What is it like being a Navy corpsman attached to a Marine Corps unit?

August 20th, 2009 | by MakingMarines |
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mairdo51 asked:


Is it significantly different from just being a Marine?
Is it harder to adjust to the more physical focus of the Marine Corps Infantry?
Do they integrate fully into offensives, or must they stay back in case someone gets hurt?

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  1. 5 Responses to “What is it like being a Navy corpsman attached to a Marine Corps unit?”

  2. By Rich on Aug 21, 2009 | Reply

    You will wear same working uniform as marine not the dress fancy looking one just those cammies one, corpsman had to adopt marine physical statues, which usually is more demanded. Depend what type of marine unit you in; some in like squadron get deploy to ship, require less and more chance hanging out your fellow shipmate, while some goes to iraq and combat area. You likely goes to same area as other marines, because you the only medical guy they got, which you require to learn a lot more gun training than other corpsman who station elsewhere. Corpsman is a good rating in the navy, after all corsman get the most medal of honors and most respect rate. But require a lot of sacrifice, other man life depend on you. Since Corpsman merge with Dental Technicial, you should to ask for detal school, if you do that; you will not go to front line but stay in the base, there’s no need for detal tech in fron line, but if you aleady station with the marine unit, most likely you had to wait tillt transfer prior ask for that school. Not sure about marine but navy has such thign switch tour with other serviceman, if both qualified for the same position, basically just switch unit and location. You should ask your counselor.

  3. By Cutman on Aug 23, 2009 | Reply

    A lot of gay jokes.

  4. By Prince on Aug 25, 2009 | Reply

    corpsman are some hardcore guys. some even harder than marines. but the corpsman is always there to help not just for medical reasons but they always have jokes about other branches. the training they go thru pretty much catagorizes them as a grunt.

  5. By axsooted on Aug 27, 2009 | Reply

    it depends on what kind of doc you are. are you in shape? are you a hard charger? do you want to spend your days at the BAS or would you rather be with the Marines in the dirt.
    some doc’s even go Marine Regs which means you wear our uniforms not the Navy’s.
    bottom line is some doc’s get respect, some get their d**k’s run into the dirt.

  6. By Knightrider on Aug 29, 2009 | Reply

    The corpsman is one of the hardest jobs in the military
    they are the most demanding, and some of them are harder than a coffin nail
    seen a corpman take 2 rounds from a ak 47 and keep ticking he stoped the bleed from my neck because i took some shrapnail for a IED in bagdad the dude still had 2 bullets in his arm and he fixed me first

    most corpsman are in awesome shape because they had to go threw the navy boot camp and then adopt the marines physical attributes
    i believe they had to also go threw the marine corp boot camp as well
    but i know that the marines lifes function around the corpman
    he is by far the most guarded person on patrol next to the radio operator

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