Requirements for Chief Petty Officer
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Congress passed legislation to purchase and arm two ships on what date? - ✔✔13
October 1775
Congress authorized two battalions of Marines on what date? - ✔✔10 November 1775
Deployments place naval forces in positions to achieve how many purposes? - ✔✔Three
Positioning of naval forces for warfare in sensitive areas of the world provides a side
benefit known as what? - ✔✔Presence
In its wartime posture, the Navy has how many areas of responsibility? - ✔✔Two
What is the basic function of the U.S. Navy? - ✔✔Sea control
What include aircraft, surface ships, and submarines that threaten U.S. or friendly
forces operating in those areas? - ✔✔Hostile forces
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,What is the ability to project military power from the sea worldwide in a timely and
precise manner to accomplish a given objective? - ✔✔Power projection
Naval forces have unrestricted global mobility based on the traditional and time-
honored concept of the free use of what? - ✔✔International seas
NATO is divided into how many areas of responsibility? - ✔✔Three
Located in the Persian Gulf region is what percent of the world's known oil reserves? -
✔✔55
About what percent of the world's sea trade passes through the Suez Canal at the choke
point of Babel Mandeb? - ✔✔10
Total force commitment to Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm included 6 carrier
battle groups and how many combat personnel? - ✔✔450,000
What is among the world's richest continents in known material wealth? - ✔✔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? - ✔✔Philippines
The U.S. national security strategy is based on deterrence, forward defense, and what
else? - ✔✔Collective security
U.S. naval forces have how many primary peacetime objectives? - ✔✔Four
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, The last U.S. diesel submarine, the USS Blueback (SS 581) was decommissioned on what
date? - ✔✔1 October 1990
What United States submarines form the sea leg of the U.S. Trident nuclear deterrent? -
✔✔SSBNs
The rise of chemical and biological weapons in the Middle East has been linked to Israel
and what other country? - ✔✔France
France successfully tested a nuclear device in what year? - ✔✔1960
The chemical agent most likely to be used by countries desiring to produce chemical
weapons is what nerve agent? - ✔✔Tabum
Iran has been hostile toward the United States since radical, religious forces overthrew
the government in what year? - ✔✔1979
The mission of the Navy includes naval presence, sea control and what else? -
✔✔Power projection
Who will conduct an investigation of offenses before a captain's mast takes place? -
✔✔PIO
What part of the MCM describes those actions the military considers offenses? - ✔✔Part
IV
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