hcb 101 first exam questions and
answers.
Medal of Honor
Highest military decoration, presented by the president, risk life above and beyond the call of duty
Navy Cross
2nd highest military decoration (Navy, Marines, Coast Guard)
silver star
Third highest military combat decoration
Bronze Star
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
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
included two or three men: ships surgeon, surgeons mate, one enlisted man
march 2nd 1799
congress mandated all newly made ships to have cockpits
loblolly boys
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
Quasi-War with France (1797-1800) and in the First Barbary War (1801-1805)
Loblolly Boys of Distinction
John Wall (first Loblolly boy)
John Domyn (first Loblolly POW)
Joseph Anderson (first African American Loblolly boy)
Surgeon Steward
, Title used at then end of the civil war. Second in seniority among ship petty officers. First enlisted rate
that requires specific qualifications.
nurse
1861-1873; applied to junior enlisted medical personnel; served concurrently with surgeon steward
Baymen (1870s-1898)
Replaces nurse, one who manned the sick bay in 1873
apothecary
pharmacist
New hospital corpsman
congress submitted a bill calling for improvements to the armed forces in response to threat of war with
Spain; signed by president William Mckinley on 17 june 1898
established the pharmacist
17jun1898 secretary of the navy appointed 25 senior apothecaries
first hospital corpsman to earn the medal of honor
Robert Stanely
11 november 1940
bethesda naval hospital has been flagship of Navy medicine
first hospital corpsman school
established in portsmouth va on 15 dec 1902 graduated the first 29n hospital corpsman
great lakes estabished its hospital corpsman school in
1917
WAVES was comissioned at the U.S. Naval Hospital national naval medical center bethesda maryland
on
12 JAN 1944
DT rating a separate enlisted specialty since its establishment on
12 DEC 1947
hospital corsman school in fort sam was established in
2005
the red cross insignia was changed to the caduceus in
1948
answers.
Medal of Honor
Highest military decoration, presented by the president, risk life above and beyond the call of duty
Navy Cross
2nd highest military decoration (Navy, Marines, Coast Guard)
silver star
Third highest military combat decoration
Bronze Star
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
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
included two or three men: ships surgeon, surgeons mate, one enlisted man
march 2nd 1799
congress mandated all newly made ships to have cockpits
loblolly boys
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
Quasi-War with France (1797-1800) and in the First Barbary War (1801-1805)
Loblolly Boys of Distinction
John Wall (first Loblolly boy)
John Domyn (first Loblolly POW)
Joseph Anderson (first African American Loblolly boy)
Surgeon Steward
, Title used at then end of the civil war. Second in seniority among ship petty officers. First enlisted rate
that requires specific qualifications.
nurse
1861-1873; applied to junior enlisted medical personnel; served concurrently with surgeon steward
Baymen (1870s-1898)
Replaces nurse, one who manned the sick bay in 1873
apothecary
pharmacist
New hospital corpsman
congress submitted a bill calling for improvements to the armed forces in response to threat of war with
Spain; signed by president William Mckinley on 17 june 1898
established the pharmacist
17jun1898 secretary of the navy appointed 25 senior apothecaries
first hospital corpsman to earn the medal of honor
Robert Stanely
11 november 1940
bethesda naval hospital has been flagship of Navy medicine
first hospital corpsman school
established in portsmouth va on 15 dec 1902 graduated the first 29n hospital corpsman
great lakes estabished its hospital corpsman school in
1917
WAVES was comissioned at the U.S. Naval Hospital national naval medical center bethesda maryland
on
12 JAN 1944
DT rating a separate enlisted specialty since its establishment on
12 DEC 1947
hospital corsman school in fort sam was established in
2005
the red cross insignia was changed to the caduceus in
1948
