corps·man

(kôr′mən, kôrz′mən)

1. An enlisted person in the US Navy, serving either with the Navy or the Marines, who has been trained to give first aid and basic medical treatment, especially in combat situations.

2. A member of a government-sponsored group designated as a corps: Peace Corpsmen.

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corpsman

(ˈkɔːmən)

n, pl -men

(Military) military US a medical orderly or stretcher-bearer

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corps•man

(ˈkɔr mən, ˈkoʊr-)

n., pl. -men.

1. an enlisted person in the U.S. Navy working as a pharmacist or hospital assistant.

2. an enlisted person in the Medical Corps of the U.S. Army who gives first aid to the wounded on the battlefield.

3. a member of any corps, as of the Peace Corps.

[1940–45, Amer.]

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I WAS A CORPSMAN with the First Marine Division fighting at the 38th Parallel in 1951.

Fighting Through the Mud and Blood of the Korean War

Program Manager for Operational Medicine, CACI International, Retired Independent Duty Corpsman, Navy Seal, and Medical Service Corps Officer

Strengthening Medical Readiness to Support the Total Force at Operational Medicine Symposium

I met a Navy corpsman who was born and raised in a suburb of New Orleans, where her parents still lived.

Editor's DESK

The highlight of my trip to Guadalcanal was meeting and spending time with Lee Springer, a United States Navy corpsman stationed on Guadalcanal in 1943 and 1944.

Honoring Our Veterans

Chivers follows the lives--before, after, and during their tours of duty--of fighter pilots, corpsman, scout helicopter pilots, grunts, infantry officers, and a Special Forces sergeant from the war in Iraq, spilling out of the 9/11 attacks through the spread of the Islamic State.

The Fighters

Cook County Health and Hospitals System honored the third class of corpsmen to graduate from Hospital Corpsman Trauma Training, a partnership between Navy Medicine, the Capt.

U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsmen Graduate from Stroger Hospital Trauma Training Program

James Cuomo, who served as a Navy Corpsman for four years, is the newest member of the Nigro Team in Bridgehampton.

Douglas Elliman's Robert Landsiedel and James Cuomo, both veterans, have been officially certified as Military Relocation Professionals by the National Association of Realtors

Synopsis: As a Marine corpsman, Leonard Adreon saw some of the worst of the Korean War's carnage and the best of its humanity.

Hilltop Doc

And today's crash comes just weeks after a Marine Corps cargo plane spiraled out of the sky and into the Mississippi Delta, killing 15 Marines and a Navy Corpsman.

US Marine Aircraft Crashes 'Killing Two', Leaving Several Members Missing

The deceased included 15 Marines and one Navy corpsman.

16 dead in military plane crash in Mississippi

Navy Hospital Corpsman, an historian, and a aerospa ([umlaut] Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR)

The U.S. Navy's "Interim" LSM(R)s in World War II: Rocket Ships of the Pacific Amphibious Forces