MISLE Case?
5 days
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How long after case completion should the IMA be changed to Open Submitted for Reveiw?
12 hours
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What are the statuses for a MISLE Case?
Open in Progress Open Submitted for Review Closed Agency Action Complete Active Case Suspended
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Search and Rescue case documentation must be kept on sit for how long?
3 years on sight 10 years archived Permanent Historically
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What appendix in the SAR addendum talks about MISLE?
B
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What appendix in the SAR addendum talk about SAR check sheets?
G
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What appendix in the SAR addendum talks about Flare Incidnets?
I
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Who notifies family members of ACTSUS?
Person exercising ACTSUS Authority
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Who needs to be briefed prior to granting ACTSUS for known people missing?
DRM
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How many hours before ACTSUS should NOK be briefed?
24
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Who is responsible for ensuring accurate MISLE entries?
MISLE Reviewer
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Who enters a cutter's MISLE IMA when that cutter in U/W?
TACON
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How do you classify a HITRON when attached to a cutter?
An Extension of the Cutter
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How do you find the origin of a debris field?
Reverse Drift
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What percentage of SAR cases involving major searches go beyond 24hrs?
2%
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What percentage of SAR cases involve minor searches?
8%
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What percentage of SAR cases involve searches?
10%
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First 3 numbers of a MMSI?
Country code
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Last 6 numbers of a MMSI?
Ship identifier
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What is NDRS and what is it used for?
National Distress and Response System primary distress alerting and SAR Command Control and Communications System for the US coastal waters. VHF
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How many calculations factor into SAROPS?
4
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What is nominal range?
Max distance at which light can be seen in optimal conditions (10NM)
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What is luminous range?
Max distance light can be seen in current conditions
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What is meteorological range?
Greatest distance at which a black object can be seen
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What is geographic range?
Max distance at which the curvature of the earth permits a light to be seen from a particular height of eye.
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When is a search action plan required?
For all efforts beyond initial search and for multiple SRUs.
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How many parts does a SAP have?
7
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How many parts does a SITREP have?
5
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Max seas for a 47?
30ft
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How many search objects can you drift in SAROPS?
4
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What does GAR stand for in relation to search and rescue?
General Assessment of Risk
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Where does the USCG get its authority to operate rescue facilities?
14 USC 2
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What must be used in all PIW cases?
PSDA. Probability of Survival Decision Aid
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How do you calculate POS?
POS = POC x POD
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what search is parallel to the major axis?
Parallel Search
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What search runs along the minor axis?
Creeping Line
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What search is used when there is some doubt and the first leg is usually in the direction of the drift
Expanding Square
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What search pattern is used when high coverage is desired and every turn is 120 degrees to the right?
Sector Search
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What GMDSS coverage area is from COASTAL to 20NM offshore (VHF)
Sea Area 1
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What GMDSS coverage area is from COASTAL to 200NM offshore (MF)
Sea Area 2
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What GMDSS coverage area is 70 degrees north to 70 degrees south (INMARSAT and HF)
Sea Area 3
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What GMDSS coverage area is in the polar regions and still required to carry at least one HF DSC radio?
Sea Area 4
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What are the different types of DSC alerts?
Distress Urgent Safety Routine Ships Business Test
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How long do you have to appeal CCST results?
30 days
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CCST has up to how many days before their visit to check TMT for compliance?
30 days
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How many things does CCAV assess on?
4
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What organization generates FDIN numbers?
NTC
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Vector from own ship on a moboard is?
e->r
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Where do you locate magnetic variation on a chart?
compass rose
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what is the correct way of writing longitude and latitude?
degrees, minutes, seconds: (DMS): 41°24'12.2"N 2°10'26.5"W
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What is the frequency for Military Air Distress?
243
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What is the frequency for Civilian Air Distress?
121.5
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What does BEADWINDOW do?
It brings immediate attention that an essential element of friendly information (EEFI) has been disclosed on the net.
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Joining the net mean?
Joining a working net, stations joining a net after is has commenced working are to use the pro-words REPORTING INTO THE NET in their initial call to NCS. When working in non-secure the NCS is to authenticate the joining station
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Leaving the net:
It may be necessary for net control to be delegated to a subordinate station when effective net control cannot be maintained by the NCS or when the NCS has to leave the net for any reason. In such cases, the pro-words ASSUME CONTROL is to be used.
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Time to Intercept: You are 1500yds astern of the TOI making 15kts. TOI is making 10kts
9 min
90
Speed, time, distance 3600 yds in 6 min
18kts
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What color is a light on a chart?
Magenta
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How many types of comms logs are there?
2
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How many provisions in a bilateral agreement?
7 Shi Boarding Shiprider Pursuit Entry to Investigate Overflight Order to Land International Maritime Interdiction Support
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How long should the DA 1999 (Visitor Log) be retained?
2 years
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How long should R21 audio files be retained?
30 days
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What is the last step in conflict resolution?
Resolution
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What would be the minimum number of victim advocates assigned for a unit with 250 members?
3
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The search endurance for an air asset can be assumed to be _____% of their on scene endurance?
85%
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What criteria does an apprentice need for a prerequisite?
Understanding needs of fleet through cross training.
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What is considered good weather conditions?
less than 15kt winds and less than 3ft seas.
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What broadcast do you use for severe weather?
UMIB
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What is the Coast Guard's preferred style of conflict management?
Collaborating (High Cooperativeness/High Assertiveness)
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What step in meeting facilitation describes how the meeting will be run and how decisions will be made?
Step 2: Establish Ground Rules
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How long is an OPS Brief?
30 min
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What level of classification can cause substantial damage?
Secret
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Sweep width divided by track spacing equals?
Coverage Factor
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What is not authorized while wearing SDB?
Wash and wear slacks

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