UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
1775 - CORRECT ANSWER Marine Corps created by Capt Samuel Nicholas in Tun
Tavern Philidelpha.
1776 - CORRECT ANSWER First Amphib landing on Probidence Island Bahamas. Got
the nickname LEATHERNECK
1805 - CORRECT ANSWER Barbary Pirates at Burma "Shores of Tripoli." First U.S.
Flag raised in Eastren Hemisphere
1847 - CORRECT ANSWER Mexican War "Halls of Montezuma" in Chapultepec
1859 - CORRECT ANSWER COL Robert E. Lee took the Arsenal at Harpers Ferry to
stop John Brown
1868 - CORRECT ANSWER EGA is great. Brig Gen Jacob Zeilin. Globe and anchor
show world service Eagle is the Nation
1883 - CORRECT ANSWER Semper Fi. The motto of the Marine Corps. Always Faithful.
1900 - CORRECT ANSWER Boxer Rebellion Peking China. First multinational defence
force
1913 - CORRECT ANSWER Marine Corps established its aviation unit. First pilot was
Maj Alfred A. Cunningham
, 1917 - CORRECT ANSWER Battle of Belleuwood. Awarded the French Fourragere still
worn by 5th and 6th Marines
1933 - CORRECT ANSWER Fleet Marine Force established command and administrative
relations in Quantico VA
1965 - CORRECT ANSWER Marines landed in South Vietnam for longest war in history,
also in the Dominican Republic
1982 - CORRECT ANSWER Lebonon Oct 23 198 Bomb hit HQ killed 241 wounded 70
Americans
1991 - CORRECT ANSWER Desert Storm Jan 1991 Marine ground forces liberated
Kuwait
2001 - CORRECT ANSWER Sep 11. Marines sent to Afgan Nov 25th started Operation
Swift Freedom
2003 - CORRECT ANSWER Operation Iraqi Freedom
2004A - CORRECT ANSWER Retaking of Fallujah Operation Vigilant Resolve
2004B - CORRECT ANSWER Operation Phantom Fury and Operation The Dawn in Iraq
Battle of Guadalcanal - CORRECT ANSWER Aug 7 1942 Solomon Islands first attempt
of Amphibous Doctrine
Battle of Belluwood - CORRECT ANSWER France WW1 Germans rated Marines as
"Storm Troopers" Higest rating also Devil Dogs