Sentence examples for corpsman from inspiring English sources

"There are a lot of habits that are hard to break," says Art Peña, a former fleet marine force corpsman and a member of the military veteran recruitment team at JP Morgan Chase.

Heckel served as a medical corpsman in World War I.

The sculpture was inspired by an iconic World War II photograph taken by Joe Rosenthal of six men (five Marines and a U.S. Navy hospital corpsman) raising an American flag atop Mount Suribachi on the Pacific island of Iwo Jima on Feb. 23, 1945, during the battle with the Japanese for the island.

As a Navy corpsman in Vietnam, he spent leisurely afternoons tootling up the coast in a dinghy, under a hail of enemy fire.

DiGaetano, the Navy corpsman, said that he treated twenty wounded Iraqis, and none were evacuated to receive treatment.

And how we laughed late one afternoon when, after sixty days at sea, the chief medical corpsman showed up on deck sloppy drunk.

Nora rolled her head and called out, "Mike!" It was the name of an American Navy corpsman who had bandaged her shoulder and shielded her from gunfire.

Unsurprisingly, the corpsmen are more interested in staying alive than prosecuting America's war aims.

For example, a typical U.S. Army battalion of 650 700 combat soldiers has 20 30 such medics (called corpsmen in the U.S. Marines), who are trained in the identification and assessment of different types of wounds as well as in advanced first aid, such as administering intravenous fluids and inserting breathing tubes.

In a war zone, medical officers have an aid post where, with the help of corpsmen, they apply first aid to the walking wounded and to the more seriously wounded who are brought in.

At a company station, medical officers and medical corpsmen may provide further treatment before patients are evacuated to the main dressing station at the field ambulance headquarters, where a surgeon may perform emergency operations.