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  1. How does the BMR define environmental pollution?
  2. According to the BMR, what are the primary municipal pollutants?
  3. What does the Watch, Quarter, and Station (WQS) bill show a Sailor?
  4. Why does the Navy use dog watches?
  5. What does the Combat Information Center (CIC) do?
  6. For a shipboard lookout, what is a bearing and how is it measured?
  7. What reference point do true bearings use?
  8. What is target angle?
  9. A lookout reports an aircraft by position angle. What are the limits of position angle?
  10. How long does it take a night lookout to reach best night vision, and what is the process called?
  11. What powers a shipboard sound-powered telephone?
  12. Can the mouthpiece and earpiece of a sound-powered phone be swapped?
  13. What are the three categories of sound-powered telephone circuits aboard ship?
  14. Over which sound-powered circuit do lookout reports go, and to where?
  15. In what order are the parts of most sound-powered phone messages given?
  16. What are the steps when you receive a phone-talker message?
  17. A phone talker did not understand a message. What should the talker say?
  18. How does a phone talker spell out a difficult word?
  19. What four items should you write down when you take a telephone message?
  20. When was the U.S. Navy founded, and when was the Department of the Navy established?
  21. The BMR says the Coast Guard belongs to the Department of Transportation in peacetime. Where is it today?
  22. What does the Navy's shore establishment do?
  23. What does a unit's battle organization contain?
  24. Which shipboard department is responsible for safe navigation and piloting?
  25. If the captain is disabled during battle, who normally becomes acting commanding officer?
  26. Which squadron department is responsible for the overall maintenance of the squadron's aircraft?
  27. How does the BMR define the chain of command?
  28. Where are a ship's bower anchors carried and housed?
  29. How long is a standard shot of anchor chain?
  30. What joins the shots of an anchor chain together?
  31. What does the term gangway actually mean aboard ship?
  32. Which structural member is every other part of the hull attached to?
  33. What is the purpose of a bilge keel?
  34. What is camber on a ship's deck, and why is it there?
  35. On ships other than aircraft carriers, which deck is the main deck?
  36. When does Navy custom allow a left-hand salute?
  37. Who salutes whom, per the BMR?
  38. How are the guns fired in a Navy gun salute?
  39. How many guns are fired in a salute to the President of the United States?
  40. In polar areas, what kind of sea ice can a survivor use for fresh water, and how do you recognize it?
  41. Why should survivors be careful around icebergs?
  42. How does the body lose water, according to the BMR survival chapter?
  43. Why must a survivor never drink seawater or urine?
  44. What does the pigment in paint provide?
  45. What is the vehicle in a paint, and what does it do?
  46. What are driers in paint?
  47. What is the first sign of aluminum corrosion where dissimilar metals touch?
  48. What are lifelines aboard ship?
  49. How long after exposure do most asbestos-related disease symptoms appear?
  50. At what temperature does liquid oxygen boil into a gas?

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