Homework Packet
Maritime History
Leadership
Basic Knowledge
Serial Exams
100
A large body of water opening into a sea
What is a bay?
100
Lexington and Concord
What is the site of the beginning of the American Revolution?
100
This is the most traditional trait of a leader.
What is courage?
100
This is the fourth Order to the Sentry.
What is repeat all calls from posts more distant from the guardhouse or the quarterdeck than my own?
100
The location of the Ukrainian Black Sea fleet headquarters
What is Sevastopol?
200
Conductors by which the current leaves or returns to the electrolyte
What are electrodes?
200
The greatest Ameircan naval hero of the Revolutionary War
Who is John Paul Jones?
200
The key to successful leadership
What is fairness?
200
Petty Officer First Class
What is an E-6 in the United States Navy?
200
The set of laws that covers the trial and punishment of offenders in the U.S. Armed Forces
What is the Uniform Code of Military Justice?
300
Term used to describe stars that appear in the sky for the first time in recorded astronomical history
What is a novae?
300
This battle of the American Revolution cut down British willingness to fight and gained France, Spain, and the Netherlands as allies for the Americans.
What was the Battle of Saratoga?
300
A leader's association with seniors, peers, juniors, and the general public
What are personal relations?
300
Mike
What is the M in the Phonetic Alphabet?
300
Capabilities, Intentions, and Vulnerabilities
What are the three basic considerations which dominate the evaluation of an external threat?
400
The most significant aspect of marine biology in terms of economics to the Navy and commercial maritime interests.
What is marine fouling and deterioration?
400
Master Commandant Thomas Macdonough of the Americans, with 1,500 troops, used spring lines to swing his ships around with fresh broadsides to defeat the British forces of 12,000 men at this battle.
What was the Battle of Plattsburg on Lake Champlain?
400
A leader's ability to talk to large groups and still make each person feel that he or she is being talked to alone
What is personality?
400
An O-8 in the United States Marine Corps
What is a Major General?
400
A group of older merchant ships, currently in mothballs but designed to be ready in 30 to 120 days to be activated if required
What is the National Defense Reserve Fleet?
500
The most poisonous family of fishes, of which a sting will usually kill a person.
What is the scorpionfish family?
500
This sailing ship, developed in New England, was used to regularly carry passengers and freight across the North Atlantic around the late 1830's, and combined speed, seaworthiness, and easy handling with ample cargo space.
What were topsail schooners, or packet ships?
500
"pride in the organization"- being proud of the other people in the same group
What is esprit de corps?
500
CNST
Who is Rear Admiral Dee L. Mewbourne?
500
The largest and busiest Atlantic port of Western Europe
What is Antwerp, Belgium?