U.S. Navy

Answer: All of these.

Based out of Bantry Bay Ireland USS Utah was indeed the flagship of the U.S. Navy BatDiv6 under Admiral Rogers for over a year until the armistice was signed in late 1918. She performed all the duties listed and was also part of the honor guard for President Wilson's ship, USS George Washington, on his trip to the peace talks, along with USS Arizona.

Answer: She carried returning veterans home to America.

In a very small example of the huge Operation Magic Carpet following WWII, USS Arizona embarked 238 veterans bound for home in December 1918. She arrived off Ambrose light on Christmas afternoon and the next day, passed in review before Secretary of the Navy Daniels, who was aboard the Presidential yacht Mayflower anchored off the Statue of Liberty, before entering New York Harbor beginning the great homecoming celebrations for the Doughboys.

Answer: Nuclear Attack Submarine SSN-775

The current holder of the name USS TEXAS is a Virginia Class Nuclear Attack Submarine designated SSN-775. She was christened by First Lady Laura Bush in 2004, and, in 2006, was commissioned in Galveston, Texas. Her home port in 2009 will be Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. CVN-77 is the last of the Nimitz Class Super Carriers and is named for fellow Texan, President George H.W. Bush. CGN-39 was a Nuclear Guided Missile Cruiser and was indeed the USS TEXAS but was retired in 1993 as part of the nuclear recycling program. LHD-9 would be the next Amphibious Assault Carrier and has yet to be built. They are generally names after famous WWII battle sites.

Answer: Admiral David Glasgow Farragut

During the Civil War, Admiral Farragut lead a squadron of US ships to engage the Confederates in Mobile Bay, Alabama. The "torpedoes" that Farragut refer to are today's sea mines that were in the area protecting the Confederate Fort Morgan.

Answer: U.S.S. Coral Sea

Two carriers have had the proud name of the old Coral Maru, which was my last ship. CV-42, the second of the Midway class carriers, was originally named Coral Sea, but was renamed USS Franklin D. Roosevelt prior to launching in honor of the then recently deceased president. USS Coral Sea, CV-43, was the third Midway class carrier, and served proudly for some 50 years before being scrapped.

Answer: George Washington

He established it in 1782. It's awarded to any person wounded in combat action while serving the United States military.

Answer: That the sailor has completed 12 consecutive years with good conduct

When a sailor completes 12 years on active duty and has had no conduct infractions, he/she is entitled to wear a gold rating badge and gold service stripes on his/her dress blue uniforms.

Answer: The Quasi War

Answer: Three

First Phase is considered the hardest and most strenuous of all phases. It contains almost non-stop PT, surf passages, and of course, "Hell Week". Second Phase centers around underwater diving, while Third Phase instructs the trainee with weapons and land warfare tactics.

Answer: Guided Missile Frigate

Although the FFG is commonly known as a "fast frigate" in the Navy vernacular, only the "FF" is actually designated "fast frigate". Back a few years there were several classes of FF (basically lacking the guided missile component), but to my knowledge, all the FF's have been decommissioned.

(Editor's Note: This is true... the USS Truett, FF-1095, was the last Fast Frigate to be decommissioned. She was stricken from the registry on 30 July 1994.)

Answer: Trash Can

The antennae are shaped like half a trash can, and have a auto-correct gyro in them to track the satellite while the ship was moving.

Answer: A submariner

Submariners are referred to by personnel on surface ships as bubbleheads (among other things). There are no female bubbleheads - yet. The term "bubblehead" was also once used to describe Navy divers.

Answer: Battle of the Coral Sea

Battle between the US and Japan in May 1942. The Americans lost one carrier and a destroyer. While the Japanese lost one light carrier and had two others damaged. Neither of the two fleets ever sighted the other, only their naval aviators.

Answer: U.S. Marine

Also known as a bullet sponge or gyrene.

Answer: NAS Pensacola, FL

Although they are stationed at Forrest Sherman Field NAS in Pensacola, Florida, their training every winter is in El Centro, CA.

Answer: Wake Island

Enterprise was the second of the planned class of two Yorktown-class carriers built for the US Navy. Commissioned in May 1938, she operated as part of the Atlantic Fleet until April 1939, when she was ordered to the Pacific. Initially stationed in San Diego, the ship, alongside the rest of the fleet, was forward deployed to Pearl Harbor in Hawaii in an effort to shackle the increasingly expansionist aims of Japan in the Pacific region. As part of her role, Enterprise, alongside the other carriers assigned to the Pacific Fleet, were tasked with transporting aircraft to aid in the defence of the island bases the US had established in the Pacific. On 28 November 1941, Enterprise departed Pearl Harboron another such mission, delivering a US Marine Corps fighter squadron to Wake Island, located 2,500 miles to the west of Hawaii.

Originally, Enterprise was scheduled to return to Pearl Harbor on 6 December, but bad weather led to the ship being delayed, and she was still more than 200 miles distant on the morning of 7 December. Having launched a number of search aircraft, which were ordered to then return to Hawaii, the ship received reports that Pearl Harbor was under attack by the Japanese. Having undertaken a fruitless search for the enemy, Enterprise finally returned in the evening of 8 December. The ship was refuelled and resupplied within 12 hours, and returned to sea to guard against possible additional attack, at the same time removing the carrier from harm's way.

Answer: 1937

On July 2,1937 Earhart's plane disappeared from radar. After an extensive search, her plane wreckage was never found, and she and Noonan were declared lost at sea. Despite numerous theories, their disappearance remains a mystery.

Answer: Lexington and Saratoga

Both Lexington and Saratoga were completed as aircraft carriers in 1927. Lexington was designated CV-2 and Saratoga was CV-3.

Answer: USS West Virginia

BB-48 USS West Virginia was moored alongside BB-43 USS Tennessee at mooring quays of berth F-6 on December 7, 1941. Both ships would be damaged in the attack, though Tennessee only received light damage. In comparison West Virginia would be hit by two armor piercing bombs and seven torpedoes. The damage West Virginia took would result in her being sunk, wedging the inboard Tennessee between the mooring quays and West Virginia. It would be ten days before Tennessee could be freed from her predicament. But for West Virginia, one of four battleships sunk or capsized at Pearl Habor (the other three being USS Arizona, USS Oklahoma, and USS California; the former battleship converted into an auxiliary target ship USS Utah was also among the ships sunk or capsized in the attack), it would not be until May 1942 that she would be raised. Nearly a year later she would be sent to the Puget Sound Navy Yard in Bremerton, Washington for a rebuild and modernization. This period would be completed in July 1944, following which West Virginia would undergo a shakedown period before sailing for Hawaii that September where she would once more become an Admiral's flagship. Her first major operation of the war would come during the invasion of the Philippines.

Answer: 20

The following is a list of the fleet carriers at the end of WWII: USS Saratoga, USS Enterprise, USS Essex, USS Yorktown, USS Intrepid, USS Hornet, USS Franklin, USS Ticonderoga, USS Randolph, USS Lexington, USS Bunker Hill, USS Wasp, USS Hancock, USS Bennington, USS Boxer, USS Bon Homme Richard, USS Antietam, USS Shangri-La, USS Lake Champlain, and USS Tarawa.

Answer: YPs

One training milestone for midshipmen is a YP cruise during the summer between their first and second years. This three week training period includes a voyage up the East Coast to ports like Newport, Boston, and New York City.

Answer: USS Triton SSN-586

The voyage took 83 days and in that time the USS Triton traveled nearly 41,500 miles. During the voyage she maintained an average speed of about 18 knots or almost 21 miles per hour.

Answer: USS Arkansas (BB-33)

USS Arkansas (BB-33) was commissioned on 17 SEP 1912, the others were commissioned starting in 1914.

Answer: Su-22 Fitter

On 19 August 1981, after evading AA-2 Atoll missiles fired by the Libyan fighters, Tomcats of VF-41 Black Aces returned fire and scored the very first air-to-air kills for the F-14.

Answer: 52

Fifty boats were lost in the Pacific and two in the Atlantic. The first loss was the USS Sealion (SS-195) which was destroyed by Japanese aircraft on December 10, 1941 while docked at Cavite Naval Yard in the Philippines; the last was the USS Bullhead (SS-332) which was sunk by Japanese aircraft on August 6, 1945, just a few days before the end of the war.