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NAVEDTRA 14144, Military
Requirements for Chief Petty Officer
Practice Questions and Answers
Congress passed legislation to purchase and arm two ships on what date? -
Answer✔️✔️-13 October 1775
Congress authorized two battalions of Marines on what date? - Answer✔️✔️-10
November 1775
Deployments place naval forces in positions to achieve how many purposes? -
Answer✔️✔️-Three
Positioning of naval forces for warfare in sensitive areas of the world provides a side
benefit known as what? - Answer✔️✔️-Presence
In its wartime posture, the Navy has how many areas of responsibility? - Answer✔️✔️-
Two
What is the basic function of the U.S. Navy? - Answer✔️✔️-Sea control
What include aircraft, surface ships, and submarines that threaten U.S. or friendly
forces operating in those areas? - Answer✔️✔️-Hostile forces
What is the ability to project military power from the sea worldwide in a timely and
precise manner to accomplish a given objective? - Answer✔️✔️-Power projection
Naval forces have unrestricted global mobility based on the traditional and time-honored
concept of the free use of what? - Answer✔️✔️-International seas
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NATO is divided into how many areas of responsibility? - Answer✔️✔️-Three
Located in the Persian Gulf region is what percent of the world's known oil reserves? -
Answer✔️✔️-55
About what percent of the world's sea trade passes through the Suez Canal at the
choke point of Babel Mandeb? - Answer✔️✔️-10
Total force commitment to Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm included 6 carrier
battle groups and how many combat personnel? - Answer✔️✔️-450,000
What is among the world's richest continents in known material wealth? - Answer✔️✔️-
Africa
Much of the world's oil that travels by ship through the various straits in the Indonesian
area are within range of U.S. bases where? - Answer✔️✔️-Philippines
The U.S. national security strategy is based on deterrence, forward defense, and what
else? - Answer✔️✔️-Collective security
U.S. naval forces have how many primary peacetime objectives? - Answer✔️✔️-Four
The last U.S. diesel submarine, the USS Blueback (SS 581) was decommissioned on
what date? - Answer✔️✔️-1 October 1990
What United States submarines form the sea leg of the U.S. Trident nuclear deterrent? -
Answer✔️✔️-SSBNs
The rise of chemical and biological weapons in the Middle East has been linked to Israel
and what other country? - Answer✔️✔️-France
France successfully tested a nuclear device in what year? - Answer✔️✔️-1960
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