Unit 1: DDR

Question 1

What disease caused 60,000 casualties in 1942 during the war campaign in Guadalcanal?

Answer 1

Malaria

Question 2

What two major diseases led to disbanding Merrill’s Marauders?

Answer 2

Malaria and dysentery

Question 3

What were the causes for losing over 13,000 people during the invasion of Sicily before and after the attack?

Answer 3

Malaria and sand fly fever

Question 4

What are some of the conditions that lead to OOTWs?

Answer 4

Peace building (post-conflict rebuilding of governments), peace enforcement (compel compliance with resolutions), peacekeeping (monitor and facilitate implementation of agreements) and humanitarian relief operations

Question 5

What system is DOD-directed?

Answer 5

Joint Operation Planning and Execution System

Question 6

When resources are planned to be sent to the theater of operations in a transportation-feasible flow, what is the collection of information called?

Answer 6

Time-Phased Force and Deployment Data

Question 7

A classified document which provides commanders current policies, planning factors, and forces for conducting and supporting wartime operations

Answer 7

war & mobilization planning (WMP)

Question 8

At what times should an MIO either recommend measures or report findings when a unit is scheduled for a deployment?

Answer 8

Before deployments, upon arrival at a deployment location, during the deployment, and following a deployment

Question 9

What are UTCs?

Answer 9

Unit-type codes (e.g., deployable teams are the smaller elements that make up the larger medical echelons)

Question 10

How can we effectively use the historical information from nuclear, biological, and chemical events?

Answer 10

To train our personnel on their duties in real-life situations and we must hold exercises to practice your skills and test your knowledge

Question 11

The nuclear accident at Three Mile Island caused no immediate danger to radiation, but what concerns do experts have about the accident?

Answer 11

Long-term effects on people and the food chain

Question 12

In 1995 it was revealed that Iraq had sophisticated biological warfare agents. What were they?

Answer 12

Botulinum toxin, anthrax, and aflatoxin

Question 13

When was the first recorded use of chemical weapons?

Answer 13

423 BC during the Peloponnesian War

Question 14

What accident occurred in Russia on 26 April 1986?

Answer 14

Chernobyl

Question 15

What NBC agents were used by Iraq in 1986?

Answer 15

Chemical agents, specifically mustard and nerve

Question 16

What causes most of the destruction during a nuclear weapon detonation?

Answer 16

Blast wave

Question 17

Blast injuries are caused by which two blast components?

Answer 17

Blast wave and blast wind

Question 18

What type of fires would be caused by a nuclear weapon detonation?

Answer 18

(1) Primary fires—ignited by the initial heat wave of the detonation.
(2) Secondary fires—caused indirectly by the blast (e.g., from overturned stoves, broken gas pipes, electrical short circuits)

Question 19

Whole-body irradiation from fallout on the ground, beta particles on the skin, and internal damage from ingested or inhaled alpha and beta particles

Answer 19

biological hazards from “fallout”

Question 20

What type of radiation presents the greatest inhalation hazard?

Answer 20

Alpha and beta particles

Question 21

How much of an immediate radiological hazard would an air blast produce on the ground?

Answer 21

The air burst causes the least radiological hazard because most of the radioactive contamination is spread throughout the atmosphere, with less reaching the ground

Question 22

How does a nuclear burst result in radioactive contamination?

Answer 22

The radioactive particles from the burst attach themselves to larger dust or rain falling to the ground where it may enter the food chain

Question 23

What type of nuclear detonation occurs where the fireball contacts the ground?

Answer 23

Surface burst

Question 24

Which type of burst is the most hazardous nuclear detonation?

Answer 24

Surface

Question 25

Why is the use of biological warfare agents advantageous?

Answer 25

Only personnel are affected, so the enemy can move in and take over the facilities intact

Question 26

How may biological agents be released into the environment?

Answer 26

From mortar and artillery shells, bombs, airplane spray, missiles, or by various methods of sabotage.
Additionally vectors may carry the infective organism

Question 27

What are the characteristics of biological warfare agents?

Answer 27

Incubation period, difficult identification, and unlike other warfare agents

Question 28

What chemical agent was developed from dye fixatives in the textile industry?

Answer 28

Pulmonary agents.

Question 29

How do cyanogens affect the body?

Answer 29

Stop tissue respiration

Question 30

In what type of weather are vesicants most effective?

Answer 30

Hot weather

Question 31

What are the three examples of vesicants?

Answer 31

Mustards, lewisite, and phosgene oxime

Question 32

What is probably the first effect you will notice in a person exposed to nerve agents?

Answer 32

Pinpoint pupils

Question 33

What are the effects of incapacitating agents?

Answer 33

Temporary visual, mental, and physical disabilities; temporary mental aberrations; and physical aberrations

Question 34

Any conventional weapon or devise that is capable of a high order of destruction or disruption and/or of being used in such a manner as to kill or injure large number of people

Answer 34

high-yield explosives

Question 35

What are the two categories of high-yield explosives?

Answer 35

High-explosive and low-order explosive

Question 36

What are some examples of high-explosives?

Answer 36

TNT, C–4, Semtex, nitroglycerin, dynamite, and ANFO

Question 37

What are some examples of low-order explosives?

Answer 37

Pipe bombs, gunpowder, and most pure petroleum-based bombs such as Molotov cocktails or aircraft improvised as guided missiles