HM2 Xin Qi, KIA In AFGHANISTAN 23 JAN 2010

I have received reports about HM2’s death.  His family has been notified. HM2 Qi was with OHSU DALLAS DET C from NOSC Austin, TX and volunteered to mobilize and deploy with 4th LAR out of Camp Pendleton, CA. He was on foot patrol in Helmand Province when a suicide bomber attacked. Didn’t make it to […]

HMCM William R. Charette, NMC Portsmouth, VA in HM1 Peck, USN(RET)’s own Words

This is the 2nd user article submission.  While it was short, it was to the point!  I added a bit more from Brian Williams of NBC News who is a major supporter of the military.  BZ to them both!–D/C When a visitor enters the lobby of the “old” Naval Medical Center in Portsmouth, VA, this […]

Fire Before Liberty!

Old School today, HM2 Alfano from back in the day submitted this story/article for us, Thanks John I served as a “doc” on board the USS Pine Island (AV-12) from 1964 to 1967 which included two WestPac cruises and enough memories to keep me entertained into the next century. In ’64, after graduating from O.R. […]

Looking for Help, Seriously, looking for contributers for Corpsman.com

ALCON! We are seriously looking for contributors to Corpsman.com. If your interested in providing 1-3 articles a week and becoming a contributor to a section, Please email me ASAP. I can’t even sit at my desk right now, I injured my back and can only sit here if at all 10 minutes at a time. […]

Navy CHIEF’s Need to get their ACT TOGETHER!!

Too many senior enlisted sailors have gotten into trouble over the past several weeks — and the Navy’s top master chief wants it to stop now. Following a year in which 10 command master chiefs or chiefs of the boat were detached for cause — and an average of 54 sailors ranked E-7 and up […]

Congrats new HM3 Selectee’s (Active and FTS)

We now have the FTS selectee’s. FTS HM3 Selectee’s Hm3 Elgbouri Abdess Leonramos Alvin Marshall Trella Hm3 Abreu Aaronchri Abris Sherwin O Acosta Rowel Br Adkins Lloyd Ra Alatorre Christ Alejandro Avery Alexander Jason Alford Weston M Allen Chelsea G Allen Jerico Pa Allis Bradley J Almazan Markjay Anderson Brian Anderson Christ Andrews Dale Jr […]

Congrats new HM1’s! (Active & FTS)

Hm1 Abdullah Alaji Abiodun Sule Ackman Michael Acree Keisha Ya Aguilar Michael Alaimalo Manaia Alegre John Alc Alexander Veron Amador Kali Lou Ambrose Guy Ter Andrus Stephan Antonio Allan V Aquino Fernan F Aragones Gustav Armstrong Steph Arvizu Rodolfo Ashmeade Jason Atkins Justin C Avignone Micah Babawale Abiola Badon Ananda Ir Baidas Michael Bailey Wayne […]

Uniform Uniformity?? (Say that 5 times fast wacka wacka wacka!)

This type of article is fun. It gets people seeing red, green, sandy and they just go plain NUTS!! NUTS I SAY!! It seems that Congress wants to mandate our operational uniforms.  (WHO KNEW? ) But first.. I want to show you the 4 services Cammie uniforms, and then I will post the article from […]

BuMed warns of swine flu vaccine hoax message

A bogus report claiming that sailors aboard a ship died from the vaccine for the H1N1 virus has popped up on blogs and in e-mail inboxes in recent weeks. “This is pure fantasy,” said Cmdr. Cappy Surette, a spokesman for the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. The report aims to incite opposition to the […]

Do you remember Beirut October 23rd 1983? Corpsman.com Does

Thank you to John Wiley for writing this up and helping us remember. On October 23,1983 two suicide truck bombers attacked the Marine Barracks in Beirut.  241 American troops were killed during that attack.  Among the dead were 15 Navy Corpsmen. These “Devil Docs”were not killed in the heat of battle.   Their stories don’t ring […]

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