U.S. Navy

Answer: June 1950 through July 1954

President Harry S Truman created the Korean Service Medal in November 1950 to acknowledge the military members of the United States who served in operations in the Korean area.

Answer: While still on the gangway, face the national ensign and salute; then turn to the Officer of the Deck, salute and request permission to come aboard

In port, the ensign is flown from the fantail. Even if it cannot be seen, face in that direction and salute to show respect for the colors. The Officer of the Deck represents the Commanding Officer of the ship, so he/she should be saluted while verbally requesting to come aboard the ship. When departing, a request is made for permission to leave the ship, then a salute is rendered in the direction of the national ensign prior to continuing down the gangway.
Editor's Note: By "ensign", the author is not referring to the officer grade O-1. In this case, ensign refers to the national flag.

Answer: H.M.S. Confiance and U.S.S. Saratoga

Answer: Draeger

There is not a lot to mention here, that only it is a very good closed-circuit rig.

Answer: BB

BB stands for "Battleship". One of the most famous ships in the Navy, the USS Missouri, or "Mighty Mo", was where the Japanese surrendered in WWII. It is now in Pearl Harbor as a museum.

Answer: Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station

These units fall under NCTAMS. They are located world wide and have importance to the local Navy operations. At last count, there were
9 Alantic, 3 Med, 6 Pacfic.

Answer: munitions handler

Crew chief-brown, fire fighter-silver, air director-yellow.

Answer: Gitmo

The U.S. Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was established in 1903.

Answer: Fat Albert

'Fat Albert' is a nickname given to the plane by Marine Corps Blue Angel pilots in the 1970s because of its size and shape. The cargo plane has an all Marine crew.

Answer: USS Constitution

Over 200 years old, originally launched October 21, 1797.

Answer: Foreign Minister Shigiatsu

Foreign Minister Shigiatsu leaned on a cane to help support an artificial leg that had been lost in a bombing in Shanghai. He was later convicted of war crimes and sentenced to 7 years in prison. He was released in 1950.

Answer: Robert Blake

Robert Blake was the first escaped slave to actually receive the Medal of Honor for his actions while manning the rifle gun aboard the USS Marblehead in the Stono River on Christmas Day 1863. Another escaped slave, William Harvey Carney, was the first to be awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in July 1863 during the Second Battle of Fort Wagner (remember the movie Glory), but he did not receive the medal until 1900 - which was in fact quite common at the time.

Answer: Never

The ships were never recommissioned for the Korean War. It was determined that the cost was prohibitive, and there were more capable ships available.

Answer: Sunk 1942

The Lexington was sunk in the Battle of the Coral Sea on May 8, 1942. A new carrier of the Essex class was named Lexington in her honor.

Answer: USS South Dakota

BB-57 USS South Dakota was known as Battleship X and Old Nameless for secrecy purposes. Concerned with the need to hide secretive operational information from the Japanese, the US Navy took to calling South Dakota Battleship X in order to hide her real name while she was serving with the Third and Fifth fleets. Whenever South Dakota was mentioned in American newspapers or radio programs, she was called either Battleship X or Old Nameless.

Answer: USS Enterprise

The USS Enterprise or "Big E" (CVN-65) was completed and accepted put to sea by the United States Navy on 12 January 1962, and retired from service on 1 December 2012 after nearly 51 consecutive years of service.

Answer: Al-Qaeda

Al-Qaeda attempted a very similar attack in January of the same year on the USS The Sullivans. However, this plot was abandoned as the small boat was so full of explosives that it sunk. In June 2001, al-Qaeda created a recruitment video in which Osama bin Laden praised the USS Cole bombing and encouraged similar attacks.

Answer: spooning

Unfortunately, the term "spooning" has other connotations. Another term with different meanings in the outside world: "flamer" which means someone who is especially fond of or adept at yelling at plebes as a corrective measure. The verb form is "to flame on" a plebe, as if breathing fire.

Answer: USS Nassau LHA-4

The air strike from the Amphibious Assault Ship USS Nassau marked the first time in U.S. Naval history that a fixed wing Marine combat air strike was launched from a vessel other than an Aircraft Carrier.

Answer: USS Missouri (BB-63)

Per the Naval Vessel Registry (NVR), USS Missouri was decommissioned 31 MAR 1992. Her sisters were decommissioned 26 OCT 1990 (IOWA), 8 FEB 1991 (NEW JERSEY), 30 SEP 1991 (WISCONSIN).

Answer: Admiral Hyman G. Rickover

Hyman George Rickover was born in Russian-occupied Poland on January 27, 1900. The son of poor Jewish parents, he emigrated to the United States at age five, along with his parents, and grew up in Chicago. He earned an appointment to the United States Naval Academy in 1918, and was graduated in 1922. He served on a variety of ships; in 1929 he became qualified in submarines. During WWII he served as the head of the Electrical Section in the Bureau of ships. In 1949 he became Director of Naval Reactors, and oversaw the development of the first pressurized water reactor.

Rickover was a very difficult man to get along with, and was frequently involved in disputes with other officers, as well as the civilian contractors who built the Navy's ships. But he continued to serve until 1982, when he was forced to retire as a full Admiral by Secretary of the Navy John Lehman, a former aviator who knew nothing about submarines or nuclear power. His 63 years of continuous active service make him the longest serving officer in United States military history. Rickover died July 8, 1986 and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

Answer: USS Intrepid (CV-11)

Her nickname came from her often ill luck and time spent in dry dock for repairs. She still serves as an emergency command center for state and federal authorities, the FBI used her as an operations center after the 11 Sep 2001 terrorist attacks.

Answer: "Damn the torpedos full speed ahead"

During the Battle of Mobile Bay, Admiral Farragut gave his famous quote. "I have not yet begun to fight," is from John Paul Jones. "Give me liberty..." is acredited to Patrick Henry and General Douglas MacArthur spoke of returning to the Phillippines during WWII.

Answer: He's an aviator.

From WW-II through Vietnam, naval aviators wore a uniform called aviation working green. Brown shoes were prescribed for wear with AWGs. Once the AWG was removed from the seabag, aviators continued to wear brown shoes.

While all other officers and chief petty officers are authorized to wear brown shoes, most choose to wear black shoes. Being envious of aviators, black shoe sailors use the term brown shoe derisively.

Submariners are referred to a bubbleheads, and surface sailors are called skimmers.

Answer: Went sailing in Tokyo Bay

Shortly after the end of hostilities, while anchored in Tokyo Bay, the crew of North Carolina got from below a small sailboat the captain had stored aboard, assembled it on deck and launched it in Tokyo Bay. He had said when he put it on board that one day he would sail it in Tokyo Bay. The captain then did just that, he boarded the little boat and sailed it around the fleet anchored nearby.