HCB 101 EXAM 1 STUDY GUIDE
Medal of Honor - Answers - Highest military decoration, presented by the president, risk
life above and beyond the call of duty
Navy Cross - Answers - 2nd highest military decoration (Navy, Marines, Coast Guard)
silver star - Answers - Third highest military combat decoration
Bronze Star - Answers - A U.S. military decoration awarded for heroic or meritorious
achievement or service in combat not involving aerial flight. after 06DEC41 when WW2
started
article 16 - Answers - saying that every ship or base needs a sick bay and specific
people set aside to clean the sick bay and the people
typical medical section - Answers - included two or three men: ships surgeon, surgeons
mate, one enlisted man
march 2nd 1799 - Answers - congress mandated all newly made ships to have cockpits
loblolly boys - Answers - classified as an official rate in1814, kept cockpit clean,
provided water and containers to hold amputated limbs, coal to heat tar used in
hemorrhage control (Cautery), cleaned up blood with buckets of blood
loblolly boys served in - Answers - Quasi-War with France (1797-1800) and in the First
Barbary War (1801-1805)
Loblolly Boys of Distinction - Answers - John Wall (first Loblolly boy)
John Domyn (first Loblolly POW)
Joseph Anderson (first African American Loblolly boy)
Surgeon Steward - Answers - Title used at then end of the civil war. Second in seniority
among ship petty officers. First enlisted rate that requires specific qualifications.
nurse - Answers - 1861-1873; applied to junior enlisted medical personnel; served
concurrently with surgeon steward
Baymen (1870s-1898) - Answers - Replaces nurse, one who manned the sick bay in
1873
apothecary - Answers - pharmacist
Medal of Honor - Answers - Highest military decoration, presented by the president, risk
life above and beyond the call of duty
Navy Cross - Answers - 2nd highest military decoration (Navy, Marines, Coast Guard)
silver star - Answers - Third highest military combat decoration
Bronze Star - Answers - A U.S. military decoration awarded for heroic or meritorious
achievement or service in combat not involving aerial flight. after 06DEC41 when WW2
started
article 16 - Answers - saying that every ship or base needs a sick bay and specific
people set aside to clean the sick bay and the people
typical medical section - Answers - included two or three men: ships surgeon, surgeons
mate, one enlisted man
march 2nd 1799 - Answers - congress mandated all newly made ships to have cockpits
loblolly boys - Answers - classified as an official rate in1814, kept cockpit clean,
provided water and containers to hold amputated limbs, coal to heat tar used in
hemorrhage control (Cautery), cleaned up blood with buckets of blood
loblolly boys served in - Answers - Quasi-War with France (1797-1800) and in the First
Barbary War (1801-1805)
Loblolly Boys of Distinction - Answers - John Wall (first Loblolly boy)
John Domyn (first Loblolly POW)
Joseph Anderson (first African American Loblolly boy)
Surgeon Steward - Answers - Title used at then end of the civil war. Second in seniority
among ship petty officers. First enlisted rate that requires specific qualifications.
nurse - Answers - 1861-1873; applied to junior enlisted medical personnel; served
concurrently with surgeon steward
Baymen (1870s-1898) - Answers - Replaces nurse, one who manned the sick bay in
1873
apothecary - Answers - pharmacist
