How to Use corpsman in a Sentence
corpsman
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Seven Marines and one Navy corpsman went down with the tank.
—Julie Watson, Star Tribune, 25 Mar. 2021
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When the bombing stopped, Somes and the corpsman emerged to see where they would be needed.
—Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 27 Feb. 2018
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There was one Marine who had been shot through the neck, and all the way out the corpsmen massaged his chest.
—Esquire, 24 June 2016
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For one, the former Marine corpsman served in three tours of Iraq.
—Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2022
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All were Marines except for Bradley, who was a Navy corpsman.
—Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2019
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The Snapchat post also said the corpsman and her friend made a baby dance to rap music.
—Jeanette Steele, sandiegouniontribune.com, 20 Sep. 2017
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Margie Talavera was a Navy corpsman at the tail end of the Vietnam War.
—Kevin Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Nov. 2022
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Luisa Velez, 42, served nine years in the U.S. Navy as a hospital corpsman.
—Dallas News, 11 Nov. 2022
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A corpsman tried to keep what was left of his head intact by cupping it in his hands.
—C. J. Chivers, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2016
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Ortiz was a 10-year veteran of the agency and a Navy corpsman who served in the Iraq war.
—Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 27 Nov. 2022
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Fifteen Marines and one sailor, a Navy corpsman, were killed in the incident.
—Gordon Lubold, WSJ, 11 July 2017
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The sailor, Houston said, is a corpsman assigned to Camp Pendleton.
—Andrew Dyer, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2019
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The sailor was a Fleet Marine Force corpsman serving alongside them in the infantry unit.
—Matt Seyler, ABC News, 4 May 2021
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All were treated by Navy corpsman aboard the vessel, and nobody was taken off the sub.
—CBS News, 5 Nov. 2021
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Eleven Marines, one Army soldier and one Navy corpsman died, along with nearly 200 Afghans.
—Seth Liss, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2021
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Among the casualties were 11 Marines and a Navy corpsman.
—Chelsey Cox, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2021
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The corpsman who examined the wound said it was caused by a 5.56-millimeter bullet, which matched weapons that the Marines carried.
—C. J. Chivers, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2016
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There is a doctor aboard one of the destroyers and hospital corpsmen aboard both.
—sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 June 2018
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Cannon Sample was a hospital corpsman who was in Lane’s ward when she was killed.
—Dake Kang, The Seattle Times, 28 May 2017
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Alexander came to Oceanside in 1957 as a Navy corpsman stationed at Camp Pendleton.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 May 2021
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The Romulus resident served five years in the Navy and was a hospital corpsman.
—Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 29 May 2022
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His company lost 22 service members and a Navy corpsman in eight months.
—Gregory Svirnovskiy, The Arizona Republic, 12 Aug. 2022
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But not too old for the retired Navy corpsman, who survived battle in the South Pacific, to take a victory lap.
—Nikole Killion, CBS News, 31 Aug. 2021
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Navy corpsmen serve as medics to deployed Marine units, and their doctors are naval officers, not Marines.
—John Kelly, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2019
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But in just under six months, Lima Company lost 22 Marines and one Navy corpsman killed in action.
—Tara Kavaler, The Arizona Republic, 1 Dec. 2021
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The following morning, this corpsman took the child to the rear of the battle zone where he could be handed over for more medical attention.
—TIME.com, 14 Sep. 2017
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In April, 2006, in the village of Hamdania, seven marines and a Navy corpsman were sent to arrest a man suspected of planting roadside bombs.
—Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 29 May 2017
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Last year eight marines and a Navy corpsman died when their Marine assault amphibious vehicle sank off the San Diego coast while training.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2021
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But what sets them apart is the decision made by Bedwell and Fugitt to crop Bedwell's overseas husband Wesley, a navy corpsman, into one of the pictures.
—Caralynn Lippo, Redbook, 12 Apr. 2017
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Her son is a hospital corpsman with the Navy and other family members also have served.
—cleveland, 9 Jan. 2023
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