Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
What is NAVEDTRA 14295B? - CORRECT ANSWER - Hospital Corpsman
In March 2, of what year, Congress mandated that the newly commissioned sailing warships-that
comprised the first U.S. naval fleet-contain a "cockpit," or sick bay, where sick and injured men
could be brought and cared for by "Surgeons," and "Surgeon's Mates."? - CORRECT
ANSWER - 1799
Who was the Navy's first Loblolly Boy? - CORRECT ANSWER - John Wall
Who as the Navy's first African American Loblolly? - CORRECT ANSWER - Joseph
Anderson
The Navy regulations first listed "Loblolly Boy" as an official rate in what year? - CORRECT
ANSWER - 1814
The Hospital Corps became an organized unit of the Navy medical Department under the
provisions of an act of Congress approved 17 June of what year signed into law by President
William McKinley? - CORRECT ANSWER - 1898
Women were first brought into the Hospital Corps during what? - CORRECT ANSWER -
World War 2
During World War 2, a total of 15 Navy enlisted men were awarded the Medal of Honor; of this
number, how many were Hospital Corpsmen? - CORRECT ANSWER - Seven
The attack of September 11th were traced to what which is an ultra conservative Sunni Islamist
terrorist organization and its leader Osama bin Laden? - CORRECT ANSWER - Al Qaida