Test 1 Navy Corpsman Exam
Questions and Answers
Caduceus - -Rating insignia for the hospital corps
- Sickbay - -Where sick and injured were taken for care
- Cockpit - -Another name for sickbay
- Surgeon Steward - -First enlisted rate requiring specific qualification, First
seen in pay charts in 1841
- Medal of Honor - -Highest military decoration that may be awarded
- Distinguished service cross - -Second highest military decoration for the
army and previously the air force
- Navy Cross - -Second highest military decoration for the navy or marines,
coast guard when under the navy
- Silver star - -Third highest military decoration for the armed forces
- Bronze star - -Awarded to anyone serving after December 1941, being
heroic
- Article 16 (1775) - -A sick bay will be established, a crew shall be
appointed to serve those in the bay
- Medical Section - -Ship's Surgeon, Surgeon's Mate, one enlisted man
- 2 March 1799 - -All sailing warships must contain a cockpit.
- Loblolly boys-1814 - -Served porridge called loblolly to the sick, birthed
the corpsman nickname
- Loblolly boys served in... - -Quasi war with France (1797-1800), First
Barbary war (1801-1805)
- John Wall - -Navy's first loblolly boy
- John Domyn - -The first Loblolly POW
- Joseph Anderson - -The first African-American Loblolly
Questions and Answers
Caduceus - -Rating insignia for the hospital corps
- Sickbay - -Where sick and injured were taken for care
- Cockpit - -Another name for sickbay
- Surgeon Steward - -First enlisted rate requiring specific qualification, First
seen in pay charts in 1841
- Medal of Honor - -Highest military decoration that may be awarded
- Distinguished service cross - -Second highest military decoration for the
army and previously the air force
- Navy Cross - -Second highest military decoration for the navy or marines,
coast guard when under the navy
- Silver star - -Third highest military decoration for the armed forces
- Bronze star - -Awarded to anyone serving after December 1941, being
heroic
- Article 16 (1775) - -A sick bay will be established, a crew shall be
appointed to serve those in the bay
- Medical Section - -Ship's Surgeon, Surgeon's Mate, one enlisted man
- 2 March 1799 - -All sailing warships must contain a cockpit.
- Loblolly boys-1814 - -Served porridge called loblolly to the sick, birthed
the corpsman nickname
- Loblolly boys served in... - -Quasi war with France (1797-1800), First
Barbary war (1801-1805)
- John Wall - -Navy's first loblolly boy
- John Domyn - -The first Loblolly POW
- Joseph Anderson - -The first African-American Loblolly
