FALLON
Where was the original Top Gun located?
Naval Air Station Miramar in San Diego CA.
Who is the father of the Navy?
John Paul Jones
US Navy Birthday
October, 13th 1775
When was the Intelligence Specialist rating established?
In 1975
___ was given to sailors because in the old days, sailors used to __ their clothing to make it waterproof.
TAR
Who is the airfield named after?
The airfield at Naval Air Station Fallon is named after Lieutenant Commander Bruce Avery Van Voorhis, Nevada's only native-born Medal of Honor recipient.
What was the first U.S. Submarine used in battle?
On September 7, 1776, during the Revolutionary War, the American submersible craft Turtle attempts to attach a time bomb to the hull of British Admiral Richard Howe’s flagship Eagle in New York Harbor. It was the first use of a submarine in warfare.
The first American Navy was commissioned by which colony/future state in 1775?
The first American Navy, the Rhode Island Navy, was commissioned by the Rhode Island assembly on June 12, 1775. The ships in the Rhode Island Navy were among the first to actively fight back against the British.
What two ratings were combined to make the IS rating?
the Photographic Intelligenceman (PT) rating (first established in 1957) and parts of the Yeoman (YN) rating.
When did the Navy SEALs come into existence?
January 1962
what year was NAS Fallon established?
1942, as part of a US defense network, intended to counter an expected Japanese invasion, which is why a Naval station is over two hundred miles inland. Fallon was originally an auxiliary air station, under the Western Defense Program.
What was the first USN vessel named after a woman who served in the Navy?
The USS Higbee was a Gearing-class destroyer named for Lenah S. Higbee, Superintendent of the Navy Nurse Corps from 1911-1922. She was the first ship laid down, christened, and commissioned for a woman who had served in the U.S. Navy, and the first to see combat so named.
How many Frigates were commissioned at the start of the Navy?
13
What MCPON was a former IS?
MCPON Smith
Who is the most decorated sailor?
Petty Officer James E. Williams, the most decorated enlisted Sailor in Navy history, enlisted in the Navy in 1947 at just 16 years old. Williams was too young to serve in World War II, but he served in the Korean and Vietnam Wars. The Vietnam War was where he earned the Medal of Honor.
The Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program, more popularly known as "Top Gun" or TOPGUN, was created during which conflict?
Top Gun" was started in 1969, due to Navy concerns over poor performance of U.S. aircraft versus enemy aircraft during the Vietnam War.
Who was the first woman to enlist in the Navy?
Loretta Perfectus Walsh became the first American active-duty Navy woman, the first woman to enlist in the U.S. Navy, and the first woman allowed to serve as a woman in any of the United States armed forces, when she enlisted as a sailor in the U.S. Naval Reserve on March 17, 1917.
How many carriers and how many battleships were sunk at Pearl Harbor?
0 Carriers. 8 Battleships
Initial "A" School training was conducted where?
Was conducted at Lowry Air Force Base in Aurora, Colorado until 1984 when the school was moved to the Navy Marine Corps Intelligence Training Center (NMITC) in Dam Neck, VA.
What superstitious tattoo would sailors get to keep them from drowning?
Pig and Chicken/Rooster
Navy's first Aviator was?
Theodore Gordon “Spuds” Ellyson, the Navy's first aviator, made history both ways. On December 16, 1910, at the urging of aviation visionary Ken Whiting, Ellyson submitted a request for flight training to the Secretary of the Navy.
During World War II, the Navy produced six future presidents: name 3 out of the six.
Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter and Bush Sr. before the war, there had been no naval veterans in the White House
What was the first navy ship named after an enlisted man?
Osmond Ingram (DD 255). It was launched 28 Feb 1919. Ingram was the first enlisted man killed in action in World War I, lost when the destroyer Cassin (DD 43) was torpedoed in October 1917.
The Navy Marine Mammal Program trains ______ ___ and __ ____ to detect, locate, mark and recover objects in harbors, coastal areas, and at depth in the open sea.
bottlenose dolphins and California sea lions