Basic Professional Military Education (Enlisted)-Block 2-Navy History and Heritage

Basic Professional Military Education (Enlisted) - Block 2 - Navy History and Heritage (NWC-EPME-BASIC-B2-V5) PROFESSIONAL MILITARY EDUCATION D E F E N D I N G T H E N E W N A T I O N: WHO WAS THE LAST ACTIVE CONTINENTAL NAVY OFFICER AND THE FIRST U.S. NAVY COMMISSIONED OFFICER? JOHN BARRY WHY WERE THE BORDER LAKES BETWEEN THE U.S. AND CANADA OF STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE DURING THE WAR OF 1812? THE AMERICANS PLANNED TO WIN THE WAR BY CONQUERING CANADA AND NEEDED CONTROL OF THE LAKES TO DO SO. WHO FOUGHT AT ANCHOR IN PLATTSBURG BAY TO NULLIFY ROYAL NAVY LONG GUNS AND MAXIMIZE AMERICAN CARRONADES, AND WON THE MOST STRATEGIC NAVAL VICTORY OF THE WAR OF 1812? THOMAS MACDONOUGH DURING THE WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE, WHICH COUNTRIES CAME TO THE ASSISTANCE OF AMERICA WITH THEIR NAVIES? FRANCE, SPAIN, AND THE NETHERLANDS HOW DID THE FRIGATE PHILADELPHIA COMPLICATE THE NAVY’S TASK IN THE WAR WITH TRIPOLI? THE CREW WAS CAPTURED AFTER THE FRIGATE RAN AGROUND IN TRIPOLI HARBOR AND THE PASHA OF TRIPOLI DEMANDED RANSOM FOR ITS THREE HUNDRED SAILORS TAKEN AS PRISONERS OF WAR. IN 1794, CONGRESS AUTHORIZED THE PRESIDENT TO CREATE A NAVAL FORCE OF 6 FRIGATES IN RESPONSE TO ____________________. THE THREAT FROM THE BARBARY POWERS OF AFRICA'S MEDITERRANEAN COAST WHAT MAJOR EVENTS LED TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NAVY AND THE DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY? NOT: ATTACK ON USS CHESAPEAKE BY HMS LEOPARD AND THE WAR WITH TRIPOLI NOT: ATTACK ON USS CHESAPEAKE BY HMS LEOPARD AND FRENCH SEIZURES OF AMERICAN MERCHANT SHIPS WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING WAS NOT A CHARACTERISTIC OF THE U.S. NAVY’S “SUPER FRIGATES”? LIGHTER THAN OTHER SHIPS OF THEIR CLASS WHAT WAS ONE OF THE AMERICAN STRATEGIC NAVAL OBJECTIVES DURING THE REVOLUTION AGAINST BRITISH SEABORNE COMMERCE? TO WEAKEN THE BRITISH BLOCKADE OF THE AMERICAN COAST AMERICAN SEABORNE FORCES DURING THE REVOLUTION CONSISTED OF ARMED SHIPS FROM ____________________. NOT: STATE NAVIES AND THE CONTINENTAL NAVY ______________ COMMANDED THE DARING RAID THAT BURNED THE CAPTURED FRIGATE PHILADELPHIA IN TRIPOLI HARBOR AND LATER LED GUNBOAT BOARDING ACTIONS AGAINST THE BARBARY CORSAIRS. STEPHEN DECATUR HOW DID THE DEFEAT OF NAPOLEON CHANGE THE STRATEGIC BALANCE IN AMERICA IN 1814? NOT: BEFORE NAPOLEANS DEFEAT, THE BRITISH WERE ABLE TO BE ON THE OFFENSIVE AND INVADE THE UNITED STATES NOT: NAPOLEANS DEFEAT ENABLED THE AMERICANS TO GO ON THE OFFENSIVE AND INVADE CANADA CHARACTERISTICS OF THE EARLY U.S. NAVY “SUPER FRIGATES” INCLUDED ____________________. A REINFORCED HULL TO RESIST THE PRESSURES OF HEAVIER ORDNANCE ON THE DECK CLOSE-TOGETHER TIMBERS ABLE TO WITHSTAND HEAVY CANNON FIRE HOW DID THE FRENCH NAVY CONTRIBUTE TO THE WINNING OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE? NOT: BY THREATENING TO INVADE CANADA, THEREBY SPREADING OUT THE BRITISH FLEET NOT: BY BOARDING BRITISH MERCHANT SHIPS AND CAPTURING SEAMEN TO MAN FRENCH SHIPSPROFESSIONAL MILITARY EDUCATION WHAT WERE TWO OF THE GREATEST CONTRIBUTIONS THOMAS TRUXTON MADE TO THE NAVY? PRODUCED THE MOST NOTABLE VICTORIES DURING THE QUASI-WAR WITH FRANCE AND PROMOTED PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS AND TRAINING WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING WAS NOT AN INNOVATION IN NAVAL WARFARE INTRODUCED BY THE U.S. BETWEEN 1775 AND 1815? STEEL-HULLED SHIPS WHAT WAS THE STRATEGIC SIGNIFICANCE OF THE BATTLE OF LAKE CHAMPLAIN DURING THE WAR OF 1812? AMERICAN VICTORY TURNED BACK AN INVADING ARMY FROM CANADA ____________________ TRANSFORMED A DEFENSE OF AMERICAN COMMERCE INTO AN AGGRESSIVE BLOCKADE AND BOMBARDMENT IN THE WAR WITH TRIPOLI. HE TRAINED AND INSPIRED YOUNG OFFICERS WHO LED THE NAVY IN THE WAR OF 1812. DURING THE ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN THE CONTINENTAL NAVY SHIP BONHOMME RICHARD AND THE HMS SERAPIS, ____________________ SHOWED HIS INDOMITABLE WILL. AGAINST SEEMINGLY HOPELESS ODDS, HE ANNOUNCED “I HAVE NOT YET BEGUN TO FIGHT” AND WENT ON TO CAPTURE HIS ADVERSARY EVEN AS HIS OWN SHIP WAS SINKING. JOHN PAUL JONESPROFESSIONAL MILITARY EDUCATION S A I L I N G I N D I S T A N T W A T E R S: WHICH OF FOLLOWING CHANGES IN THE NAVAL SERVICE DID NOT PERTAIN TO ENLISTED SAILORS IN THE ERA BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR? ESTABLISHMENT OF A RETIREMENT SYSTEM IN WHAT YEARS DID THE SECOND SEMINOLE WAR TAKE PLACE? 1835-1842 BETWEEN THE WAR OF 1812 AND THE CIVIL WAR, THE NAVY HAD A VARIETY OF MISSIONS. THESE INCLUDED ____________________. ALL OF THESE ANSWERS ARE CORRECT IN THE YEARS BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR, U.S. SQUADRONS ESTABLISHED A REGULAR...

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