Math and the Navy
One nautical mile is equal to exactly 1,852 meters. If the conversion rate from nautical miles to miles is 1.1507794, what is 5 nautical miles equal to in meters?
Hint: one mile is equal to 1,609.344 meters
What is 9,260 meters.
1,852 meters X 5 nautical miles = 9260 meters.
He qualified as the first African-American master diver in the history of the U.S. Navy.
Who is Carl M. Brashear?
This building is located at College Rd. and Old Steese Hwy and is addressed 505 Old Steese Hwy.
What is the Navy Recruiting Station?
What is the Armed Forces Career Center?
What is the Cornerstone Mall?
"So others may live."
What are Navy Aviation Rescue Swimmers?
In 1942 President Roosevelt signed into law the establishment of the WAVES. What does WAVES stand for?
What is Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service?
A submarine is traveling at 15 knots. How fast is the sub traveling in miles per hour?
17.2617 MPH
1 knot = 1.15078 miles
15 knots X 1.15078 = 17.2617
The date on which the U.S. Navy's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is commissioned in Newport News, VA.
What is November 25, 1961?
This facility is located in Anchorage and it is the central location for all the armed services to take the ASVAB, receive a free medical examination, choose a job in the Navy and swear into the Delayed Entry Program.
What is MEPS?
They have expertise in the most conventional and unconventional explosives to ensure the secure disposal of explosive weaponry.
What are Navy Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD)?
Yet to be obtained by a female enlisted or officer applicant although the program has been open to women since 2015.
What is the first female Navy SEAL?
An engine shaft rotates at 1,575.337 (SRPM) shaft rotations per minute. The shaft is connected to a reduction gear set. If the reduction gear ratio is 5.237:1, how fast is the (PSRPM) propeller shaft turning in rotations per minute?
What 300.8 RPM?
SRPM / Gear Reduction Ratio = PSRPM
1575.337 / 5.237 = 300.8
This movie is currently in theaters and features the historic battle that took place on the 3-7th of June, 1942.
What is Midway?
The two forms that can be filled out at Petty Officer Needham's office to start the enlistment process.
What is DD Form 2807 and USMEPCOM 680?
Expertly trained to deliver highly specialized, intensely challenging warfare capabilities that are beyond the means of standard military forces.
What are Navy SEALS?
On May 13, 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt signed the Naval Appropriations Bill authorizing the establishment of the Nurse Corps as a unique staff corps in the Navy that consisted entirely of women. What was the Nurse Corps called?
What is the Sacred Twenty?
A periodic ocean wave with a wavelength of 8m has a frequency of 25Hz. What is the wave's speed?
Hint: The symbol for wavelength is λ.
Hint: λ = speed / frequency
What is 200 meters per second?
speed = λ X Frequency
200m/s = 8m X 25Hz
The United States Congress authorized the construction of six frigates on March 27, 1794. The first ships of the United States Navy, the USS Constitution, the USS Chesapeake , the USS Constellation, the USS President, the USS United States, and the USS Congress. Which of these ships is still in commission today?
What is the USS Constitution?
Also known as career fields or occupational specialties in the United States Navy.
What are Navy Ratings?
The Navy's best kept secret.
What are SWCC?
The Navy’s first female diver.
Who is Kati Garner?
During a U.S. Navy exercise at sea, two submarines are playing hide-and-seek to test their invisibility. At first, the subs dive as deep as they can go, but then each hides in the ocean. Sub #1 stops at a depth where it is affected by 88.3 lbs/sq.in. of pressure. Sub #2 is floating at a depth of 165 feet. Which submarine is deeper?
Hint: For every 1 foot of depth, pressure increases .445 pounds per square inch.
What is Sub #1?
88.3 / .445 = 198
A sixteen battleship fleet that sailed on a world voyage from December 16, 1907 - February 22, 1909. Its primary purpose was to showcase American naval power.
What is the Great White Fleet?
This training takes eight weeks to complete and allows Navy applicants to earn the title of "Sailor."
What is Navy Bootcamp?
These men and women are part of an elite group that maintain nuclear power plants aboard aircraft carriers and submarines. Without them no other special operations units would be able to complete their missions.
What are Nuclear Engineers?
The first female musician assigned to the Navy Band.
Who is Evangeline G. Bailey?