NAVAL HISTORY
PAY AND BENEFITS
JOINING THE NAVY
CHALLENGE PROGRAM
WOMEN IN THE NAVY
100

A movie that opened in theaters on the 8th of November, 2019 and portrays the stories of heroes who fought in a naval battle that took place on 3–7 June, 1942.

What is Midway?

100

A military health care provider that delivers full health care benefits to Sailors.

What is Tri-care?

100

At the intersection of College and Old Steese, this building is located next to Quizno's in Fairbanks and is addressed 505 Old Steese Hwy, Suite 101B.

What is the Navy's Recruiting Station?

(Armed Forces Career Center)

100

The Navy's best kept secret.

What is Navy Swick (SWCC)?

100

Congress established the Navy Nurse Corps on 13 May 1908.  These women were the first females to enlist into the Navy.

Who are the Sacred Twenty?

200

The father, or founder, of the American Navy.

Who is John Paul Jones?

200

It pays up to 100% of tuition charged by educational institutions and ensures that a Sailors education is not interrupted by overseas deployments.

What is NCPACE?

200

The age that high school seniors may enlist into the Navy with both parents permission.

What is age 17?

200

When there’s nowhere else to turn, they achieve the impossible through critical thinking, sheer willpower and absolute dedication to their training, their missions and their fellow Special Operations team members.

What are Navy SEALS?

200

The first two African American women to answer the Navy’s call to join the WAVES.

Who are Frances Eliza Wills and Harriet Ida Pickens?

300
Members of this service branch, founded October 13th, 1775 really have the blues.

What is the Navy?

300

$7,398.81 including all entitlements for special duty and cost of living allowances.

What is E-6 or First Class Petty Officer pay in Alaska?

300

This initial training phase takes eight weeks and starts the day that an applicant ships to Great Lakes, IL and completes several training events that allows them to earn the title of "Sailor."

What is Navy Boot Camp?

300

"So others may live." is their motto. They routinely put the safety of others before their own – applying intense physical and mental training to challenging real-world situations where there’s no margin for error. 

What is Navy Aviation Rescue Swimmers?

(Search and Rescue Swimmers)

300

She was the first female commanding officer of a combatant vessel, Mount Vernon (LSD-39), in 1998.

Who is Commander Maureen Farren?

400

Her deck is marked with the exact location of the Japanese surrender ceremony, which took place on the 2nd of September, 1945.

What is the USS Missouri?

400

A word used to describe 30 days of paid vacation that Sailors acquire over the course of one year.

What is leave?

400

These two documents allow an applicant to request a free medical examination in Anchorage and show a full history containing important medical events and procedures that date back to applicants birthday.  They can be filled out at Petty Officer Needham's office.

What is a DD Form 680 and DD Form 2807?

400

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)?

400

As Secretary of Defense he announced on January 9, 2010, that women would be assigned to Ohio-class submarines.

Who is SECDEF Ray Maybus?

500

In 1954, he completed U.S. Navy Diving & Salvage training becoming the first African-American to attend and graduate from the school and the first African-American U.S. Navy diver.

Who is Carl M. Brashear?

500

Access to free and low-cost recreational facilities on bases around the world, which offer everything from bowling alleys, to movie theaters, to gyms and private beaches.

What is Morale, Welfare and Recreation or MWR?

500
Also known as ratings, there are over 70 to choose from and they include hundreds of other special programs, duties and assignments.

What are career fields in the Navy?

500

Under a polar ice cap or at the equator they are the brains behind the only craft that operate anywhere in the ocean without refueling for 30+ years.

What are Navy Nuclear Operators?

500

Yet to be obtained by any female Navy applicant from enlisted or officer programs.

What is the first female Navy SEAL?