Chokepoints and Strategies
The ability of a nation to defend her own sea communications and to deny the enemy the use of the sea to carry on a war.
What is sea power?
The longest period of peace in world history.
What is Pax Romana?
The meaning of the acronym NJROTC
What is Naval Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps?
The strategic Russian warm-water port on the Barents Sea is located here.
What is Murmansk?
The science of the weather.
What is meteorology?
The most important strategic waterway in the Caribbean Sea
What is the Panama Canal?
The capital of the Byzantine Empire.
What is Constantinople?
The NJROTC competition similar to a timed treasure hunt.
What is orienteering?
The famous war which was fought to secure control of the Turkish Straits in order to insure Greek control of the Aegean-Black Sea trade.
What is The Trojan War?
The word for acts or verbal expressions of consideration or respect for others.
What are courtesies?
Early warships, which were crewed by trained fighting men and propelled by oars as well as sails.
What are galleys?
The first to seek new sea routes to the Indies and the Orient.
Who are the Portuguese?
The hoisting and lowering of the national ensign, our national flag.
What is the colors ceremony?
The sea with the most active volcanic basin on earth.
What is The Mediterranean Sea?
The largest (in the world) single offshore mining operation located here.
What is The Bahamas?
A strait between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman.
What is the Gulf of Hormuz?
In the battle of Lepanto in 1571, Christian forces defeated these people.
Who are the Ottoman Turks?
The year the first naval JROTC began
What is 1964?
The busiest and largest Atlantic port in Western Europe is located here.
What is Antwerp, Belgium?
The name of the deepest spot in the North Atlantic basin.
What is the Puerto Rico Trench?
Two important strategic waterways "chokepoints" to the Mediterranean Sea.
What are the Turkish Straits, and the Strait of Gibraltar?
After the Battle of Salamis of 480 B.C., the great period of peace during which theater, sculpture, writing, and philosophy flourished is known as this
What is the Golden Age of Athens?
An understanding of your role in the NJROTC unit and the roles of the other members of the unit is an understanding of this.
What is the chain-of-command?
The Ukrainians have a fleet of naval warships based at Sevastopol on this sea.
What is the Black Sea?
The aircraft which serves as the Navy's communication relay for fleet ballistic missile submarines and airborne command post for strategic forces.
What is the E-6A Mercury?