Talk:Hospital corpsman

message: I am a retired U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman having served on active duty from 1995 to 2000 and in the drilling reserves from 2000-2003.  The facts ("Hates to be called medics" and "Corpsman do most of the work") section at this end of this article is obviously opinion and violates wikipedia's policy of NPV.  I frequently tell civilians that I was a "medic" in the Navy because that is the frame of reference with which they are most familiar.  Furthermore, army medics with appropriate training do in fact administer IV's.  In fact, both Army medics and Navy corpsman who complete advanced training schools in each of their respective branches of service can qualify as nationally registered EMT-Paramedics.  Please supply real facts to this section, such as "Hospital Corpsman are trained in simple wound closure and when visiting a Navy emergency room you will most likely have your cut stitched up and your tetanus shot administered by a Hospital Corpsman."  I myself performed perhaps over a thousand primary wound closure procedures while serving at the Emergency Ambulatory Care Department of the San Diego Navy Medical Center from 1995 to 1998.  This particular "Facts" section was obviously written by a Corpsman with some strong but misguided opinions about his rate.  Please do the credit your Corps deserves by changing this section appropriately.
24.199.12.180 18:59, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  I 

message: It still is unclear about the NEC business. Don't delete a Talk comment. Just add to it if you're not going to clarify the sludge in this article.
     
:A Naval Enlisted Code (NEC) is the same thing as a Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) in the United States Army and Marine Corps.  When you graduate from Hospital Corpsman (HM) Class "A" school you are a given a 0000 NEC.  If you go to a Class "C" school you acquire a an additional NEC.  You can have a primary, a secondary, and even a thrid NEC. 
*: To flesh this out, NEC stands for Navy Enlisted Code, which is how the Navy administrates the different specialties. And, having looked at the original 'talk comment', well - perhaps using 'sucks' less often would keep everyone happy. Logging in and signing your comments are also good form. :-) (To Point my friend, I had signed my comments and you edited it out, so please try to practice what you are proporting to possess as a policy, regards, Robert W. Gosney, HMC(FMF)ret). I'll work on this article some more over the course of the week; I actually have some things to add to it. --TaranRampersad 06:22, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: NEC

message: Is "pecker checker" really appropriate for an encyclopedia?  If this is a direct quote, it should be put in quotations and cited, otherwise, I think it should be removed.Solenoid 18:05, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: the fact remains that it WAS/IS used, and as such is factually correct. this is an encyclopedia, concerned with listing and describing facts. taste is not an issue, nor is the fact that it offends you, chief. as a matter of policy, comments on talk pages are not deleted. moreover,there is another, formally stated policy to the effect that wikipedia is not censored.for what it's worth, i wore a caduceus on my left sleeve for 4 years. personally, i never got upset over it.ya gotta get a sense of humour, chief.Toyokuni3 (talk) 17:55, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

message: "The Hospital Corps has the distinction of being the only corps in the U.S. Navy to be singled out in a famous speech by Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal after the conclusion of World War II." - You've got to be kidding me. Am I the only one left wondering what famous speech I missed? And how famous is a speech by someone I might not have heard of had I not read this article? How much of a distinction is it to be the only one singled out in a single speech by a government official in a specific timeframe? Talk about your cases of diminishing returns... in other words, this needs to be rewritten or deleted.JCSeer 04:33, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Famous Speech?

message: How did the abbreviation HM derive from the words "Hospital Corpsman"? Intuitively one would presume "HC". Tks. --SigPig |SEND - OVER 10:58, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Abbreviation HM 

message: This might be a stupid question, but: why are the enlisted personnel on M*A*S*H called "corpsmen", even though they are in the army and not the navy? Are military hospital workers generically referred to as "corpsman", or is this just a mistake of the TV show?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.20.216.186 (talk) 10:02, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  M*A*S*H 

message: I just went through and grouped the MoH winners by the era they earned the award.  I felt that was worthy of a little time and was very educational for me.  CsikosLo (talk) 18:53, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sequence of award of MoH 

message: a statement is made that 31 corpsmen have received the army dsc. these are NAVY corpsmen receiving an ARMY decoration, right? not saying it's wrong, just checkingToyokuni3 (talk) 04:27, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not vouching for the accuracy of that particular statment but any service member may recieve the Service Cross of another branch, ussually while working with/under or on assigmnet with that branch. In the case of Marines they all recieve the Navy Cross as there is not a Marine Cross and they fall under the Department of the Navy. NeoFreak (talk) 05:28, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Army DSC

message: Perhaps its worth mentioning in the history section that the Pharmacist and Dentalman ratings were merged with Hospitalman (the latter within the last few years). bahamut0013♠♣  20:13, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merged ratings 

message: What about the Corpsman's roll in the Marine Corps? I think this might be worth expanding. Wwelles14 (talk) 04:42, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Marines?

message: No references to Corpsmen forming the first ranks of Nurse Practitioners and Physicians Assistants? Ks64q2 (talk) 05:45, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  NP/PA 

message: why does the article consistently use the singular form, where the context obviously refers to the plural? if this is some special rule, i was unaware of it when i was a corpsman. at that time, (and, no, the ships were not wooden), the plural of corpsman was, as you might expect, corpsmen. if this does represent some special case, note needs be made of it, lest we look like idiots who don't know that the plural of man is men. otherwise, it wants changing throughout.Toyokuni3 (talk) 17:22, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: You are undoubtedly correct, you should not have asked. The singularization of the plural in this article is atrocious. --< Nicht Nein! (talk) 18:34, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Plural

message: i have to question the appropriateness of this poem appearing here at all. this is an encyclopedia, not a compendium of poetry. don't get me wrong, i have nothing against the poem. (actually that's not true.it's pretty sappy sentimental, and not likely to win any awards for finely crafted verse, either.) but is every article in wikipedia on a topic about which poetry has been written to have said poetry included? shall we tack the 'charge of the light brigade' onto the cavalry article, the artillery article and the crimean war article? how about the entirety of 'the raven' onto the article on that species? god only knows what is to become of the articles on poets! (headline: shakespeare article expanded exponentially by inclusion of entire output of sonnets.)Toyokuni3 (talk) 14:20, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Since the article contains a copyright notice for the version that's been up here, and given the objection above, I've pulled that portion out of the article. If anyone disagrees, please discuss it here, Nuujinn (talk) 21:50, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: The One Called Doc

message: Wondering if Hospitalman Recruit has more than a nominal existence any more, since all sailors are now promoted to E-2 when they graduate from boot camp? Or can it happen as a result of a really bad morning at Captain's Mast? Solicitr (talk) 02:35, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  HR- still in existence? 

message: Are they - or can they be - nurses, paramedics, physicians, first responders...? Apokrif (talk) 15:42, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  In what capacity do hospital corpsmen serve? 

message: This article does not describe the basic training all US Navy Hospital Corpsmen (HM Rating) must go through (the Navy A-School).  The article only described the advanced HM8404 C-School that is optional to qualified sailors after A-School.  
Navy HM A-School is currently located in Fort Sam Houston, TX, Joint Base San Antonio.  At METC (Medical Education Training Campus), Navy students are trained in classes combined with Air Force Medic Technician students.  Air Force students become NREMT qualified EMTs while Navy students receive the same training but do not become NREMT certified.
-HM Student  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.161.2.14 (talk) 23:36, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Training Section 

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