Story by Petty Officer 1st Class Felicito Rustique Jr. | Naval Special Warfare Command | 08.14.2024
Three Hospital Corpsmen (HM) within the Naval Special Warfare community earned Independent Duty Corpsman of the Year (IDCOY) honors in their respective categories for fiscal year 2023....
Story by Petty Officer 2nd Class Jacob Woitzel | Naval Medical Center San Diego | 04.18.2024
NMCSD hosted a Hospital Corpsman Navy Enlisted Classification roadshow highlighting Independent Duty Corpsman assignments....
Story by Douglas Stutz | Naval Hospital Bremerton/Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Bremerton | 07.18.2022
By Douglas H Stutz, NHB/NMRTC Bremerton public affairs officer -- There’s a reason why U.S. Navy independent duty corpsmen are found assigned on isolated platforms from the wide expanse of the Indo-Pacific Theater to the far reaches of the Atlantic Ocean....
Story by Petty Officer 2nd Class Matthew Duncker | Naval Special Warfare Group ONE | 08.28.2020
Answering the call from deck-plate leadership for more medical training, Naval Special Warfare Group (NSWG) 1’s newly established Tactical Medical Cell (TMC) developed an advanced combat medicine course of instruction. The course covers Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) and Prolonged Field Care (PFC) and provides training to an integrated team of SEAL medics and augmented independent duty......
Story by Matt Lyman | U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery | 12.29.2014
Independent Duty Corpsmen (IDCs) are specialized hospital corpsmen who aspire to reach the pinnacle of Navy Medicine. These Sailors serve on land or at sea alongside Navy and Marine Corps warfighters, and at isolated duty stations where no medical officer is assigned....
Story by Matt Lyman | U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery | 12.05.2014
Modern U.S. Navy corpsmen have been around for the last 116 years and have served with and supported every rate in any climate, around the world. That commitment to service and support was exemplified in 1944 when the Navy determined there was a need to have medical personnel in some locations where a medical officer or medical facility was not readily available. Those medical personnel would......
Story by Lance Cpl. Tyler Ngiraswei | 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit | 11.20.2014
There were an estimated five thousand casualties suffered during Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, and independent duty corpsmen did their best to prevent the deaths of those injured....
