WEEKLY CHALLENGE FOR THANKSGIVING WEEK

Here's this week's challenge.  Because this is a short week, the challenge will expire at 0730 Monday, 29 November.  There will be a suitable prize.

For seniors:  Does North Korea have a right to develop nuclear weapons?  If you believe that they do not, why not?  If you believe that they do, do we have a right to stop them?  Be prepared to defend your answer.

For juniors:  You are OOD on a FFG on a course of 000 degrees.  At 0809 you spot a buoy 6 degrees off your starboard bow.  You check the radar and determine that the buoy is 1,000 yards or 1/2 NM ahead.  Assuming that you are making 10 knots good through the water and there is no set and drift, how far will the buoy be off your side when it passes abeam and when will that occur?  (Caution: We haven't discussed this in class, but you can apply what we have discussed in class and a bit of elemental geometry and come up with an easy solution.  Good luck.)

For FROSH:  Who is the highest ranking female in the United States Navy and what rank is she?  Describe the rank insignia she wears.  Congratulations (again) to C/CPO Robert Ferguson who correctly identified VADM Ann Rondeau as the senior female officer on active duty in the United States Navy as well as correctly describing her rank insignia.  Admiral Rondeau is the President of the National Defense University in Washington, D.C.