EPME Questions and Answers
Q: What is the significance of the Coast Guard ensign?
✓✓ Mark of authority for boardings, examinations, and seizures
of vessels
Q: What year did the Lifesaving Service and Revenue Cutter
Service combine to create the Coast Guard?
✓✓ 1915
Q: Specialty or rating marks for petty officers became official in
what year?
✓✓ 1866
Q: The Navy recognized three classes of petty officers in what
year?
✓✓ 1885
Q: The petty officer rate became official in what year?
✓✓ 1808
Q: When did the Coast Guard adopt battle streamers and how
many are there?
,✓✓ 1968 (following the Marine Corps practice)
43 streamers
Q: Naval petty officers got their first rate insignia in what year?
✓✓ 1841
Q: What date did the MCPOCG come into existence?
✓✓ August 17, 1969
Q: Who established the office of the MCPOCG?
✓✓ Congress
by an act of registration
Q: As a rule, the petty officer's _____ dictates the level of
authority, responsibility, and accountability.
✓✓ rate
Q: What does 14USC89a give petty officers the authority to do?
✓✓ Board a vessel under U.S. jurisdiction at any time, and
Search, Examine, Arrest, Seize, Inspect, and Inquire
Q: What is the system called that the Coast Guard uses to grow
its workforce into leaders?
✓✓ Leadership Development
, Q: What do you call achieving desired results by providing the
right tools, information, and working environment, and
fostering commitment among your followers?
✓✓ Effective Leadership
Q: What are the measurable behavioral patterns essential to
leading? How many does the Coast Guard have?
✓✓ Leadership Competencies
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Q: Enlisted Members' Rights: Right to speak to an attorney?
✓✓ Rights of the Accused
Q: Enlisted Members' Rights: Right to an inventory of seized
items?
✓✓ Probable Cause Search
Q: Enlisted Members' Rights: Right to request a particular mast
representative?
✓✓ UCMJ infractions
Q: Who ensures all required written comments are provided
and that the member is counseled on their marks?
✓✓ Approving Official
Q: What is the significance of the Coast Guard ensign?
✓✓ Mark of authority for boardings, examinations, and seizures
of vessels
Q: What year did the Lifesaving Service and Revenue Cutter
Service combine to create the Coast Guard?
✓✓ 1915
Q: Specialty or rating marks for petty officers became official in
what year?
✓✓ 1866
Q: The Navy recognized three classes of petty officers in what
year?
✓✓ 1885
Q: The petty officer rate became official in what year?
✓✓ 1808
Q: When did the Coast Guard adopt battle streamers and how
many are there?
,✓✓ 1968 (following the Marine Corps practice)
43 streamers
Q: Naval petty officers got their first rate insignia in what year?
✓✓ 1841
Q: What date did the MCPOCG come into existence?
✓✓ August 17, 1969
Q: Who established the office of the MCPOCG?
✓✓ Congress
by an act of registration
Q: As a rule, the petty officer's _____ dictates the level of
authority, responsibility, and accountability.
✓✓ rate
Q: What does 14USC89a give petty officers the authority to do?
✓✓ Board a vessel under U.S. jurisdiction at any time, and
Search, Examine, Arrest, Seize, Inspect, and Inquire
Q: What is the system called that the Coast Guard uses to grow
its workforce into leaders?
✓✓ Leadership Development
, Q: What do you call achieving desired results by providing the
right tools, information, and working environment, and
fostering commitment among your followers?
✓✓ Effective Leadership
Q: What are the measurable behavioral patterns essential to
leading? How many does the Coast Guard have?
✓✓ Leadership Competencies
28
Q: Enlisted Members' Rights: Right to speak to an attorney?
✓✓ Rights of the Accused
Q: Enlisted Members' Rights: Right to an inventory of seized
items?
✓✓ Probable Cause Search
Q: Enlisted Members' Rights: Right to request a particular mast
representative?
✓✓ UCMJ infractions
Q: Who ensures all required written comments are provided
and that the member is counseled on their marks?
✓✓ Approving Official
