United States Navy Hospital Corpsman

Through sea control, the Navy protects the United States while also maintaining access to strategic areas and ensuring global freedom of action. Sea control is a central aspect of the concept of seapower. Understanding seapower is essential in order to understand contemporary naval operations. The ability to exercise sea control over requires the ability to mass effects in a specific place at a particular time. But positioning naval forces to mass effects requires navies to contend with the…

have either fallen just short of the target or else just a little beyond it.” Predictably, Churchill’s reaction to this statement was not enjoyable to behold. This incident, and the statement by the admiral, is a good example of the state of the British Royal Navy pre-Great War and shows the starting point for what Churchill had to work with. The same way Churchill approached any situation, his first instinct was to learn everything he possibly could after…

TRAINING FOR DIVING MEDICAL TECHNICIANS AND SPECIAL AMPHIBIOUS RECONNAISSANCE CORPSMAN Currently, the U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman (HM) Divers do not possess adequate fitness levels to support the full spectrum of Special Operation’s diverse and expanding support roles. This deficit affects the medical support to joint Special Operations, ranging from Naval Special Warfare, Army Special Forces, Marine Corps Special Operations, and to the combat ground forces. Without a physical training program…

ID: Naval Blunders The term “Naval Blunders” talks about how Britain’s mistakes at sea cost them the Revolution. The British had a fully militarized navy, compared to the colonists. However, one of the mistakes that the British made during the war was that they unknowingly caused the spread of disease amongst their crew and thus were responsible for the deaths of their soldiers. The British ships, while large, often housed hundreds of troops, in unsanitary conditions. Most of the…

The Royal Navy is the United Kingdom's principal naval warfare force. The modern Royal Navy traces its origins to the early 16th century, it is the oldest of the armed services and is known as the Senior Service. During the 17th century the Royal Navy competed mostly with the Dutch Navy and in the 18th century with the French Navy for world supremacy. From the late 18th century until the mid-1940s it was the most powerful navy in the world, being surpassed by the US Navy after World War II. The…

embodies the title “resilient” is Marcus Luttrell. Marcus Luttrell is the main character of a book written by himself called, Lone Survivor. In March 1999, he joined the United States Navy and began Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training with Class 226 in Coronado, California. In 2001, he graduated and became a United States Navy Seal. SEALs go through what is considered the toughest military training in the world and are some of the most…

The process of putting these books in order from best to least was fairly difficult for the top 3 and even more so for American Sniper and Prisoner B-3087. The fourth book on the list was an easy choice for me because of a couple of different reasons. First off, The Red Badge of Courage was a very difficult book to understand, which made it hard to read and know exactly what was going on in the book. Secondly, I just could not get into the book because to me, it was boring and very slow paced.…

Chris Mintz, a 30 year old military veteran, was shot 7 times by a shooter in Oregon’s Umpqua Community College on October 1, 2015. He is known as an American hero for stepping up and thinking of others rather than himself. He had a six year old son, whose birthday happened to be on that same day, and he decided to try and stop a shooter and risk his own life to save the lives of others. If a shooter were to come into Franklin High School, three different people, id, ego, and superego, each…

is the true story about himself a navy seal sniper and his experiences during war in the middle east. Chris Kyle was a small town farm boy who grew up to be one of the most lethal navy seal snipers that there was. Chris was born April 8, 1974, in Odessa Texas. In his own words, he was a “cowboy” which meant that he loved working on a ranch and getting his hands dirty with hard work. Later down the road, Chris decided to join the military, after applying to the navy he was rejected because of an…

820) Everyone in our modern society doesn’t realize that Stone’s definition of a hero is 100 percent, without a doubt correct because you have impacted my life more than Michael Bublé, more than Ray Lewis, more than the whole entire elite squad of Navy SEALs, by caring and looking after me when I was a little toddler. When I was a kid, my parents would be at work, busy providing for my sister and me by putting food on the table, water to drink, a roof over our heads, and a good Catholic…