Chief Petty Officer Charles E. Brett (right), the 2nd Marine Logistics Group Navy personnel manpower officer, speaks to sailors with 2nd MLG about the history of hospital corpsman on the 115th hospital corpsman birthday at the Combat Logistics Regiment 27â€™s aid station aboard Camp Lejeune, N.C., June 17, 2013. Congress passed a bill authorizing establishment of the Navy Hospital Corps, which was signed into law by President William McKinley on June 17, 1898.