corpsman

[kawr-muhn, kohr-]

noun

plural

corpsmen 

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

2. 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.

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

corpsman

/ ˈkɔːmən /

noun

1. military a medical orderly or stretcher-bearer

Word History and Origins

Origin of corpsman¹

An Americanism dating back to 1940–45; corps + -man

Example Sentences

Navy corpsman and Dis’ older brother, found it difficult to grieve his friends who died while serving and the death of his sister because he was raised to “Be a man and suck it up.”

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“Warfare” is Mendoza and his fellow corpsman combining their memories to tell Miller, and us, how that attack looked, felt and sounded.

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A Navy corpsman rushed to his aid and applied dressings.

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He was then sent to Europe, where he volunteered for kitchen duty but ended up as a corpsman and a mess sergeant in Gen. George S. Patton’s army; he would forage for food once the troops had outpaced their supplies.

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During his campaign, Mr. Peña highlighted his time as a Navy hospital corpsman assigned to a Marine division in Okinawa, Japan.

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