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| Which branch of service had the first navy? |
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| Army, the Hannah was commissioned on August 24, 1775; two months before the Continental Congress authorized a Continental Navy the origin of the US Navy. |
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| What was the original dividing line between the Army’s Navy and the US Navy? |
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| Brown water versus blue water |
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| The US Military Railroad belonged to which branch of the Army? |
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| What was the lesson of the port of Tampa during the uploading of MG Shafter’s V Corps in 1898? |
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| The Army needs professionals who know how to run ports of embarkation. |
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| What organization was created 1899 to manage ports of embarkation and the Army’s sea going fleet? |
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| Army Transportation Service (ATS) |
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| What lesson about transportation was learned in France during World War I? |
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| All modes of transportation need to be managed by a single office – the Chief of Transportation. |
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| The Army first used trucks in which military operation? |
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| Pershing’s Mexican Punitive Expedition |
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| The Standard B “Liberty” Truck was unique in what respect? |
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| It was a standard design approved by the Army Quartermaster that any manufacturer could make and all parts were interchangeable. |
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| What organization managed all the Army trucks? |
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| Why did the Army adopt pack mules as a means of transportation? |
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| The mounted branch needed a means of transportation that could keep pace over any kind of terrain |
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| When was the last pack train disbanded? |
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| Where did the Army use pack mules during World War II? |
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| The mountains of Italy and the jungles of Burma. |
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| When was the Transportation Corps created? |
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| During World War II, the Quartermaster kept which transportation units? |
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| Truck units and amphibious truck units |
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| During World War II, the Quartermaster gave up which transportation units? |
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| During World War II, the Engineers kept which transportation units? |
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| Assault landing craft in the Engineer Special Brigades |
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| During World War II, the Engineers gave up which transportation units? |
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| Harborcraft units and railway battalions |
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| What was the Transportation Corps primarily created to provide what capability? |
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| Traffic management (movement control) |
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| During 1942, the DUKW was built because of what need? |
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| The need for an amphibious vehicle that could drive over sand bars and not have to stop at the water’s edge. |
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| Before the 2nd Engineer Special Brigade could provide landing craft in the South Pacific, General Douglass McArthur relied on what unique capability that allowed him to retake New Guinea? |
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| Small sailing ships manned by Australian sailors |
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| Red Ball Express and subsequent express routes were an out of the box traffic management solution to what problem? |
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| Lack of functioning rail leading out of Cherbourg Peninsula. |
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| The Quartermaster Corps gave the Transportation Corps the truck units when? |
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| What role did TC play in the Berlin Airlift? |
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| Truck companies delivered the supplies to the airports and delivered them to the citizens and Transporters loaded and unloaded the supplies. |
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| The Army Transportation Corps picked up helicopters from the US Air Force when? |
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| 1950, right before the Korean War. |
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| The 1st Marine Division and 2nd Infantry Division escaped through the gauntlet of the Chinese encirclement on what? |
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| Who was the first TC Medal of Honor recipient? |
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| A. LTC John U. D. Page. He was an X Corps Artillery officer who was performing the duties of a TC officer during the withdrawal of the 1st Marine Division. |
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| Who flew helicopters for the President of the United States before the US Marine Corps? |
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| The Army Transportation Corps |
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| What was the largest ship in the Army’s inventory during the Vietnam War? |
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| In 1954, the Army Transportation Corps received total responsibility for what mode of transportation? |
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| TC received responsibility for all watercraft from the Corps of Engineers |
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| What was the Army Transportation Corps solution to convoy ambushes during the Vietnam War? |
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| The Eve of Destruction has how many M2 .50 caliber machineguns? |
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| Four; two right and left .50s and a set of rear duals |
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| What were the first units to deploy to the Vietnam War? |
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| Army Transportation Corps Helicopter Companies in 1962 |
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| During the Vietnam War, the Transportation Corps was responsible for what aspect of Army Aviation? |
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| The vast majority of cargo was moved in Vietnam by what mode of transportation? |
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| To shorten the ground lines of communication and reduce the vulnerability to convoy ambush, the Transportation Corps did what? |
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| Built Army ports and conducted LOTS operations near the bases needing supplies. |
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| Why did the Army Transportation Corps have to create a riverine patrol boat company? |
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| Because the US Navy did not want to protect Army ports |
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| What TC Soldiers received the Medal of Honor during the Vietnam War? |
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| SPC Larry Dahl and SGT William Seay |
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| The 403rd A/DACG was the first transportation unit to conduct a combat jump into what war? |
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| Operation Just Cause, the invasion of Panama in 1989 |
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| Who was instrumental in winning the war in Panama? |
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| Operation Desert Storm was the first post-Vietnam War operation of the 7th Transportation Group. What was its role? |
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| Port operations and port clearance, or reception, staging and onward movement |
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| As a result of the ambushes in Mogadishu, Somalia, the Army Transportation Corps developed what fully armored vehicle? |
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| The primary role of the Transportation Corps during the early years of operations in the land locked country of Afghanistan was what? |
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| Movement Control and A/DACG |
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| The war in Iraq realized the need for what Vietnam War capability? |
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| Convoy security or gun trucks |
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| Who was the first truck driver to earn the first Silver Star Medal in the war in Iraq? |
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| During the war in Iraq, the Army Transportation Corps was so short what asset it had to borrow “in lieu of” companies from the other Army branches and US Air Force? |
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| Truck companies and escort companies |
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