Navy Hospital Corpsman Exam1
Questions and Answers
Swooshing Arrow - Answer-Return to good situational awareness
Caduceus - Answer-Rating insignia for the Hospital Corps
Sickbay - Answer-Where sick and inured men were taken for care
Cockpit - Answer-Another name for sickbay
Surgeon Steward - Answer-1st enlisted rate requiring specific qualification
Medal of Honor - Answer-Highest military decoration
Distinguished Service Cross - Answer-2nd highest military decoration (Army and previously the Air
force)
,Navy Cross - Answer-2nd highest military decoration (Navy, Marines, Coast Guard)
Silver Star - Answer-3rd highest military decoration
Bronze Star - Answer-Heroic/meritorious achievement (6 DEC 1941)
Article 16 - Answer-1st direction given to Navy Medicine published in 1775
(established sickbay along with a crew to attend/serve injured and sick)
on 2 March 1799, Congress - Answer-Mandated all newly commissioned sailing warships to contain a
"cockpit" for treatment of the sick and injured
Ship's Surgeon - Answer-Trained physician (official rate in 1814)
Surgeon's Mate - Answer-Usually a physician but subordinate to surgeon
Loblolly Boys - Answer-Served porridge called Loblolly to the sick
birthed the corpsman nickname
Loblolly Boys served - Answer-During Quasi-War with France (1797-1800)
During the first Barbary War (1801-1805)
John Wall - Answer-Navy's first Loblolly Boy
John Domyn - Answer-First Loblolly POW
, Joseph Anderson - Answer-1st African American Loblolly Boy
Baymen - Answer-Replaced title of "Nurse" for junior medical enlisted
Defined as "one who manned the sick bay" in 1873
Nurse (1861 - 1873) - Answer-Junior Enlisted Medical personnel
Cornelius O'Leary - Answer-Had 38 years Apothecary experience at the time of his appointment
Robert Stanley - Answer-Became 1st Hospital Corpsman to be awarded MOH in 1900
Apothecary - Answer-Pharmacist
(Originally 3 pay grades to replace Surgeon Steward)
Bethesda Naval Hospital - Answer-Flagship of Navy Medicine since 11 Nov 1940
New Hospital Corps - Answer-Signed by President William McKinley on 17 June 1898 to establish Navy
Hospital Corps
1st Hospital Corps School - Answer-Established in Portsmouth, VA on 15 Dec 1902
In 1916, Congress - Answer-Authorized expansion of Hospital Corps to 3.5% of all Navy and Marine
Corps
2nd Hospital Corps School - Answer-Established in 1917 Great Lakes, IL
Questions and Answers
Swooshing Arrow - Answer-Return to good situational awareness
Caduceus - Answer-Rating insignia for the Hospital Corps
Sickbay - Answer-Where sick and inured men were taken for care
Cockpit - Answer-Another name for sickbay
Surgeon Steward - Answer-1st enlisted rate requiring specific qualification
Medal of Honor - Answer-Highest military decoration
Distinguished Service Cross - Answer-2nd highest military decoration (Army and previously the Air
force)
,Navy Cross - Answer-2nd highest military decoration (Navy, Marines, Coast Guard)
Silver Star - Answer-3rd highest military decoration
Bronze Star - Answer-Heroic/meritorious achievement (6 DEC 1941)
Article 16 - Answer-1st direction given to Navy Medicine published in 1775
(established sickbay along with a crew to attend/serve injured and sick)
on 2 March 1799, Congress - Answer-Mandated all newly commissioned sailing warships to contain a
"cockpit" for treatment of the sick and injured
Ship's Surgeon - Answer-Trained physician (official rate in 1814)
Surgeon's Mate - Answer-Usually a physician but subordinate to surgeon
Loblolly Boys - Answer-Served porridge called Loblolly to the sick
birthed the corpsman nickname
Loblolly Boys served - Answer-During Quasi-War with France (1797-1800)
During the first Barbary War (1801-1805)
John Wall - Answer-Navy's first Loblolly Boy
John Domyn - Answer-First Loblolly POW
, Joseph Anderson - Answer-1st African American Loblolly Boy
Baymen - Answer-Replaced title of "Nurse" for junior medical enlisted
Defined as "one who manned the sick bay" in 1873
Nurse (1861 - 1873) - Answer-Junior Enlisted Medical personnel
Cornelius O'Leary - Answer-Had 38 years Apothecary experience at the time of his appointment
Robert Stanley - Answer-Became 1st Hospital Corpsman to be awarded MOH in 1900
Apothecary - Answer-Pharmacist
(Originally 3 pay grades to replace Surgeon Steward)
Bethesda Naval Hospital - Answer-Flagship of Navy Medicine since 11 Nov 1940
New Hospital Corps - Answer-Signed by President William McKinley on 17 June 1898 to establish Navy
Hospital Corps
1st Hospital Corps School - Answer-Established in Portsmouth, VA on 15 Dec 1902
In 1916, Congress - Answer-Authorized expansion of Hospital Corps to 3.5% of all Navy and Marine
Corps
2nd Hospital Corps School - Answer-Established in 1917 Great Lakes, IL
