Staff Sergeant Promotion Board Test Questions with Answers
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Staff Sergeant Promotion Board Test Questions with Answers
What is the general rule for wearing ribbons and decorations? - Answer-The highest award toward the right and above.
What is the oldest decoration in the U.S. Army and who authorized it? - Answer-The Purple Heart; it was authorized by G...
Staff Sergeant Promotion Board Test
Questions with Answers
What is the general rule for wearing ribbons and decorations? - Answer-The highest
award toward the right and above.
What is the oldest decoration in the U.S. Army and who authorized it? - Answer-The
Purple Heart; it was authorized by George Washington.
When are you authorized to wear headgear indoors? - Answer-When under arms (i.e. a
member of a Color guard Team presenting the Colors for an official ceremony).
What is the definition of first aid? - Answer-First aid is the immediate care given to an
injured or ill individual until qualified medical treatment is administrated.
What are the four lifesaving steps? - Answer-Clear the airway, restore the breathing and
heartbeat.
Stop the bleeding.
Control or treat for shock.
Dress and bandage the wound.
Define shock. - Answer-The failure of the cardiovascular system to keep adequate
blood flowing to the vital organs of the body.
Name the three types of bleeding. - Answer-Arterial.
Venous.
Capillary.
What are the signs of a broken bone? - Answer-Tenderness over the injury.
Unnatural shape or deformity.
Swelling and discoloration.
Bone is visibly breaking the skin.
What type of averse physical conditions may occur in extreme heat? - Answer-Heat
exhaustion.
Heat stroke.
Heat cramps.
Sunburn.
Prickly heat.
What adverse physical conditions may occur in cold weather? - Answer-Trench foot.
Immersion foot.
, Frost bite.
Snow blindness.
Hypothermia.
Name the difference in the symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat stroke. - Answer-
Heat exhaustion: Profuse sweating, nausea, dizziness, weakness.
Heat stroke: No sweating, high body temperature.
When do you apply a tourniquet? - Answer-When it is a matter of life or limb.
Who can remove a tourniquet? - Answer-Only competent medical personnel.
What are the five colors most commonly found on a topographical map, and what do
they represent? - Answer-Black: Man-made features.
Blue: Water.
Brown: Elevation and relief.
Green: Vegetation.
Red: Classifies cultural features, such as populated areas, main roads, and boundaries
on older maps.
Describe the policy regarding female nail polish while in uniform? - Answer-Flesh tone
or clear.
What is the definition of a chain of command? - Answer-A succession of leaders
through which authority and commands pass from leader to subordinates;
communication travels both up and down the chain of command.
Where does the chain of command stop? - Answer-The Commander in Chief (President
of the U.S.) at the top, and the private (Squad member) at the bottom.
What is considered to be the most important of all military courtesies? - Answer-The
saute.
When do military personnel salute uncased National Colors (U.S. Flag)? - Answer-
When the Colors are six paces in front of them; the salute is held until six paces past
the Colors.
If you were in charge of a formation running at double-time and passed an officer, how
would you salute? - Answer-You would come to quick-time, salute, and when the salute
is returned, you would continue at double-time. The formation continues without
stopping.
What do the colors on the flag symbolize? - Answer-Red: Valor and hardiness.
White: Purity and innocence.
Blue: Vigilance, justice, and perseverance.
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