USMC OCS Knowledge questions with 100% correct answers 2023/2024

USMC OCS KnowledgeRoy S. Geiger (Okinawa) - correct answer Only marine officer ever to have commanded a field Army General Smith (Chosin Reservoir) - correct answer "We are not retreating, we are attacking in a different direction." Marines brought out all operable equipment, properly evacuated their wounded, and maintained tactical integrity. Archibald Henderson - correct answer "Grand Old Man of the Marine Corps" Became commandant in 1820, held for 39 years. "Force in readiness" Dan Daly - correct answer 2 MOH (1. Chinese Boxer Rebellion, 2. First Caco Warin Haiti). Retrieved a machine gun that had been lost in the river at Bealleau Wood. John Lejeune - correct answer 13th Commandant (). First Marine officer to command an Army division in combat during WWI (1918). Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller - correct answer "Tiger of the Mountains". 5 Navy crosses. English bulldog mascot named after him. Gregory "Pappy" Boyington - correct answer Top flying ace (28 kills) during WWII (1945) William Ward Burrows - correct answer First official commandant (1798) Samuel Nicholas - correct answer First officer, and unofficial commandant (1775). Led first amphibious assault on New Providence, Bahamas. Vera Cruz - correct answer First American large scale amphibious landing Jacob Zeilin - correct answer Created Marine Corps emblem (1868) Charles McCawley - correct answer Semper Fidelis adopted (1883) Smedley Darlington Butler - correct answer 2 MOH (Mexico, Haiti) Alfred A. Cunningham - correct answer 1st Marine Aviator (1912) Colonel Ellis - correct answer Envisioned conflict between US and Japan many years prior. Fleet Marine Force (FMF) - correct answer Founded in 1933. Mission is to execute landing operations (now called Operating Forces) John L. Foss - correct answer 2nd ranking ace (26 kills), instrumental in taking airfield at Guadalcanal during WWII. Peleliu - correct answer Forgotten battle of the Pacific President Truman - correct answer Signed women's armed service integration act. John Mackie - correct answer First marine to be awarded MOH Lieutenant Obannon - correct answer Given mameluke sword for actions at Tripoli. Charles A. Doyen - correct answer First marine general to lead an Army division. Captain Lloyd Williams - correct answer "Retreat hell, we just got here" Opha Mae Johnson - correct answer First female marine to enlist (1918) Carlos Hathcock - correct answer Sniper with 93 confirmed kills. $30,000 bounty on his head by north Vietnamese. Jason Dunham - correct answer Awarded MOH posthumously (2004). Covered grenade with helmet and body. Dakota Meyer - correct answer First living to be awarded MOH in 38 years. Risked life to rescue trapped patrol in Afghanistan (2009). Kyle Carpenter - correct answer Awarded MOH (2014). Threw body between grenade and fellow marines. 8th living recipient of MOH. John Quick - correct answer MOH for semaphoring emergency lift of naval bombardment while under Spanish and American hellfire. Margaret A. Brewer - correct answer First Marine Corps woman general officer (1978). 7th and last director of woman marine - only post-war woman to hold the position. Henry Elrod - correct answer First Marine aviator to MOH in both air and ground combat (Wake Island, WWII). Road parallel to OCS parade deck dedicated to him. Guadalcanal - correct answer First application of 1938 Fleet Training Publication 167. Tarawa Atoll - correct answer Higgins Landing boats replaced by LVTs (AMTRACs) Executive Order 8802 - correct answer Signed by Roosevelt on June 25, 1941. No discrimination of employees in defense industries and government because of race, creed, color, or national origin. Frederick C. Branch - correct answer First black marine officer. Graduated from Montford Point. Annie L. Grimes - correct answer First female black marine officer (1949)