CORPSMAN SCHOOL TEST 1 QUESTIONS
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MEDAL OF HONOR - ANSWER ✔✔-The highest military decoration in the United States armed
services, often called the Congressional Medal of Honor. It recognizes valor and bravery in action above
and beyond the call of duty.
SICKBAY - ANSWER ✔✔-WHERE SICK AND INJURED MEN GET TAKEN FOR CARE
COCKPIT - ANSWER ✔✔-ANOTHER NAME FOR SICKBAY
BRONZE STAR - ANSWER ✔✔-Heroic/meritorious achievement
Surgeon's mate - ANSWER ✔✔-Usually a physician but subordinate to surgeon
loblolly - ANSWER ✔✔-Corpsman forerunners nickname. Became official rate in 1814
JOHN WALL - ANSWER ✔✔-First Loblolly Boy
John Domyn - ANSWER ✔✔-First Loblolly POW
Joseph Anderson - ANSWER ✔✔-first African-American loblolly
Surgeon Steward - ANSWER ✔✔-First enlisted rate requiring specific qualification 1820-1865
Nurse - ANSWER ✔✔-junior enlisted medical personnel. 1861-1873
Apothecary - ANSWER ✔✔-required vast pharmaceutical knowledge
Birthday of Navy Hospital Corps - ANSWER ✔✔-17June1898
Cornelius O'Leary - ANSWER ✔✔-Pharmacist with 38 years of apothecary experience
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Robert Stanley - ANSWER ✔✔-First hospital corpsman to receive medal of honor
WAVES - ANSWER ✔✔-Women Accepted For Volunteer Emergency Service. Commissioned in Naval
Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland.
Bethesda Naval Hospital - ANSWER ✔✔-Flagship of Navy medicine since November 11, 1940
When was the first hospital corps school for WAVES commissioned? - ANSWER ✔✔-12JAN1944
When was the corpsman rating insignia change from a Red Cross to the caduceus? - ANSWER ✔✔-1948
John Bradly - ANSWER ✔✔-Pharmacist mate who participated in flag raising at Mount Suribachi
Most decorated branch in the US Navy? - ANSWER ✔✔-Hospital Corps
How many MOH in WW2 - ANSWER ✔✔-7
How many MOH in Korean War? - ANSWER ✔✔-5
How many MOH pre-WW1? - ANSWER ✔✔-4
How many MOH in WW1? - ANSWER ✔✔-2
How many medal of honor recipients total in the hospital corps? - ANSWER ✔✔-22
How many Naval vessels have been named after corpsman? - ANSWER ✔✔-19
Communication - ANSWER ✔✔-Interpersonal process of people relating to each other through
conversation, gestures, behavior, writing, and at times silence
Customer - ANSWER ✔✔-someone who buys goods and services from a business
active listening - ANSWER ✔✔-listening carefully to what they are saying and ask questions to get to the
root of their requests
Contact Point - ANSWER ✔✔-Physical location the customer goes to obtain a service
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