BMR-CH1 Policies and Programs

1. What is an overall plan that contains general goals and broad guidelines?

2. List the three Navy Programs for pollution control.

3. List the three resources of operation that the Navy requires daily to accomplish its mission.

4. What is a plan or system under which action may be taken towards a goal?

5. List the two establishments that the Navy is committed to operating in a manner compatible with the

6. What usually establishes the end to be attained, not the means of getting there?

7. List the two organizations that are and must be compatible goals.

8. Which of the two (policy or program), tells how to get there?

9. List the three types of resources that are an important part of the Navy’s mission.

10. What are the two subjects that personnel must be aware of to accomplish the Navy’s mission?

11. Which of the two (policy or program), tell where to go?

12. List the two elements that the Chain of Command must provide to ensure that all Navy personnel

14. What provides the means to reach the end (goal) stated by the policy?

15. List the three different types of agents that pollution can result from in the air, water, and soil.

16. List the three worst effects of pollution.

17. List the two types of economic losses caused by pollution.

18. What does environmental pollution results from?

19. List the two ways that nature contributes to pollution.

20. What does eroding the soil causes?

21. What does volcanic eruption pollutes?

22. Who cause most pollution problems in the world?

23. List the four main sources of pollutants that are produced by people.

24. What types of pollutants include insecticide, herbicides, and pesticide?

25. What types of pollutants include salts used on streets in wintertime?

26. What types of pollutants include radioactive waste from mining and processing?

27. List the two types of effects that pollution produces.

29. Which effect of pollution is the most serious out of the two?

30. What types of pollutants are created by by-products of our country’s technology?

31. What types of pollutants include storm-water overflows?

32. What types of pollutants include drainage from animal feedlots?

33. What type of pollutants produce a wide variety of pollutants?

34. What types of pollutants include emissions from aircraft, trains, waterborne vessels, and motor

35. What types of pollutants include natural and chemical fertilizers?

36. Which effect of pollution has a harmful effect on the food chain of animals?

37. What type of machine creates most of our air pollutants?

38. What types of pollutants include refuse?

39. What types of pollutants include thermal discharges from power plants?

40. What is the primary municipal pollutant?

41. How do motor vehicles create most of our air pollutants?

42. What types of pollutants are created by food, chemicals, metal, petroleum products, and poison?

43. What types of pollutants include salts from field irrigation?

44. What do the effects from pollution vary from?

45. Which effect of pollution destroys vegetation that provides food?

47. Which effect of pollution are those that we can see?

48. What types of pollutants include acid from mines and factories?

49. What substance causes steel to erode two to four times faster than normal?

50. What substance is one obvious physical effect of pollution?

51. Which effect of pollution can seriously disrupt the balance of nature?

52. List the three ways that oil spills occur.

53. What type of waste is the primary pollution concern of Navy Personnel?

54. Which effect of pollution includes air pollutants?

55. List the two types of pollutants that shipboard waste is similar to.

56. Which physical effect of pollution requires costly cleanup operations?

57. State the two executive orders that all government agencies must provide for our air and water

58. Which physical effect of pollution damage wide variety of materials?

59. Which effect of pollution, in extreme cases, can cause the death of humans?

60. Which effect of pollution includes oil spills?

61. List the two standards that all naval activities must meet for preventing air pollution.

63. List the three types of pollution controls instructions that were issued by naval authorities.

64. Under the Clean Air Act, who has the primary responsibility for assuring air quality.

65. What type of pollution kills surface-swimming animals?

66. State the one step that the Navy has taking to help meet the nation’s goal of reducing air pollution.

67. Pesticide is considered as what type of pollution.

68. Which physical effect of pollution makes beaches unusable?

69. What type of act represents a clear goal to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological

70. What type of plants does the Navy uses to help reach the nation’s goal of reducing water pollution?

71. Which physical effect of pollution speed the erosion of statues and buildings?

72. What standard does the Navy complies with that govern the types of pollutants that can be introduced

73. What type of device has the Navy installed aboard most of its ships to treat sewage to a level acceptable

74. What types of systems retain sewage on board for later discharge ashore?

75. Define the acronym CHT.

76. What types of substances may not be discharged into navigable waters of the United States? (2)

77. Which physical effect of pollution makes beaches unusable?

78. What agreement must Navy vessels comply with when operating marine sanitation devices in foreign

79. How many nautical miles from the U.S. coastline are naval submarines allowed to discharge negative

80. How many nautical miles from shore are naval vessel not allowed to discharge hazardous substances

81. How many nautical miles within the U.S. coastline are naval vessel not allowed to discharge pulped

83. How many nautical miles within any foreign coastline are naval vessels not allowed to discharge trash?

84. How should all trash be packaged before overboard discharge?

85. What depth of water are submarines allowed to discharge negative buoyancy trash at sea?

86. What type of material is prohibited to be discharged overboard?

88. List the three types of military equipment that are exempt from new noise design standard.

89. List the five programs that the Navy has established that is suitable to its military mission, for the

80. What naval program refers individuals in need of professional assistance and counseling?

91. What naval program includes the production and sale of forest products for multiple-use and sustained-

92. What naval program includes youth programs?

93. What naval program includes land restoration?

94. What naval program includes national recreation trails?

95. What naval program includes marine mammal protection?

96. What naval program includes public participation?

97. What naval program includes noxious weed and poisonous plant control?

98. What naval program includes recreation programs (off-road vehicles)?

99. What naval program includes animal disease eradication?

100. What naval program includes agricultural lands leasing?

101. What naval program includes cooperative agreements with public agencies?

102. What naval program participates in indoctrination and orientation?

103. What naval program includes animal damage control?

104. What naval program includes migratory bird management?

105. What naval program includes coastal area management?

106. What naval program includes migratory fish protection?

107. What naval program includes wild and scenic rivers?

109. What naval program includes ground maintenance?

110. What naval program includes wilderness areas?

111. What naval program includes people and nature?

112. What naval program includes endangered species protection?

113. What naval program act as a family coordinator?

114. What naval program includes wetland protection?

115. What naval program includes preservation of the earth’s natural beauty?

116. What naval program includes range management?

117. What naval program includes game and nongame species management?

118. What naval program includes flood plain management?

119. What naval program includes hiking trails?

120. What naval program includes landscaping?

121. What naval program includes natural area preservation?

122. What naval program includes outdoor recreation areas?

123. What naval program includes resource inventory?

124. What type of fuel does most of the Navy’s ships, aircraft, and ground transportation use?

125. What form does the Navy get most of their petroleum in?

126. Where does the Navy get most of their petroleum from?

127. What type of fuel does the Navy depends on, without it the Navy could not move?

128. What is the Navy’s policy on energy conservation?

129. What is one of the Navy’s energy conservation goals?

130. List the three factors that the Navy will not compromise its energy conservation efforts for.

131. State the two objectives of the Navy’s energy conservation goals.

132. How can you help conserve our energy resources?

133. Who set up the Navy Sponsor Program?

134. What naval program represents the Command on committees, boards, and working groups?

135. What form should be used by an individual to request assignment of a sponsor?

136. What is the sponsor request form entitled?

137. What form is used as the sponsor request form?

138. Define the acronym PCS.

139. When is the assignment of a sponsor mandatory to or from any activity?

140. What naval program is a special incentive awards program?

141. What naval program is the link/liaison and communicator between the Command and the Command’s

142. What should the new member check in with before renting or buying a house?

144. What naval program provides information and support to help personnel who are guest in foreign

145. How much cash does the Military Cash Awards Program provide monetary recognition awards up to?

146. What naval program was established to ease the relocation of naval personnel and their families when

147. What naval program interacts and cooperates with MFTs?

148. List the three types of accomplishments that personnel are awarded by the MILCAP.

149. What naval program provides information about the country you are visiting?

150. Where can you also get information on other countries?

151. What naval program is designed to find new ideas to effectively increase performance within the

152. Who are eligible to participate in the MILCAP?

153. What is the proposal of an idea or a method of doing a task better, faster, cheaper, or safer?

154. List the four results that suggestions must do to qualify for the MILCAP.

155. What naval program interacts and cooperates with Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society?

156. List the two requirements that the suggester must show to qualify for the MILCAP.

157. What instruction contains additional information about the MILCAP?

159. What common problem do people in the Navy and in the civilian community share?

160. List the three causes of excessive body fat.

161. List the four detractions that excessive body fat causes.

162. List the three benefits that maintaining good health and physical readiness help.

163. What naval program interacts and cooperates with American Red Cross?

164. What level does The Navy’s Health and Physical Readiness Program promotes health and fitness at?

165. How often does The Navy’s Health and Physical Readiness Program includes testing of all personnel

166. What can negatively impact your goals?

167. What type of care does the Navy provides for pregnant servicewomen?

168. List the five responsibilities of the service women (pregnancy).

169. What naval of program provides education programs for personnel who don’t meet the Navy’s

170. What naval program interacts and cooperates with Navy Wifeline Association?

171. What week of pregnancy should no servicewomen be assigned overseas or travel overseas?

173. What length of time for a medical evacuation to a treatment facility will a pregnant servicewomen

174. What week of pregnancy will a servicewoman not remain on board a deployed unit?

175. Pregnancy disqualifies designed flight status. (True/False)

176. What week of pregnancy may air controllers work?

177. What week of pregnancy are air controllers restricted from tower duties?

178. How many weeks does the CO normally grants convalescent leave after the servicewoman has

179. How many days does the CO normally grants convalescent leave after the servicewoman has

180. List the three conditions that the Navy can discharge servicewomen from the Navy without maternity

181. What week of pregnancy may servicewomen request separation from the Navy?

182. What naval program interacts and cooperates with legal assistance offices?

183. List the two military departments that have the authority to pay civilians maternity care expenses for

184. What must all single service members and dual military couples having custody of children under

185. List the two forms that certify that your family members will be cared for during your absence.

186. What form is used as the Family Care Plan Certificate?

188. You can be separated from the Navy if you don’t maintain an up-to-date family plan? (True/False)

189. List the two documents that the custodian(s) you designate must have.

190. Who works on the principle that the public has the right to be fully informed about matters of national

191. What is the mission of Public Affairs in the Department of the Navy?

192. What is the objective of Public Affairs in the Department of the Navy?

193. List the three topics that Public Affairs inform the public and members of the naval service

194. List the five subjects that Public Affairs try to better the general public’s understanding.

197. What types of relations are Navy personnel responsible for maintaining?

198. How can Navy personnel help maintain good community relations?

199. List the two factors that the attitude the civilian community has towards Navy personnel affect.

200. What naval program was developed by each Command to ensure Navy personnel and the civilian

201. What instruction contains information about the Public Affairs?

203. What naval program carries out the DON’s policy to detect, deter, and eliminate fraud, waste, abuse,

204. What term is defined as intentional wrongful or improper use of government resources?

205. What naval program establishes standardized high-year tenure?

206. What term is defined as intentional misleading or deceitful conduct that deprives the government of its

207. What term is defined as to manage incompetently or dishonestly?

208. State the four means of reporting fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement.

210. What shouldn’t public offices be used for?

211. What term is defined as extravagant, careless, or needless expenditure of government resources?

212. What type of treatment should not be giving to any person or entity?

213. What naval program act as an advocate for Command family members?

214. What naval program establishes standardized professional growth point?

215. What should not be accepted from defense contractors?

216. List the three dispositions that should not be used for commercial purposes.

217. What should you not use to influence any person to provide any private benefit?

219. What should you never use government property or services for?

220. What shouldn’t you give to your supervisor?

221. What instruction contains information about the Standard of Conduct and Professional Ethics?

222. What naval program help access the appropriate level of the Chain of Command?

223. What naval program establishes terms of years an individual may reenlist?

224. What should Navy personnel comply with in order for the Navy to maintain public confidence in its

225. What is the mission of the Naval Inspector General?

226. What is one way that the Naval Inspector General can fulfill its mission?

227. List the four types of reports that the Naval Inspector General receive and investigates to fulfill its

228. What shouldn’t you accept from your subordinates?

229. When is the Navy Hotline used to report fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement?

230. What impairs the Navy readiness?

231. What age is drinking not permitted in the Navy?

232. The perception that alcohol is central to our tradition is wrong. (True/False)

233. What type of policy does the Navy has for the use of illegal drugs or abusing prescription drugs?

234. List the four personal responsibilities of drinking.

236. What naval program provides a personnel management program to control rating manning?

237. What reduces the quality of life of our Navy team?

238. What provision primarily protects the rights of personal privacy of people about whom records are

239. It isn’t legal for an agency of the federal government to maintain records on people without announcing

240. What portion of personal information should you keep about others if your duty requires it?

241. How much can you be fined up to if you make an unauthorized disclosure?

242. It is your right to look at any records the DON keeps on you. (True/False)

243. What naval program provides a personnel management program to reduce advancement stagnation?

244. List the two other rights that you have concerning your record that the DON keeps on you.

245. What is the Navy’s policy on drugs abuse?

246. What provision protects your privacy about your records the federal government maintains?

247. What naval program allows the CO to identify and resolve Command-Level Equal Opportunity

248. What naval program issues reenlistment criteria?

249. What article of the U.S. Navy Regulation states that Equal Opportunity shall be afforded to all?

250. List the seven factors that Equal Opportunity shall be afforded to all without discrimination as to

252. What can’t be legislated?

253. What naval program communicates with the family by the means of Command newsletter?

254. What can serve to make sure that everyone receives equal treatment?

255. What naval program does the Navy carries out its Equal Opportunity Policy?

256. Who provides the guidance and policy for the CMEO Program?

257. What must CO’s make a reality in their Command?

258. What do personnel in pay grades E1-E9 receive based on a number scale, on overall annual

259. List the two characteristics that your performance evaluation will reflect towards the Navy’s Equal

260. What naval program provides a personnel management program to meet and strength requirements?

261. List the five behaviors of an individual that must be put aside to ensure teamwork and to fulfill the

263. Who takes proper action to correct insensitive practices?

264. List the two types of actions that personnel may receive if counseling for insensitive practice is not

265. What is the Navy’s Equal Opportunity Program?

266. What naval program communicates with the family by the means of Command-Sponsored Telephone?

267. What frequently lowers morale?

268. How should supervisors assign work not included in a specific rating?

269. What may supervisors consider when detailing such duties?

270. What should assignments to duty on ships and stations comply with?

271. What weakens the efficiency and overall effectiveness of a Command?

272. What law potentially opens all classes of surface ships to women?

273. The Seabees has also received women in sea duty construction battalions. (True/False)

274. How many seagoing billets have the Seabee Construction Battalion open up for women?

275. What naval program communicates with the family by the means of “Careline”?

276. What ensures a more equitable rotation between sea and shore duty for all sailors?

277. Who set the requirements for advancement?

278. Who will provide the necessary training so you can develop a skill and properly prepare yourself for

280. Who set the requirements for advancement?

281. What pay grades does the Department of the Navy set the requirements for advancement?

282. What pay grades must pass an advancement-in-rate exam to be advanced?

283. Who has the responsibility to provide you with an equal opportunity for training and advancement?

284. What provides career paths for women that are consistent with those of their male counterparts?

285. Just meeting all the requirements does not guarantee advancement. (True/False)

286. What naval program communicates with the family by the means of phone tree?

287. Who will be advanced?

288. When are the most qualified personnel advanced?

289. List the three improvements that will increase your chance for advancement.

290. Who will assure equal justice and treatment by continuously reviewing charges, dismissed cases,

291. What must service and recreational facilities meet the need of?

292. What naval program interacts and cooperates with family service center?

293. Who must pay special attention to the possibility of discriminatory practices in the operation of

296. Who has established Housing Referral Offices at locations with large concentrations of military

297. What naval program interacts and cooperates with chaplain’s office?

298. What legislation makes every effort to eliminate off-base housing discrimination towards DoD

299. Dealing with discrimination in the civilian community is more difficult than within a Command.

300. What type of committee was established by the Navy to promote equal opportunity for its members in

301. Which amendment of the constitution guarantees you the right of freedom of speech and assembly?

302. List the six conditions that are attached to participation in civil rights demonstrations for all Navy

303. What can provide valuable information about the existence of discriminatory within a Command?

304. What type of action lends credibility to your Command’s stated commitment to ensure equal treatment

305. What do people feel will happen if they complain?

306. What manuals guarantee personnel the right to file a complaint of discriminatory treatment without

307. What should personnel gather before forwarding a complaint?

308. What can you request to speak with the CO to voice a complaint or get help in resolving a problem?

309. What is the first course of action when you can not resolve a complaint among the persons involved or

310. How are complaints submitted?

311. When should complaints be submitted through the Chain of Command?

312. Filing false discrimination complaints is just as serious as discrimination itself? (True/False)

313. Who maintains a list of facilities banned as housing for military personnel because of discriminatory

314. What term is defined as any conduct whereby a military member or members, regardless of service or

315. Soliciting or Coercing another to perpetrate any such activity is also considering hazing. (True/False)

316. Hazing need not involve physical contact among or between military members; it can be __________

317. What are unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct

318. List the three criteria’s that a person’s behavior must meet before its considered sexual harassment.

319. What type of behavior is a behavior that person doesn’t ask for and considers undesirable or offensive?

320. What behavior is defined as bothering someone in a sexual way?

321. List the three examples of a person’s behavior being sexual in nature.

322. For sexual harassment to occur, unwelcome sexual behavior must occur ________________ on the

324. What does Quid Pro Quo means?

325. What is a form of sex discrimination?

326. Who is a volunteer liaison between the Command and families?

327. What type of Sexual Harassment makes the workplace offensive, intimidating, or abusive to

328. Who shall you consult on avenues available to you to seek resolution and redress of sexual harassment?

329. What level are all reported incidents of sexual harassment are investigated and resolved?

330. What article of the U.S. Navy Regulation states no person in the Navy is to enter a person relationship

331. What naval program set standards you should meet to be eligible to reenlist?

332. What is the title of the ENCORE program?

333. Who is the Ombudsman appointed by?

334. What is the scope of the Ombudsman’s job?

335. Who always determine the content and priorities of the Ombudsman Program?

336. What naval program must all first-term sailors in paygrades E1- E6 be approved through?

337. What paygrades cannot reenlist unless involved in special programs, such as the 2YO program?

338. What naval program indicates whether you have met professional growth criteria?

340. What naval program must approve paygrades E-1- E-2 to reenlist in special programs, such as the 2YO

341. What form indicates your reenlistment code if you don’t reenlist at your end of active obligated

342. What indicates whether or not you’re qualified to reenlist?

343. What Reenlistment Code indicates recommended for preferred reenlistment?

344. What Reenlistment Code indicates eligible for reenlistment?

345. What Reenlistment Code indicates eligible for probationary reenlistment?

346. What Reenlistment Code indicates not eligible for reenlistment?

347. What is the Department of the Navy policy on voting?

348. Who directs and supervises the Navy’s Voting Program?

349. What do all eligible personnel receive for all federal elections?

350. What naval program makes sure all ships and stations receive voting information pamphlets and

351. What reflect the status of personnel who separate from the Navy?

352. What is the recommended delivery date/time for overseas areas?

353. What is the recommended delivery date/time for stateside personnel?

355. What reflect the quality control category of personnel who separate from the Navy?

356. List the two areas that the Ombudsman is trained to provide help in.

358. What naval program establishes procedures for reenlistment/extension?

359. What does the Navy require to help its member resolve a wide variety of problems?

360. What policies govern our day-to-day operations?

362. Personnel in the paygrade of E-3 is eligible to reenlist/extend provided they have met the professional

363. What term defines abatement?

364. Under the Clean Air Act, what government body has the primary responsibility for assuring air quality?