Chp 1 quiz 1

Question 1

Women were first brought into the hospital corps during what conflict?

Answer 1

World War 2

Question 2

In march 2, of what year, congress mandated that the newly commissioned sailing warships-that compromised the first U.S naval fleet-contain a “cockpit” where sick and injured men could be brought and cared for by “surgeons” and “surgeons mates.”?

Answer 2

1799

Question 3

What marked the first time that hospital corpsmen wearing dental rating badges served in combat?

Answer 3

Korean War

Question 4

During world war 2, a total of 15 navy enlisted men were awarded the Medal of Honor; of this number, how many were hospital corpsmen?

Answer 4

Seven

Question 5

The attacks of September 11th were traced to what which is an ultra conservative Sunni Islamist terrorist organization and its leader Osama Bin Laden?

Answer 5

Al Qaida

Question 6

To date how many Medal of Honor recipients from the hospital corps have there been?

Answer 6

22

Question 7

On 01 October of what year, the dental technician rating, a separate enlisted specialty since 12 December 1947, merged with the hospital corps?

Answer 7

2005

Question 8

The navy regulations first listed loblolly boys as an official rate I what year?

Answer 8

1814

Question 9

Who was the navy’s first loblolly boy?

Answer 9

John wall

Question 10

The tomahawk missile that opened the Iraqi conflict was launched from what ship?

Answer 10

USS CHEYENNE

Question 11

Who was they navy’s first African American loblolly boy?

Answer 11

Joseph Anderson

Question 12

The Iraqi conflict gave navy Medicine an opportunity to utilize what newly developed concept?

Answer 12

Shock Trauma Platoons(STP)

Question 13

To date how many naval vessels have been named for hospital corpsmen?

Answer 13

14

Question 14

Specialized dental training for medical enlisted sailors extends back to 03 February of what year when the first class of hospital corpsmen attended the U.S. Dental school in Washington?

Answer 14

1923

Question 15

An inescapable legacy of the overseas contingency in Iraq and Afghanistan are the thousands of marines, sailors, and soldiers returning with traumatic brain injury (TBI) as well as deeper psychological wounds categorized as what?

Answer 15

Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSD)

Question 16

The hospital corps became an organized unit of the navy medics department under the provisions of an act of congress approves 17 June of what year singed into law by president William McKinley?

Answer 16

1898