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14295B Chapter 1
Chapter 1 Heritage of the Hospital Corpsman
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the key to service with distinction? | Professional ethics |
| Who were the forerunners of the hospital corpsman that first assisted navy physicians? | Loblolly Boys |
| Who was the first Loblolly Boy? | John Wall |
| Loblolly was first listed as an official rate when? | 1814 |
| When did the hospital corps became an organized unit of the Navy Medical Department? | 17 June 1898 |
| Who signed the hospital corps into law under an act of Congress in 1898? | President William McKinley |
| Who was the first hospital corpsman to receive the Medal of Honor? | Hospital Apprentice Robert Stanley |
| When were women first brought into the hospital corps and what were they called? | On 12 January 1944, and they were called WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) |
| Where were the Waves commissioned? | At the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland |
| When was the nomenclature of the Hospital Corps changed to what it is today? | On 02 April 1948 |
| What is the smallest most mobile medical unit? | Shock Trauma Platoon |
| What is the doctrine of using goodwill and cooperation to influence nations and peoples of the world? | "Soft Power" |
| When did the dental technician rating merge with hospital corpsman? | 01 October 2005 |
| How many hospital corpsman to date have received the Medal of Honor? | 22 |
| How many of the Department of the Navy Medal of Honor recipients have been hospital corpsman? | Half |
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