Navy Hospital Corpsman Exam 1 |
185 Questions and Answers
Swooshing Arrow - -Return to good situational awareness
- Caduceus - -Rating insignia for the Hospital Corps
- Sickbay - -Where sick and inured men were taken for care
- Cockpit - -Another name for sickbay
- Surgeon Steward - -1st enlisted rate requiring specific qualification
- Medal of Honor - -Highest military decoration
- Distinguished Service Cross - -2nd highest military decoration (Army and
previously the Air force)
- Navy Cross - -2nd highest military decoration (Navy, Marines, Coast
Guard)
- Silver Star - -3rd highest military decoration
- Bronze Star - -Heroic/meritorious achievement (6 DEC 1941)
- Article 16 - -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 - -Mandated all newly commissioned sailing
warships to contain a "cockpit" for treatment of the sick and injured
- Ship's Surgeon - -Trained physician (official rate in 1814)
- Surgeon's Mate - -Usually a physician but subordinate to surgeon
- Loblolly Boys - -Served porridge called Loblolly to the sick
birthed the corpsman nickname
- Loblolly Boys served - -During Quasi-War with France (1797-1800)
During the first Barbary War (1801-1805)
- John Wall - -Navy's first Loblolly Boy
- John Domyn - -First Loblolly POW
, - Joseph Anderson - -1st African American Loblolly Boy
- Baymen - -Replaced title of "Nurse" for junior medical enlisted
Defined as "one who manned the sick bay" in 1873
- Nurse (1861 - 1873) - -Junior Enlisted Medical personnel
- Cornelius O'Leary - -Had 38 years Apothecary experience at the time of
his appointment
- Robert Stanley - -Became 1st Hospital Corpsman to be awarded MOH in
1900
- Apothecary - -Pharmacist
(Originally 3 pay grades to replace Surgeon Steward)
- Bethesda Naval Hospital - -Flagship of Navy Medicine since 11 Nov 1940
- New Hospital Corps - -Signed by President William McKinley on 17 June
1898 to establish Navy Hospital Corps
- 1st Hospital Corps School - -Established in Portsmouth, VA on 15 Dec 1902
- In 1916, Congress - -Authorized expansion of Hospital Corps to 3.5% of all
Navy and Marine Corps
- 2nd Hospital Corps School - -Established in 1917 Great Lakes, IL
- In 1921 - -Hospital Corps School closed, but reopened two decades later
for WW2
- In 1928 - -Hospital Corps School established in San Diego, CA
- WAVES (1944) - -(Women Appointed for Volunteer Emergency Service)
commissioned in Bethesda, Maryland on 12 Jan 1944
- In 1948 - -WAVES were brought into the regular Navy by Congress
- Dental Technician - -Establish on 12 Dec 1947
Became effective on 02 April 1948
Merged with the Hospital Corps on 01 Oct 2005
- In 1997 - -All Corpsman A-School moved to Great Lakes, IL
185 Questions and Answers
Swooshing Arrow - -Return to good situational awareness
- Caduceus - -Rating insignia for the Hospital Corps
- Sickbay - -Where sick and inured men were taken for care
- Cockpit - -Another name for sickbay
- Surgeon Steward - -1st enlisted rate requiring specific qualification
- Medal of Honor - -Highest military decoration
- Distinguished Service Cross - -2nd highest military decoration (Army and
previously the Air force)
- Navy Cross - -2nd highest military decoration (Navy, Marines, Coast
Guard)
- Silver Star - -3rd highest military decoration
- Bronze Star - -Heroic/meritorious achievement (6 DEC 1941)
- Article 16 - -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 - -Mandated all newly commissioned sailing
warships to contain a "cockpit" for treatment of the sick and injured
- Ship's Surgeon - -Trained physician (official rate in 1814)
- Surgeon's Mate - -Usually a physician but subordinate to surgeon
- Loblolly Boys - -Served porridge called Loblolly to the sick
birthed the corpsman nickname
- Loblolly Boys served - -During Quasi-War with France (1797-1800)
During the first Barbary War (1801-1805)
- John Wall - -Navy's first Loblolly Boy
- John Domyn - -First Loblolly POW
, - Joseph Anderson - -1st African American Loblolly Boy
- Baymen - -Replaced title of "Nurse" for junior medical enlisted
Defined as "one who manned the sick bay" in 1873
- Nurse (1861 - 1873) - -Junior Enlisted Medical personnel
- Cornelius O'Leary - -Had 38 years Apothecary experience at the time of
his appointment
- Robert Stanley - -Became 1st Hospital Corpsman to be awarded MOH in
1900
- Apothecary - -Pharmacist
(Originally 3 pay grades to replace Surgeon Steward)
- Bethesda Naval Hospital - -Flagship of Navy Medicine since 11 Nov 1940
- New Hospital Corps - -Signed by President William McKinley on 17 June
1898 to establish Navy Hospital Corps
- 1st Hospital Corps School - -Established in Portsmouth, VA on 15 Dec 1902
- In 1916, Congress - -Authorized expansion of Hospital Corps to 3.5% of all
Navy and Marine Corps
- 2nd Hospital Corps School - -Established in 1917 Great Lakes, IL
- In 1921 - -Hospital Corps School closed, but reopened two decades later
for WW2
- In 1928 - -Hospital Corps School established in San Diego, CA
- WAVES (1944) - -(Women Appointed for Volunteer Emergency Service)
commissioned in Bethesda, Maryland on 12 Jan 1944
- In 1948 - -WAVES were brought into the regular Navy by Congress
- Dental Technician - -Establish on 12 Dec 1947
Became effective on 02 April 1948
Merged with the Hospital Corps on 01 Oct 2005
- In 1997 - -All Corpsman A-School moved to Great Lakes, IL
