1. Lieutenant
   Life Tanker
2. Long Treader
   Late Talker

A lieutenant is a junior officer in the Navy. The next rank up is lieutenant commander and then after that you hit the senior officers with commander and then captain.

1. Surface-to-Air Missile
   Strategic Ammunition Master
2. Steady Aim Machine
   Search and Attack Maneuver

Surface-to-air missiles are weapons designed to be launched from the ground or from a vessel at sea that can take out a plane or even another missile. These are a big part of weapons defense systems.

1. Marine Control Primary Office
   Military Command Patrol Officer
2. Master Chief Petty Officer
   Marine Captain Primary Offense

Master chief petty officer is the highest enlisted rank in the US Navy. The game HALO made the name "Master Chief" a part of the everyday lexicon.

1. Sea Leads
   Search and Alert Team
2. Special Extraction and Attack Leads
   Sea, Air, and Land Teams

SEALs are some of the most renowned special forces teams in the military. SEAL Team 6 was famously responsibly for catching Osama bin Laden.

1. Strategic Operations Navigation and Recon
   Special Ops Near Air Recon
2. Sound Navigation and Ranging
   Senior Officer Naval Air Reactor

SONAR is very similar to the way bats locate prey in nature. It uses sound waves to locate an object, like a submarine under the water. The sound will bounce off the surface of whatever it hits and the signal that bounces back indicates the presence of an object.

1. Uniform Code of Military Justice
   Unit Command Mode Junction
2. Universal Code of Military Jargon
   Usual Conduct of Military Justice

The Uniform Code of Military Justice is essentially the entire legal foundation of how the military works. These are the rules and laws that apply to every single member of the military.

1. Substituting in for the Quartermaster
   Stationed in Quay
2. Sick in Quarters
   Stuck in Queue

Sick in quarters is what happens when you aren't so incapacitated that you need to stay in the hospital, but the doctor has also determined you shouldn't be back at active duty yet, either.

1. Special Executive Command of the Navy
   Secretary of the Navy
2. Senior Executive Control of the Navy
   Strategic Environmental Control of the Navy

The Secretary of the Navy is the head of the Navy and is appointed by the president. They have to have been a civilian for at least 5 years to get the job.

1. Justice and Guardians
   Joint Active Guard
2. Judge Advocate General
   Justice Administration General

The JAG Corps is home to the judge advocates, a group of military lawyers who deal with issues of military law and justice. If you get into any legal problems in the Navy, you'll be dealing with a JAG lawyer.

1. Navy Exchange
   Naval Executive Branch
2. Naval Employment Executive
   Navy Enlisted Exclusive

The Navy Exchange is a retail store owned by the Navy. The store is open for anyone in the military and their dependents as well as those retired and honorably discharged and it basically offers everything you could find at a Walmart and then some.

1. Northern Naval Systems Yard
   Norfolk Naval Shipyard
2. National Naval Shipyard
   Navy Nuclear Systems Yard

The Norfolk Navy Shipyard or Norfolk Navy Yard is located In Portsmouth, Virginia. This is where they built the USS Enterprise, which couldn't go into space but was still the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.

1. Air Scanning Weapons
   All System Warfare
2. Anti-Submarine Warfare
   Air Speed Warning

This is pretty much what it sounds like. Aircraft, warships or even other submarines have to deal with enemy submarines during wartime and that means engaging in anti-submarine warfare.

1. Periscope Depth
   Partial Deployment
2. Patrol Dock
   Planning Direction

This one's pretty obvious - it's the depth at which a submarine is submerged but the periscope can still be used to look around. So not very deep, but still under water.

1. Administration
   Acting Director of the Military
2. Advanced Demolition Machine
   Admiral

There's only one rank above admiral in the Navy and that's fleet admiral. Unfortunately, that rank is almost never used so the highest rank you're likely to ever see in the Navy is, in fact, admiral.

1. Unified Service Ship
   Universal Service System
2. United States Ship
   United Space Ship

This is one of those ones that's pretty obvious when you think about it. United States Ship is what you call any ship that's in the United States Navy.

1. Department of the Navy
   Defense Order Network
2. District of the Nation
   Defense of Naturalization

The Department of the Navy is part of the Department of Defense and is the governmental, organizational structure that oversees all of the Navy.

1. Basic Utility and Personnel Service
   Bureau of Navy Personnel
2. Bureau of Professional Emergency Resources
   Bureau of Peacekeeping Response

The Bureau of Navy Personnel is very much like the human resources wing of the Navy. They're concerned with administration, policy and recruitment.

1. Weapon Tactics Designs
   Water Tight Doors
2. War Team Dynamics
   Weapon Tracking Defense

Water tight doors are a necessity on any ship at sea. They seal off sections of the ship and prevent water from traveling from one section to the next in the event you start taking on water.

1. Guard Quadrant
   Gun Quay
2. General Quarters
   Group Quality

When the call to general quarters goes out, you're supposed to drop what you're doing and head to your assigned station. The call to general quarters is usually a high-pitched whistle over the intercom.

1. Lieutenant Commander's Ship
   Last Command Ship
2. Littoral Combat Ship
   Last Construction Squad

Littoral means an area near the shore, and these relatively small vessels were designed to be stealthy combat vessels in those areas.

1. Flaming Ordinance Destruction
   Foreign Object Damage
2. Faulty Optical Device
   Full Order Destruction

Foreign object damage refers to any outside thing that might cause damage to your aircraft. Things like hail and birds are kinds of FOD you don't want to run into.

1. Executed Order
   Executive Officer
2. Excessive Ordinance
   Extra Optimum

The XO is the executive officer, the second-in-command who reports to the commanding officer.

1. Commanding Officer
   Captain Official
2. Command Order
   Corporal Office

Your commanding officer is the officer in charge, of course. This is whoever has the command of whatever unit or team you're a part of and you better listen to them.

1. Light Systems Operator
   Logistic Support Order
2. Laser System Ordinance
   Landing Support Officer

The landing support officer is a skilled pilot who remains on deck and communicates with other pilots as they land on the aircraft carrier, providing guidance and information to make the landing smooth and problem-free as well as critiquing their performance.

1. Military Mechanic
   Main Mechanic
2. Machinist's Mate
   Master Mechanic

It's the job of the machinist's mate to maintain and repair pretty much all the mechanical systems on a ship. If something goes wrong, this person knows how to fix it.

1. Search Recon
   Seaman Recruit
2. Service Rifleman
   Special Replacement

A seaman recruit is the lowest enlisted rank in the Navy. When you sign up, this is where you start. Maybe you'll make admiral one day!

1. Combat Information Center
   Central Intelligence Command
2. Chief Intelligence Center
   Civil Information Command

The Combat Information Center is another name for the Operations Room. This is the tactical center of something like a warship where all the relevant information is processed so command knows what's going on.

1. SECDEF
   SOCOM
2. USNA
   DDG

DDG is the designation used for guided missile destroyers. Back in the day, destroyers were designed DL for destroyer leader. Later they became guided missile cruisers which were reclassified as CG/CGN. Now we have DDG. Go figure.

1. Clean it
   Paint it
2. Sneak on board
   Steer it

Why this is called a Z5O is not 100% clear but it refers to a security drill in which someone who does not have the proper authority will try to sneak on board. They may bring official-looking letters, lie and use intimidation to try to do it but it's all a trick and they should be stopped immediately.

1. Commander of Ballistics
   Commander on Base
2. Captain on Border
   Chief of the Boat

The Chief of the Boat is what you call the senior enlisted sailor on a boat. They're in charge of all the other enlisted men and things like rack assignments, watch station assignments and a lot of the rest of a boat. Not much gets done without them.

1. Aqueous Film Forming Foam
   Automatic Fire Fighting Formula
2. All-Functional Fire Fighting
   Adjustable Fire Fighting Function

Aqueous Film Forming Foam is a chemical meant to combat fires that is actually rather toxic and is being phased out of use.

1. Civil Engineer Corps
   Construction And Engineering Corps
2. Central Engineering Corps
   Construction Executive Center

The Civil Engineer Corps is made up of engineers and architects and other professionals whose job it is to design, build and operate naval facilities around the world.

1. Terrible Fire Over All
   Things Falling Off Aircraft
2. Trick frame Operating Accident
   Technical Failure On Alert

TFOAs can be anything from flaps to fuel tanks to the 30-pound aluminum door that fell off a helicopter and nearly hit a bunch of people swimming back in 1986.

1. Visit, Board, Search and Seizure
   Vectors, Ballistics, Search and Strike
2. Vehicle Boarding Search Squad
   Voluntary Batallion Security Service

VBSS teams are vital to law enforcement efforts at sea. VBSS stands for visit, board, search and seizure, and their duties include boarding suspected criminal or terrorist vessels to conduct customs and safety inspections as well as combat smuggling and piracy.

1. Mission Insurgency Zone
   Military Intelligence Zone
2. Marginal Ice Zone
   Mission Interception Zone

The Marginal Ice Zone is that place where the open sea and the frozen ice covering it meet. If you're doing anything on a boat way up north, there's a chance you're going to end up in the MIZ.