USMC UNIFORM
What is Service Alphas?
This iconic Marine Corps emblem, adopted in 1868, features a glode, an anchor and a spread-winged bird, and is worn of every Marine Uniform.
What is the Eagle, Globe and Anchor (EGA)?
This term is used to inform a pilot that their aircraft has been identifies on radar and is now under ATC radar service.
What is "RADAR CONTACT"?
What is Corri?
Aviation sandard that cuts the required vertical distance between aircraft from 2,000 feet down to 1,000 feet at altitudes between FL290-FL410
What is RVSM?
Marines earn the right to wear this stripe on their dress blue trousers upon promotion to what rank and what color of the stripe?
What is Corporal, and What is scarlet?
The legendary blood stripe on dress blue trousers honor Marines who fell at this 1947 battle during the Mexican-American War.
What is the Battle of Chapultepec?
According to the 7110.65, this is the minimum required separation required for terminal operations when an aircraft is less than 40 miles from the radar antenna.
What is 3 miles?
What is SEMPER?
Non-RVSM - TACAN - Transponder, No Mode C.
What is /N?
This uniform Item was originally designed to help Marine officers be identified by sharpshooters in a ship's rigging.
What is the Quarterfoil?
THis Marine Corps officer became the service's first aviator in 1912, learning to fly at the Navy's aviation camp in Annapolis, Mayland, and later earned the Medal of honor for his heroism in the Dominican Republic.
Who is Lieutenant Colonel Alfred A. Cunningham?
When a controller issues a "point out" to another controller, this specific term confirms the aircraft is identified and approved to enter the receiving controller's airspace without a communications transfer.
What is "POINTOUT APPROVED"?
NFG R032 @ 4.8
What is Lake Oneil?
This type of equipment can be described as a dual DME setup using ground navigation aids to plot and navigate lateral and longitude coordinates.
What is RNAV?
Before the adaptation of MARPAT, Marines wore this camouflage utility uniform from the early 1980s until 2002.
What is the Battle Dress Uniform (BDU)?
This World War II battle, fought from Febuary to March 1945, saw Marines raise the American flag on Mount Suribachi, in image now immortilized in the Marine Corps War Memorial.
What is the Battle of Iwo Jima?
According to the 7110.65, for the purposes of establishing communication requirements, this is the macimum amount of time, in minutes, considered reasonable from the moment an aircraft enters a controller's area of jurisdiction or comes within range of communications coverage.
What is 5 minutes?
NFG R210 @ 2.3
Non-RVSM - DME - Transponder with Mode C
Before the Eagle, Globe and Anchor bacame the official emplem of the Marine Corps in 1868, Marines wore this hunting horn insignia on their uniforms.
What is the Bugle (French Horn)?
This World War I battle, fought in June 1918, saw Marines earn the nickname "Devil Dogs" from German soldiers, and its victory is still commemorated annually with a run at Marine Corps Base Quantico.
What is the Battle of Bella Wood?
To confirm a Mode C readout is valid, this specific phrase must be issued to a pilot before the controller can use that altitude data for vertical separation.
What is "Verify altitude" or "Verify assigned altitude"?
NFG R045 @ 8.8
What is ZUKEM
A type of precision IAP based on local augmentation of GNSS data using a single GBAS station to transmit locally corrected GNSS data, intergety parameters and approach information. THis improves the accurancy of airceaft GNSS receivers' signal in space, enabling the pilot to fly a precision approach with much greater flexibility, reliability, and complexity. The GLS procedure is published on standats IAP charts, feautures the title GLS with the designated runway and minimma as low as 200ft DA. Future plans are expected to support CAT II and CAT III operations.
What is Ground Based Augmentation System Landing System?