Basic Military Requirements (BMR) CHAPTERS 15 - 22

1. Basic Military Requirements (BMR) CHAPTERS 15 - 22

2. Chapter 15 – Survival • Chapter 16 - Career and Education Information • Chapter 17 - Financial and Stress Management • Chapter 18 - Surface Preservation • Chapter 19 - Safety and Hazardous Materials • Chapter 20 - Sea Power • Chapter 21 - Leadership and Supervision • Chapter 22 – Security Requirements and International Agreements

3. CHAPTER 15SURVIVAL • Abandoning Ship • Having to abandon ship isn’t pleasant. Your “home” is gone along with most of your possessions and possibly some of your shipmates. “Don’t panic and don’t give up hope.”

4. IF TIME PERMITSthe crew will abandon the ship in a planned and orderly manner. • All personnel go topside and muster at their appropriate stations. • What will be passed over the 1MC? • Bearing and distance to the nearest land, sea and wind conditions, and water temp are passed over the 1MC. USS YORKTOWN

5. If you have to go over the side and the ships’ propellers are turning, you should leave from what point on the ship? • The windward side, if possible • The lee side, if possible • From the bow • From the stern

6. Third class swimmer • Enter the water feet first from 5 feet • Remain afloat for 5 mins • Swim 50 yards • Second class swimmer • Jump from 10 feet • Remain afloat for 10 mins • Swim 100 yards, using three survival strokes for at least 25 yards each. • Breast stroke • Side stroke • Elementary back stroke

7. First class swimmer • Swim 220 yards • Enter the water feet first and immediately swim 25 yards underwater • Remove your trousers or slacks in the water and inflate them • Tow another person 25 yards, using the following methods: • Cross-chest carry • Extended reach (recommended for struggling victims) • Grabbing the victims hair from behind and use side stroke (recommended for towing unconscious victims)

8. How many types of life preservers does the Navy use? • Inherently buoyant • Inflatable Survival kits in large lifeboats are designed to sustain 15 – 20 people on regular rations for 5 days. • In a lifeboat, you may survive on as little as 6 ounces of water a day. (normally about 2 quarts a day)

9. Survival Ashore • What is the one essential requirement for survival? • Water • Foods derived from animals have more food value per pound than those derived from plants. • Cooking makes food safer, more digestible, and better tasting. • Liquids obtained from vines are not safe if they have white sap or are very dark in color.

10. Evasion • According to the Code of Conduct, it is your duty to evade capture. • Your job is to get back to your unit. • Take the safest not the easiest route. • The position of the stars and the sun are the best ways for determining direction. (no compass) • Use of a stream or coastline

11. Chapter 16Career and Education Information • Advancements • Duty types • Evals • Enlisted Service Record • Training and Education • Commissioning Programs • Discharges

12. Advancement • What is considered to be the most important requirement for advancement? • The CO’s recommendation • Must be Time in Rate eligible • Complete all personnel advancement requirements (PARS) • Demonstrate knowledge of material in your mandatory rate training manual

13. Types of Duty • How many different types of duty are there? • 3 - Sea, Shore and Neutral • 8 types of duty designations 1 – Shore duty (CONUS) 2 – Sea duty (CONUS) 3 – Shore duty (OCONUS) 4 – Sea duty (Nonrotated) 5 – Neutral duty 6 – Shore duty (preferred OCONUS) 7 – Sea duty (partial) 8 – Sea duty (double)

14. Enlisted Evaluation Report and Counseling Record • The most significant personnel management tool in your service record • What is an Eval primarily used for? • Primarily used by BUPERS to make advancement-in-rate and assignment decisions.

15. Also used for determining • Eligibility for GCM • Reenlistment • Type of discharge • Appointment to commissioned status • Assignment to special duties • Special educational programs

16. Eval • What else should it include • Off-duty educational achievements • Community involvement • Completed correspondence courses • You have the right to review your own evaluation before final disposition is made.

17. How many traits are evaluated on the Eval? 7 Traits • Professional Knowledge • Quality of Work • Equal Opportunity • Military Bearing/Character • Personal Job Accomplishment/Initiative • Teamwork • Leadership Values • 5.0 Greatly Exceeds Standards • 4.0 Above Standards • 3.0 Meets Standards • 2.0 Progressing • 1.0 Below Standards

18. Enlisted Service Record • NAVPERS 1070/600 • There are 15 different forms. • Also referred to as pages • Enlisted Qualifications History, NAVPERS 1070/604 (page 4) • Dependency Application/Record of Emergency Data, NAVPERS 1070/602 (page 2) • Administrative Remarks Form, NAVPERS 1070/613 (page 13) Only those given authority by the CO make service record entries.

19. 1070/604 (page 4) • Educational experience level • ASVAB scores • Off-duty education • Training course/instructions completed • Navy service schools/Military Training • Correspondence courses • NEC’s • Designator • Awards • PQS

20. 1070/602 (page 2) • Used by both Officer and Enlisted • Provides an immediately accessible, up-to-date record of emergency data for casualty reporting and notification of the next of kin. • Updated when there is a change in family member status, such as marriage, birth, divorce, a change in address, etc. 1070/613 (page 13) • Misc. entries of info not recorded elsewhere or of detailed info that may be required in the clarification of entries on other pages of the service record

21. Navy Schools • R – Recruit • A – Basic technical knowledge • C – Advanced knowledge (NEC) • F – Team training (Off and Enl) • P – Undergraduate edu and indoc. (Academy, NROTC and OCS) • V – Pilot and NFO

22. Off-duty educational opportunities • Navy campus – in-service voluntary educational programs. • Basic skills program. Provides opportunity to earn high school diploma • Tuition Assistance (TA) • Program for afloat college education (PACE)- civilian instructor lead. Member pays registration and books • Defense activity for nontraditional education support (DANTES) – DOD courses, exams, and many others.

23. Programs leading to a Naval Commission • Naval Academy • Each year SECNAV appoints 85 enlisted men and women Navy & Marine. And 85 SELRES • NROTC scholarship program • Must sign six year agreement. • Broadened opportunity for Officer selection and training (BOOST) • Intended to help people who have been educationally deprived but demonstrated they have the basic qualities and desires needed to gain a commission. • Enlisted Commissioning Program (ECP) • Finish Baccalaureate degree in 2 years • Must sign 6 year obligation

24. Naval Reserve Officer programs • Must possess a baccalaureate degree or higher. • Unrestricted line • Nuke • Aviation • JAG • Civil Engineer Corps • Direct appointment Nuke power inst. and Naval Reactor Engineer • Chief Warrant Officer • Offered to senior enlisted, don’t need a degree • Limited Duty Officer (LDO) • Commission without a college degree • Seaman to Admiral • Enlisted – OCS – Sea duty/warfare qualification – Naval Postgraduate School.

25. Discharge • How many types of discharges are there? • Honorable • General (under honorable conditions) • Other than honorable • Bad conduct • Dishonorable

26. Chapter 17Financial Management and Stress Management • What are the 3 different types of pay • Basic • Incentive • Special Must have either a checking or savings account to get paid

27. Allowances • Clothing • Subsistence • Quarters • BAQ with or without dependents • Other • COLA, FSA, OHO, VHA • Housing

28. Leave and liberty • Leave • Shown on your LES. • Authorized absence, chargeable • Liberty • Not shown on LES. • Special liberty • Emergencies, voting, special recognition or major religious events. • 3-4 days

29. Stress • Occurs when there’s an imbalance between the demands of our lives and resources we have to deal with those demands • Job • Financial • Family • Not all stress is bad however too much stress can be bad for you both physically and mentally • Acceptance • Attitude • Perspective

30. Chapter 18Surface Preservation • Each area of the ship is divided into various departments for upkeep. The Cleaning, Preservation, and maintenance Bill describes these areas and outlines the dept that is responsible for them. • Cleaning gear is stocked and issued from the first lieutenant’s storeroom

31. “Field Days” improve the appearance and sanitary condition of the ship. Aid in the preservation of the ship by extending paint life, and reduce the dirt intake caused by operating equipment. • Zone inspections divide the ship or station into various sections.

32. Solvents • Never use solvents in an unventilated space under any circumstances. • Do not wear jewelry or clothing with cuff, loose pockets, rips, or loose ties. • Always check the caution labels before using any solvents. • Keep containers tightly closed • Label all containers

33. Chapter 19Safety and Hazardous Materials • Observe all safety precautions related to your work or duties • Report unsafe conditions • Warn others of hazards • Protective equipment and clothing is issued to you for a purpose – use them

34. Wear eye and/or full-face protection. • Report all injuries or illnesses • Remain alert • Don’t rush into a job • Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) • How to use, store, and dispose • Identity, hazardous ingredients, physical/chemical characteristics, physical/health hazards, reactivity, routes of entry into the body, etc.

35. Do not paint scaffold, because the paint might conceal defects. • Do not work on a scaffold in high winds or when the scaffold is covered with ice or snow. • Lifelines are used to prevent personnel from falling or being washed over the side • Do not sit, lean, or stand on any lifeline. • Before any work may be done aloft, permission must be obtained from the OOD.

36. Most accident involving steam occur in the engine rooms and firerooms. • Never enter a closed space until it is certified safe by a gas free engineer. • A person overcome by carbon monoxide has the following symptoms • Sudden feeling of weakness • Headache • drowsiness

37. All pyrotechnic materials are kept in special stowage spaces, usually located on topside decks • Compartments used to store compressed gas cylinders should not be allowed to rise above ___ degrees Fahrenheit. • 130 • 140 • 145 • 175 • Compartments that contain compressed gases are ventilated for 15 mins if ventilation has been secured.

38. Tag-out System • CO or OIC is responsible for the safety of the entire command. • Authorizing Officer signs the final authorization placing a system or piece of equipment off line for repairs or maintenance. • The person attaching the tag actually shuts a valve or secures a switch that takes a piece of equipment off line for repairs or maintenance. • Yellow = Caution tag • Do not use if personnel or equipment can be endangered while performing evolutions using normal procedures • Red = Danger tag • Prohibit operation of equipment that could jeopardize the safety of personnel or equipment, systems or components

39. Sea power • Sea power describes a nation’s ability to protect its political, economic and military interests through control of the sea.

40. The seas are our lifeline for survival. In addition to being a barrier between nations and a broad highway for ships, the seas are an important source of food, minerals, and metals. • We import no fewer than 77 resources to maintain our present economy • Of all our needed minerals, only about 11 are found within our borders. (manganese, columbite, tin and oil)

41. Coast Guard • Peacetime • Enforcing maritime laws and treaties • Conducting search and rescue operations • Enforcing U.S. drug and contraband laws • Installing and maintaining aids to navigation • Icebreaking operations • Wartime • Maintaining in-port safety and security • Maintaining commercial vessel safety • Convoy duties and antisub • Merchant marines • Peacetime • Transport essential materials to and from the U.S. for the defense of the free world • Wartime • Resupply American and allied military forces overseas • Provide wet and dry replenishments and other direct services to ships underway • Increase combatant naval forces by being armed to carry out convoy antiaircraft, and antisubmarine duties • Transport essential materials and cargo needed for the U.S. economy and the economy of allies overseas

42. Chapter 21Leadership and Supervision • 3 elements that make an effective Navy leader: • Moral Principles • Personal example • Administrative ability • Giving orders • Make the facts clear • What’s to be done • When to do it • If circumstances require or permit add how to do it and why it must be done.

43. An Effective Leader • Praise and Reprimand • Praise in public • Reprimand in private • Pride • Keep Personnel Informed • What’s going on and why • Integrity • Followership To lead, you must first be able to follow; for without followers, there can be no leader.

44. Chapter 22Security Requirements and International Agreements • What are the 3 security classification levels • Top secret • Unauthorized exposure could cause exceptionally grave damage to national security • Secret • Unauthorized exposure could reasonable be expected to cause serious damage to national security • Confidential • Unauthorized exposure could reasonably be expected to cause damage to national security • CO determines you need for a security clearance. • Some rate require access to classified information • To apply you must be a U.S. citizen. • Just because you have a clearance doesn’t not grant you access to classified information.

45. Clearance may be suspended or revoked if: • Involvement in activities or association with people who unlawfully practice or advocate overthrow or alteration of the U.S. govt by unconstitutional means • Foreign influence concerns or close personal association with foreign nationals or countries. • Foreign citizenship (dual citizenship) or foreign monetary interests • Bad conduct, such as excessive drinking, gambling, promiscuity, or illegal or improper drug use/involvement • Unexplained affluence or excessive indebtedness • Apparent mental, emotional, or personality disorder(s) • Criminal conduct • Noncompliance with security requirements

46. Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) • Troop movement • Passport requirements • Criminal jurisdiction • Taxes • Geneva Convention • Established in 1949 • To be treated humanely at all times • To be protected against insults and public curiosity • Decent housing, nourishing food, and adequate clothing • Given medical care • Allowed to worship, exercise and participate in sports and intellectual pastimes

47. QUESTIONS?