BMR-Ch9 Customs and Courtesies

1. What are the two categories that Navy Traditions can be broken down into?

2. What term means a way of acting?

3. What term means a form of excellent manners?

4. What are the three elements that help keep discipline and order in a military organization?

5. What are customs closely linked with?

6. What does Esprit De Corps of the naval service depends on?

7. What term means a way that has continued consistently over such a long period that it has become like a law?

8. What do customs have the force of?

9. What is merely the usage of custom?

10. What term means a form of polite behavior?

11. What is custom accompanied with?

12. What term makes life orderly?

13. What will you make if you know and practices military courtesy?

14. What members take the initiative to render military courtesy?

15. What term means a way of showing respect?

17. What is one required act of military courtesy?

18. Who is denied the privilege of saluting because their status is considered unworthy of the comradeship of

19. What is the most form of salute?

20. When did the hand salute begin?

21. What term makes regular, expected actions?

22. What is a symbol of respect?

23. Where can the salute also be traced back to?

24. Where did the U.S. Navy get the hand salute from?

25. What movement is the hand salute really the first part of?

26. What shows your concern for others and for certain objects or symbols?

27. How do men render the hand salute in civilian clothing without a hat?

28. How do men render the hand salute in civilian clothing with a hat?

29. How do women render the hand salute in civilian clothing with or without a hat?

31. What are the three subjects that a hand salute is rendered to?

32. What fingers should touch the lower part of the headgear or forehead when rendering a hand salute?

33. What term makes life orderly?

34. Where should the forefingers touch the forehead when rendering a hand salute?

35. How should the fingers and thumb be positioned when rendering a hand salute?

36. How should the palm be positioned when rendering a hand salute?

37. How should the upper arm be positioned when rendering a hand salute?

38. How should the elbow be positioned when rendering a hand salute?

39. How should the forearm be positioned when rendering a hand salute?

40. How should the hand and wrist be positioned when rendering a hand salute?

41. When do you complete the hand salute?

42. What is a time-honored demonstration of courtesy among all military personnel that expresses mutual

43. What shows respect for others and for certain objects or symbols?

44. How is the hand salute completed?

45. The Navy custom permits left-hand saluting when a salute cannot be rendered with the right hand?

46. What is the hand salute accompanied by under naval customs?

47. What greeting is accompanied with the hand salute from first rising until noon?

48. What greeting is accompanied with the hand salute from noon until sunset?

49. What greeting is accompanied with the hand salute from sunset until turning in?

50. When do you only use your left hand to salute?

51. What have been repeated again and again and passed from one generation to the next?

52. What hand should be used to carry objects in?

53. What position should you always salute from?

54. What is rendered if you are carry something in both hands and cannot render the hand salute?

55. When should you start your salute when approaching an officer?

56. How many paces past an officer should you hold your salute?

57. What are the three step performed when boarding a ship in uniform that is flying the national ensign?

58. What are the three step performed when departing a ship that is flying the national ensign?

61. What hand should be left free to salute?

62. Who salutes all officers entering or leaving their boats?

63. Name the two members that render the hand salute when boats pass each other with embarked officers in

64. When do you render a hand salute when overtaking or passing an officer?

65. What should you ask while rendering a hand salute when overtaking or passing an officer?

66. Who salutes an officer when approaching a detail ashore or afloat?

67. What side of an officer should you pass on if it becomes necessary for you to do?

68. Salute all officers riding in vehicles. (True of False)

69. When do you salute at crowded gatherings or congested areas?

70. What type of rifle salute is rendered for colors?

71. What type of rifle salute is rendered when standing sentry or guard duty by a door inside a building?

72. What type of rifle salute is rendered when passing, without haltering?

73. What type of rifle salute is rendered when standing in a sentry box or on a post?

74. What type of rifle salute is rendered when leading a detail past an officer?

75. What type of rifle salute is rendered when reporting individually to an officer indoors?

76. What type of rifle salute is rendered when halt on patrol?

77. What type of rifle salute is rendered when reporting a roll call?

78. What type of rifle salute is rendered when going to or from duty?

79. What type of rifle salute is rendered when in ranks?

81. You should salute an officer in civilian clothes if you recognize them when you’re uniform. (True of False)

82. What type of salute is rendered to individuals of merit?

83. Name the three subjects that honors are rendered to?

84. What types of honors are rendered to high-ranking individuals?

85. What does the type of honors rendered depends on?

86. What types of honors are rendered by ships to other ships and boats having official embarked?

87. What types of honors are rendered to Nations?

88. What types of honors are rendered to officials or officers as they board and depart a Navy ship?

89. What type of salute is rendered to a recipient of the Medal of Honor?

90. What types of honors are rendered to celebrate national holidays?

91. What does closed aboard means for ships?

92. What does closed aboard means for boats?

93. What are the two procedures that passing honors between ships consist of?

94. Who render the hand salute when passing honors between ships of the Navy?

95. What does the first one blast indicates when passing honors?

96. What does the first two blasts indicate when passing honors?

97. What does the second one blast indicates when passing honors?

98. What does the second two blasts indicate when passing honors?

99. What does the third blast indicates when passing honors?

101. What are signals given by on large ships?

102. Where do all hands in view on deck face on the single of “attention” when passing honors?

103. Name the two members onboard that salute when personnel are in ranks when passing honors?

104. What does passing honors for the President of the United States and foreign nationals include?

106. What are the three ceremonial occasions that the crew is paraded at quarters?

107. What types of honors are rendered to officers and officials boarding and departing the ship?

108. What type of numbers does gun salutes always consist of?

109. What number of gun salutes does the President of the United States receive?

110. What number of gun salutes does the vice consul receive?

111. What military officers are not entitled to gun salutes?

112. What interval is a standard 21-gun salute fired at on national holidays?

113. When does a standard 21-gun salute commence on national holidays?

114. When does a standard 21-gun salute ends on national holidays?

115. What are the two procedures that side honors consist of?

116. What are formal acts performed on public occasions?

117. How many times are colors performed each day?

118. What should you do if you are driving when colors commences?

119. What number of gun salutes do rulers of foreign nations receive?

120. How do you salute in civilian clothes during colors?

121. When do the ceremonies for colors begin?

122. When does the hoisting and lowering of the ensign start when a band is available?

123. When does the hoisting and lowering of the ensign completed when a band is available?

124. What is played on the bugle at morning colors?

125. What is played on the bugle at evening colors?

126. When is the nation anthem of a foreign country played if any warships are present?

127. When is the nation anthem of a foreign country played when visiting a foreign country?

128. What is flown on Sundays and other days proclaimed by the president?

129. What is the largest ensign in the ship’s allowance flown referred to?

130. What is the procedure called when the ensign is shifted from its in-port position on the stern to its at-sea position at the mainmast just as the ship gets underway?

131. What holiday does the United States honor its war dead on by half-masting the flag from 0800 until the last gun of a 21-minute-gun salute?

132. How is the National Ensign hoisted to the peak of the flagstaff?

133. How is the National Ensign lowered from the flagstaff?

134. What do you face when the anthem is played inside a building and there is flag displayed?

135. What music selection is performed to honor the President of the United States?

136. What must you do when “Hail to the Chief” is performed for the President of the United States?

137. What do you request or say when you are returning to your own ship?

138. What do you request or say when you are leaving a ship?

139. What are the three steps performed when boarding a ship in civilian attire that is flying the national ensign?

140. What are the three steps performed when leaving a ship in civilian attire that is flying the national ensign?

141. What are the three steps performed when crossing a ships in uniform that is flying the national ensign?

142. What term means social conduct?

143. Which seat in a vehicle must the junior member take when accompanying a senior member?

144. Which side of the senior member whom they are accompanying must the junior member walk on?

145. What part of the ship is where officers have their staterooms and wardrooms?

146. What part of the ship is where CPOs have their living spaces and mess?

147. What is the basic rule of Navy etiquette for senior members when entering boats, airplanes, and vehicles?

148. When you depart the ship that you are crossing, it is not necessary to salute the ensign or OOD again.

149. What is the reason for the senior members entering boats, airplanes, and vehicles last?

150. What is the reason for the senior members departing boats, airplanes, and vehicles first?

151. What seat does the senior member take, as a general rule?

152. How are all officers in the naval service addressed or introduced?

153. How may Dental, Medical, and And Medical Service Officers be addressed or introduced?

154. How may an officer of the chaplain corps be addressed or introduced?

155. What is the precedence of introduction in the military service?

156. What is the only proper response to an oral order?

157. What does the reply “Aye, aye, sir/ma’am” indicates?

158. What is proper response of a senior in acknowledgment of a report made by a junior?

159. What terms should be used as a prefix to an official report, statement, or question addressed to a senior?

160. What is the commanding officer aboard ships addressed as regardless of rank?

161. What are flags flown at halt-mast?

162. What area is designated by the CO that serves as the focal point for official and ceremonial functions?