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Pollution can result when which of the following types of agents is/are introduced into the air, water, or soil?
Biological, Chemical, and Physical
Which of the following materials is the primary municipal pollutant?
Raw or inadequately treated sewage
Which of the following modes of transportation creates most air pollutants?
Motor vehicles
Which, if any, of the following effects of pollution is the most serious?
Biological
Steel erodes faster than normal when exposed to which of the following air pollutants?
Sulfur oxides
Most pesticides fall into which of the following categories?
Nonselective
What is the primary pollution concern of Navy personnel?
Shipboard wastes
Which of the following terms identifies abatement?
Lowering
Under the Clean Air Act, what government body has the primary responsibility for assuring air quality?
Each state
Virtually all Navy ships have some type of sanitation device installed. Which of the following types of systems retains sewage on board for discharge ashore or in waters where discharging is allowed?
Collection, holding, and transfer
When operating sanitation devices in foreign waters, Navy ships comply with which of the following requirements?
Status of Forces Agreement
Navy vessels may not discharge _______ in harmful quantities into or upon navigable waters of the United States upon adjoining shorelines or into or upon waters of the contiguous zone (12 nautical miles [nm] from shore).
Hazardous substances
Vessels may not discharge unpulped trash at sea within 25 nautical miles (nm) from the U. S. coastline and pulped trash within how many nautical miles of the U.S. coastline?
12 nautical miles
Vessels may not discharge unpulped trash within what minimum distance from the U.S. coastline?
25 nautical miles
Submarines may discharge negatively buoyant compacted trash not less than 12 nm from the U.S. coastline only if the water depth is greater than how many fathoms?
1,000 fathoms
Vessels may not discharge any trash within what minimum distance of any foreign coastline?
25 nautical miles
What devices has the Navy installed aboard most of its ships to treat sewage to a level acceptable for overboard discharge?
Marine sanitation devices (MSDs)
In foreign waters, Navy vessels comply with the applicable Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) in operating MSDs. If no SOFA exists, vessels operate MSDs based on what sewage-discharge regulations?
The standards observed by the host country’s military forces.
True or false. Overboard discharge of plastic waste material is prohibited.
True.
The Navy’s land management program involves which of the following efforts?
Soil and water conservation
List the four main sources of pollutants.
The four main sources of pollutants are—
a. Agricultural runoff
b. Industrial
c. Municipal
d. Transportation operations
What are two primary effects of pollution?
Pollution affects both the physical and biological world.
What is the primary pollution concern of the Navy?
The primary pollution concern of the Navy is the pollution produced by shipboard waste.
To help reduce air pollution, what steps has the Navy taken to improve their power plants ashore and afloat?
The Navy has been converting their power plants to use more efficient pollution control systems for stack emissions.
Name the agreement that the Navy follows to operate marine sanitation devices (MSDs) and dispose of treated sewage in foreign waters.
Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA).
How many nautical miles from the U.S. coastline can vessels discharge unpulped trash?
25 nautical miles from the U.S. coastline.
What is the Navy’s policy on energy conservation?
The Navy makes every effort to improve the way it uses energy resources, without compromising readiness, effectiveness, or safety.
What program provides you with support and information about foreign lands?
Overseas Duty Support Program (ODSP)
Besides the Overseas Duty Support Program (ODSP), what other three sources can you use to get information about other countries?
1. Overseas Transfer Information Service (OTIS),
2. Fleet and Family Service Center (FFSC)
3. SITES website.
What program does the Navy have that rewards you monetarily for beneficial suggestions, inventions, and scientific achievements?
The Military Cash Awards Program (MILCAP)
What Navy program provides educational programs for people who don’t meet the Navy’s fitness or body fat standards and who also need to help change long-established bad health habits?
Health and Physical Readiness Program.
List the responsibilities of pregnant servicewomen.
a. Plan pregnancy to meet family and military obligation
b. Confirm pregnancy with military medical facility
c. Notify CO or OIC of pregnancy
d. Perform military duties while pregnant
e. Comply with work- and task-related safety and health recommendations
List the three areas that the Department of the Navy public affairs office informs the public and service members about.
a. The Navy as an instrument of national policy and security
b. Navy operations and programs
c. The responsibilities and activities of naval personnel as U. S. citizens
Service members must complete what forms for family care?
a. Family Care Plan Certificate, NAVPERS 1740/6
b. Family Care Plan Arrangements, NAVPERS 1740/7
What is the Navy’s policy on drug abuse?
The Navy’s policy on drug abuse is zero tolerance.
What is the purpose of the Integrity and Efficiency Program?
To detect, deter, and eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse.
List four ways to report fraud, waste, and abuse.
a. Chain of command
b. Navy hotline
c. Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS)
d. Congressional communication
For the Navy to maintain public confidence in its integrity, naval personnel should comply with--
the Standards of Conduct and Professional Ethics.
All naval personnel should be treated equally and be given equal opportunities. What program does the Navy use to achieve this purpose?
Command Managed Equal Opportunity (CMEO) Program
Who provides guidance and policy for the CMEO Program?
Chief of Naval Operations.
Telling a sexist or racial joke would be an example of what type of behavior?
An insensitive practice.
Where is the best place for you or your family to start to resolve an off-base discrimination complaint?
The chain of command.
Service members can attend civil rights demonstrations and similar gatherings except for what conditions?
Navy personnel can’t take part in civil rights demonstrations in the following situations:
a. While wearing their uniform or during duty hours.
b. When held on a military reservation or in a foreign country.
c. When law and order are violated or when they could reasonably be expected to result in violence.
You have submitted a special request chit and feel that the chain of command has not resolved your discrimination complaint. What should be your next course of action?
Request captain’s mast.
What is hazing?
Hazing is any conduct whereby a military member or members, regardless of service or rank, without proper authority causes another military member or members, regardless of service or rank, to suffer or be exposed to any activity which is cruel, abusive, humiliating, oppressive, demeaning, or harmful.
What is the Navy’s policy on hazing?
According to Navy policy, hazing is prohibited.
Improper conduct is considered sexual harassment when—
a. Submission to or rejection of such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of a person’s job.
b. Pay, or career; submission to or rejection of such conduct by a person is used as a basis for career or employment decisions affecting that person.
c. Such conduct interferes with an individual’s performance or creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive environment.
List the criteria for a person’s behavior to be termed sexual harassment.
A person’s behavior to be termed sexual harassment if is—
a. Unwelcome
b. Sexual in nature
c. Occurs in or impacts on the work environment
Whose perceptions count when there is unwelcome behavior?
The recipient’s
Your LCPO offers you high marks on your evals in exchange for sexual favors. What type of sexual harassment is this?
Quid pro quo sexual harassment.
Displaying sexual posters or using sexual explicit language creates what type of environment?
A hostile environment.
How has the Navy made it easier to understand the wide range of good to bad behavior?
To make the range of good to bad behavior easier to understand, the Navy has compared behavior ranges to the traffic light.
a. Red light—Sexual harassment behavior
b. Yellow light—Many people find behavior unacceptable
c. Green light—Acceptable behavior, not sexual harassment
Describe why the Navy has a fraternization policy.
To promote good order and discipline.
What is the function of the ombudsman?
The ombudsman—
a. Acts as a liaison between Navy families and the command, and
b. Keeps the families informed about command policies.
How does the ombudsman communicate with Navy families?
The ombudsman communicates with Navy families through command newsletters, command-sponsored telephone “Careline,” or phone trees.
List some the agencies or organizations ombudsman works with. (seven)
The ombudsman works through the following agencies/organizations:
a. Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society
b. American Red Cross
c. Family Service Centers
d. Chaplain’s office
e. Navy Wifeline Association
f. Medical treatment facilities
g. Legal assistance offices
When leaving the Navy, what determines if you will be able to reenlist at a later date?
Reenlistment code
When away from their home district, how can a Sailor and his family register to vote?
By using a Federal Post Card Application for Absentee Ballot (FPCA).
From what part of the world does the U.S. import most of its crude oil?
Middle East
What program provides information and support for Navy personnel who are guests in foreign lands?
Overseas Duty Support Program
The Military Cash Awards Program (MILCAP) provides monetary recognition of up to what maximum amount?
$25,000
The Navy’s Health and Physical Readiness Program promotes health and fitness at the command level. As part of this program, naval personnel are required to undergo fitness testing at what interval?
Semiannually
“Informing the public and members of the naval service about Navy operations and programs” is the mission of --
Public Affairs Office (PAO)
What term is defined as an extravagant, careless, or needless expenditure of government resources?
Waste
What term is defined as an intentional misleading or deceitful conduct that deprives the government of its resources or rights?
Fraud
What term is defined as an intentional wrongful or improper use of government resources?
Abuse
You can report fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement to which of the following offices?
The Navy hotline, the chain of command, and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.
True or False. To maintain public confidence in its integrity, all naval personnel must comply with the Standards of Conduct and Professional Ethics.
True
If you disclose information about a person to unauthorized personnel, you could be fined up to what maximum amount?
$5,000
The guidance and policy for making sure that equal opportunity works rests with what office?
Chief of Naval Operations
Which of the following persons is responsible for making equal opportunity a reality with a command?
Commanding officer
True or False. Your performance evaluation does not reflect your attitude toward and your conduct in support of the Navy’s equal opportunity program.
False
If a Sailor takes part in insensitive practices, he/she receives counseling on treating people equally. If counseling isn’t effective, what action, if any, may take place?
Administrative or disciplinary action
On what basis should supervisors assign duties such as food service and compartment cleaning?
A fair, rotational basis
If you cannot resolve a complaint among the personnel involved, you can attach a written complaint to a special request chit and forward it through the chain of command. You must do this within what timeframe?
5 days
Which of the following phrases describes sexual harassment?
Unwelcome sexual advances, Requests for sexual favors, and/or Verbal or physical conduct that is sexual in nature
Which are the criteria for a person’s behavior to be considered sexual harassment?
Unwelcome, Sexual in nature, and Occur or impact your work
What person has the responsibility of appointing the command ombudsman?
Commanding officer
What person determines the content and priorities of the command ombudsman program?
Commanding officer
What are the three purposes of the Reenlistment Quality Control Program?
A) To provide a personnel management program to control rating manning
B) To issue reenlistment criteria
C) To establish standardized professional growth points
All first-term Sailors in paygrades E-1 through E-6 requesting reenlistment must be approved for reenlistment through what program?
ENCORE
What person directs and supervises the Navy’s voting program?
Chief of Naval Personnel
What instruction contains the Cash Awards for Military Personnel for Suggestions, Inventions, and Scientific Achievements?
OPNAVINST 1650.8
What policy is contained in the OPNAVINST 1650.8?
Cash Awards for Military Personnel for Suggestions, Inventions, and Scientific Achievements
What instruction outlines the CMEO Program?
OPNAVINST 5354.1
What policy is contained in the OPNAVINST 5354.1?
CMEO Program
What instruction outlines the Navy Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention and Control?
OPNAVINST 5350.4
What policy is contained in the OPNAVINST 5350.4?
Navy Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention and Control
What instruction outlines the Navy policy on Sexual Harassment?
SECNAVINST 5300.26
What policy is contained in the SECNAVINST 5300.26?
Department of the Navy Policy on Sexual Harassment
What instruction contains the Navy's Guidelines Concerning Pregnant Service Women?
OPNAVINST 6000.1
What policy is outlined in the OPNAVINST 6000.1?
Guidelines Concerning Pregnant Service Women
What instruction contains the Navy's Physical Readiness Program?
OPNAVINST 6110.1
What policy is outlined in the OPNAVINST 6110.1?
Physical Readiness Program
Based on medical considerations, no servicewoman may be assigned overseas or travel overseas after--
The beginning of the 28th week of pregnancy.
Pregnant servicewomen Will not be transferred to a deploying unit during what time period?
From the 20th week of pregnancy through 4 months after the expected date of delivery.
What is contained in the NAVPERS 1740/6
Family Care Plan Certificate
What is contained in the NAVPERS 1740/7
Family Care Plan Arrangements
What instruction outlines the Public Affairs and
Community Relations Program?
SECNAVINST 5720.44
What is contained in the SECNAVINST 5720.44?
Public Affairs and
Community Relations Program
What instruction outlines the Navy's Standards of Conduct?
SECNAVINST 5370.2
What is contained in the SECNAVINST 5370.2?
Standards of Conduct
What is the mission of the Naval Inspector General?
To “inquire into and report” on any matter that affects the discipline or military efficiency of the DoN
What article of the Navy Regulations states “Equal opportunity shall be afforded to all on the basis of individual effort, performance, conduct, diligence, potential, capabilities, and talents without discrimination as to race, color, religion, creed, sex or national origin. Naval personnel shall demonstrate a strong personal commitment to stand on these principles and carry them out.”
Navy Regulations, Article 1164
What instruction contains the Department of the Navy Policy on Hazing?
SECNAVINST 1610.2
What policy is outlined in SECNAVINST 1610.2?
Department of the Navy Policy on Hazing
Which article of the Navy Regulations states “No person in the Navy is to enter a personal relationship that is unduly familiar, does not respect differences in rank, and is prejudicial to good order and discipline.”
Navy Regulations, Article 1165
What does reenlistment code RE-1 mean?
Eligible for Reenlistment
What does reenlistment code RE-4 mean?
Not Eligible for Reenlistment
What instruction contains the Environmental and Natural Resources Protection
Manual?
OPNAVINST 5090.1
What policy is outlined in OPNAVINST 5090.1?
Environmental and Natural Resources Protection
Manual
What instruction contains the Family Advocacy Program?
SECNAVINST 1752
What policy is outlined in SECNAVINST 1752?
Family Advocacy Program