Why medics assigned to marines are from the navy ? the marines have no medics of their own ?
2007-09-25 01:48:20 · 13 answers · asked by black moon 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
1-They called corpsman not medics
2-the marines are part of the department of navy not the navy it self
3-the marines have no corpsmen of their own
2007-09-25 05:41:51 · answer #1 · answered by Peiper 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When a Navy person(Corpsman)works for the Marines he is going green. Many end up staying on that side for a good many yrs, they seam to like it better for what ever reason they have. They have to maintain the uniform and appearance of a Marine but their rank is Navy. I have found a few on the green side and they were just as squared away as any Marine. they did look very sharp. At one time the navy did allow there personnel to have a beard but not any more, I have even told a few that they should finish their enlistment or put in for a TR because their hair or beard was cause infection and that the navy allowed them to have one.
As to your question the Marines are to fight, not saying the Navy is unable to. So with a Corpsman they can deal with the wounded and let the Marines keep on fighting. Now we often did assigned a few Marines to the medical side so they could drive, and to learn some of the medical stuff so they could later come back to their parent command and if need be help out when it was required until the normal medical people got there. Medics is normal in th Army and Air Force.
2007-09-25 09:23:35 · answer #2 · answered by Yogi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Marines are a small service and historically served on board Navy ships. The Chaplains, medical personnel, dentist are all Navy personnel who either volunteer or are assigned to the Marine Corps. The personne; attached to Marine Corps units are authorized to wear Marine Corps uniforms but wear Navy rank. The small number of personnel that this requires means it does not make financial sense to have a separate school to do Marine Corps medical personnel. Many of the Corpsmen assigned to the Marines would take offense at saying the Marines have no Corpsman of their own; some have spent most or all of their careers with Marine Corps units and consider themselves Marines who had to go into the Navy to do medical support of their service. The second thing is never mess with a Marine unit's Corpsman if they are around-Marines do get upset if some one starts something with their "Doc" it is safer to mess with one of them.
The Marine Corps is not part of the Navy and the Navy does not exercise operational control of the Marine Corps. The Marine Corps is part of the Department of the Navy which is ran by a civillian. The reason for this is basicaly size; the Navy does provide the transportation for amphibious operations for us but they do not exercise operational control. The Air Force provides the operational movement of Army units through the Military Airlift Command; does that mean they have operational control of the Army?
2007-09-25 09:27:22 · answer #3 · answered by GunnyC 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
True. Navy Corpsmen wear Marine type uniforms and get right in there with the grunts to provide medical care when needed. They are the only folks in the Navy considered Marines. I think it stems from the Marines being part of the Department of the Navy.
2007-09-25 08:52:12 · answer #4 · answered by supersizejewels 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Navy medics are called "corpman". They work with the Marines because Marines are a department of the Navy. The men's department.
Definition:
Usually a young, bearded, Marine hatin' sailor with certain medical skills who will go through the very gates of HELL to get to a wounded Marine
2007-09-25 08:57:59 · answer #5 · answered by convoiceofreason 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Marines are a part of the Navy. Corpsmen serve both the Navy and Marines.
2007-09-25 08:54:00 · answer #6 · answered by regerugged 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's considered a separate service for recruitment purposes and it maintains its own operational command infrastructure however it administrative command structure is still controlled by the Navy. Therefore all of the core-man in the Navy and attached to the Marine Corps are trained by the Navy who has the bigger budget.
2007-09-25 08:56:25 · answer #7 · answered by Jason 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well looks like its been answered all ready. but I want to add a little something here.
Don't ever screw with Doc. Don't matter which unit hes with or even if he is from another Marines unit. You will have a lot of upset Marines around you really fast.
Also as a buddy learned the hard way don't screw with the Doc's Girlfriend either. Upset Corpsman and him getting his bore punched a few months later didn't have a happy ending.
2007-09-25 10:20:54 · answer #8 · answered by blade_lord 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Marines are from the Navy too, so I'm not sure what your asking?
2007-09-25 08:53:15 · answer #9 · answered by smartr-n-u 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the Marines are a part of the Dept. of the Navy,.....and the medics as you call them are called Corps Man, as in Hospital Corpsman,.....
2007-09-25 08:57:00 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋