Topside Checklist

Question 1

Define deadly force.

Answer 1

Force that a person used causing, or that a person knows or should know would create, a substantial risk of death or serious bodily harm.

Question 2

What are the Levels of Force Continuum?

Answer 2

Presence - Verbal Commands - Soft Control - Hard Control - Non-Lethal Force - Deadly Force

Question 3

What is the deadly force triangle?

Answer 3

Capability - Opportunity - Intent

Question 4

What is your 1st general order?

Answer 4

To take charge of my post and all government property in view.

Question 5

What is your 2nd general order?

Answer 5

To walk my post in a military manner, keeping always on the alert and observing everything that takes place within site or hearing.

Question 6

What is your 3rd general order?

Answer 6

To report all violations of orders I am instructed to enforce.

Question 7

What is your 4th general order?

Answer 7

To repeat all calls from posts more distant from the guardhouse than my own.

Question 8

What is your 5th general order?

Answer 8

To quit my post only when properly relieved.

Question 9

What is your 6th general order?

Answer 9

To receive, obey,, and pass on to the sentry who relieves me all orders from the commanding officer, command duty officer, officer of the deck and officers and petty officers of the watch only.

Question 10

What is your 7th general order?

Answer 10

To talk to no one except in the line of duty.

Question 11

What is your 8th general order?

Answer 11

To give the alarm in case of fire or disorder.

Question 12

What is your 9th general order?

Answer 12

To call the officer of the deck in any case not covered by instruction.

Question 13

What is your 10th general order?

Answer 13

To salute all officers and all colors and standards not case.

Question 14

What is your 11th general order?

Answer 14

To be especially watchful at night, and during the time of challenging to challenge all persons on or near my post and to allow no one to pass without proper authority.

Question 15

What is a stovepipe and how do you fix it?

Answer 15

This is when the ejected round fails to fly away from the weapon and instead, sticks out the side of the ejection port resembling a stovepipe, hence the name stovepipe jam. This is a simple fix and all you need to do is usually grab ahold of the empty casing that is causing the jam, pull it out, charge the weapon, and continue firing.

Question 16

What is a double feed and how do you fix it?

Answer 16

Weapon tries to chamber two rounds at once and they both get scrunched up inside the chamber. This usually happens due to a defective magazine. To fix this, all you would do is eject the magazine, shake out the loose rounds, reinsert the magazine, charge the weapon, and continue firing.

Question 17

How many rounds do you have?

Answer 17

90 - 60 on you, 30 in the weapon

Question 18

What condition are the weapons in?

Answer 18

M9 - Condition 1; M16 - Condition 3