Fleet Marine Force (FMF) Qual UPDATED
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
1775 (beers on the wall) - CORRECT ANSWER - Marine Corps created by Capt Samuel
Nicholas in Tun Tavern Philidelpha.
1776 (hickes) - CORRECT ANSWER - First Amphib landing on Providence Island
Bahamas. Got the nickname LEATHERNECK
1805 (flags mark buried treasure) - CORRECT ANSWER - Barbary Pirates at Burma
"Shores of Tripoli." First U.S. Flag raised in Eastren Hemisphere
1847 (chipotles later) - CORRECT ANSWER - Mexican War "Halls of Montezuma" in
Chapultepec
1859 (rebel army) - CORRECT ANSWER - COL Robert E. Lee took the Arsenal at
Harpers Ferry to stop John Brown
1868 (snow globes by zeilin) - CORRECT ANSWER - EGA is great. Brig Gen Jacob
Zeilin. Globe and anchor show world service Eagle is the Nation
1883 (letters) - CORRECT ANSWER - Semper Fi. The motto of the Marine Corps.
Always Faithful.
1900 (Daly kills) - CORRECT ANSWER - Boxer Rebellion Peking China. First
multinational defence force
1913 (Cunning dog tricks) - CORRECT ANSWER - Marine Corps established its aviation
unit. First pilot was Maj Alfred A. Cunningham
,1917 (fancy ropes 5 or 6 colors) - CORRECT ANSWER - Battle of Belleuwood. Awarded
the French Fourragere still worn by 5th and 6th Marines
1933 (boards in Quantico) - CORRECT ANSWER - Fleet Marine Force established
command and administrative relations in Quantico VA
1965 (LBJ food) - CORRECT ANSWER - Marines landed in South Vietnam for longest
war in history, also in the Dominican Republic
1982 (war on drugs oct 14, 241 types, 70 Lebanese warlords) - CORRECT ANSWER -
Lebonon Oct 23 1983 Bomb hit HQ killed 241 wounded 70 Americans
1991 (Kuwait spear) - CORRECT ANSWER - Desert Storm Jan 1991 Marine ground
forces liberated Kuwait
2001 (swift) - CORRECT ANSWER - Sep 11. Marines sent to Afgan Nov 25th started
Operation Swift Freedom
2003 (Iraq) - CORRECT ANSWER - Operation Iraqi Freedom
2004A (a vigilant fellow) - CORRECT ANSWER - Retaking of Fallujah Operation
Vigilant Resolve
2004B (be phantom dawn) - CORRECT ANSWER - Operation Phantom Fury and
Operation The Dawn in Iraq
Battle of Guadalcanal (42 Solomon's wives swimming) - CORRECT ANSWER - Aug 7
1942 Solomon Islands first attempt of Amphibous Doctrine
,Battle of Belluwood (starwars) - CORRECT ANSWER - France WW1 Germans rated
Marines as "Storm Troopers" Higest rating also Devil Dogs
Battle of Tarawa (dilbert took a toll on betting $1 mil on 100, but got 76) - CORRECT
ANSWER - Gilbert Islands "It will take 1 million Americans 100 years to concure it" It
took 76 hours
Battle of Mariana Islands (need airfare saipan guam tinian from HM smith LG $136000 greatest
damages) - CORRECT ANSWER - Need for airfields by the Air Force and advanced bases
for the Navy. Landings on the islands of Saipan, Guam, and Tinian. During June and July of
1943, Lieutenant General Holland M. Smith led a combined invasion force of Marines and
soldiers that totaled over 136,000. This was the greatest number of troops up to that time to
operate in the field under Marine command
Battle of Iwo Jima (23300 bloody valor) - CORRECT ANSWER - Largest Bloodiest battle
in Maine history 23300 casualties "uncommon Valor wsa a common Virtue"
Battle of Chosin Reservoir (50 NiKes 7/10 china made, held together) - CORRECT
ANSWER - pushing into North Korea November 1950, Marines were cut off after the
Chinese Communist Forces entered the war. Despite facing a 10-division force sent to annihilate
them, Marines smashed seven enemy divisions in their march from the Chosin Reservoir. The
major significance of this retrograde movement was that Marines brought out all operable
equipment, properly evacuated their wounded and dead, and maintained tactical integrity
Battle of Hue City (68 house party) - CORRECT ANSWER - Vietnamese Holiday Tet Jan
1968 Fighting was House to House progress messured in yards
Archibald Henderson (39 old men) - CORRECT ANSWER - Commandant for 39 Years
known as the "Grand old man of the Marine Corps"
Sergeant Major John Quick (cuz 18-98 quick tacos on the Atlantic) - CORRECT
ANSWER - Cuzco Well (Guantanamo Bay, Cuba) where he participated in an operation to
seize a base for the Atlantic Fleet battalion of Marines. The Sergeant Major won the Medal of
Honor for semaphoring for an emergency lift of the naval bombardment while under Spanish and
, American shellfire. The landing at Guantanamo demonstrated the usefulness of Marines as
assault troops. When employed with the fleet, Marines gave added strength for the capture and
defense of advanced bases, becoming a primary mission of the Marine Corps (1898).
Sergent Major Dan Daly (Daly boxing and cocoa makes you live forever in the woods) -
CORRECT ANSWER - 2 Medals of Honor 1st Boxer Rebellion 2nd Caco War in Haiti
"Come on you sons of bitches do you want to live forever?" Belleuwood.
Louis B. "Chesty" Puller (32 Nicaraguan tigers live for 30 years in Honduras) - CORRECT
ANSWER - Nicaragua through several periods of political unrest and rebellious activity.
Puller and a force of about 32 Marines became famous for their ability to engage rebel groups
and bandits while scouring the jungles in a wide area of Nicaragua to the Honduran border.
"Tiger of the Mountains" (1930). Marine Corps' mascot, an English bulldog named "Chesty"
Gregory R. "Pappy" Boyington (Boy, those 214 black sheeps killed 28) - CORRECT
ANSWER - Maj Boyington Aerial Ace VMH-214 "Black Sheep" Top Flying Ace 28 kills
Ira H. Hayes (45 pima beans) - CORRECT ANSWER - Pima Indian. Did the Second Flag
Raising on Mount Suribachi Iwo Jima 23Feb1945
Opha Mae Johnson (#18 Johnson jersey) - CORRECT ANSWER - First Enlisted Marine
Female 13AUG1918
Margaret A. Brewer (73-77 kernels to last a year after WWII) - CORRECT ANSWER -
then a Colonel, served as the Director of Women Marines (WM) during the period 1973-1977.
She was the seventh and last director of WM, the only post-World War woman to hold the
position. Margaret Brewer became the Marine Corps' first woman general officer on 11 May
1978
Robert E. Bush (Ok, cut the first bush into a ww2 medal) - CORRECT ANSWER - Medal
of Honor Battle of Okinawa WW2
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
1775 (beers on the wall) - CORRECT ANSWER - Marine Corps created by Capt Samuel
Nicholas in Tun Tavern Philidelpha.
1776 (hickes) - CORRECT ANSWER - First Amphib landing on Providence Island
Bahamas. Got the nickname LEATHERNECK
1805 (flags mark buried treasure) - CORRECT ANSWER - Barbary Pirates at Burma
"Shores of Tripoli." First U.S. Flag raised in Eastren Hemisphere
1847 (chipotles later) - CORRECT ANSWER - Mexican War "Halls of Montezuma" in
Chapultepec
1859 (rebel army) - CORRECT ANSWER - COL Robert E. Lee took the Arsenal at
Harpers Ferry to stop John Brown
1868 (snow globes by zeilin) - CORRECT ANSWER - EGA is great. Brig Gen Jacob
Zeilin. Globe and anchor show world service Eagle is the Nation
1883 (letters) - CORRECT ANSWER - Semper Fi. The motto of the Marine Corps.
Always Faithful.
1900 (Daly kills) - CORRECT ANSWER - Boxer Rebellion Peking China. First
multinational defence force
1913 (Cunning dog tricks) - CORRECT ANSWER - Marine Corps established its aviation
unit. First pilot was Maj Alfred A. Cunningham
,1917 (fancy ropes 5 or 6 colors) - CORRECT ANSWER - Battle of Belleuwood. Awarded
the French Fourragere still worn by 5th and 6th Marines
1933 (boards in Quantico) - CORRECT ANSWER - Fleet Marine Force established
command and administrative relations in Quantico VA
1965 (LBJ food) - CORRECT ANSWER - Marines landed in South Vietnam for longest
war in history, also in the Dominican Republic
1982 (war on drugs oct 14, 241 types, 70 Lebanese warlords) - CORRECT ANSWER -
Lebonon Oct 23 1983 Bomb hit HQ killed 241 wounded 70 Americans
1991 (Kuwait spear) - CORRECT ANSWER - Desert Storm Jan 1991 Marine ground
forces liberated Kuwait
2001 (swift) - CORRECT ANSWER - Sep 11. Marines sent to Afgan Nov 25th started
Operation Swift Freedom
2003 (Iraq) - CORRECT ANSWER - Operation Iraqi Freedom
2004A (a vigilant fellow) - CORRECT ANSWER - Retaking of Fallujah Operation
Vigilant Resolve
2004B (be phantom dawn) - CORRECT ANSWER - Operation Phantom Fury and
Operation The Dawn in Iraq
Battle of Guadalcanal (42 Solomon's wives swimming) - CORRECT ANSWER - Aug 7
1942 Solomon Islands first attempt of Amphibous Doctrine
,Battle of Belluwood (starwars) - CORRECT ANSWER - France WW1 Germans rated
Marines as "Storm Troopers" Higest rating also Devil Dogs
Battle of Tarawa (dilbert took a toll on betting $1 mil on 100, but got 76) - CORRECT
ANSWER - Gilbert Islands "It will take 1 million Americans 100 years to concure it" It
took 76 hours
Battle of Mariana Islands (need airfare saipan guam tinian from HM smith LG $136000 greatest
damages) - CORRECT ANSWER - Need for airfields by the Air Force and advanced bases
for the Navy. Landings on the islands of Saipan, Guam, and Tinian. During June and July of
1943, Lieutenant General Holland M. Smith led a combined invasion force of Marines and
soldiers that totaled over 136,000. This was the greatest number of troops up to that time to
operate in the field under Marine command
Battle of Iwo Jima (23300 bloody valor) - CORRECT ANSWER - Largest Bloodiest battle
in Maine history 23300 casualties "uncommon Valor wsa a common Virtue"
Battle of Chosin Reservoir (50 NiKes 7/10 china made, held together) - CORRECT
ANSWER - pushing into North Korea November 1950, Marines were cut off after the
Chinese Communist Forces entered the war. Despite facing a 10-division force sent to annihilate
them, Marines smashed seven enemy divisions in their march from the Chosin Reservoir. The
major significance of this retrograde movement was that Marines brought out all operable
equipment, properly evacuated their wounded and dead, and maintained tactical integrity
Battle of Hue City (68 house party) - CORRECT ANSWER - Vietnamese Holiday Tet Jan
1968 Fighting was House to House progress messured in yards
Archibald Henderson (39 old men) - CORRECT ANSWER - Commandant for 39 Years
known as the "Grand old man of the Marine Corps"
Sergeant Major John Quick (cuz 18-98 quick tacos on the Atlantic) - CORRECT
ANSWER - Cuzco Well (Guantanamo Bay, Cuba) where he participated in an operation to
seize a base for the Atlantic Fleet battalion of Marines. The Sergeant Major won the Medal of
Honor for semaphoring for an emergency lift of the naval bombardment while under Spanish and
, American shellfire. The landing at Guantanamo demonstrated the usefulness of Marines as
assault troops. When employed with the fleet, Marines gave added strength for the capture and
defense of advanced bases, becoming a primary mission of the Marine Corps (1898).
Sergent Major Dan Daly (Daly boxing and cocoa makes you live forever in the woods) -
CORRECT ANSWER - 2 Medals of Honor 1st Boxer Rebellion 2nd Caco War in Haiti
"Come on you sons of bitches do you want to live forever?" Belleuwood.
Louis B. "Chesty" Puller (32 Nicaraguan tigers live for 30 years in Honduras) - CORRECT
ANSWER - Nicaragua through several periods of political unrest and rebellious activity.
Puller and a force of about 32 Marines became famous for their ability to engage rebel groups
and bandits while scouring the jungles in a wide area of Nicaragua to the Honduran border.
"Tiger of the Mountains" (1930). Marine Corps' mascot, an English bulldog named "Chesty"
Gregory R. "Pappy" Boyington (Boy, those 214 black sheeps killed 28) - CORRECT
ANSWER - Maj Boyington Aerial Ace VMH-214 "Black Sheep" Top Flying Ace 28 kills
Ira H. Hayes (45 pima beans) - CORRECT ANSWER - Pima Indian. Did the Second Flag
Raising on Mount Suribachi Iwo Jima 23Feb1945
Opha Mae Johnson (#18 Johnson jersey) - CORRECT ANSWER - First Enlisted Marine
Female 13AUG1918
Margaret A. Brewer (73-77 kernels to last a year after WWII) - CORRECT ANSWER -
then a Colonel, served as the Director of Women Marines (WM) during the period 1973-1977.
She was the seventh and last director of WM, the only post-World War woman to hold the
position. Margaret Brewer became the Marine Corps' first woman general officer on 11 May
1978
Robert E. Bush (Ok, cut the first bush into a ww2 medal) - CORRECT ANSWER - Medal
of Honor Battle of Okinawa WW2
