Coast Guard is organized into how many regions? - correct answer ✔2,
Atlantic and Pacific
pg. E5-2
Who commands the Atlantic Area and the Pacific Area? - correct answer
✔Vice Admirals
pg. E5-2
Districts are commanded by? - correct answer ✔Rear Admirals
pg. E5-3
Larger cutters (over 180 feet in length) are under control of who? - correct
answer ✔Area Commanders
pg. E5-4
A "cutter" is basically any CG vessel ____ feet in length or greater - correct
answer ✔65.
pg. E5-4
Cutters at or under 180 feet in length come under control of? - correct answer
✔District Commaders
pg. E5-4
How many units report directly to Headquarters? - correct answer ✔35
pg. E5-5
,Traditionally, our role in wartime has been to? - correct answer ✔Augment
the Navy with cutters and manpower
pg. E5-6
When did Congress authorized the capture of armed French vessels? -
correct answer ✔May 28, 1798
pg. E5-7
Cutters captured ____ prizes unaided during Quasi War - correct answer
✔18
pg.E5-8
During the Quasi War which cutter captured 10 prizes, one of which carried 44
guns and 200 men, three times her own force? - correct answer ✔Pickering
pg. E5-8
Which cutter recaptured the American vessels Nancy and Mehitable in a
memorable fight in 1799? - correct answer ✔Eagle
pg. E5-8
What was The Coast Guard's role during the War of 1812? - correct answer
✔augmenting the Navy with shallow-draft craft
pg. E5-8
What cutter capture the first prize of the war of 1812? - correct answer
✔Jefferson.
pg. E5-8
, When did Congress declared war with Mexico? - correct answer ✔May 13,
1846.
pg. E5-9
Which cutter is credited with firing the first naval shots of the Civil War? -
correct answer ✔Harriet Lane
pg. E5-10
During the Civil War, our cutters in the Navy's service performed what kind of
duty along the Atlantic coast? - correct answer ✔Blockade Duty
pg. E5-10
When did Spain declared war against the U.S? - correct answer ✔April 24,
1898
pg. E5-11
What cutter served as the escort and dispatch boat with Commodore George
Dewey's Asiatic Squadron? - correct answer ✔The McCulloch
pg. E5-11
In what war did the the entire Coast Guard manpower, vessels, and
units...was transferred to the Navy? - correct answer ✔WWI April 2, 1917
pg. E5-12
What were some of the Coast Guard duties during WWI? - correct answer
✔escort and patrol duties in the Mediterranean
pg. E5-12