ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE
CORPS
SERVICE IN WORLD WAR I
WORLD WAR II AND THE YEARS
FOLLOWING
KOREA AND THE YEARS FOLLOWING
VIETNAM AND THE YEARS
FOLLOWINGG
9-11
GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR
(GWOT)/OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY
OPERATIONS
CORPSMEN WITH THE FLEET
SOFT POWER: A GLOBAL FORCE OF
GOOD
NAVY DENTAL TECHNICIANS
THE CORPS OF THE FUTURE
HOSPITAL CORPSMEN AWARDS/WHO RECEIVED
THE MEDAL OF HONOR
100

The individual considered to be the Navy's first Loblolly Boy.

Who was John Wall?

100

The amount of Hospital Corpsman killed in action during WWI.

What is 15?

100

During WWII, of the 15 Navy enlisted men that were awarded the Medal of Honor, this number were Hospital Corpsman.

What is 7?

100

The amount of Hospital Corpsman killed during the Korean War.

What is 108?

100

The location of "Yankee Station". 

What is North Vietnam?

100

The Navy Surgeon General ordered new signal flags to be flown above all Navy medical activities.

What are “Charlie Papa: Steaming to Assist”?

100

This Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF) was among the first Americans to cross the border into Iraq in 2003.

What is 1 MEF?

100

The number of casualties that were treated by the USNS Comfort during the initial phase of Iraq.

What is 650 casualties?

100

This catastrophic even took place on 26 December 2004, following a magnitude-9 earthquake.

What is a tsunami?

100

The year the Dental Technician rate merged with the Hospital Corps.

What is the year 2005?

100

Naval Hospital that has been the Flagship of Navy Medicine since 11 November 1940.

What is Bethesda?

100

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).

200

The Navy established the listed rate of "Loblolly Boy" as an official rate in this year.

What is the year 1814?

200

Hospital Corpsman were recipients of this number of awards and citations during WWI.

What is 460?

200

On this date, women were first brought into the Hospital Corps.

What is 12 January 1944.

200

Amount of Hospital Corpsman wounded in action during the Vietnam war.

What is 3,353?

200

This newly-developed mobile medical concept was used to provide care just behind the front lines in Iraq.

What is Shock Trauma Platoon (STP)?

200

Hospital Corpsmen were among the first to arrive for this devastating event on 29 August 2005.

What is Hurricane Katrina?

200

The year that specialized dental training began for medical enlisted sailors.

What is the year 1923?

200

All enlisted medical education and training programs.

Fort Sam Houston.

200

Number of Vessels named after Hospital Corpsman.

What is 14?

300

After 1814, these were terms used to identify junior enlisted medical personnel.

What is Nurse, Baymen, and Apothecaries?

300

On this date, the rating insignia changed from a Red Cross to the Caduceus.

What is 02 April 1948?

300

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?

300

This individual composed the military march entitled "Corpsman Up!".

Who was Chief Warren Officer (CWO)4 Brian Dix?

300

The USNS Comfort provided support in 2009 for this operation.

What is Operation Continuing Promise?

300

The war that marked the first time the Hospital Corpsman wore the dental rating badge while serving in combat.

What is the Korean War?

300

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).

300

The war that Hospital Corpsman Second Class Donald E. Ballard, USN received a Medal of Honor.

What is the Vietnam War?

400

The Hospital Corpsman become an organized unit of the Navy Medical Department on this date.

What is 17 June 1898?

400

The number of enlisted women consisting of the first WAVES class.

What is 230 enlisted women?

400

Date when combat operations against the Taliban begin in Afghanistan?

What is 07 October 2001?

400

Hospital Corpsman deployed to these countries in order to provide care to those with landmine blast injuries.

What is Cambodia and Sri Lanka?

400

Dentalman that was awarded the Navy Cross for valor on 06 November 1950 while treating casualties.

Who was Dentalman Thomas A. Christensen, Jr. ?

400

The war that Pharmacist's Mate First Class John H. Balch, USN received a Medal of Honor.

What is WWI?

500

This term identifies where the sick and injured received care on newly commissioned warships in 1799.

What is a Cockpit?

500

Considered the deepest penetrating ground operation in Marine Corps History.

What is Iraq?

500

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.

500

The war that Hospital Apprentice First Class Robert Eugene Bush, USN received his Medal of Honor.

What is WWII?

600

Referred to as an original charter member of the Hospital Corps.

Who is Cornelius O'Leary?

600

The Medical Battalion that provided much-needed relief to the 82nd Airborne Division Medical Units in 2004.

What is the 1st Medical Battalion?

600

This ship conducted a 120-day humanitarian mission to South America, Central America, and the Caribbean.

What is the USNS Comfort?

600

Hospital Corpsman Medal of Honor recipient during the Boxer Rebellion.

Who is Robert H. Stanley. 

700

The survival rate of the 141 combat casualties treated by STP 2 in September 2004.

What is a 98% survival rate?

800

The year PTSD was acknowledged as a diagnosable psychological disorder.

What is the year 1980?

900

US vessel that launched the Tomahawk missile that opened the Iraq conflict.

What is the USS Cheyenne?