In December 1916 he entered the Navy as a lieutenant junior grade, eventually earning the rank of lieutenant in 1918 before being assigned to support the 5th Marines in France.

United States Navy Search and Rescue Medical Technicians (SMT’s) are Hospital Corpsman trained up to be aircrewmen on top of their medical training. SAR Corpsman are a part of the Navy’s HM ...

The Navy corpsman who was killed by an ISIS-K suicide bomber outside the Kabul airport in a vicious attack that left scores dead has been identified as a young Ohio man, family said Friday. Maxton ...

Petty Officer 1st Class Luis Fonseca, the most decorated active-duty Corpsman in the Navy, has retired. Fonseca said farewell to the service during a ceremony on May 14, about 18 years after his ...

Flash flooding that hit City Heights this month destroyed property in several homes, including a Naval corpsman's uniforms and medals.

A Navy sailor shot and wounded two other sailors at a facility in the Maryland city of Frederick on Tuesday morning before driving to the US military’s nearby Fort Detrick, where police shot and ...

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. -- A U.S. Navy corpsman from Talofofo, Guam, received the Silver Star during a ceremony at Camp Pendleton, May 3. Petty Officer 1st Class Benny Flores, a corpsman serving ...

The Navy posthumously honored Hospital Corpsman Third Class Maxton Soviak with a promotion and the Fleet Marine Force Corpsman warfare badge.

The U.S. Navy is naming a guided-missile destroyer after a Michigan man who served as a hospital corpsman and was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Korean War.

The Florida Panthers and CBS4 News honor U.S. Navy retired hospital corpsman Nestor Palma in today's Heroes Among Us, where we put the spotlight on men or women who have gone beyond the call of ...

When enemy fire came upon his patrol in the Helmond providence of Afghanistan, U.S. Navy Corpsman Aaron D. Ullom ran from cover in a shallow ditch to a Marine who had been wounded. Unfazed, the 20 ...