Navy Corpsman Test 1 Exam
Questions and Answers
Caduceus - -rating insignia for the hospital corps
- sickbay - -where sick and injured man were taken for care
- cockpit - -another name for sickbay
- surgeon steward - -first enlisted rate requiring specific qualification
- medal of honor - -highest military decoration, distinguish themselves
through risk of life above and beyond the call of duty
- distinguished service cross - -second highest military decoration awarded
to United States army/ Air Force for extraordinary heroism
- navy cross - -second highest military awarded yo US Navy and Coast
Guard for extraordinary heroism
- bronze medal - -Awarded to person served 6 December 1941 for heroic
service actions against enemy of the United States or serving with friendly
foreign forces.
- 2 March 1799 congress - -sailing warships contained cockpit/sickbay.
- loblolly boys - -official rate in 1814, maintain cleanliness, provided water,
tar for hemorrhage control, used sand to prevent slips and fall
- loblolly boy served - -Quasi-War with France 1797-1800, Barbary 1801-
1805
- first loblolly boy - -John Wall
- first loblolly POW - -John Domyn
- first African loblolly - -Joseph anderson
- surgeon steward - -used during civil war 1820-1865, second seniority, 1st
to require specific qualifications
- Nurse - -1861-1873, served with surgeon steward, junior enlisted medical
personnel
, - bayman - -1870s-1898, replaced nurse title, man the sick bay
- apothecary - -1866-1898, pharmacist
- apothecaries of distinction - -Cornelius OLeary, Robert stanley
- Hospital Corps birthday - -17 June 1898
- hospital corps - -William McKinney signed, Secretary of the navy (SON)
appointed 25 apothecaries as pharmacists
- what does WAVES stand for - -women accepted for volunteer emergency
service
- when and where was waves commissioned - -Us Naval Hospital Bethesda
MD
- Bethesda Naval Hospital is? - -the flagship of navy medicine, 11NOV1940
- first hospital corpsman school - -Portsmouth VA 15 DEC 1902, graduated
29 HA
- In 1916 what precent of marines and sailors were corpsman? - -3.5%
- when was WAVES commissioned - -12 JAN 1944 in Bethesda MD.
- dental tech - -12 DEC 1947 became official rating, merged in 2005
- fort sam houston - -2005 became the official medical training center
- rank structure in 1916-1948 - -chief pharm mate, pharm mate 1st, pharm
mate 2nd, pharm mate 3rd, HA 1st class, HA 2nd class, HA
- rank structure in 1948-1958 - -chief HC, HC 1st class, HC 2nd class, HC 3rd
class, HN, HA, HR
- WWII casualties - -17 killed in action, 146 wounded.
97% casualty survival, 889 HM died
- Korea - -108 killed in action, treated over 2844 over 21 days
- vietnam War - -620 died, 3353 wounded
- beirut - -23 OCT 1983 15 of 22 HM died
Questions and Answers
Caduceus - -rating insignia for the hospital corps
- sickbay - -where sick and injured man were taken for care
- cockpit - -another name for sickbay
- surgeon steward - -first enlisted rate requiring specific qualification
- medal of honor - -highest military decoration, distinguish themselves
through risk of life above and beyond the call of duty
- distinguished service cross - -second highest military decoration awarded
to United States army/ Air Force for extraordinary heroism
- navy cross - -second highest military awarded yo US Navy and Coast
Guard for extraordinary heroism
- bronze medal - -Awarded to person served 6 December 1941 for heroic
service actions against enemy of the United States or serving with friendly
foreign forces.
- 2 March 1799 congress - -sailing warships contained cockpit/sickbay.
- loblolly boys - -official rate in 1814, maintain cleanliness, provided water,
tar for hemorrhage control, used sand to prevent slips and fall
- loblolly boy served - -Quasi-War with France 1797-1800, Barbary 1801-
1805
- first loblolly boy - -John Wall
- first loblolly POW - -John Domyn
- first African loblolly - -Joseph anderson
- surgeon steward - -used during civil war 1820-1865, second seniority, 1st
to require specific qualifications
- Nurse - -1861-1873, served with surgeon steward, junior enlisted medical
personnel
, - bayman - -1870s-1898, replaced nurse title, man the sick bay
- apothecary - -1866-1898, pharmacist
- apothecaries of distinction - -Cornelius OLeary, Robert stanley
- Hospital Corps birthday - -17 June 1898
- hospital corps - -William McKinney signed, Secretary of the navy (SON)
appointed 25 apothecaries as pharmacists
- what does WAVES stand for - -women accepted for volunteer emergency
service
- when and where was waves commissioned - -Us Naval Hospital Bethesda
MD
- Bethesda Naval Hospital is? - -the flagship of navy medicine, 11NOV1940
- first hospital corpsman school - -Portsmouth VA 15 DEC 1902, graduated
29 HA
- In 1916 what precent of marines and sailors were corpsman? - -3.5%
- when was WAVES commissioned - -12 JAN 1944 in Bethesda MD.
- dental tech - -12 DEC 1947 became official rating, merged in 2005
- fort sam houston - -2005 became the official medical training center
- rank structure in 1916-1948 - -chief pharm mate, pharm mate 1st, pharm
mate 2nd, pharm mate 3rd, HA 1st class, HA 2nd class, HA
- rank structure in 1948-1958 - -chief HC, HC 1st class, HC 2nd class, HC 3rd
class, HN, HA, HR
- WWII casualties - -17 killed in action, 146 wounded.
97% casualty survival, 889 HM died
- Korea - -108 killed in action, treated over 2844 over 21 days
- vietnam War - -620 died, 3353 wounded
- beirut - -23 OCT 1983 15 of 22 HM died
