Rudder Commands
Basic DC: Fires
Basic DC: Material Conditions
Sound-Powered Phones
Nautical Terms
100
Helmsman, Mark Your Head
What is "Sir/Ma'am, my heading is...?"
100
Fire Tetrahedron
What is fuel, heat, oxygen, chain reaction?
100
Provides the least protection.
What is X Ray?
100
Captain's Battle Control
What is JA?
100
End of a line
What is the bitter end?
200
Command to decrease the rudder angle to half the number of degrees previously ordered by the OOD.
What is "Ease your Rudder?"
200
Fire involving wood, paper products, cloth, etc. Fought using AFFF or water in a fog pattern.
What is a Class A Fire?
200
Prevents light from escaping any area of the ship
What is Dog Zebra?
200
Flag Officer
What is JF?
200
Middle portion of a ship, along the line of the keel
What is amidships?
300
Extinguishes Class B Fires
What is AFFF, Halon 1201, Halon 1301, or PKP?
300
Describe Yoke and what it looks like.
What is set and maintained at sea and port during wartime, marked by a black Y?
300
JZ
What is Damage Control?
300
Belay
What is to cancel an order, to stop, to secure a line?
400
Meet Her
What is "an order to shift the rudder in order to check the swing of a ship during a change in direction?"
400
Describe a Class C Fire.
What are energized electrical fires?
400
Describe material condition zebra and what it looks like.
What is maximum protection for battle and emergency situations such as General Quarters, fire, and collision? Denoted by a black Z.
400
2JC
What is dual-purpose battery control?
400
Hawser
What is a heavy line, 5 inches or more in circumference?
500
Describe a Class D fire and how it is fought.
What are combustible metals fought by water in fog patterns/pushed off into a body of water?
500
Circle Williams
What is to prevent the spread of CBR contamination, black circle surrounding a black W?
500
1JV
What is maneuvering, docking, and catapult control?
500
Athwartships
What is at right angles to the fore and aft of the centerline of the ship?
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