ipl-logo

Shipboarding Scenario

481 Words2 Pages

In week 1 you will be given your Navy-Issued Clothing and teach you how to properly fold and store your new belongings and also how to properly make your bunk. You will also receive complete dental and medical exams, and a hair cut too. The first week is also filled with conditioning, swimming, marching, drilling, and attending Navy classes. You will push your physical limits and achieve higher performance. Everything you do now and from this point will prepare for what lies ahead. Week 2 is basically a confidence course which is basically designed to simulate shipboard situations you could encounter in an emergency. Week 3 is a hands-on week. You will board a land-bound training ship and learn everything from nomenclature (Names), to first aid techniques, to Semaphore (Signaling with flags). Also in week 3 the classroom studies will focus mainly on custom and courtesies, laws of Armed conflict, money management, shipboard communication, navy-ship and aircraft identification, and basic seamanship. You will also have your first physical training test. In week 4 you will learn how to shoot and use a M-16 and a 12-Gauge Shotgun. After you have proven you know how to properly use them, you will move to the live-fire range. Also graduation pictures are this week and a academic test. In week 5 you will find …show more content…

These are two of the most vital things to know aboard a ship. You will get to learn many ship safety techniques such as how to extinguish fires, open and closing watertight doors, operate Oxygen Breathing Apparatus, and carry fire hoses. You will also get to take another academic test called the Confidence Chamber. Also in week 6 The Confidence Chamber is where you and about 100 other recruits will line up and put on a gas mask while a tear gas tablet is lit. After this you will be ordered to take the mask off and throw it in the trash while reciting your full name and Social Security

Show More
Related
668 Words | 3 Pages

As a Navy Reservist in a top cargo handling unit, I found myself on an airplane more often than I could have imagined. In those 5 years, we traveled to Virginia and Texas numerous times throughout the year for our weekend meetings not to mention yearly trips to places like California, Guam and Hawaii. It doesn't matter if I was away for the weekend or for two and a half weeks, packing made me apprehensive. I knew what I must bring... the uniform and what I wanted to bring... fun clothes.

Read More
438 Words | 2 Pages

Ship out of Luck is a novel about a family being invited to a free cruise ship by their friend Crawley for his birthday. The main character is named Antsy Bonano and he is always getting into trouble wherever he goes. He soon meets a character named Tilde, who is a stowaway and the captain’s daughter. She is smuggling illegal immigrants into the U.S by bringing them onto the cruise with fake IDs. Two major themes in this novel are the theme of trust and doing what you feel is right.

Read More
100 Words | 1 Pages

The reason why we need the course with such a short notice is that we have a training event at Ft. Riley in January and Ft Knox for XCTC in February.

Read More
1791 Words | 8 Pages

1. TRIP/EVENT PREPARATION a. The visit is your opportunity to show RADM Midgette your command and AOR so the itinerary will be based largely upon your input. As your unit begins to piece together this visit, please also keep in mind and include key CG AUX personnel, the Senior Reserve Officer, and Reserve CMC as appropriate.

Read More
908 Words | 4 Pages

he NCO 2020 strategy is focused on creating a system that will provide the NCOs with access to develop and broadening the experiences needed in both garrison and within operational environment. In addition, leaders will individually help to commit to long-term careers, which will be essentially focused on the development of educational, professional and with the fulfillment of having a ready force for war at all times. Essentially the strategy of the NCO 2020 is to have leaders at all levels understanding that the development of Soldiers must be constant and continuous throughout their career. The best way to expand and provide better NCO development is by focusing on proficiency in each Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) and leadership

Read More
581 Words | 3 Pages

This domain also uses the Structured Self-Development Course. The Soldier must then attend a Promotion Board. For Specialist and Sergeants, the Unit holds the Promotion Board. The Units Senior Noncommissioned Officers tests the Soldiers operational domain knowledge in the Promotion Board. For Staff Sergeants and above they attend a Centralized Board.

Read More
1724 Words | 7 Pages

The science fiction novel, Ship Breaker, by Paolo Bocigolupi, is about a boy named Nailer, who works in the shipyard where he has to survive in order to live. Nailer thinks there is more to his life and believes fate will set him free. Nita, a girl who Nailer saves, can be his hope to escape the shipyard because her father is in charge of the ship yard. In order for Nailer to better his future, he has to overcome difficult challenges along his way. In an assertion, by science fiction writer Ursula Le Guin speaks of an occurring problem in the world that people aren’t noticing, but science fiction allows us to observe what is happening without actually having to experience the problem.

Read More
923 Words | 4 Pages

Moving on to my sophomore year, I went to three summer camps JROTC related. Two from school and another out of state camp. I went to JCLC an enlisted/fun camp and I learned how to repeal and how to brainstorm with a team in order to finish the task at hand. I also learned how to take charge of a platoon

Read More
413 Words | 2 Pages

Once looked upon primarily as a source of enlisted recruits and officer candidates, it became a citizenship program devoted to the moral, physical and educational uplift of American youth. The program continues its military structure and the result ability to infuse in its student cadets a sense of discipline and order, it shed most of its early military content. The study of citizenship, communications, leadership, life skills and other subjects to prepare young men and women to take their place in adult society. More recently, an improved student centered curriculum focusing on character building and civic responsibility is being presented in every JROTC classroom.

Read More
534 Words | 3 Pages

There are few things more exciting to many kids than getting to go on a boat. Not only is it a great way to have fun and enjoy the outdoors, it can be a great way to teach kids about safety, teamwork and responsibility. When kids are introduced to safe boating at an early age, they are much more likely to become safe boaters for life. Whatever the age, all children and adults should wear age-appropriate life jackets – no exceptions.

Read More
2218 Words | 9 Pages

While in the ships, the players will alternate between using the various systems of the ship, like maneuvering, shooting the cannons, boarding the enemy ships, etc. To take advantage of the resources gained from downing enemy ships, and capturing their crew, the player could use their lumber, for example, to improve their own ship. Upgrades to the ship include a sturdier hull to ram against other ships, the ability to launch mortar fire to the enemies, among others. These upgrades would be carried over from battle to battle to have a sense of progression and attachment to both ships.

Read More
803 Words | 4 Pages

All he cruise ships have destinations to go to, where you are able to get off the boat and see different places, basically you take tours to places throughout their destination. When you go on a cruise you will need to dress for the occasion, you don’t want to be dresses inappropriate and miss out on all the fun. If you are going on a cruise that is destined for nothing but sunshine and oceans then you should dress warm. Maybe shorts and a nice shirt would be okay. If you are going to be swimming you may also want to bring a bathing suit or swimming trunks.

Read More
718 Words | 3 Pages

Again giving them the same basic needs as before while they were in Basic Combat Training. While in Advanced Individual Training, they will use tools and equipment that is required for the job in which they applied for. They will have to take care and maintain this equipment as if it were their own. After graduating from both Basic Combat Training and their Advanced Individual Training, they will go out and be assigned to a unit to perform the job in which they trained to do. While there they will be responsible in maintaining and taking care of any tools, weapons, gear assigned to them.

Read More
907 Words | 4 Pages

Duality, by Jeffrey Allen, is a Mindvalley course that promises many things, including access to an energy mastery blueprint for an extraordinary life, great health, increased spiritual skills, higher levels of awareness, and the ability to function more efficiently in the world. That 's all stuff that I can get on board with! And, if you know me, you know I 'm a huge fan of Mindvalley courses - how they are structured, how unique they are, and how transformational they are - so it was a no-brainier that I was going to take this one. This is my Duality review, including what I got from the course, how it 's set up, what annoyed me, and who I think will benefit most from it.

Read More
1162 Words | 5 Pages

Ideal for New Sailors Cabin chartering is perfect for first time sailing, especially if you don't have someone to accompany you. Not every sailor has a friend or loved one that shares their desire to sail, so this option allows that individual to experience the adventure of sailing with other likeminded people. If you have been putting off sailing due to the fact that no one wants to sail with you, you now have no excuse with a cabin charter!

Read More

More about Shipboarding Scenario

Related Topics

Open Document