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What is a DEFENSIVE measure used to reduce the vulnerable of individuals and property to terrorist acts?
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Antiterrorism
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What is A SECURITY PROGRAM designed to protect Service members, civilian employees, family members, facilities, information, and equipment?
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Force Protection
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What FPCON is an increased and more predictable threat?
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Bravo
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What FPCON is set when an incident has occurred or is likely?
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Charlie
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What FPCON is set when an attack has occurred or is imminent and is only set in the area where the attack has occurred?
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Delta
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What is an effort by an individual used against another to cause death, substantial risk of death, or serious bodily injury?
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Deadly Force
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What FPCON is an increased general threat where the nature and extent are unpredictable?
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Alpha
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What circumstances justify the use of deadly force?
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-Self-defense or defense of others
-Defense of property involving national security -Defense of property dangerous to others -Prevent or interrupt a serious offensive -Apprehension or arrest -Escape -Lawful order |
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What are the levels that are less than deadly force that can lead up to deadly force?
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-Shout
-Show -Shove -Chemical irritant -Riot club -Working dogs -Shoot |
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What are directives issued by competent military authority that delineate the circumstances and limitations under which United States forces will initiate and/or continue combat engagement with other forces encountered?
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Rules of Engagement
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What president established the Code of Conduct?
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower
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When was the Code of Conduct established?
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17 August 1955
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The Code of Conduct was established as a result of what?
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Inconsistent and prejudicial action taken by U.S. military members during the Korean War
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What presidents made modifications to the Code of Conduct?
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President Jimmy Carter and President Ronald Reagan
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What years were the Code of Conduct modified?
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1977 and 1988
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What Article of the Code of Conduct: "I am an American fighting in the armed forces, which guard my country and our way of life. I am prepared to give my life in their defense."
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Article 1
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What Article of the Code of Conduct: "I will never surrender of my own free will. If in command, I will never surrender the members of my command while they still have the means to resist."
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Article 2
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What Article of the Code of Conduct: "If I am captured, I will continue to resist by all means available. I will make every effort to escape and aid others to escape. I will accept neither parole nor special favors from the enemy."
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Article 3
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What Article of the Code of Conduct: "If I become a prisoner of war, I will keep faith with my fellow prisoners. I will give information nor take part in any action, which might be harmful to my comrades. If I am senior, I will take command. If not, I will obey the lawful orders of senior prisoners, regardless of the branch of service (U.S. or allied nation).
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Article 4
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What Article of the Code of Conduct: "When questioned, should I become a prisoner of war, I am required to give name, rank, service number and date of birth. I will evade answering further questions to the utmost of my ability. I will give no oral or written statements disloyal to my country and its allies or harmful to their cause."
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Article 5
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What Article of the Code of Conduct: "I will never forget that I am an American, fighting for freedom, responsible for my actions, and dedicated to the principles which made my country free. I will trust in my God and in the United States of America."
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Article 6
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What four specific items of information are Marines and Sailors required to give their captors?
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Name, Rank, Service Number (SSN) and Date of Birth
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What are some rights of Enemy Prisoners of War (EPWs)?
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-Sanitary housing and clothing
-Healthy food -Medical care -Practice of faith -Send/Receive mail |
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What legal document covers the misconduct of a prisoner?
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Article 105 of UCMJ
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What are the procedures for handling Enemy Prisoners of War (EPWs)?
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-Humane treatment
-Respect -Maintenance -Equality |
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What are the steps of taking an EPW?
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-Search
-Silence -Segregate -Safeguard -Speed |
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What symbols are represented on the POW/MIA table and what do they represent?
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-Round table: Everlasting concern
-White Cloth: Purity of motives -1 Red Rose: Life of the member -Red Ribbon: Determination -Lemon: Bitter fate -Pinch of Salt: Shed tears -Bible: Faith and nation under God |
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What is OMFTS?
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Operational Maneuver From The Sea
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What are the principles of OMFTS?
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-Focus on Operational Objective
-Use Sea as Maneuvering Space -Generate overwhelming Tempo and Momentum -Pit Strength against Weakness -Emphasize Intelligence, Deception and Flexibility -Integrate Organic, Joint, and Combined Assets |
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What is MOOTW?
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Military Operations Other Than War
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What are a wide range of operations occurring in both domestic and foreign environments and in combat and non-combat operations?
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MOOTW
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What are some examples of a MOOTW?
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-Noncombatant Evacuation Operation (NEO)
-Strikes and Raids -Arms Controls -Nation Assistance -Protection of Shipping -Humanitarian Assistance |
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What are the two primary missions for MOOTW?
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-HAO -- Humanitarian Assistance Operation
-NEO -- Noncombatant Evacuation Operation |
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What is a MOUT?
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Military Operations on Urbanized Terrain
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What is a military action planned and conducted on a topographical complex and its adjacent terrain where manmade construction is the dominant feature?
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MOUT
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Fill in the Blank: Humanitarian Assistance Operations can only take place if the _______________________ specifically approves of the misson.
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Department of State
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What is an HAO?
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Humanitarian Assistance Operation
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What is an HAO governed by?
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Title 10, US Code Section 401
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What portable piece of equipment or system is used to make potable water in the Marine Corps?
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ROWPU - Reversed Osmosis Water Purification Unit
TWPS - Tactical Water Purification System |
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What is MCPP?
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Marine Corps Planning Process
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What complements joint deliberate and crisis action and is a responsive and flexible process that can adapt to needs of any unit and adjust to any timetable?
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MCPP
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What are the three tenets of MCPP?
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-Top down planning
-Single battle concept -Integrated planning |
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What are the MCPP warfighting functions?
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-Maneuvers
-Intelligence -Logistics -Fires -Command and Control -Force protection |
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What is a CONPLAN?
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It is an abbreviated plan that would require considerable expansion or alteration to convert it into an OPLAN or OPORD.
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Why are contingency plans pre-assembled?
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To provide a rapid organized and planned out response to a projected crisis, whether military or civil
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What is an OPLAN?
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A basis for developing an OPORD that identifies the forces and supplies required to execute the Commander's Strategic Concept and movement schedule of these resources to the theater of operation.
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What is a FUNCPLAN?
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Involves the conduct of military operations in a peacetime or permissive environment developed by combatant commanders to address the requirements for specific functions.
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What are some historic examples of an HAO?
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-Operation Desert Shield
-Operation Urgent Fury -Operation Provide Comfort |
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What is the act of positioning forces between two or more warring parties in order to maintain peace?
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Peacekeeping
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What is the act of assisting in the reconstruction of civil order?
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Nation Building
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What is the act of military units actually engaging an actively agressive party in a peace keeping mission?
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Peace Enforcement
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What are some characteristics of HAZMAT?
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-Flashpoint of <200 degrees
-Strong oxidizing or reducing agent -Radioactive |
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What is any discarded or abandoned hazardous substance as defined in 40 CFR 261 or applicable state regulations where the state has been granted enforcement authority by the EPA. It may include any discarded liquid, semisolid, solid, or containerized gaseous material
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HAZWASTE
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What is a form containing the identical data element, and is used by manufacturers of chemical products to communicate to users the chemical, physical, and hazardous properties of their product to comply with the OSHA standards.
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MSDS
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What identifies the processes for which each hazardous material is allowed to be used?
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Authorized Use List (AUL)
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What are the general procedures to be followed when a HAZMAT spill is discovered?
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1. Discovery and Notification
2. Initiation of Action 3. Evaluation 4. Containment and Damage Control 5. Dispersion of Gases/Vapors 6. Cleanup and Decontamination 7. Disposal of Contaminated Materials 8. Certification for Re-entry 9. Follow-up Reports |
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What frequencies does High Frequency Band fall under?
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3-30 MHz
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What are the two types of High Frequency propagation?
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Ground Wave
Sky Wave |
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What communications is High Frequency capable of?
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Long and short-range secure voice and data communications
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What does ground wave propagation involve?
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Transmission of a signal along the surface of the ground.
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What does sky wave propagation involve?
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Bending the signal by the ionosphere.
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What frequencies does Very High Frequency Band fall under?
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30-300 MHz
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What frequencies does Ultra High Frequency Band fall under?
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300-3000 MHz
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What is Ultra High Frequency used for?
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Forward Air Control ground-to-air communication
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When using Ultra High Frequency radio, what is critical?
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Line of sight
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What is SINCGARS?
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Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio
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What are the functions of SINCGARS?
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-Secure or plain text
-Half-duplex -Single channel -Frequency hopping reception -Transmission -Retransmission of Very High Frequency voice |
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What are the three levels of security classification?
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-Top Secret
-Secret -Confidential |
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What security classification involves disclosure that would cause exceptionally grave danger to national security?
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Top Secret
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What security classification involves disclosure that would cause serious damage to national security?
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Secret
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What security classification involves disclosure that could cause damage to national security?
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Confidential
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What is camouflage?
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Anything that you can use to keep yourself, your equipment and your position from looking like what they really are
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What is cover?
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Anything that gives protection from bullets, fragments of exploding rounds, flame, nuclear effects and biological and chemical agents
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What is concealment?
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Anything that hides you from enemy observation but does not protect you from enemy fire
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What is SMEAC?
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-Situation
-Mission -Execution -Administrative and logistics -Command and signals |
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What does a SMEAC help to prepare?
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Offensive Operation Order
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What is a SALUTE report?
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-Size
-Activity -Location -Unit -Time -Equipment |
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When selecting an LZ for a helicopter, what is the criteria for a Daylight LZ?
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100 feet larger than the diameter of aircraft rotor blades
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When selecting an LZ for a helicopter, what is the criteria for a Night LZ?
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150 feet larger than the diameter of aircraft rotor blades
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What is the diameter of the rotor blades on a UH-1?
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50 feet
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What is the diameter of the rotor blades on a CH-46?
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85 feet
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What is the diameter of the rotor blades on a CH-53?
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100 feet
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What type of compass is used for land navigation?
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Lensatic Compass
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What is a PLGR "Plugger"?
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Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver
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Fill in the blank: A 4 digit map grid position will locate you down to ________ meters and is referred to as _________.
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-1000 meters
-Grid square |
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Fill in the blank: A 6 digit map grid will locate you down to _______ meters.
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100 meters
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Fill in the blank: An 8 digit map grid will locate you down to ________ meters.
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10 meters
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Fill in the blank: A 10 digit map grid will locate you down to _________ meters.
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1 meter
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The location in a SALUTE report should be how many digits at a minimum?
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6
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What does the color red indicate on a map?
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Manmade features such as populated areas, main roads and boundaries on older maps
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What does the color blue indicate on a map?
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Water
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What does the color black indicate on a map?
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Manmade features such as buildings, roads, surveyed spot elevation and all labels
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What does the color brown indicate on a map?
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Relief features and elevation
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What does the color green indicate on a map?
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Vegetation
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What does the color red brown indicate on a map?
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Cultural features, relief features (readable with red-light)
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On a map, what is a sloping line of high ground that normally has low ground in three directions and high ground in one direction and the contour lines tend to be U-shaped or V-shaped and the end of the contour lines point away from hight ground
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Ridge
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On a map, what is a slope that goes down in all directions where a map will indicate with contour lines forming concentric circles?
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Hill
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On a map, what has high ground on two opposite directions and lower ground on the other two directions and is normally represented as an hourglass?
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Saddle
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On a map, what is a low point in the ground or a sinkhole described as an area of low ground surrounded by higher ground in all directions or simply a hole in the ground and are represented by closed contour lines that have tick marks pointing toward low ground?
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Depression
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On a map, what has essentially no level ground with little or no maneuver room within its confines where the ground slopes upward in three directions and downward in the other? The contour lines are U-shaped or V-shaped, pointing toward high ground.
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Draw
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On a map, what has continuous sloping lines of higher ground, normally jutting out from the side of a ridge and is often formed by two rough parallel streams which cut draws down the side of a ridge with the ground sloped down in three directions and up in one direction? It's contour lines are a U or V pointing away from high ground.
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Spur
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What indicates the angular relationship of true north, grid north, and magnetic north?
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Declination Diagram
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What is a line on any point on the earth's surface to the North Pole
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True North
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What is established by using the vertical grid lines on your map?
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Grid North
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On a map, what does a line ending with half an arrowhead indicate?
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Magnetic North
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What is a horizontal angle measured clockwise from a north base line to magnetic north?
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Magnetic Azimuth
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What is the opposite direction of an azimuth?
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Back Azimuth
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When plotting from point A (starting point) to point B (ending point) on a map and drawing a line between the two, what is the angle between grid north and the drawn line?
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Grid Azimuth
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What is JP-5 used for?
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Jet Fuel (Kerosene)
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What is JP-8 used for?
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Military Diesel Fuel
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What is MOGAS?
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Gasoline (unleaded)
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What is DFM?
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Distillate Fuel Marine (diesel for ships)
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What is MCMAP
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Marine Corps Martial Arts Program
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How many levels of MCMAP are there?
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5
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What are the levels of MCMAP?
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-Tan
-Gray -Green -Brown -Black |
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Who was the first American to orbit the earth?
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John Glen
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Who was the first Commandant of the Marine Corps?
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Capt Samuel Nicholas
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Who defeated the Barbary Pirates & Mameluke Sword
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Presley O'Bannon
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Who was the Commanding General of Guadalcanal & won the Medal of Honor
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Alexander Vandergrift
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Who was the Commanding Officer of an Army Division, developed MCI, and the Marine Corps Birthday Message
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John Lejeune
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Who was the most decorated Marine?
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Lewis "Chesty" Puller
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Who was the first Medal of Honor winner during World War 2?
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John Basilone
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Who was the first Marine Ace?
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Marion E. Carl
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Who was the highest scoring Ace with 26 kills?
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Joe Foss
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Who is known as the "Grand Old Man of the Marine Corps?"
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BGen Archibold Henderson
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Who is the legendary leader of the President's own band?
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John Philip Sousa
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What is ACM?
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Air Contingency MAGTF
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What is AMO?
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Aircraft Maintenance Officer
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What is CA?
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Civil Affairs
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What is COC?
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Combat Operations Center
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What is IFR?
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Instrument Flight Rules
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What is LFOC?
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Landing Force Operations Center
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What is LFSP?
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Landing Force Support Party
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What is OPREP?
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Operational Report
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What is TLZ?
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Tactical Landing Zone
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What is MMCO?
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Maintenance Material Control Officer
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What is MO?
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Maintenance Officer
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What is MOPP?
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Mission Oriented Protective Posture
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What is NSFS?
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Naval Surface Fire Support
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What is OMFTS?
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Operational Maneuver from the Sea
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What is PPE?
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Personal Protection Equipment
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What is SINGARS?
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Single Channel Ground & Air Radio
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What is VFR?
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Visual Flight Rules
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What are the six areas of Naval Doctrine?
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-Planning
-Operations -Warfare -Logistics -Intelligence -Command and Control |
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What is the birthday of the Marine Corps?
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10 November 1775
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What is the birthday of the Navy?
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13 October 1775
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Where was the Marine Corps born?
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Tun Tavern in Philadelphia
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How was the Marine Corps established?
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By resolution of the Continental Congress
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How many battalions were stood up when the Marine Corps was established?
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2
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What year did the Marine Corps come under the Department of the Navy?
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1834
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What do the different parts of the Eagle Globe and Anchor represent?
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Eagle = Proud Country with scroll that says Semper Fidelis
Globe = Global Service Anchor = Maritime Traditions |
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When was the Eagle Globe and Anchor established?
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1868
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What does Semper Fidelis mean?
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Latin for Always Faithful
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When was the phrase Semper Fidelis established?
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1883
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What year were the Marines reorganized into the Fleet Marine Force?
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1933
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What was the neckpiece called that was originally worn by marines?
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Leatherneck
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When did Marines wear the leatherneck?
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1775-1875
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Why did Marines originally wear a leatherneck?
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To protect from saber slashes and had a side effect of keeping the Marines' necks erect.
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What does the word Teufelhunden mean?
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Devil Dog
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Where did the term Devil Dog come from?
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Germans described Marines as dogs out of hell (teufelhunden) during the Battle of Belleau Wood during World War 1
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When was the battle of Belleau Wood?
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1918
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What is Esprit de Corps?
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Devotion and loyalty to a beloved Marine Corps with deep regard for history, traditions and honor
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What was the largest of all Marine Corps battles in history?
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Iwo Jima
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What did Admiral Nimitz say about the Marines in the battle of Iwo Jima?
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"Uncommon valor was a common virtue."
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Where does the description of "first to fight" come from when describing the Marine Corps
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The Marine Corps has been at the forefront of every American War with over 300 landings on foreign shores.
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When did the Marines storm the Barbary pirates' stronghold at Derna on the "Shores of Tripoli
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1805
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What was unique about the storming of the Barbary pirates' stronghold at Derna on the shores of Tripoli?
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It was the first time the Stars and Stripes were raised on the Eastern Hemisphere
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When did the Marines occupy the "Halls of Montezuma" during the Battle of Chapultepec in Mexico City?
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1847
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Who said, “The raising of the flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next 500 years.”
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SECNAV James Forrestal
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Which battle had the highest casualty rate for the Marines in their entire history?
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Iwo Jima
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What 2 battles did the Communist attempt to annihilate a Marine unit in order to destroy American morale.
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-Chosin River
-Khe Sanh |
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What two Marines won the Medal of Honor twice?
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-Smedley Butler
-Dan Daly |
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Where do enlisted Marines earn their training?
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-Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego
-Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island |
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Privat First Class (PFC)
E-2 |
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Lance Corporal (LCpl)
E-3 |
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Corporal (Cpl)
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