NAVY HOSPITAL CORPSMAN FUNDAMENTALS 2025/2026
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔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
✔✔What is the primary duty of the Bayman? - ✔✔To be a personal attendant of the
sick.
✔✔Name other duties of the Bayman - ✔✔- Focusing on electric light on the incision
site while the surgeon performed shipboard surgery.
, - Sterilizing surgical instruments and bandages
- Preparing sick bay for surgery, scrubbing, and washing the bags and hammocks of the
sick
✔✔From a Greek word; 14th century term for "pharmacist" - ✔✔Apothecary
✔✔Apothecary was invaluable to... - ✔✔medical department for anesthesia,
mixing/distributing medications, correspondence, logistics, and training of Baymen.
✔✔Apothecaries of distinction: - ✔✔Cornelius O'Leary and Robert Stanley
✔✔Who advocated for an originated hospital corps as early as 1893 based upon? -
✔✔Navy Surgeon General J.R. Tryon
✔✔Signed by President William McKinley on _____________, giving birth to the United
States Navy Hospital Corps. - ✔✔17 June, 1898
✔✔S.T.A.R.T. stands for: - ✔✔Simple Triage and Rapid Treatment
✔✔If the respiratory rate is greater than 30, tag as...? (Non-tactical) - ✔✔Immediate
✔✔If the respriatory rate is less than 30...? (Non-tactical) - ✔✔Check perfusion
✔✔If the patient is not breathing, what must be done first? (Non-tactical) - ✔✔Open the
airway
✔✔If unresponsive, not breathing, and no pulse, tag the patient as...? (Non-tactical) -
✔✔Expectant
✔✔If breathing with radial pulse present and/or capillary refill is less than 2 seconds,
what do you do next? (Non-tactical) - ✔✔Check mental status
✔✔If breathing, with radial pulse absent/weak and/or capillary refill is greater than 2
seconds, tag patient as...? (Non-tactical) - ✔✔Immediate
✔✔If the patient can follow simple commands (open eyes, close eyes, move extremities
as instructed) tag patient as...? (Non-tactical) - ✔✔Delayed
✔✔If patient cannot follow simple commands or is disoriented, tag patient as...? (Non-
tactical) - ✔✔Immediate
✔✔Factors affecting evacuation priorities in tactical situations are: - ✔✔1. Type and
duration of required transportation
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔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
✔✔What is the primary duty of the Bayman? - ✔✔To be a personal attendant of the
sick.
✔✔Name other duties of the Bayman - ✔✔- Focusing on electric light on the incision
site while the surgeon performed shipboard surgery.
, - Sterilizing surgical instruments and bandages
- Preparing sick bay for surgery, scrubbing, and washing the bags and hammocks of the
sick
✔✔From a Greek word; 14th century term for "pharmacist" - ✔✔Apothecary
✔✔Apothecary was invaluable to... - ✔✔medical department for anesthesia,
mixing/distributing medications, correspondence, logistics, and training of Baymen.
✔✔Apothecaries of distinction: - ✔✔Cornelius O'Leary and Robert Stanley
✔✔Who advocated for an originated hospital corps as early as 1893 based upon? -
✔✔Navy Surgeon General J.R. Tryon
✔✔Signed by President William McKinley on _____________, giving birth to the United
States Navy Hospital Corps. - ✔✔17 June, 1898
✔✔S.T.A.R.T. stands for: - ✔✔Simple Triage and Rapid Treatment
✔✔If the respiratory rate is greater than 30, tag as...? (Non-tactical) - ✔✔Immediate
✔✔If the respriatory rate is less than 30...? (Non-tactical) - ✔✔Check perfusion
✔✔If the patient is not breathing, what must be done first? (Non-tactical) - ✔✔Open the
airway
✔✔If unresponsive, not breathing, and no pulse, tag the patient as...? (Non-tactical) -
✔✔Expectant
✔✔If breathing with radial pulse present and/or capillary refill is less than 2 seconds,
what do you do next? (Non-tactical) - ✔✔Check mental status
✔✔If breathing, with radial pulse absent/weak and/or capillary refill is greater than 2
seconds, tag patient as...? (Non-tactical) - ✔✔Immediate
✔✔If the patient can follow simple commands (open eyes, close eyes, move extremities
as instructed) tag patient as...? (Non-tactical) - ✔✔Delayed
✔✔If patient cannot follow simple commands or is disoriented, tag patient as...? (Non-
tactical) - ✔✔Immediate
✔✔Factors affecting evacuation priorities in tactical situations are: - ✔✔1. Type and
duration of required transportation
