What makes a good corpsman

Related: Read all about Modern Day Marine Corpsmen and others have used the lifelike TOMManikin that bleeds, breathes and talks for years as they prepared to treat injured Marines. Now, the mannequin's creators are working on a new product that will challenge sailors to treat Marines who've been injured on the battlefield for a longer time period. What can I do? Corpsmen need to learn how to use more advanced medical tools to stabilize their patients, he said.

They'll likely be tested with managing their patients and keeping them alive for a lot longer than they're used to. His hope: that corpsmen and injured troops can someday push a button to call in a drone with a medical kit that can reach them in minutes. Some fire departments are testing ways to deploy automated defibrillator to someone who calls Follow her on Twitter ginaaharkins. The Coast Guard tweeted that aircrew members conducted a medical evacuation of a man and an year-old girl.

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Capitol on Jan. The military's non-tactical vehicle fleet alone is the second largest in the federal government next to the U. Max Cleland, who lost three limbs to a hand grenade blast in Vietnam and went on to represent his native Georgia in the U.

You have to be able to hang with them. You exercise, march, and everything else with them. You have to not only keep up, but maybe be a little better than them. You go to the rifle range with them. You even wear their uniforms with navy insignia on them. You might as well be a Marine. To put it simply, a good corpsman of which I had two in my rifle platoon is irreplaceable.

Marines learn early on, from boot camp, that the Navy Corpsman was the most vital man in their unit. The Marines believe that a Marine Rifleman is the most effective weapon on the battlefield and the Navy Corpsman kept them alive and fighting.

From what I saw, no one messed with a Corpsman when a Marine was around. You mean like would they rather save own lives and bodies during action and not be wusses like the Army and their Medics?

Or do you mean how do they feel about selfless Corpsmen who risk life and limb to save theirs? Navy Corpsmen are held in the highest respect.