U.S Navy Corpsman reveals contents of his medical bag

Video of HM3 Cantu, a Naval Corpsman displays the various tools in the medical bags he is equipped with. Unit: Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment. Camp Pendleton, Calif., Aug 15, 2011.

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[20031200]

@krazeenigguh Well when I graduated a century or so ago, I didn't wish to be a hero of any sorts anyway. I wanted a station within the Washington Naval District. Looking back I guess I would have preferred going to Bethesda National Naval Medcen as I had friends being stationed there but it didn't happen. Annapolis was just fine. You see I was a reservist and a lengthy committment just wasn't in the cards. I did my 2 yrs. active and 1 yr. reserve before switching services.

[krazeenigguh]

@20031200 Negative, when people pick orders in Hm A school, the people with the lowest grades usually get sent to FMTB East which quite frankly sucks I just graduated from it. I wCHOSE to go there but many of my friends didnt. THeyll be going to clinics and hospitals but if youre an 8404 male YOU WILL deploy within your first enlistment. Many of the people in my clinic at the marine corps arir station in cherry point get drafted to second mar div because we are a detachment.

[rgregs523]

thats my dude HM2 now and he just got in to IDC school

[20031200]

@x3timestheluck I guess alot of that would depend on the needs of the service more so then what you may want. Say you were a EMT prior to joining the Navy, I think that gives you a better chance to be sent to FMF instead of a Hospital or Clinic situation. I was fresh out of boot with no prior medical experience. I was quite happy with my duty station choice.

[x3timestheluck]

@20031200 But you do get the choice of whether to serve in a Marine platoon or Hospital, correct?

[20031200]

@x3timestheluck Well I got the choice out of "A" School. I chose a Naval Hospital. I don't believe anyone in my HM class received orders for the Marines right out of HM school.

[20031200]

@dhobstone Hmmm.. I was a Corpsman stationed at a Naval Hospital. One of our real gunho corpsman put in for FMF training. Within about 1 month we at the hospital received word that that Corpsman was AWOL somewhere in California. I knew another who made it through ok and had no issues whatsoever. I guess if your in the right frame of mind you'll get through it. From what I've heard is the training is similar to Marines but not quite the same.

[Iamthewalrus3200]

@x3timestheluck Corpsmen are issued pistols but in the words of one of my instructors "if someone f*cks with my marines im gonna pick up an M-16 and placing rounds down range"

[dhobstone]

@TheSkelieman22 is FMTB hard? and do FMF corpsmans go through marine bootcamp?

[dhobstone]

@x3timestheluck corpsman are issued weapons unless your working in a hospital in a non hostile country. and if you are in a combat area like afghanistan then you also get hostile pay. have you seen Restropo? its on Netflix or i think Youtube