navy medics
Shipboard medical personnel
Navy medics are medical personnel serving in a naval military force.
In the U.S.
Navy, they're formally called hospital corpsmen and often deploy with Marine Corps units, which lack their own medical corps.
The term appears in military contexts and war coverage: Navy medics treated the wounded on the beach.
- defibrillatorsDevices restoring heart rhythm
- corpsmanMilitary enlisted medical personnel
- CPR certificationEmergency revival training credential
- battlefield surgeryMedical procedures during combat
- battle stationsAssigned combat positions
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