The Economy.. What a Mess, Our Making

So I am sure you all have been watching the news, as well as the election coverage for the last few weeks. I cannot believe the mess our elected officials as well as WALL Street have gotten us in. I don’t think the bill that was passed into Law on Friday will be enough, I […]

Hospital Ship Returns From Four-Month Humanitarian Deployment

From Military Sealift Command Public Affairs SAN DIEGO (NNS) — Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy returned to San Diego Sept. 25 after completing Pacific Partnership, a four-month humanitarian, civic assistance and theater security cooperation mission, conducted with countries from the Western Pacific and Southeast Asia. Throughout the 2008 Pacific Partnership mission, Mercy served […]

Suicide Prevention: No Soldier Stands Alone

Sep 05, 2008 BY By Heather Graham At Fort Hood and Armywide, some Soldiers are waging a war outside of the theaters in Iraq and Afghanistan. These Soldiers are battling depression, stress, medical and relationship problems, all of which are the leading causes of suicide. It is a battle Soldiers do not have to lose […]

FORCM weekly News 22 Sept 2008

Folks FYI there was no newsletter last week due to the CPO Transition process. “From the Desk of the BUMED FORCE MASTER CHIEF” and Director of the Hospital Corps 22 September 2008 1. CAREER REENLISTMENT OBJECTIVES (CREO) Please review the attached NAVADMIN 263/08 as it contains the latest CREO categories. This is a great tool […]

HM3 Eichmann A. Strickland, KIA 09 SEPT 2008, AFGHANISTAN

It is with a sad heart that I have to post we lost another Doc in Afghanistan. HM3 Strickland was Killed in Action last week in Afghanistan by a IED along with 2 Marine Corps Officers. I have known about the loss of HM3 since last week, but we were not able to post it […]

CPO’s are Born Today!!

I was privileged today to attend the pinning ceremony of our newest Chief Petty Officers for the Naval Station Great Lakes. Out of 39 who were pinned, 11 were newly minted “HMC’s”. I wish to congratulate all the New Chief Petty Officers and list the HMC’s who were pinned; HMC(SW/AW) Julie Arp HMC(FMF) Donald Dumas […]

Today in US Naval History 15 Sept

Today in U.S. Naval History: September 15 1944 – Invasion of Peleliu, Palau Islands after carrier aircraft bombing and ship bombardment. 1950 – U.S. forces achieve an amphibious landing at Inchon, Korea. 2008- Day before Chief Selects are pinned as Chief Petty Officers.  A day filled with much learning. Tweet

Corpsman.com Will never forget 9/11.. Where were you?

I was assigned with the Marine Corps with 1/14 in the Bay Area in CA as the BN Med Chief. I went from one minute just wearing Cammies on my way to work and in 30 minutes had full flak, Helmet, Locked and Loaded 9mm, M16 and we were preparing for war. We went from […]

Iraq: U.S. Fighters to be Disarmed???

WTF?? If this is what is going to happen, it is time to get our folks out of that god forsaken crap hole ASAP.  I don’t want any of our folks there if they cannot fire back or carry a weapon. From the AP, Read Below: BAGHDAD — Iraq’s government is grateful to U.S.-allied Sunni […]

Tsk tsk tsk.. And they want to be treated as adults….

Military motorcyclists arrested going 140mph BAY MINETTE, Ala. — It appears that a group of motorcycle riders — many of them service members — didn’t get the memo about obeying traffic laws. Alabama state troopers said 12 cyclists were arrested after they were clocked at speeds of over 140 miles per hour on Interstate 10. […]

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