Navcivguide
Subtitle: a handbook for civilians in the United States Navy
By: Thomas J. Cutler.
Series: U.S. Naval Institute Blue & Gold professional library
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Annapolis, Md
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781591141556
Subjects: United States. -- Navy -- Civilian employees -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Military titles: understanding the many different kinds of titles that military people have and learning how to properly address them; title: Navy organization: unraveling some of complexity of the organization of the Navy and the Department of Defense and learning how the various components fit together to accomplish the many tasks assigned; title: Reading uniforms: learning how uniforms,defined as the clothes worn by military personnel and the various accoutrements that go on them, serve a variety of purposes and how understanding them can benefit you; title: The paper Navy: communicating in the Navy through correspondence and messages and understanding how the Navy organizes, retains, and protects information; title: Navy customs and traditions: dealing with those odd practices in the Navy that reflect the history and traditions of this centuries-old organization; title: Ships: describing the oldest element of sea power from an external view, explaining how to differentiate the various types in use in today's Navy, and providing a basic understanding of their naval uses; title: Shipboard: describing ships from an internal view, preparing to actually go aboard or merely to understand much of the terminology you are likely hear ashore as well as at sea; title: Aircraft: a primer in the complex but important field of Naval Aviation, describing the different types of aircraft in use and understanding some of the systems and organizations associated with the Navy's aircraft; title: Weapons: learning the basics of naval weaponry, including the types, terminology, systems, and some of the technology of these essential components of the Navy's existence; title: Lucky bag:  miscellaneous topics that may be useful to you but do not rate a chapter of their own, nor fit into any of the previous chapters; title: Appendix A. Selected sources and resources; title: Appendix B. Acronyms and abbreviations.