Leonard Wood if he could
Customs and Courtesies I
Denver, John
Customs and Courtesies II
School of Hard Knox
100

These is his alma mater and course of study.

What Harvard and medicine?

He graduated Harvard Medical School in 1884.

100

This is an established practice.

What is a custom?

100

This, oftentimes, greasy treat was first trademarked at the Humpty Dumpty Barrel Drive-In in Denver.

What is the cheeseburger?

100

This means good manners and politeness in dealing with other people.

What is courtesy or military courtesy?

100

This is the year Fort Knox was built.

When is 1937?

200

Along with "Teddy" Roosevelt, Wood raised this group for the Spanish-American War.

What are the rough riders?

200

Doing this could merely brand the offender as ignorant or ill bred, but in some cases could even bring censure or disciplinary action.

What is breaching Army customs?

some examples include:

  • Never criticize the Army or a leader in public.
  • Never go "over the heads" of superiors-don't jump the chain of command.
  • Never offer excuses.
  • Never turn and walk away to avoid giving the hand salute.
  • Never run indoors or pretend you don't hear (while driving, for example) to avoid standing reveille or retreat.
200

This was the first permanent type of structure in Denver.

What is a saloon?

200

This is the regulation on Salutes, Honors, and Courtesy.

What is Army Regulation 600-25?

200

This is the cost of the original construction of Fort Knox.

What is $560,000?

That is around $10 million in today's dollars.

300

Leonard Wood lost the presidential election of 1920 to this man.

Who is Warren G. Harding?

300

This is the order for entering and exiting vehicles.

What is the junior ranking soldier is the first to enter, and the senior in rank is the first to exit?

300

Smelloscopes are used by Denver police to find these.

Who are pot smokers not complying with the Denver odor ordinance?

300

We train soldiers to say this when talking to a higher ranking officer.

What is Sir or Ma'am?

300

This is the thickness and weight of the vault doors.

What is 21 inches and 20 tons?

400

Warren G. Harding appointed Leonard Wood as governor of this area in 1921.

What are the Philippines?

400

This describes which side you should be on when walking with an officer or NCO of superior rank.

What is the left?

400

In 1890 congress passed a bill to turn this into a park.

What is Denver's first cemetery?

Family members were given 90 days to remove the remains. The undertaker responsible for transferring the unclaimed bodies then used child-sized coffins. Hacking limbs from the remains so they would fit. 

Check out https://www.legendsofamerica.com/co-cheesemanpark/ for an interesting bed time read.

400

These are some of the Army's common courtesies.

What are rendering the hand salute, standing at attention or parade rest, or addressing others by their rank?

400

Though the real amount is a mystery, this is how many ounces of gold are believed to be in the vault.

1 pound = 16 ounces

What are 147.3 million ounces or 9.2 million pounds of gold?

500

This officer became chief of Preventive Medicine at Fort Leonard Wood battling the great COVID pandemic of 2020, ushering in MHS Genesis as well as PHAB.

Who is CPT Terra Forward, MD, MBA, MPH?

500

This is the only time an enlisted member will salute another enlisted member

What is when receiving reports?

500

John Denver did this to his marital bed as an outlet for his frustration during his 1981 divorce from Annie.

What is chainsawed it in half?

500

These are instances when a salute is not required.

What are: 

  • Being indoors, unless reporting to an officer or when on duty as a guard. 
  • If you are a prisoner. 
  • Saluting is obviously inappropriate, such as when they are carrying a heavy load with both hands.
  • Either the senior or the subordinate is wearing civilian clothes.
500
Staying safe in the vault during WWII these three documents eventually made their way back home to Washington D.C. in 1944.

What are the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and Declaration of Independence?