Navy Hospital Corpsman
Fundamentals well answered graded
A+ 2025/2026
Caduceus - correct answer ✔✔A short staff entwined by 2 serpents, sometimes surmounted by
wings; the rating symbol of Hospital Corpsman
Cockpit - correct answer ✔✔Was the place designated for the care of the sick aboard ships;
later it became known as "sickbay"
The first direction given to the organization of Navy medicine was published in... - correct
answer ✔✔1775
Article 16 in RULES FOR THE REGULATION OF THE NAVY OF THE UNITED COLONIES OF NORTH
AMERICA stated: - correct answer ✔✔"A convenient place shall be set apart for sick or hurt
men, to be removed with their hammocks and bedding when the surgeon shall advise the same
to be necessary: and some of the crew shall be appointed to attend to and serve them and to
keep the place clean. The cooper shall make buckets with covers and cradles if necessry for their
use."
A typical medical section is limited to __ or __ men - correct answer ✔✔2 or 3 men
Ship's Surgeon - correct answer ✔✔Trained physician
Surgeon's Mate - correct answer ✔✔Usually a physician but subordinate to surgeon. Held
Warrant Officer like status. Usually signed on for a particular cruise only. Responsibilities more
equivalent to a modern-day senior HM
,The Continental Navy disbanded in - correct answer ✔✔1790
When did Congress mandate all newly commissioned sailing warships to contain a "cockpit" for
treatment of the sick and injured. Unofficially reestablished need for enlisted medical personnel
with no official title or job description. Duties assigned by ship's surgeon. Served a porridge
called "loblolly" to the sick and injured and eventually nicknamed "Lobllolly Boys". - correct
answer ✔✔2 March 1799
Loblolly Boy was classified as an official rate in... - correct answer ✔✔1814
The duties of the Loblolly included: - correct answer ✔✔- Maintaining cleanliness in the cockpit
- Provide water and containers to hold amputated limbs
- Fill containers of coal to heat tar used in hemorrhage control
- Fill buckets of sand used to aid slips and falls on blood-soaked decks
- Ring a bell at 0900 to announce sick call, every morning, seven days a week
- Prepared the cockpit before battle
Loblolly Boys rang the bell at _______ to announce sick call, every morning, seven days a week.
- correct answer ✔✔0900
Loblolly Boys served during... - correct answer ✔✔The Quasi-War with France (1797-1800)
The first Barbary War (1801-1805).
The Navy's first Loblolly Boy - correct answer ✔✔John Wall
The first Loblolly POW - correct answer ✔✔John Domyn
The first African-American Loblolly - correct answer ✔✔Joseph Anderson
, The Surgeon Steward title was used from the age of ___________ ______________ to the end
of the Civil War (_____-______) - correct answer ✔✔American expansion to the end of the Civil
War (1820-1865)
The Surgeon Steward was first seen in Navy pay charts in... - correct answer ✔✔1841
The first enlisted rating requiring specific qualifications was the... - correct answer ✔✔Surgeon
Steward
Requirements to be Surgeon's Steward included: - correct answer ✔✔1. Possessing knowledge
of pharmacy
2. Demonstration of industrious and temprate behavior
3. Appointed to the position by the ship's surgeon
The benefits of being the Surgeon's Steward: - correct answer ✔✔1. Paid $18.00 per month and
one extra ration, (could be rum ration or food ration)
2. Were not discharged from the Navy without the consent of the officer apointing them or
their succesor. Exception: Courts martial (U.S. Navy Regulations, 1865)
Nurse (______-_______) - correct answer ✔✔1861-1873
What replaced the title of "Nurse" for junior medical enlisted? - correct answer ✔✔Bayman
Define Bayman: - correct answer ✔✔One who manned the sick bay
Bayman (Early _____-_____) - correct answer ✔✔Early 1870s-1898
Fundamentals well answered graded
A+ 2025/2026
Caduceus - correct answer ✔✔A short staff entwined by 2 serpents, sometimes surmounted by
wings; the rating symbol of Hospital Corpsman
Cockpit - correct answer ✔✔Was the place designated for the care of the sick aboard ships;
later it became known as "sickbay"
The first direction given to the organization of Navy medicine was published in... - correct
answer ✔✔1775
Article 16 in RULES FOR THE REGULATION OF THE NAVY OF THE UNITED COLONIES OF NORTH
AMERICA stated: - correct answer ✔✔"A convenient place shall be set apart for sick or hurt
men, to be removed with their hammocks and bedding when the surgeon shall advise the same
to be necessary: and some of the crew shall be appointed to attend to and serve them and to
keep the place clean. The cooper shall make buckets with covers and cradles if necessry for their
use."
A typical medical section is limited to __ or __ men - correct answer ✔✔2 or 3 men
Ship's Surgeon - correct answer ✔✔Trained physician
Surgeon's Mate - correct answer ✔✔Usually a physician but subordinate to surgeon. Held
Warrant Officer like status. Usually signed on for a particular cruise only. Responsibilities more
equivalent to a modern-day senior HM
,The Continental Navy disbanded in - correct answer ✔✔1790
When did Congress mandate all newly commissioned sailing warships to contain a "cockpit" for
treatment of the sick and injured. Unofficially reestablished need for enlisted medical personnel
with no official title or job description. Duties assigned by ship's surgeon. Served a porridge
called "loblolly" to the sick and injured and eventually nicknamed "Lobllolly Boys". - correct
answer ✔✔2 March 1799
Loblolly Boy was classified as an official rate in... - correct answer ✔✔1814
The duties of the Loblolly included: - correct answer ✔✔- Maintaining cleanliness in the cockpit
- Provide water and containers to hold amputated limbs
- Fill containers of coal to heat tar used in hemorrhage control
- Fill buckets of sand used to aid slips and falls on blood-soaked decks
- Ring a bell at 0900 to announce sick call, every morning, seven days a week
- Prepared the cockpit before battle
Loblolly Boys rang the bell at _______ to announce sick call, every morning, seven days a week.
- correct answer ✔✔0900
Loblolly Boys served during... - correct answer ✔✔The Quasi-War with France (1797-1800)
The first Barbary War (1801-1805).
The Navy's first Loblolly Boy - correct answer ✔✔John Wall
The first Loblolly POW - correct answer ✔✔John Domyn
The first African-American Loblolly - correct answer ✔✔Joseph Anderson
, The Surgeon Steward title was used from the age of ___________ ______________ to the end
of the Civil War (_____-______) - correct answer ✔✔American expansion to the end of the Civil
War (1820-1865)
The Surgeon Steward was first seen in Navy pay charts in... - correct answer ✔✔1841
The first enlisted rating requiring specific qualifications was the... - correct answer ✔✔Surgeon
Steward
Requirements to be Surgeon's Steward included: - correct answer ✔✔1. Possessing knowledge
of pharmacy
2. Demonstration of industrious and temprate behavior
3. Appointed to the position by the ship's surgeon
The benefits of being the Surgeon's Steward: - correct answer ✔✔1. Paid $18.00 per month and
one extra ration, (could be rum ration or food ration)
2. Were not discharged from the Navy without the consent of the officer apointing them or
their succesor. Exception: Courts martial (U.S. Navy Regulations, 1865)
Nurse (______-_______) - correct answer ✔✔1861-1873
What replaced the title of "Nurse" for junior medical enlisted? - correct answer ✔✔Bayman
Define Bayman: - correct answer ✔✔One who manned the sick bay
Bayman (Early _____-_____) - correct answer ✔✔Early 1870s-1898
