Discuss the concept of ORM?
Lowering risk to acceptable levels
What is RAC?
Risk Assessment Code
- combines the elements of hazard severity and mishap probability
What are the 5 Risk Assessment Codes?
1 - critical 2 - serious 3 - moderate 4 - minor 5 - negligible
11 pressure points
Temple Jaw Collar bone Neck Inner upper arm Inner elbow Wrist Upper thigh Groin Knee Ankle
HERO
Hazardous Electromagnetic Radiation to Ordinance
HERP
Hazardous Electromagnetic Radiation to Personnel
HERF
Hazardous Electromagnetic Radiation to Fuels
General characteristics of PPE
- Hand protection
- Foot protection
- Eye protection
- Face protection
- Hearing protection
- Skin/body protection
- Respirators
7 principles of Naval Logistics
1 flexibility 2 economy 3 attainability 4 responsiveness 5 simplicity 6 sustainability 7 survivability
6 areas that comprise naval doctrine
- command and control
- operations
- warfare
- logistics
- intelligence
- planning
6 programs of brilliant on the basics
- sponsorship
- assign a mentorship
- indoc
- leadership
- ombudsman
- recognition
IAMIS
- identify hazards
- assessing hazards
- making risk decisions
- implementing controls
- supervise
Battle of Coral Sea
Battle left Japanese without enough planes to cover ground attack of Port Moresby, resulting in a strategic allied victory
Battle of Normandy
“D-Day”
- code named “operation overload”
- prior to D-Day, allies conducted deception campaign designed to mislead the Germans about intended invasion target
On The Roof Gang
OTRG association dissolved September 1992 and now handled by US NCVA
Midway
American Intel broke the Japanese Fleet codes enabling Admiral Nimitz the understand the exact Japanese plans
Guadalcanal
Code named “operation watchtower”
- Japanese lost 20k of 30k
- Americans lost 2k of 60k Army/USMC combined
Leyte Gulf
- aircraft carriers proved to be more effective than larger battle ships
- 1st organized kamikaze attack by Japanese out of desperation
- regular firebombs actually caused more damage to Japan than the atomic bomb
Purple Code
- Code named purple referred to the binders used by the US cryptanalyst
- didn’t decode anything about the attack on Pearl Harbor
- found a Japanese code book in 1918 and translated it 3 years later “Red Book”
USS LIBERTY
- try to radio for help, signal block by Israel aircraft
- remains the only major maritime incident in American history not investigated by Congress
USS PEUBLO
With capture inevitable, the American stalled for some time destroying classified information while under fire
USS STARK
- failed to detect to air to surface messages
- The resulting fire rushed up to the vessels CIC, disabling the electrical system
- crewman sent a distress signal with a handheld radio that was picked up by the USS WADDELL
Inchon Landing
USMC made surprise amphibious landing at the strategic port of inchon carried out by 5 star General Douglas MacArthur
Windtalkers
The Navajo Code Talkers
- USMC recruited 29 Navajos in a week to develop a code within their language and as the war progressed they had a little over 400 Navajo code talkers from at least 16 different tribes that served in the USMC, ARMY and USN.
