Caduces
Insignia for hospital corps
Sickbay
Where sick and injured men were taken for care
cockpit
Another name for sickbay
Surgeon Steward
First enlisted rate requiring specific qualification
Medal of Honor
Highest military decoration
Distinguished Service Cross
2nd highest military decoration (US Army) (Air Force)
Navy Cross
2nd highest military decoration (Navy, Marines, Coast Guard)
Silver Star Medal
3rd highest military combat decoration for everyone
Bronze star
A U.S. military decoration awarded for heroic or meritorious achievement or service in combat not
involving aerial flight.
1775
First direction from navy medicine
Article 16
States that a convenient place shall be set apart for the sick and injured. That should be kept clean
Ships surgeon
Trained physician
Surgeons mate
Usually a physician but subordinate to surgeon
, 02 March 1799
Newly commissioned ships contain a cockpit
loblolly
Name given to Corpman forerunners who would served porridge
1814
Classified an official rate
1797-1801 loblolly
Served in Quasi war against France
1801-1805 loblolly
Barbary war
John wall
Navy's first Loblolly Boy
John Domyn
First Loblolly POW
Joseph Anderson
first African-American loblolly
1820-1865
Loblolly turned into a Surgeon Steward
1861-1873
Surgeon steward was turned into NURSE
1870s-1898
Nurse turned into a BAYMEN
1866-1898
Baymen turned into APOTHECARY
apothecary
Means to put away. 14th century version is a pharmacist
Cornelius O'Leary
Father of the Hospital Corps
Robert Stanley