navy damage control Flashcards

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1. What are the three basic objectives of shipboard damage control?
2. Who is the damage control assistant (DCA) responsible to for the control of damage?
3. Where is the damage control assistant's battle station?
4. Who supervises the personnel assigned to Damage Control Central?
5. What does Damage Control Central do with reports from the repair parties?
6. What must each ship designate as its secondary Damage Control Central?
7. What is Repair 1, and who is in charge of it?
8. Which repair parties are Repair 2, Repair 3 and Repair 4?
9. What is Repair 5, and who is in charge of it?
10. What is Repair 6, and who is in charge of it?
11. Which repair party covers the gallery deck and island structure, and on what ships is it required?
12. What is Repair 8, and who is in charge of it?
13. How do damage control investigators normally operate?
14. When is the rapid response team required, and who leads it?
15. A fire grows beyond what the rapid response team can handle. What does the fire marshal do?
16. After the scene leader relieves the fire marshal, what does the fire marshal watch closely?
17. How is a fire that breaks out while the ship is at general quarters handled?
18. What checklists must a division damage control petty officer (DCPO) make sure are prepared and maintained?
19. What does the DCPO supervise when a material condition is set?
20. What must the damage control closure log list?
21. How long are closure log sheets kept on file?
22. What word is passed at 1600 daily about material condition YOKE?
23. Which material condition gives the least protection, and when is it set?
24. When is material condition YOKE set?
25. When is material condition ZEBRA set?
26. How are XRAY fittings marked, and when are they secured?
27. How are YOKE fittings marked, and when are they secured?
28. How are ZEBRA fittings marked, and when are they secured?
29. What is different about CIRCLE XRAY and CIRCLE YOKE fittings?
30. How are DOG ZEBRA fittings marked, and when are they secured?
31. Who closes DOG ZEBRA fittings when darken ship is ordered?
32. How are WILLIAM fittings marked, and when are they secured?
33. When must CIRCLE WILLIAM fittings be secured?
34. What is watertight integrity?
35. A compartment number identifies four things. What are they?
36. In compartment numbering, what numbers go to centerline, starboard and port compartments?
37. What does the last part of a compartment number show?
38. In compartment letters, what do C and E stand for?
39. In compartment letters, what do F and K stand for?
40. In compartment letters, what do L and M stand for?
41. In compartment letters, what do T and V stand for?
42. What three things does a fire need?
43. In general, how are fires put out?
44. What burns in a Class ALPHA (A) fire?
45. Where does a Class BRAVO (B) fire burn?
46. What is a Class CHARLIE (C) fire?
47. What burns in a Class DELTA (D) fire?
48. What is the flash point of a substance?
49. What is the auto-ignition point?
50. Name the three ways heat from a fire is transferred.
51. What is the Navy's most important dry chemical agent, and which fire classes is it used on?
52. Where does the firemain get its water?
53. How is a horizontal loop firemain built?
54. How is a composite firemain built?
55. What is AFFF mainly used for aboard ship?
56. How does carbon dioxide put out a fire?
57. What kind of spaces are CO2 flooding systems used in?
58. What are shipboard sprinkler systems used for?
59. How fast can a magazine sprinkler system flood its space?
60. Where are bilge sprinkling system heads installed?

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