USCG BTM – Boatcrew Training Manual Study Guide, Key Terms &
Exam Prep
14USC522* - correct answer ✔✔THE COAST GUARD MAY MAKE INQUIRIES, EXAMINATIONS,
INSPECTIONS, SEARCHES, SEIZURES, AND ARRESTS UPON THE HIGH SEAS AND WATERS OVER
WHICH THE UNITED STATES HAS JURISDICTION, FOR THE PREVENTION, DETECTION, AND
SUPPRESSION OF VIOLATIONS OF LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES
WHO HAS CG MLE AUTHORITY - correct answer ✔✔COMMISSIONED, WARRANT, AND PETTY
OFFICERS
AS A NONRATE, I HAVE NO AUTHORITY, I ONLY HAVE AUTHORITY UNDER BO
AUTHORITY UDER 14USC522 - correct answer ✔✔UPON THE HIGH SEAS AND WATERS OVER
WHICH THE UNITED STATES HAS JURISDICTIONS; AND ANY VESSEL SUBJECT TO THE
JURISDICTION OR TO THE OPERATION OF ANY LAW OF THE UNITED STATES
AUTHORITY* - correct answer ✔✔GOVERNMENT'S LEGAL POWER TO ACT
JURISDICTION* - correct answer ✔✔GOVERNMENT'S POWER TO EXERCISE LEGAL AUTHORITY
OVER ITS PERSONS, VESSELS, AMD TERRITORY.
JURISDICTION TRIANGLE* - correct answer ✔✔- LOCATION: THE CHARACTER OF THE WATERS IN
WHICH THE VESSEL IS LOCATED
- VESSEL STATUS/FLAG: CAN LEGAL AUTHORITY BE EXERCISED OVER THE VESSEL?
- SUBSTANTIVE LAW: PROHIBITS CERTAIN ACTION OR REQUIRES AFFIRMATIVE CONDUCT
1ST AMENDMENT - correct answer ✔✔FREEDOM OF RELIGION, SPEECH, PRESS, ASSEMBLY,
AND PETITION
,2ND AMENDMENT - correct answer ✔✔THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS
4TH AMENDMENT* - correct answer ✔✔THE RIGHT AGAINST UNREASONABLE SEARCHES AND
SEIZURES
FOURTH AMENDMENT - correct answer ✔✔THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO BE SECURE IN THEIR
PERSONS, HOUSES, APAPER, AND EFFECTS, AGAINST UNREASONABLE SEARCHES AND SEIZURES,
SHALL NOT BE VIOLATED, AND NO WARRANTS SHALL BE ISSUED, BUT UPON PROBABLE
BECAUSE, SUPPORTED BY OATH OR AFFIRMATION, AND PARTICULAR DESCRIBING THE PLACES
TP BE SEARCHED, AND THE PERSONS OR THINGS TO BE SECURED
FOURTH AMENDMENT PARAPHRASE - correct answer ✔✔- PROTECTS AGAINST UNREASONABLE
SEARCHES AND SEIZURES FROM THE GOVERNMENT
- SEARCHES REQUIRE A WARRANT BASED UPON PROBABLE BECAUSE ; CG SEARCHES ONLY
REQUIRE PROBABLE CAUSE
5TH AMENDMENT* - correct answer ✔✔DUE PROCESS, DOUBLE JEOPARDY, GRAND JURY, JUST
COMPENSATION, SELF INCRIMINATION
FIFTH AMENDMENT - correct answer ✔✔NO PERSON SHALL BE HELD TO ANSWER FOR A
CAPITAL, OR OTHERWISE INFAMOUS CRIME, UNLESS ON PRESENTMENT OR INDICTMENT OF A
GRAND JURY, EXCEPT CASES IN THE LAND OR NAVAL FORCES, OR IN THE MILITIA, WHEN ACTUAL
SERVICE, IN TIME OF WAR, OR PUBLIC DANGER, NOR SHALL ANY PERSON BE SUBJECT FOR THE
SAME OFFENSE, TO BE TWICE PUT IN JEOPARDY OF LIFE OR LIMB; NOR SHALL BE COMPELLED IN
ANY CRIMINAL CASETO BE A WITNESS AGAINST HIMSELF, NOR BE DEPRIVED OF LIFE, LIBERTY
OR PROPERTY, WITHOUT DUE PROCESS OF LAW; NOR SHALL PRIVATE PROPERTY BE TAKEN FOR
PUBLIC USE, WITHOUT JUST COMPENSATION
SEARCH* - correct answer ✔✔ENTRY OR INTRUSION BY A GOVERNMENT AGENT ON AQUEST
FOR EVIDENCE INTO AN AREA WHERE AN INDIVIDUAL HAS A REASONABLE EXPECTATION OF
PRIVACY
, PROBABLE CAUSE* - correct answer ✔✔A BELIEF BY A REASONABLE AND PRUDENT PERSON
GIVEN THE OVERALL CIRCUMSTANCES, TO BELIEVE A CRIME HAS BEEN OR IS BEING
COMMITTED
REASONABLE SUSPICION* - correct answer ✔✔BELIEF BY A REASONABLE AND PRUDENT
PERSON BASED ON ARTICULABLE FACTS THAT SOMETHING AS HAPPENED
USE OF FORCE* - correct answer ✔✔ONLY THAT FORCE REASONABLY NECESSARY UNDER THE
CIRCUMSTANCES MAY BE USED. FORCE MAY NOT BE USED WHERE ASSIGNED DUTIES CAN BE
DISCHARGED WITHOUT IT. EXCESSIVE FORCE MAY NEVER BE USED; HOWEVER, NOTHING IN THE
APPLICATION OF THE CG UOF POLICY SHALL BE CONSTRUED AS TO REQUIRE PERSONNEL TO
MEET FORCE WITH EQUAL OR LESSER FORCE
BTM SCOPE OF RESPONSIBILITY (guiding principals)* - correct answer ✔✔ASSISTING THE
BOARDING OFFICER AND BEING SAFE, LEGAL, AND PROFESSIONAL AT ALL TIMES
TYPES OF BOARDINGS CONDUCTED - correct answer ✔✔- RECREATIONAL
- COMMERCIAL (FISHERY, CARGO, PASSENGER)
3 TYPES OF SELF DEFENSE* - correct answer ✔✔INDIVIDUAL, UNIT SELF DEFENSE, NATIONAL
SELF DEFENSE
INDIVIDUAL SELF DEFENSE* - correct answer ✔✔THE ACT OF DEFENDING ONESELF OR OTHER
PEOPLE FROM IMMINENT DANGER
UNIT SELF DEFENSE* - correct answer ✔✔THE ACT OF DEFENDING A PARTICULAR UNIT OF U.S.
MILITARY FORCES OR LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSETS FROM IMMINENT DANGER
Exam Prep
14USC522* - correct answer ✔✔THE COAST GUARD MAY MAKE INQUIRIES, EXAMINATIONS,
INSPECTIONS, SEARCHES, SEIZURES, AND ARRESTS UPON THE HIGH SEAS AND WATERS OVER
WHICH THE UNITED STATES HAS JURISDICTION, FOR THE PREVENTION, DETECTION, AND
SUPPRESSION OF VIOLATIONS OF LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES
WHO HAS CG MLE AUTHORITY - correct answer ✔✔COMMISSIONED, WARRANT, AND PETTY
OFFICERS
AS A NONRATE, I HAVE NO AUTHORITY, I ONLY HAVE AUTHORITY UNDER BO
AUTHORITY UDER 14USC522 - correct answer ✔✔UPON THE HIGH SEAS AND WATERS OVER
WHICH THE UNITED STATES HAS JURISDICTIONS; AND ANY VESSEL SUBJECT TO THE
JURISDICTION OR TO THE OPERATION OF ANY LAW OF THE UNITED STATES
AUTHORITY* - correct answer ✔✔GOVERNMENT'S LEGAL POWER TO ACT
JURISDICTION* - correct answer ✔✔GOVERNMENT'S POWER TO EXERCISE LEGAL AUTHORITY
OVER ITS PERSONS, VESSELS, AMD TERRITORY.
JURISDICTION TRIANGLE* - correct answer ✔✔- LOCATION: THE CHARACTER OF THE WATERS IN
WHICH THE VESSEL IS LOCATED
- VESSEL STATUS/FLAG: CAN LEGAL AUTHORITY BE EXERCISED OVER THE VESSEL?
- SUBSTANTIVE LAW: PROHIBITS CERTAIN ACTION OR REQUIRES AFFIRMATIVE CONDUCT
1ST AMENDMENT - correct answer ✔✔FREEDOM OF RELIGION, SPEECH, PRESS, ASSEMBLY,
AND PETITION
,2ND AMENDMENT - correct answer ✔✔THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS
4TH AMENDMENT* - correct answer ✔✔THE RIGHT AGAINST UNREASONABLE SEARCHES AND
SEIZURES
FOURTH AMENDMENT - correct answer ✔✔THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO BE SECURE IN THEIR
PERSONS, HOUSES, APAPER, AND EFFECTS, AGAINST UNREASONABLE SEARCHES AND SEIZURES,
SHALL NOT BE VIOLATED, AND NO WARRANTS SHALL BE ISSUED, BUT UPON PROBABLE
BECAUSE, SUPPORTED BY OATH OR AFFIRMATION, AND PARTICULAR DESCRIBING THE PLACES
TP BE SEARCHED, AND THE PERSONS OR THINGS TO BE SECURED
FOURTH AMENDMENT PARAPHRASE - correct answer ✔✔- PROTECTS AGAINST UNREASONABLE
SEARCHES AND SEIZURES FROM THE GOVERNMENT
- SEARCHES REQUIRE A WARRANT BASED UPON PROBABLE BECAUSE ; CG SEARCHES ONLY
REQUIRE PROBABLE CAUSE
5TH AMENDMENT* - correct answer ✔✔DUE PROCESS, DOUBLE JEOPARDY, GRAND JURY, JUST
COMPENSATION, SELF INCRIMINATION
FIFTH AMENDMENT - correct answer ✔✔NO PERSON SHALL BE HELD TO ANSWER FOR A
CAPITAL, OR OTHERWISE INFAMOUS CRIME, UNLESS ON PRESENTMENT OR INDICTMENT OF A
GRAND JURY, EXCEPT CASES IN THE LAND OR NAVAL FORCES, OR IN THE MILITIA, WHEN ACTUAL
SERVICE, IN TIME OF WAR, OR PUBLIC DANGER, NOR SHALL ANY PERSON BE SUBJECT FOR THE
SAME OFFENSE, TO BE TWICE PUT IN JEOPARDY OF LIFE OR LIMB; NOR SHALL BE COMPELLED IN
ANY CRIMINAL CASETO BE A WITNESS AGAINST HIMSELF, NOR BE DEPRIVED OF LIFE, LIBERTY
OR PROPERTY, WITHOUT DUE PROCESS OF LAW; NOR SHALL PRIVATE PROPERTY BE TAKEN FOR
PUBLIC USE, WITHOUT JUST COMPENSATION
SEARCH* - correct answer ✔✔ENTRY OR INTRUSION BY A GOVERNMENT AGENT ON AQUEST
FOR EVIDENCE INTO AN AREA WHERE AN INDIVIDUAL HAS A REASONABLE EXPECTATION OF
PRIVACY
, PROBABLE CAUSE* - correct answer ✔✔A BELIEF BY A REASONABLE AND PRUDENT PERSON
GIVEN THE OVERALL CIRCUMSTANCES, TO BELIEVE A CRIME HAS BEEN OR IS BEING
COMMITTED
REASONABLE SUSPICION* - correct answer ✔✔BELIEF BY A REASONABLE AND PRUDENT
PERSON BASED ON ARTICULABLE FACTS THAT SOMETHING AS HAPPENED
USE OF FORCE* - correct answer ✔✔ONLY THAT FORCE REASONABLY NECESSARY UNDER THE
CIRCUMSTANCES MAY BE USED. FORCE MAY NOT BE USED WHERE ASSIGNED DUTIES CAN BE
DISCHARGED WITHOUT IT. EXCESSIVE FORCE MAY NEVER BE USED; HOWEVER, NOTHING IN THE
APPLICATION OF THE CG UOF POLICY SHALL BE CONSTRUED AS TO REQUIRE PERSONNEL TO
MEET FORCE WITH EQUAL OR LESSER FORCE
BTM SCOPE OF RESPONSIBILITY (guiding principals)* - correct answer ✔✔ASSISTING THE
BOARDING OFFICER AND BEING SAFE, LEGAL, AND PROFESSIONAL AT ALL TIMES
TYPES OF BOARDINGS CONDUCTED - correct answer ✔✔- RECREATIONAL
- COMMERCIAL (FISHERY, CARGO, PASSENGER)
3 TYPES OF SELF DEFENSE* - correct answer ✔✔INDIVIDUAL, UNIT SELF DEFENSE, NATIONAL
SELF DEFENSE
INDIVIDUAL SELF DEFENSE* - correct answer ✔✔THE ACT OF DEFENDING ONESELF OR OTHER
PEOPLE FROM IMMINENT DANGER
UNIT SELF DEFENSE* - correct answer ✔✔THE ACT OF DEFENDING A PARTICULAR UNIT OF U.S.
MILITARY FORCES OR LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSETS FROM IMMINENT DANGER
