answers [latest update]
Caduceus - correct answer ✔✔Rating insignia for the hospital corps
Sickbay - correct answer ✔✔Where sick and injured were taken for care
Cockpit - correct answer ✔✔Another name for sickbay
Surgeon Steward - correct answer ✔✔First enlisted rate requiring specific qualification, First
seen in pay charts in 1841
Medal of Honor - correct answer ✔✔Highest military decoration that may be awarded
Distinguished service cross - correct answer ✔✔Second highest military decoration for the army
and previously the air force
Navy Cross - correct answer ✔✔Second highest military decoration for the navy or marines,
coast guard when under the navy
Silver star - correct answer ✔✔Third highest military decoration for the armed forces
Bronze star - correct answer ✔✔Awarded to anyone serving after December 1941, being heroic
Article 16 (1775) - correct answer ✔✔A sick bay will be established, a crew shall be appointed
to serve those in the bay
, Medical Section - correct answer ✔✔Ship's Surgeon, Surgeon's Mate, one enlisted man
2 March 1799 - correct answer ✔✔All sailing warships must contain a cockpit.
Loblolly boys-1814 - correct answer ✔✔Served porridge called loblolly to the sick, birthed the
corpsman nickname
Loblolly boys served in... - correct answer ✔✔Quasi war with France (1797-1800), First Barbary
war (1801-1805)
John Wall - correct answer ✔✔Navy's first loblolly boy
John Domyn - correct answer ✔✔The first Loblolly POW
Joseph Anderson - correct answer ✔✔The first African-American Loblolly
Nurse (1861-1873) - correct answer ✔✔Junior enlisted medical personnel
Baymen (1870s-1898) - correct answer ✔✔Replaces nurse, one who manned the sick bay in
1873
Apothecary (1866-1898) - correct answer ✔✔Term for pharmacist, Cornelius O'Leary, Robert
Stanley
17 June 1898 - correct answer ✔✔President William McKinley signed to give birth to the Navy
Hospital Corps