Chapter 1 - Heritage of the Hospital Corps Flashcards
During the Congressional Mandate, “sick bay” was known as?
Cockpit
When did Congress mandate the newly commissioned sailing warships that comprised of the first Naval Fleet?
2 March1799
Who where the first Navy physicians ably assisted by?
Loblolly Boys
In what wars did the Loblollies served with distinction?
Quasi War with France (1797-1800) and in the First Barbary War (1801-1805)
The Navy’s first Loblolly Boy
John Wall
The first Loblolly POW
John Domyn
The first African American Loblolly
Joseph Anderson
The Navy regulation first listed Loblolly Boy as an official rate in?
1814
In 1873, the term nurse, used by junior enlisted medical personnel was replaced by?
Bayman
When did president William McKinley approved the act of Congress that organized the Hospital Corps into the Navy Medical Department?
17 June 1898
In 1900, who was the first Corpsman to be awarded the Medal of Honor?
HA Robert Stanley
Before the Caduece, what was the Corpsman emblem?
Red Cross
When and who where the first women in the Hospital Corps?
During WW II (12 January 1944), Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) was commissioned at Naval Hospital Bethesda, Maryland
Who was the Corpsman that participated in the flag raising at Mt. Suribachi along with six Marines?
Pharmacist Mate John Bradley
On 27 September 2001, Navy Surgeon General Michael Cowan ordered new signal flags to be flown above all Navy Medical Activities. What did the flags mean?
Charlie Papa: Steaming to Assist
The Iraqi conflict gave Navy Medicine an opportunity to utilize what?
Shock Trauma Platoon (STP)
CWO4 Brian Dix, the Director of the Marine Corps’ Drum and Bugle Corps was inspired by HM3 Joe Worley to composed a military march entitled?
Corpsman Up
What are the two Navy Hospital Ships?
USNS Comfort and USNS Mercy
In August 2009, the US Global War on Terror in Afghanistan and Iraq was rebranded what?
Overseas Contingency Operations
What is Soft Power?
The doctrine of using goodwill and cooperation to influence nations and peoples of the world.
When did Dental Technician (DT) rating, a separate enlisted specialty since 12 December 1947 merge with the Hospital Corps?
01 October 2005
Who was the Dental Technician (DT) that received a Navy Cross on 06 November 1950?
DT Thomas A. Christensen
How many Naval vessels are named after Hospital Corpsmen?
14
How many Medal of Honor recipients total are there?
22
