Re: [the-forgotten-war] Re: Memorial Day

[John Noland <jpnccwc@ix.netcom.com>]

Roger that, having been in the Marines, didn't want any Navy
corpsmen to be offended.


At 12:05 PM 5/30/00 -0400, you wrote:
> In a message dated 05/30/2000 8:46:30 AM
> Pacific Daylight Time, 
> jpnccwc@ix.netcom.com writes:
>
> << Enjoyed your piece on Memorial Day, but since when do the
> Marines have 
> medics >>
> The US Navy supplies Hospital Corpsmen to the Marine Corps.  Marines
> refer to 
> them simply as "Corpsmen".  The term "medic" is
> a somewhat generic reference 
> and was used for the benefit of viewers of the post who were not familiar
> with the term, "Corpsman".