TEST 1 NAVY CORPSMAN EXAM ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED A+
Caduceus
Rating insignia for the hospital corps
Sickbay
Where sick and injured were taken for care
Cockpit
Another name for sickbay
Surgeon Steward
First enlisted rate requiring specific qualification, First seen in pay charts in 1841
Medal of Honor
Highest military decoration that may be awarded
Distinguished service cross
Second highest military decoration for the army and previously the air force
Navy Cross
Second highest military decoration for the navy or marines, coast guard when under the
navy
Silver star
Third highest military decoration for the armed forces
Bronze star
Awarded to anyone serving after December 1941, being heroic
Article 16 (1775)
A sick bay will be established, a crew shall be appointed to serve those in the bay
Medical Section
Ship's Surgeon, Surgeon's Mate, one enlisted man
2 March 1799
All sailing warships must contain a cockpit.
Loblolly boys-1814
Served porridge called loblolly to the sick, birthed the corpsman nickname
, Loblolly boys served in...
Quasi war with France (1797-1800), First Barbary war (1801-1805)
John Wall
Navy's first loblolly boy
John Domyn
The first Loblolly POW
Joseph Anderson
The first African-American Loblolly
Nurse (1861-1873)
Junior enlisted medical personnel
Baymen (1870s-1898)
Replaces nurse, one who manned the sick bay in 1873
Apothecary (1866-1898)
Term for pharmacist, Cornelius O'Leary, Robert Stanley
17 June 1898
President William McKinley signed to give birth to the Navy Hospital Corps
Cornelius O'Leary
38 Years of Apothecary experience when appointment
Robert Stanley
Became the first Corpsman to be awarded the Medal of Honor in 1900
Waves
Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service
Bethesda Naval Hospital
Flagship of Navy medicine since 11 November 1940
15 Dec 1902
29 Hospital Apprentices graduated from Portsmouth VA
In 1916 Congress...
did a expansion of hospital corps to 3.5% of all Navy and Marine Corps forces
In 1917...
Hospital Corps School established in Great Lakes IL
In 1921...
CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED A+
Caduceus
Rating insignia for the hospital corps
Sickbay
Where sick and injured were taken for care
Cockpit
Another name for sickbay
Surgeon Steward
First enlisted rate requiring specific qualification, First seen in pay charts in 1841
Medal of Honor
Highest military decoration that may be awarded
Distinguished service cross
Second highest military decoration for the army and previously the air force
Navy Cross
Second highest military decoration for the navy or marines, coast guard when under the
navy
Silver star
Third highest military decoration for the armed forces
Bronze star
Awarded to anyone serving after December 1941, being heroic
Article 16 (1775)
A sick bay will be established, a crew shall be appointed to serve those in the bay
Medical Section
Ship's Surgeon, Surgeon's Mate, one enlisted man
2 March 1799
All sailing warships must contain a cockpit.
Loblolly boys-1814
Served porridge called loblolly to the sick, birthed the corpsman nickname
, Loblolly boys served in...
Quasi war with France (1797-1800), First Barbary war (1801-1805)
John Wall
Navy's first loblolly boy
John Domyn
The first Loblolly POW
Joseph Anderson
The first African-American Loblolly
Nurse (1861-1873)
Junior enlisted medical personnel
Baymen (1870s-1898)
Replaces nurse, one who manned the sick bay in 1873
Apothecary (1866-1898)
Term for pharmacist, Cornelius O'Leary, Robert Stanley
17 June 1898
President William McKinley signed to give birth to the Navy Hospital Corps
Cornelius O'Leary
38 Years of Apothecary experience when appointment
Robert Stanley
Became the first Corpsman to be awarded the Medal of Honor in 1900
Waves
Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service
Bethesda Naval Hospital
Flagship of Navy medicine since 11 November 1940
15 Dec 1902
29 Hospital Apprentices graduated from Portsmouth VA
In 1916 Congress...
did a expansion of hospital corps to 3.5% of all Navy and Marine Corps forces
In 1917...
Hospital Corps School established in Great Lakes IL
In 1921...
