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corpsman
[ kawr-muhn, kohr- ]
noun
- U.S. Navy. an enlisted person working as a pharmacist or hospital assistant.
- U.S. Army. an enlisted person in the Medical Corps who accompanies combat troops into battle to give first aid, carry off the wounded, etc.
- a member of any corps, as of the Peace Corps.
corpsman
/ ˈkɔːmən /
noun
- military a medical orderly or stretcher-bearer
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Navy Hospital Corpsman Chris Walsh and the three Marines he was with in June 2006 were not looking for a baby.
Turns out Obama incorrectly pronounced Navy Corpsman (he pronounced the “s”) at a recent prayer breakfast.
I engineered your adoption by the Hanlons—he was a retired Corpsman, you know—and I've paid your expenses.
They would know that if Hanlon was still a Corpsman his death would be most thoroughly investigated.
Gallifa walked past the ward corpsman and looked in the door.
"The corpsman said you wanted to ask me some things," he said.
The corpsman straightened up and turned to Walters and Captain Strong.
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