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DC - cORRECT sOLUTION Dammage Control
Role of the CO in DC - cORRECT sOLUTION -Saftey of the ship and lives of the crew
-Ensures the command is adequatly trained and continually exercised
-Maintains full awareness of onboard DC equipment
-Gives abandon ship order if necessary
Role of XO in DC - cORRECT sOLUTION -Keeps CO advised of the ship's readiness
-Gives final approval of DCPOs
-Commands the Dammage Control Training Tream (DCTT)
-Heads Planning Board for Training (PB4T)
DHs Role in DC - cORRECT sOLUTION -Ensures readiness withing dept.
-Ensures cooperative DC training with DCA
-Provides required personnel for DC Lockers
-Ensures that personnel are qualified and assigned as DCPOs
,Dammage Control Officer - cORRECT sOLUTION -Maintains hull, machinery, and electrical systems in
battle readiness
-Supervises firefighting and ensures Fire Bill adequacy
-Organizes and trains Repair 5
-De-smoking officer
-Normally the CHENG
Dammage Control Assistant - cORRECT sOLUTION -DCA
-Submits all-hands training schdule to the PB4T
- Informs DCO of changes to DC equipment
-Oversees training and quals of repair lockers and Dammage Control Central (DCC)
-Supervises all DCPO's
DIVO role in DC - cORRECT sOLUTION -Assigns personnel to DC organization on the watch bill, and
station bill
-Ensures divo personnel are assigned requisite DC PQS
-Recommends a DCPO to the DH
-Ensures compartment check-offs are current
-Conducts spot checks of DC PMS (Preventative Maintenance Systems)
,DCPO's - cORRECT sOLUTION -Maintains DC equipment in the space
-Primry duty is the DC equipment
-Conducts all PMS on portable DC equipment in divisional spaces
-Supervises daily setting of specified material conditions within divisional spaces
Battle Organization Underway - cORRECT sOLUTION
RRT - cORRECT sOLUTION Rapid Response Team
RRT Members - cORRECT sOLUTION -Fire Marshal
-Repair Electricial
-2 Advance qualed DC members to immediatly respond to a fire with no SCBAs
Flying Squad/At-Sea Fire Party - cORRECT sOLUTION -1st team to man repair locker, backs up rapid
response team
-Combats a casuality that requires minimal DC effort
-Usually advanced DC qualed who stand watch/roving watch
Battle Dress - cORRECT sOLUTION -FRV (Flame resistant variant) coveralls
-All buttons buttoned
, -Pant cuffs tucked into boots or socks
-Life preserver worn on the waist (or kept at GQ (General Quarters) station)
-Flash hood and gloves
Firefighter's Ensemble - cORRECT sOLUTION -Firefighter's helmet
-Flashhood worn under helmet
-Fire protective gear (aka bunker gear, or firefighting suit)
-Firefighting gloves
-Firefighting boots
EEBD (emergency escape breathing device) - cORRECT sOLUTION -Provides 10 min of O2 to allow an
individual to escape a space that is filled with smoke or in which halon or CO2 has been dropped
-NOT an SCBA and can not be used to replace one (temporary air and limited protection)
SCBA (Self-contained breathing apparatus) - cORRECT sOLUTION -Reated at 4,500 psi
-comes in 30 min and 45 min sizes
EEBD Allowances - cORRECT sOLUTION -Ship's Complement 150%
-Embarked Personnel 100%
-Berthing Spaces 100%