ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE
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The individual considered to be the Navy's first Loblolly Boy.
Who was John Wall?
The amount of Hospital Corpsman killed in action during WWI.
What is 15?
During WWII, of the 15 Navy enlisted men that were awarded the Medal of Honor, this number were Hospital Corpsman.
What is 7?
The amount of Hospital Corpsman killed during the Korean War.
What is 108?
The location of "Yankee Station".
What is North Vietnam?
The Navy Surgeon General ordered new signal flags to be flown above all Navy medical activities.
What are “Charlie Papa: Steaming to Assist”?
This Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF) was among the first Americans to cross the border into Iraq in 2003.
What is 1 MEF?
The number of casualties that were treated by the USNS Comfort during the initial phase of Iraq.
What is 650 casualties?
This catastrophic even took place on 26 December 2004, following a magnitude-9 earthquake.
What is a tsunami?
The year the Dental Technician rate merged with the Hospital Corps.
What is the year 2005?
Naval Hospital that has been the Flagship of Navy Medicine since 11 November 1940.
What is Bethesda?
To date, Hospital Corpsman have been awarded this number of Medal of Honors.
What is 23?
23. Senior Chief Special Warfare Operator Edward Byers
Then-Chief Edward Byers was trained as a Special Operations Combat Medic at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, before going through SEAL training in 2002. As part of a hostage rescue force in Afghanistan, he assaulted an enemy sentry while rushing into a small room filled with heavily armed enemy fighters. He assaulted, tackled and fought the insurgents in hand-to-hand combat and then threw himself on the hostage to shield them from small arms fire. While shielding the hostage, Byers subdued others with his bare hands. The 36-year-old is still serving on active duty after 11 deployments. He is the most decorated living Navy SEAL.
We Are The Mighty website (the most current list).
The Navy established the listed rate of "Loblolly Boy" as an official rate in this year.
What is the year 1814?
Hospital Corpsman were recipients of this number of awards and citations during WWI.
What is 460?
On this date, women were first brought into the Hospital Corps.
What is 12 January 1944.
Amount of Hospital Corpsman wounded in action during the Vietnam war.
What is 3,353?
This newly-developed mobile medical concept was used to provide care just behind the front lines in Iraq.
What is Shock Trauma Platoon (STP)?
Hospital Corpsmen were among the first to arrive for this devastating event on 29 August 2005.
What is Hurricane Katrina?
The year that specialized dental training began for medical enlisted sailors.
What is the year 1923?
All enlisted medical education and training programs.
Fort Sam Houston.
Number of Vessels named after Hospital Corpsman.
What is 14?
After 1814, these were terms used to identify junior enlisted medical personnel.
What is Nurse, Baymen, and Apothecaries?
On this date, the rating insignia changed from a Red Cross to the Caduceus.
What is 02 April 1948?
The amount of Hospital Corpsman that were killed in the line of duty during the bombing of the Marine Barracks in Beirut, Lebanon.
What is 15?
This individual composed the military march entitled "Corpsman Up!".
Who was Chief Warren Officer (CWO)4 Brian Dix?
The USNS Comfort provided support in 2009 for this operation.
What is Operation Continuing Promise?
The war that marked the first time the Hospital Corpsman wore the dental rating badge while serving in combat.
What is the Korean War?
Over the years, the Navy has operated Hospital Corps Training Schools in these locations.
Bainbridge, MD (1943-1957);
Farragut, ID (1943-1945);
Great Lakes, IL (1913-1921; 1942 to 2011),
Newport, RI (1917-1921);
Portsmouth, VA (1902-1906; 1921 to 2011),
San Diego, CA (1928-1932; 1935 to 2011);
and San Francisco, CA (1917-1921).
The war that Hospital Corpsman Second Class Donald E. Ballard, USN received a Medal of Honor.
What is the Vietnam War?
The Hospital Corpsman become an organized unit of the Navy Medical Department on this date.
What is 17 June 1898?
The number of enlisted women consisting of the first WAVES class.
What is 230 enlisted women?
Date when combat operations against the Taliban begin in Afghanistan?
What is 07 October 2001?
Hospital Corpsman deployed to these countries in order to provide care to those with landmine blast injuries.
What is Cambodia and Sri Lanka?
Dentalman that was awarded the Navy Cross for valor on 06 November 1950 while treating casualties.
Who was Dentalman Thomas A. Christensen, Jr. ?
The war that Pharmacist's Mate First Class John H. Balch, USN received a Medal of Honor.
What is WWI?
This term identifies where the sick and injured received care on newly commissioned warships in 1799.
What is a Cockpit?
Considered the deepest penetrating ground operation in Marine Corps History.
What is Iraq?
The Teams that assisted in providing medical care during the tsunami relief efforts in Indonesia.
What is the USS Bonhomme Richard, USS Abraham Lincoln, Carrier Air Wing Two, and the USNS Mercy worked tirelessly to provide medical care to survivors.
The war that Hospital Apprentice First Class Robert Eugene Bush, USN received his Medal of Honor.
What is WWII?
Referred to as an original charter member of the Hospital Corps.
Who is Cornelius O'Leary?
The Medical Battalion that provided much-needed relief to the 82nd Airborne Division Medical Units in 2004.
What is the 1st Medical Battalion?
This ship conducted a 120-day humanitarian mission to South America, Central America, and the Caribbean.
What is the USNS Comfort?
Hospital Corpsman Medal of Honor recipient during the Boxer Rebellion.
Who is Robert H. Stanley.
The survival rate of the 141 combat casualties treated by STP 2 in September 2004.
What is a 98% survival rate?
The year PTSD was acknowledged as a diagnosable psychological disorder.
What is the year 1980?
US vessel that launched the Tomahawk missile that opened the Iraq conflict.
What is the USS Cheyenne?