Navy Hospital Corpsman [2026/2027] | UPDATED
ACTUAL Exam Question and Answer | A+ Verified
• Cockpit -✓✓ 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...
-✓✓ 1775
• Article 16 in RULES FOR THE REGULATION OF THE NAVY OF THE
UNITED COLONIES OF NORTH AMERICA stated: -✓✓ "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 -✓✓ 2 or 3 men
• Ship's Surgeon -✓✓ Trained physician
• Surgeon's Mate -✓✓ 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 -✓✓ 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". -✓✓ 2 March 1799
• Loblolly Boy was classified as an official rate in... -✓✓ 1814
• The duties of the Loblolly included: -✓✓ - 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. -✓✓ 0900
• Loblolly Boys served during... -✓✓ The Quasi-War with France (1797-1800)
The first Barbary War (1801-1805).
• The Navy's first Loblolly Boy -✓✓ John Wall
• The first Loblolly POW -✓✓ John Domyn
• The first African-American Loblolly -✓✓ Joseph Anderson
, • The Surgeon Steward title was used from the age of ___________
______________ to the end of the Civil War (_____-______) -✓✓ American
expansion to the end of the Civil War (1820-1865)
• The Surgeon Steward was first seen in Navy pay charts in... -✓✓ 1841
• The first enlisted rating requiring specific qualifications was the... -✓✓ Surgeon
Steward
• Requirements to be Surgeon's Steward included: -✓✓ 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: -✓✓ 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 (______-_______) -✓✓ 1861-1873
• What replaced the title of "Nurse" for junior medical enlisted? -✓✓ Bayman
• Define Bayman: -✓✓ One who manned the sick bay
• Bayman (Early _____-_____) -✓✓ Early 1870s-1898
ACTUAL Exam Question and Answer | A+ Verified
• Cockpit -✓✓ 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...
-✓✓ 1775
• Article 16 in RULES FOR THE REGULATION OF THE NAVY OF THE
UNITED COLONIES OF NORTH AMERICA stated: -✓✓ "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 -✓✓ 2 or 3 men
• Ship's Surgeon -✓✓ Trained physician
• Surgeon's Mate -✓✓ 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 -✓✓ 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". -✓✓ 2 March 1799
• Loblolly Boy was classified as an official rate in... -✓✓ 1814
• The duties of the Loblolly included: -✓✓ - 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. -✓✓ 0900
• Loblolly Boys served during... -✓✓ The Quasi-War with France (1797-1800)
The first Barbary War (1801-1805).
• The Navy's first Loblolly Boy -✓✓ John Wall
• The first Loblolly POW -✓✓ John Domyn
• The first African-American Loblolly -✓✓ Joseph Anderson
, • The Surgeon Steward title was used from the age of ___________
______________ to the end of the Civil War (_____-______) -✓✓ American
expansion to the end of the Civil War (1820-1865)
• The Surgeon Steward was first seen in Navy pay charts in... -✓✓ 1841
• The first enlisted rating requiring specific qualifications was the... -✓✓ Surgeon
Steward
• Requirements to be Surgeon's Steward included: -✓✓ 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: -✓✓ 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 (______-_______) -✓✓ 1861-1873
• What replaced the title of "Nurse" for junior medical enlisted? -✓✓ Bayman
• Define Bayman: -✓✓ One who manned the sick bay
• Bayman (Early _____-_____) -✓✓ Early 1870s-1898
