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1. Poghmahone says:

   June 18, 2010 at 5:13 pm

   Happy 112th Birthday Hospital Corps everywhere.

   A couple of questions, though… Will the US Navy Hospital Corps remain as the only enlisted Corps in the USN? How about once they disband “A” school and train with the other branches of the service in Texas, will they be as proficient as before (I remember sitting through 40+ hours of instruction on A&P until I had the body memorized)? Will that affect the quality, cameraderie, esprit de corps as well as their deciation to be the best there is?

   I spent very little time on the “Blue Side” of the Nav and what I saw didn't impress upon me the willingness to travel and see the world. When I volunteered for the FMF (Green Side), I got that and so much more. I think the “togetherness” each class experienced will forever linger in the catacombs of their minds, but the mindset that clumped all corpsman-like training under the Army's Training command appears to be those of bean counters and number crunches, not necessarily what's good for the service. I have been out of the loop for many years now, Vietnam is a distant but everyday reminder for me, but what are the training standards set up at Fort Sam Houston?

2. Manuel Serrano says:

   June 19, 2010 at 8:31 am

   Though there are problems in any organization (and, we Corpsmen, are affiliated with many), we should have our own insignia, FMF, Corpsman Up!, something that binds us together, as grunts who served in the field. Not denigrating Hospitalcorpsmen, they generally received our wounded, sometimes they were there in actual harm's way. I don't know how to separate this problem. I do think, though, that we FMF should have a patch “GRUNT CORPSMAN,” I don't know.
   Respectfully,
   Doc Serrano

3. Darrell Asplund USMC 67-71 says:

   June 20, 2010 at 4:03 pm

   GOD bless the Corpsmen from an old Marine. And, HAPPY 112th. Birthday!

4. Fencer442 says:

   July 3, 2010 at 4:06 am

   Thanks from an old DOC (86-90) !!