Chapter 1: Heritage of the Hospital Corpsman

Question 1

March 2, 1799

Answer 1

Congress mandated that the newly commissioned sailing warship that contain a “cockpit” or sickbay, where sick and injured men could be brought and cared for by “surgeons” or “surgeon mates”

Question 2

Loblolly Boys

Answer 2

today’s forerunner of today’s Hospital Corpsman; “serving the daily rations of porridge or ‘loblolly’ to the ill and injured”

Question 3

Quasi-War (France 1797-1800) and First Barbary War (1801-1805)

Answer 3

Where Loblollies served with distinction, however, many of their names and individual accomplishments have been obscured by or lost over time.

Question 4

John Wall

Answer 4

the Navy’s first Loblolly boy

Question 5

John Domyn

Answer 5

the first Loblolly POW

Question 6

Joseph Anderson

Answer 6

the first African American Loblolly

Question 7

1814

Answer 7

the Navy’s regulations first listed Loblolly Boy as an official rate

Question 8

“Surgeon Stewards”

Answer 8

From the age of American Expansion to the end of the Civil War, What medical enlisted Sailors were called.

Question 9

17 June 1898

Answer 9

The Hospital Corps became an organized unit of the Navy Medical Department under that provisions of an act of Congress; Signed into law by President William Mckinley

Question 10

Robert Stanley

Answer 10

in 1900, became the first of 22 Hospital Corpsmen to be awarded the medial of honor

Question 11

World War 1

Answer 11

both the US and France cited many Hospital Corpsmen for valor and performance of duty under fire.

Question 12

WAVES

Answer 12

Women were first brought into the Hospital Corps during WW2. On 12 Jan 1944, the first Hospital Corps school for Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) was commissioned at US Naval Hospital, National Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland.

Question 13

Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima

Answer 13

along with 6 Marines, Pharmacist Mate John Bradel proudly participated in the raising of our flag

Question 14

02 April 1948

Answer 14

the rating insignia of the Hospital Corps was changed from the Red Cross to the caduceus

Question 15

27 September 2001

Answer 15

by order of Navy Surgeon General Michael Cowan, new signal flags, “charlie papa: steaming to assist” were flown above all Navy medical activities.

Question 16

20 March 2003

Answer 16

when American forces invaded Iraq to remove Sadaam Hussein, the Corpsman assigned to the 1st Marine Expeditionary Forces were among the first Americans to the cross the border.

Question 17

STP

Answer 17

the Iraq; conflict gave Navy Medicine an opportunity to utilize the newly developed Shock Trauma Platoon concept. A small mobile medical unit, was designed to advance assault units and support combat operations from just behind the front lines.

Question 18

01 October 2005

Answer 18

the Dental Technicians rating merged with the Hospital Corps

Question 19

Medial of Honor

Answer 19

there have been 22 MoH recipients from the Hospital Corps

Question 20

awards

Answer 20

174 Navy crosses, 31 distinguished service medals, 946 silver stars, and 1582 bronze stars awarded to the Hospital Corpsman since the establishment of the Hospital Corps. 14 Naval vessels have been named for Hospital corpsmen

Question 21

what is the key to service with distinction?

Answer 21

Professional ethics

Question 22

the importance of having medical care onboard Naval vessels was reinforced when?

Answer 22

02 March 1799

Question 23

the area called the sickbay today was originally referred to as what?

Answer 23

cockpit

Question 24

the first member of the Hospital Corps to be awarded the medal of Honor was who?

Answer 24

Hospital Apprentice Robert Stanley

Question 25

the foundation for the current system of rank structure came in what year?

Answer 25

1916

Question 26

the first Hospital Corps school for WAVES was commissioned where?

Answer 26

National Naval Medical Cener, Bethesda, MD

Question 27

the Honorable James Forrestal was serving in what position when he publicly thanked the Hospital Corps for it service and contributions during WW2

Answer 27

Secretary of the Navy

Question 28

what was the original rating insignia of the Hospital Corps?

Answer 28

Red Cross

Question 29

STP were first deployed during the Afghanistan phase of WoT?

Answer 29

False. Iraq

Question 30

soft power was first articulated as a possible military policy in 1911 by President Theodore Roosevelt.

Answer 30

True

Question 31

the Dental Technician rating was established when?

Answer 31

12 December 1947

Question 32

most of the Navy’s medical enlisted training will be relocated to where along with the Army and Air Force as of 2011

Answer 32

San Antonio, TX

Question 33

what percentage of all Department of the Naval Medal of Honor has been earned by the Hospital Corpsmen?

Answer 33

50%