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1.  Answer each of the questions below in the space provided:

1. What does damage control include?

2. What are its primary objectives?

2.  Answer each of the questions below in the space provided:

1. Which officer is the ship's damage control officer?

2. Who is the principal assistant?

3.  Answer each of the questions below in the space provided:

1. What is the name given to the control station for shipboard damage control?

2. What is the name given to the on-scene groups of people who are responsible for damage control in assigned sections of the ship?

4.  Answer each of the questions below in the space provided:

1. What is the task of a repair party scene leader?

2. What are the special teams within a repair party?

5.  Answer each of the questions below in the space provided:

1. What is a battle dressing station?

2. Who brings stretcher cases to the battle dressing station?

6.  Answer each of the questions below in the space provided:

1. What are the three basic material conditions of readiness?

2. What is the extent of protection for the ship in each?

7.  What are the two ways to control flooding?

8.  Answer each of the questions below in the space provided:

1. What are the emergency alarms used aboard ship?

2. When are they used?

9.  Answer each of the questions below in the space provided:

1. What is the principal means of internal communication throughout a ship?

2. What is the particular advantage of this system?

3. When internal phone and electrical systems fail, what method is used to relay messages?

10.  Who should be the first person to report a fire?

11.  Answer each of the questions below in the space provided:

1. What is the "fire triangle"?

2. How can a fire be put out?

3. What is the method most often used?

12.  List the four classes of fires, fuels for each, and best method of extinguishing each.

13.  Why must a stream of water never be used to put out fires in electrical or electronic equipment before it is completely deenergized?

14.  Answer each of the questions below in the space provided:

1. Why must special precautions against fire be constantly observed aboard ship?

2. What are some of the key rules for shipboard fire prevention?

3. Why do these rules make sense in your own home.

15.  Where are shipboard sprinkler systems used?

16.  What should you do if your clothes catch on fire?

17.  What is the purpose of the Navy's oxygen breathing apparatus?

18.  Answer each of the questions below in the space provided:

1. What are the first steps a firefighting party must take in fighting a fire?

2. Why do they check bulkheads and decks for heat?

19.  What is the purpose of a fire boundary?

20.  What is dewatering?