Fleet Marine Force (FMF) Qual
Exam 2025 Questions and Answers
100% Pass
1775 (beers on the wall) - ✔✔Marine Corps created by Capt Samuel Nicholas in Tun
Tavern Philidelpha.
1776 (hickes) - ✔✔First Amphib landing on Providence Island Bahamas. Got the
nickname LEATHERNECK
1805 (flags mark buried treasure) - ✔✔Barbary Pirates at Burma "Shores of Tripoli."
First U.S. Flag raised in Eastren Hemisphere
1847 (chipotles later) - ✔✔Mexican War "Halls of Montezuma" in Chapultepec
1859 (rebel army) - ✔✔COL Robert E. Lee took the Arsenal at Harpers Ferry to stop
John Brown
1868 (snow globes by zeilin) - ✔✔EGA is great. Brig Gen Jacob Zeilin. Globe and anchor
show world service Eagle is the Nation
1883 (letters) - ✔✔Semper Fi. The motto of the Marine Corps. Always Faithful.
1900 (Daly kills) - ✔✔Boxer Rebellion Peking China. First multinational defence force
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,1913 (Cunning dog tricks) - ✔✔Marine Corps established its aviation unit. First pilot
was Maj Alfred A. Cunningham
1917 (fancy ropes 5 or 6 colors) - ✔✔Battle of Belleuwood. Awarded the French
Fourragere still worn by 5th and 6th Marines
1933 (boards in Quantico) - ✔✔Fleet Marine Force established command and
administrative relations in Quantico VA
1965 (LBJ food) - ✔✔Marines landed in South Vietnam for longest war in history, also in
the Dominican Republic
1982 (war on drugs oct 14, 241 types, 70 Lebanese warlords) - ✔✔Lebonon Oct 23 1983
Bomb hit HQ killed 241 wounded 70 Americans
1991 (Kuwait spear) - ✔✔Desert Storm Jan 1991 Marine ground forces liberated Kuwait
2001 (swift) - ✔✔Sep 11. Marines sent to Afgan Nov 25th started Operation Swift
Freedom
2003 (Iraq) - ✔✔Operation Iraqi Freedom
2004A (a vigilant fellow) - ✔✔Retaking of Fallujah Operation Vigilant Resolve
2004B (be phantom dawn) - ✔✔Operation Phantom Fury and Operation The Dawn in
Iraq
Battle of Guadalcanal (42 Solomon's wives swimming) - ✔✔Aug 7 1942 Solomon
Islands first attempt of Amphibous Doctrine
Battle of Belluwood (starwars) - ✔✔France WW1 Germans rated Marines as "Storm
Troopers" Higest rating also Devil Dogs
Battle of Tarawa (dilbert took a toll on betting $1 mil on 100, but got 76) - ✔✔Gilbert
Islands "It will take 1 million Americans 100 years to concure it" It took 76 hours
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,Battle of Mariana Islands (need airfare saipan guam tinian from HM smith LG $136000
greatest damages) - ✔✔Need for airfields by the Air Force and advanced bases for the
Navy. Landings on the islands of Saipan, Guam, and Tinian. During June and July of
1943, Lieutenant General Holland M. Smith led a combined invasion force of Marines
and soldiers that totaled over 136,000. This was the greatest number of troops up to that
time to operate in the field under Marine command
Battle of Iwo Jima (23300 bloody valor) - ✔✔Largest Bloodiest battle in Maine history
23300 casualties "uncommon Valor wsa a common Virtue"
Battle of Chosin Reservoir (50 NiKes 7/10 china made, held together) - ✔✔pushing into
North Korea November 1950, Marines were cut off after the Chinese Communist Forces
entered the war. Despite facing a 10-division force sent to annihilate them, Marines
smashed seven enemy divisions in their march from the Chosin Reservoir. The major
significance of this retrograde movement was that Marines brought out all operable
equipment, properly evacuated their wounded and dead, and maintained tactical
integrity
Battle of Hue City (68 house party) - ✔✔Vietnamese Holiday Tet Jan 1968 Fighting was
House to House progress messured in yards
Archibald Henderson (39 old men) - ✔✔Commandant for 39 Years known as the
"Grand old man of the Marine Corps"
Sergeant Major John Quick (cuz 18-98 quick tacos on the Atlantic) - ✔✔Cuzco Well
(Guantanamo Bay, Cuba) where he participated in an operation to seize a base for the
Atlantic Fleet battalion of Marines. The Sergeant Major won the Medal of Honor for
semaphoring for an emergency lift of the naval bombardment while under Spanish and
American shellfire. The landing at Guantanamo demonstrated the usefulness of
Marines as assault troops. When employed with the fleet, Marines gave added strength
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, for the capture and defense of advanced bases, becoming a primary mission of the
Marine Corps (1898).
Sergent Major Dan Daly (Daly boxing and cocoa makes you live forever in the woods) -
✔✔2 Medals of Honor 1st Boxer Rebellion 2nd Caco War in Haiti "Come on you sons of
bitches do you want to live forever?" Belleuwood.
Louis B. "Chesty" Puller (32 Nicaraguan tigers live for 30 years in Honduras) -
✔✔Nicaragua through several periods of political unrest and rebellious activity. Puller
and a force of about 32 Marines became famous for their ability to engage rebel groups
and bandits while scouring the jungles in a wide area of Nicaragua to the Honduran
border. "Tiger of the Mountains" (1930). Marine Corps' mascot, an English bulldog
named "Chesty"
Gregory R. "Pappy" Boyington (Boy, those 214 black sheeps killed 28) - ✔✔Maj
Boyington Aerial Ace VMH-214 "Black Sheep" Top Flying Ace 28 kills
Ira H. Hayes (45 pima beans) - ✔✔Pima Indian. Did the Second Flag Raising on Mount
Suribachi Iwo Jima 23Feb1945
Opha Mae Johnson (#18 Johnson jersey) - ✔✔First Enlisted Marine Female 13AUG1918
Margaret A. Brewer (73-77 kernels to last a year after WWII) - ✔✔then a Colonel, served
as the Director of Women Marines (WM) during the period 1973-1977. She was the
seventh and last director of WM, the only post-World War woman to hold the position.
Margaret Brewer became the Marine Corps' first woman general officer on 11 May 1978
Robert E. Bush (Ok, cut the first bush into a ww2 medal) - ✔✔Medal of Honor Battle of
Okinawa WW2
John H."Jack" Bradley - ✔✔1 of 6 to raise flag in Iwo Jima Earned Navy Cross for lafe
saving aid to Marine
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Exam 2025 Questions and Answers
100% Pass
1775 (beers on the wall) - ✔✔Marine Corps created by Capt Samuel Nicholas in Tun
Tavern Philidelpha.
1776 (hickes) - ✔✔First Amphib landing on Providence Island Bahamas. Got the
nickname LEATHERNECK
1805 (flags mark buried treasure) - ✔✔Barbary Pirates at Burma "Shores of Tripoli."
First U.S. Flag raised in Eastren Hemisphere
1847 (chipotles later) - ✔✔Mexican War "Halls of Montezuma" in Chapultepec
1859 (rebel army) - ✔✔COL Robert E. Lee took the Arsenal at Harpers Ferry to stop
John Brown
1868 (snow globes by zeilin) - ✔✔EGA is great. Brig Gen Jacob Zeilin. Globe and anchor
show world service Eagle is the Nation
1883 (letters) - ✔✔Semper Fi. The motto of the Marine Corps. Always Faithful.
1900 (Daly kills) - ✔✔Boxer Rebellion Peking China. First multinational defence force
COPYRIGHT © 2025 BY GRACE AMELIA, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 1
,1913 (Cunning dog tricks) - ✔✔Marine Corps established its aviation unit. First pilot
was Maj Alfred A. Cunningham
1917 (fancy ropes 5 or 6 colors) - ✔✔Battle of Belleuwood. Awarded the French
Fourragere still worn by 5th and 6th Marines
1933 (boards in Quantico) - ✔✔Fleet Marine Force established command and
administrative relations in Quantico VA
1965 (LBJ food) - ✔✔Marines landed in South Vietnam for longest war in history, also in
the Dominican Republic
1982 (war on drugs oct 14, 241 types, 70 Lebanese warlords) - ✔✔Lebonon Oct 23 1983
Bomb hit HQ killed 241 wounded 70 Americans
1991 (Kuwait spear) - ✔✔Desert Storm Jan 1991 Marine ground forces liberated Kuwait
2001 (swift) - ✔✔Sep 11. Marines sent to Afgan Nov 25th started Operation Swift
Freedom
2003 (Iraq) - ✔✔Operation Iraqi Freedom
2004A (a vigilant fellow) - ✔✔Retaking of Fallujah Operation Vigilant Resolve
2004B (be phantom dawn) - ✔✔Operation Phantom Fury and Operation The Dawn in
Iraq
Battle of Guadalcanal (42 Solomon's wives swimming) - ✔✔Aug 7 1942 Solomon
Islands first attempt of Amphibous Doctrine
Battle of Belluwood (starwars) - ✔✔France WW1 Germans rated Marines as "Storm
Troopers" Higest rating also Devil Dogs
Battle of Tarawa (dilbert took a toll on betting $1 mil on 100, but got 76) - ✔✔Gilbert
Islands "It will take 1 million Americans 100 years to concure it" It took 76 hours
COPYRIGHT © 2025 BY GRACE AMELIA, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 2
,Battle of Mariana Islands (need airfare saipan guam tinian from HM smith LG $136000
greatest damages) - ✔✔Need for airfields by the Air Force and advanced bases for the
Navy. Landings on the islands of Saipan, Guam, and Tinian. During June and July of
1943, Lieutenant General Holland M. Smith led a combined invasion force of Marines
and soldiers that totaled over 136,000. This was the greatest number of troops up to that
time to operate in the field under Marine command
Battle of Iwo Jima (23300 bloody valor) - ✔✔Largest Bloodiest battle in Maine history
23300 casualties "uncommon Valor wsa a common Virtue"
Battle of Chosin Reservoir (50 NiKes 7/10 china made, held together) - ✔✔pushing into
North Korea November 1950, Marines were cut off after the Chinese Communist Forces
entered the war. Despite facing a 10-division force sent to annihilate them, Marines
smashed seven enemy divisions in their march from the Chosin Reservoir. The major
significance of this retrograde movement was that Marines brought out all operable
equipment, properly evacuated their wounded and dead, and maintained tactical
integrity
Battle of Hue City (68 house party) - ✔✔Vietnamese Holiday Tet Jan 1968 Fighting was
House to House progress messured in yards
Archibald Henderson (39 old men) - ✔✔Commandant for 39 Years known as the
"Grand old man of the Marine Corps"
Sergeant Major John Quick (cuz 18-98 quick tacos on the Atlantic) - ✔✔Cuzco Well
(Guantanamo Bay, Cuba) where he participated in an operation to seize a base for the
Atlantic Fleet battalion of Marines. The Sergeant Major won the Medal of Honor for
semaphoring for an emergency lift of the naval bombardment while under Spanish and
American shellfire. The landing at Guantanamo demonstrated the usefulness of
Marines as assault troops. When employed with the fleet, Marines gave added strength
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, for the capture and defense of advanced bases, becoming a primary mission of the
Marine Corps (1898).
Sergent Major Dan Daly (Daly boxing and cocoa makes you live forever in the woods) -
✔✔2 Medals of Honor 1st Boxer Rebellion 2nd Caco War in Haiti "Come on you sons of
bitches do you want to live forever?" Belleuwood.
Louis B. "Chesty" Puller (32 Nicaraguan tigers live for 30 years in Honduras) -
✔✔Nicaragua through several periods of political unrest and rebellious activity. Puller
and a force of about 32 Marines became famous for their ability to engage rebel groups
and bandits while scouring the jungles in a wide area of Nicaragua to the Honduran
border. "Tiger of the Mountains" (1930). Marine Corps' mascot, an English bulldog
named "Chesty"
Gregory R. "Pappy" Boyington (Boy, those 214 black sheeps killed 28) - ✔✔Maj
Boyington Aerial Ace VMH-214 "Black Sheep" Top Flying Ace 28 kills
Ira H. Hayes (45 pima beans) - ✔✔Pima Indian. Did the Second Flag Raising on Mount
Suribachi Iwo Jima 23Feb1945
Opha Mae Johnson (#18 Johnson jersey) - ✔✔First Enlisted Marine Female 13AUG1918
Margaret A. Brewer (73-77 kernels to last a year after WWII) - ✔✔then a Colonel, served
as the Director of Women Marines (WM) during the period 1973-1977. She was the
seventh and last director of WM, the only post-World War woman to hold the position.
Margaret Brewer became the Marine Corps' first woman general officer on 11 May 1978
Robert E. Bush (Ok, cut the first bush into a ww2 medal) - ✔✔Medal of Honor Battle of
Okinawa WW2
John H."Jack" Bradley - ✔✔1 of 6 to raise flag in Iwo Jima Earned Navy Cross for lafe
saving aid to Marine
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