Part 1 Test 4

Maximum amount from MY pocket cannot exceed $100.00. I’m sure that Semper Fi Mom won’t turn down any added donations. I think their site is even set up for it.

Part One

Each question worth 10 cents each for a total of 50 cents if you get them all.

True or False

1. Basic training is followed by a specialized or advanced training phase that provides recruits with a specific area of expertise or concentration. In the Army and Marines, this area is called a military occupational specialty (MOS); in the Navy it is known as a rate; and in the Air Force it is simply called an Air Force specialty.

2. Our E-3 makes a base pay of $1,501.20 every two weeks.

3. "Grade" is used for personnel and pay functions. Military personnel across the services receive the same base pay, based on their rank and number of family members. But as the "ranks" and “rates” are named differently in different services, to save confusion, "grade" is used.

4. The U.S. Coast Guard is a part of the Department of Transportation in peacetime and the Navy in times of war.

5. The early 1980s heralded a significant change in the way IGs did inspections. Traditionally, general inspections had focused primarily on evaluating a unit's compliance to regulations. However, purely compliance inspections tended to address symptoms rather than causes and made the assumption that policy guidance and directives were correct.

Who Am I? 20 cents each= $2.00 *$2.50=sub total

6. I was a system born during the Revolutionary War. I am
a. a Seaman / Hospitalman SN or HN are my abbreviations
b. De’on’s first tree
c. The U.S. Army Inspector General System.
d. De’on’s 2nd tree


7. I took the photos that were prize winning Pulitzer’s in 2006 of Katherine Cathey when her husband’s body was brought home to Denver, Colorado. My name is
a. Rick Loomis of LA Times
b. Todd Heisler of The Rocky Mountain News
c. Rockwell Kent of The New York Times
d. Greg Miller of the Daily and Redundant

8. I was in combat at Inchon, Seoul, Wonsan, Chosin Reservoir, and Hanghum before the fatal assault that killed me on a hill near Hwachon for which I was awarded the Medal of Honor. My name is Corporal
a. Charles Abrell
b. Franz Ferdinand
c. Mark Oliva
d. Stud Manly


9. My mission started when forces with Regimental Combat Team 1 moved to the outskirts of Fallujah. It came on the heels of the deaths and mutilations of four U.S. contractors in the city. Marines from 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment and 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment surrounded the tumultuous city, known for being a hive of enemy activity. My mission was dubbed
a. Operation Just Cause
b. Operation Vigilant Resolve
c. Operation Phantom Fury
d. Operation Iron Curtain

10. I am called a PFC in the Army. My rank is
a. O-3
b. E-3
c. E-2
d. none of the above

11. My missions include the construction of roads, airfields, structures and utilities for the Army and Air Force. I employ equipment and personnel skilled in earthmoving and construction. I normally fall under command of a brigade. I am a
a. Engineer Battalion (Combat Heavy)
b. Platoon Leader of 30+ soldiers with such diverse skills as carpenter, mason, plumber, electrician and heavy equipment operator.
c. Dive detachment attached to 536th Engineer Bn. (C) (H)
d. Platoon Leader with the Navy Seabees

12. I got a pay raise in January 2006. I make a monthly base pay now of $1,501.20. I am a
a. PFC in the Army
b. Lance Corporal in the Marines
c. PFC in the Marines
d. both a and b

13. The figures below represent figures taken from
a. The Korean War Memorial
b. The Vietnam War Memorial
c. Fallen Heroes Memorial
d. none of the above

- AS OF MARCH 31, 1997 –

Since 1997 78 names have been added to the memorial as a whole that are not shown in the stats below. They are in order of: RANK/PAY GRADE USA USN USAF USMC USCG and TOTAL respectively.

E-09 52 4 41 18 0 115
E-08 190 13 34 33 0 270
E-07 987 67 64 115 1 1,234
E-06 2,233 186 136 299 1 2,855
E-05 5,133 326 228 723 1 6,411
E-04 11,528 618 247 2,322 0 14,715
E-03 12,822 645 148 4,379 1 17,995
E-02 476 68 9 5,633 0 6,186
E-01 143 3 0 379 0 525

14. I relieved McArthur of his command and posthumously awarded Corporal Charles Abrell the Medal of Honor. My name is
a. Harry S. Truman
b. President Dwight D. Eisenhower
c. General George S. Patton
d. George C. Scott

15. I was the standard medium field howitzer for the U.S. in World War II, seeing action in both European and Pacific theatres. I entered the war against the Japanese Imperial Army in the Pacific, where I gained a reputation for my accuracy and powerful punch. I entered production in
a. 1936
b. 1940
c. 1951
d. 1941

Part 2 of Test 4

Part Two

ALL OR NOTHING! Bid is 25 cents. Jackpot is $1.25 *$3.75 is sub

Fill in the set of dashes. You must get each blank right to capture the quarters.

Here is your Word Bank. There are more words and numbers than you’ll need:
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5, 6, 10,13, 15, 50 30, amputation, money, machine gun fire, small arms fire, tents, million, thousand God, Fever, human, Hate, verse, animal, latrines, flag, ship, Ypres, Verdun, Kentucky, Morning, Evening, Punch, prose, NY Times, VFW, Boy Scouts, Annin, Union, Canadian’s, Brit’s, Star, Trench, motorcade, east, west, dugout, The, Western, Eastern, Mesopotamian.

*OUR FLAG

16. The __th fold, or when the flag is completely folded, the stars are uppermost reminding them of their nation’s motto, "In ___ We Trust". ALL OR NOTHING!

17. After a tragedy or death, the flag is flown at half staff for __ days. It's called "half staff" on land, and "half mast" on a ____. ALL OR NOTHING!

18. The Star Spangled Banner: This Flag became the Official United States Flag on May 1st, 1795. Two stars were added for the admission of Vermont (the 14th State and ____the __th State, and was to last for 23 years. ALL OR NOTHING!

19. President Abraham Lincoln's casket was draped with this flag, known as the "Great ____" flag. It was made by ____, and later used in the funeral of President John F. Kennedy. ALL OR NOTHING!

20. I put on a beautiful ceremony of burning the ____. I am part of an organization called ___ _____ of America. ALL OR NOTHING!


*WORLD WAR 1

A Penny a Pop! Don't forget about your Word Bank above!

Fill in the blanks for a copper coin on each sentence, total=15 cents.

*$3.90 is sub

21. John McCrae's In Flanders Fields remains to this day one of the most memorable war poems ever written. It is a lasting legacy of the terrible battle in the _____salient in the spring of 1915.

22. The Spectator, in London, rejected the ______ poem, but _____ published it on 8 December 1915.

23. It was an American woman poet, Harriet Monroe, who founded and edited the first American periodical devoted exclusively to ____, and who published some of Rosenberg's work.

24. In the summer of 1914 the British government suspected an imminent war with Turkey and took measures to protect oil supplies from Abadan. The Indian Army and the Royal Navy's Gulf Division, were placed at the mouth of the Shatt-al-Arab and when war was declared on __th November, they moved forward and took the port of Basra.

25. Rats in their millions infested trenches. There were two main types, the brown and the black rat. Both were despised but the brown rat was especially feared. Gorging themselves on _____ remains (grotesquely disfiguring them by eating their eyes and liver) they could grow to the size of a cat.

26. Lice caused Trench _____, a particularly painful disease that began suddenly with severe pain followed by high fever. Recovery - away from the trenches - took up to twelve weeks. Lice were not actually identified as the culprit of _____ Fever until 1918. [Please don’t miss this one! :]

27. Trench Foot was another medical condition peculiar to trench life. It was a fungal infection of the feet caused by cold, wet and unsanitary trench conditions. It could turn gangrenous and result in ______. Trench Foot was more of a problem at the start of trench warfare; as conditions improved in 1915 it rapidly faded, although a trickle of cases continued throughout the war.

28. Pumping equipment was available for the draining of trenches; men would also be assigned to the repair of the trench itself. Still others would be assigned to the preparation of _____.

29. Rotting carcasses lay around in their thousands. For example, approximately 200 ______ men were killed on the Somme battlefields, many of which lay in shallow graves.

30. Death was a constant companion to those serving in the line, even when no raid or attack was launched or defended against. In busy sectors the constant shellfire directed by the enemy brought random death, whether their victims were lounging in a trench or lying in a ______ (many men were buried as a consequence of such large shell-bursts).

31. Stand-To lasted between half an hour and an hour, after which each man would be ordered to stand down; breakfast would follow in the morning. Stand-To came to be referred to as "___Morning ____", for self-evident reasons.

32. Allinson was moved by what he read: "The poem was exactly an exact description of the scene in front of us both. He used the word blow in that line because the poppies actually were being blown that morning by a gentle ____wind.”

33. It is estimated that there were around 37.5 million total casualties of the First World War out of 65 million troops mobilized. Up to ___ million are said to have died.

34. The Wipers Times took its name for the army slang for Ypres, where it was first produced. It emulated Punch, but contained a more specific type of comedy relating exclusively to the soldiers on the ____ Front

35. During Stand-To, both sides would often relieve the tension of the early hours with ____ ___ ____, shelling and small arms fire, directed into the mist to their front: this made doubly sure of safety at dawn.

EXTRA CREDIT for Part 2

**EXTRA CREDIT: Double or nothing!
Using the paragraphs and link below, place events from World War I in CHRONOLOGICAL order by matching the letter next to the paragraph in sequential numerical order. i.e. 1. c, 2. f, etc.

If you order them all correctly, question #s 21-35 earn double. If you miss even 1, you lose it all. In other words, your possible 15 pennies turns into 30 pennies OR your possible 15 pennies turns into NOTHING! EEK! Good luck. But hey, it’s open book and who knows, it might even tweak further interest.

So, a little math here: $3.90 + .30 = $4.20 sub or $3.90 - .15 = $3.75 and you did all that work for nothing. Not good. So, if it was me, and I wasn’t 100% sure—I’d leave it off, but please give it a shot. The link below will all but walk you through it!

Links for coin clinks!

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a. Russia, bound by treaty to Serbia, announced mobilisation of its vast army in her defence, a slow process that would take around six weeks to complete.



b. Austria-Hungary, unsatisfied with Serbia's response to her ultimatum (which in the event was almost entirely placatory: however her jibbing over a couple of minor clauses gave Austria-Hungary her sought-after cue) declared war on Serbia on 28 July 1914.



c. France, bound by treaty to Russia, found itself at war against Germany and, by extension, on Austria-Hungary following a German declaration on 3 August. Germany was swift in invading neutral Belgium so as to reach Paris by the shortest possible route.



d. United States President Woodrow Wilson declared a U.S. policy of absolute neutrality, an official stance that would last until 1917 when Germany's policy of unrestricted submarine warfare - which seriously threatened America's commercial shipping (which was in any event almost entirely directed towards the Allies led by Britain and France) - forced the U.S. to finally enter the war on 6 April 1917.



e. the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914.



f. Seizing the opportunity presented by Ferdinand's assassination (who in any event had not been viewed with any great favour, either by Franz Josef or by his government), the Austro-Hungarian government decided to settle a long-standing score with near-neighbour Serbia.



g. Japan, honouring a military agreement with Britain, declared war on Germany on 23 August 1914. Two days later Austria-Hungary responded by declaring war on Japan.



h. With Britain's entry into the war, her colonies and dominions abroad variously offered military and financial assistance, and included Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and the Union of South Africa.



i. Germany, allied to Austria-Hungary by treaty, viewed the Russian mobilisation as an act of war against Austria-Hungary, and after scant warning declared war on Russia on 1 August.



j. Italy, although allied to both Germany and Austria-Hungary, was able to avoid entering the fray by citing a clause enabling it to evade its obligations to both. In short, Italy was committed to defend Germany and Austria-Hungary only in the event of a 'defensive' war; arguing that their actions were 'offensive' she declared instead a policy of neutrality. The following year, in May 1915, she finally joined the conflict by siding with the Allies against her two former allies.

k. Britain, allied to France by a more loosely worded treaty which placed a "moral obligation" upon her to defend France, declared war against Germany on 4 August. Her reason for entering the conflict lay in another direction: she was obligated to defend neutral Belgium by the terms of a 75-year old treaty. With Germany's invasion of Belgium on 4 August, and the Belgian King's appeal to Britain for assistance, Britain committed herself to Belgium's defence later that day. Like France, she was by extension also at war with Austria-Hungary.

A penny for your thoughts: Was the U.S. right to enter the war? *$4.21 or $3.76



Give your two cents worth: In short, why? $4.23 or $3.76

Part 3 of Test 4--final

Part Three
True of False

And now we’re back to Iraq, Afghanistan, the War on Terror and current events. The price of war and testing has increased.

Each correct answer adds a $1.00 to this portion of the test. Make it count!

New subs, if you answer all of these correct will be $8.23 or $7.76


36. MotoMail is a service that is brought to you and endorsed by the Marine Corps which allows electronically transmitted letters to be printed in Iraq and delivered to the recipient often in as little as 48 hours. Transit time via US Mail is eliminated, allowing a much quicker delivery to our Marines in Iraq.


37. “Deadliest day yet for U.S. women serving in Iraq” was reported by CNN.com on Saturday, June 25, 2005; Posted: 12:26 p.m. EDT. The report said that At least four Marines -- including three women -- were killed. Of the 13 Marines wounded, 11 were female.


38. In the latest Letter to Airmen, Secretary of the Air Force Michael W. Wynne discusses force increases.


Penny for your thoughts! $8.24 or $7.77


39. Major Walter Reed, born on September 13, 1851 and known as one of the world's outstanding physicians and medical research scientists would be filled with pride at all that is currently in the news concerning the hospital that carries his name.

!BORDER PATROL!: Like the politicians, I’m going to shave off some for myself. Due to the popularity of the immigration bill, take a 90% hit. Each question is now worth 10 cents. If all are correct, new subs = $8.66 or $8.09

40. Since the death of Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat, Hamas's political wing has entered and won many local elections in Gaza, Qalqilya, and Nablus. In January 2006, Hamas won a surprise victory in the Palestinian parliamentary elections, taking 76 of the 132 seats in the chamber, while the ruling Fatah party took 43. Fatah accepted defeat and currently works with the ruling party to bring about peace in the region and further the friendly relations both parties desire with the Jews.

41. The USS Kidd is the 50th ship in the Arleigh Burke class of guided-missile destroyers. Cmdr. Richard E. Thomas of Westwood, N.J., is the ship’s first commanding officer, commanding a crew of 276 officers and Sailors. The new destroyer honors Medal of Honor recipient Rear Adm. Isaac Campbell Smith Sr. who was killed on the bridge of his flagship USS Arizona on Dec. 7, 1941.

42. The USNS Comfort (T-AH-20) departed Norfolk June 15 on its first large-scale humanitarian assistance deployment to Central America, South America and the Caribbean, where it will provide medical care and combat training to an estimated 85,000 patients from communities with limited health care access.

43. Over 2000 personnel participated in the exercise Trident Fury, composed of five Canadian navy vessels, three Canadian Coast Guard vessels, three US navy vessels, and air assets including CF-18s and United States Air National Guard F-16 and F-15 fighter aircraft, KC-135 air to air refuelling aircraft, NATO Airborne Warning and Control Systems (AWACs) and others. The close coordination between the Canadian navy, air force and US assets during this exercise demonstrated the benefits of joint operations, and the importance of close cooperation with our allies as outlined recently in the Defence Policy Statement. (Notice that this one comes from Canada, so check it out and forgive their spelling!! LOL!!)


44. In May of this year, the Red Cross made an announcement that should anyone call our homes, announcing they are with the Red Cross and asking for verification on personal information such as your deployed husband’s social security number or date of birth, that it is essential for you to give out that information immediately.


45. It is estimated that one million illegals are within our borders. Politicians are acting swiftly to seal our borders and send everyone packing.




Finale=Bonus


Choose ONE only to pad a little punch to the subs and up your donation by $5.00 bringing a final total for a 100% paper to $13.66 or $13.09.


1. Name the Marine from Lovington killed in Vietnam who was also a Lance Corporal.


2. Write three or more paragraphs explaining the fold in the flag that most impresses you.


3. Write three or more paragraphs about any E-3, here or in Heaven (and not Aaron) that you’d like to honor. I think it would be neat if you chose someone you’d never known before and try to get to know them a little or choose someone close to you that you could brag on a little. Writing about someone who was once an E-3 is perfectly acceptable.



Thank you for taking this test.

Semper Fi,

De'on aka The Teach