Would this approve HM C-School applications?

1. Easy Application Process: Apply directly through MyNavy Assignments, no long application packages needed for most cases. Just hop on MNA, find your C-School, and apply.

2. Pick Your Duty Station First: Before heading to HM C-School, you can apply for your dream duty station. This way, you’ve got more control over where you’ll go after training.

3. NEC Archive Option: For shorter C-Schools (six months or less), you have the choice to “archive” your NEC after completing two tours. That means you get the specialized training but can move on if you want to try something different later.

Hey all! I posted a few months ago about wanting to go operational because I’ve been at 3 shore commands in a row, and actually got in touch with a detailer. He essentially said that my package is way more likely to be accepted to do an early transfer if I can make contact with someone who wants my current orders, so I thought I’d share here. The place I’m currently at is special duty shore command and is a 3 year assignment for a HM2 (though they may allow HM1 as well). It’s pretty perfect if you’re looking to do one more interesting spot (Alaska!) and are planning to get out. This place is like a civilian job, has regular hours, no duty, and essentially no navy presence. There’s a reserve office nearby, but that’s it. We do, however, have a PS that handles navy paperwork, so fret not! If you’re interested, let me know and I can DM you with more info!

Long story short current HM3 only got about a year and 2 months left, it’s been amazing being greenside but I also have felt my mental health has gone down especially considering 2 of my family members have passed away in a years time frame. This is my first command and part of me doesn’t want greenside to define my Navy experience but I also have been wanting to pursue college, I’m from the Midwest and I want to be involved in agriculture and I know the military doesn’t have much to offer with that field (part of me feels like I’d be wasting time reenlisting when I know what I want to pursue for college) but I’m also super anxious about getting out especially the stories I have heard from people ( I know not to base my situation on others but I like to hear about experiences so I can try and plan). I’m just in a rock and hard place because I don’t want to miss out on my family, my new nephew just born this year and I haven’t even met him and my parents and family getting older and not being able to spend as much time with them. I’m just not sure what to do honestly.

Edit ( trying to get orders to Chicago if I re-enlist to be way closer to family but idk if it’s guaranteed) just got a lot of family with health issues and it sucks a lot.

I’m looking to do one last re-enlistment and in search of the “best last” duty station.

I’m preferably looking for anything West of Texas.

I’m hoping to find a duty station that’s competent and pays attention to member’s chit requests.

PSs run admin and paperwork; not corpsman.

BAH is given to second classes regardless of marital status.

Preferably allow terminal leave greater than 30 days.

Has a city/town with many events/opportunities around for being active and involved.

My first look of orders won’t be for another 6 months yet; but I’ve never counted down so badly. I plan to do reserves after so any nearby NOSCs may be beneficial. I am currently greenside and would love nothing more than to not be at another Greenside command.

TIA!

First and foremost, happy birthday to all devil dogs and devil docs out there! I'm an FMF qual second class beginning to set up my packet to IDC school. I've heard some stories about the opportunities it may bring forth if you're looking to become a PA, but that's not what I am doing it for. I want to reach the highest echelon of care and witness a variety of environments that require an IDC so that I may improve the well-being of those around me. Being greenside for most, if not all, my career, I want to move on to the next step and be an IDC. While I've researched what the curriculum entails, how can I prepare for what may lie in front of me? Any advice, stories, hard truths, or experiences from IDC's is greatly appreciated if you're on this sub (no pun intended). Thank you all!

I’m coming up to my window soon and thinking about options for orders here. Looking at Florida or San Diego, but open to anything. MSC officer. Looking for some advice from corpsmen, other MSC officers regarding the NMRTUs.

Thank you! 🙏

I’m currently 13 months away from SEAOS. At 18 months out I flagged my record for separation, did my separation CDB, TAPS, the whole 9. Since then, I’ve had a very unique orders opportunity fall in my lap. I’m still going through the screening process, but assuming I screen positive I’ll have to reenlist. Can I reenlist for a specific set of orders?

Hey, anybody have the PST form that is required to submit a package for the SMT pipeline? Thank you!

I’m a corpsman who currently has tier 4 TCCC but I’m being told I need to take tier 3 TCCC shouldn’t tier 4 count as better therefore negating the need of tier 3?

This is probably a silly question, but I’m set to EAS in a year and I am considering reenlisting if I can stay greenside. I’m currently greenside OCONUS. Is it possible to submit a 1306 for a sea-to-sea even though I haven’t reenlisted?

im coming out of a school my orders are in nsips but now in my navy assignment there's different orders and its FLD MED TECH/MOB TO 67647 are they cancelling my first orders and also and more insight in what these are?

I always wanted to go FMTB and get a chance to work with the marines but when I was in A school all the billets were for males so fast forward to now I still want to get out of blue side but I've heard some details about corpsman working with the Seabees and it got me interested. If anyone wanna share their experience with it please do and if you can compare the two even better. What's some big differences between the two? Will I get more field time with one more than the other? What's the training like? Etc

Big win for the HM’s looking to go to a C School with SRBs. Previously, they weren’t allowing HM’s who were SRBs eligible the option to OTT for their future SRB meaning they’d have to reenlist for the likely, lesser SRB,for 0000 or L03A.

Hey boys I got my best friend who's trying to cross rate to HM, he wants to do X Ray tech but he's he a family man and apparently the school is 51 weeks long so hes hesitant. I'm a general duty so idk. If one of you guys could give me a basic rundown of the pipeline I'd greatly appreciate it.

I’m in C school right now and just got my orders. I’m going to fort belvoir in Virginia. Anybody got recommendations or know how that base is?

Hey there, got out of the marines a couple years ago and joined the navy reserve recently. Plan on going through fmtb and greenside and Saw that mct was something that docs did after fmtb. Do I have to go through that if I've already done it?

Edit: Any other schools or training I should do? I'm looking at ECS as an addition. I'm an overseas contractor and was looking at a few jobs including a maritime position and a bm said I could get on with a msron unit patrolling overseas for experience. Any certs that could help me be more medically proficient in the field or combat

Hi everyone,

I won JSOY at my branch clinic and now I’m doing a board with DBC.

Any tips? Any particular things to study? I am pretty sub-par naval history wise.

I’ve never done a board before so my brain is a completely blank slate.

I am coming up on 3 years in the navy, crossing from subs. Listen I know this is “technically” an A-School question but hear me out. I’m not new to the navy and my question probably would go unanswered by the New to the navy Reddit. My buddy joined the Navy 8 days after me and went to the USS CONSTITUTION up until a couple months ago. He’s an E3, but per the new instruction, he should be an E4 by now right? The problem with his last command was that he couldn’t take the advancement exam because he hadn’t got a rate yet. But now after reading NAVMED, it sounds like he technically doesn’t need one?

Hey yall, long time lurker first time poster here. Does anyone have any information on ERCS? I have my paramedic license with a couple years of experience prior to enlisting. Got approved to skip the schooling as my license is current and complete the rest of the pre reqs. Does anyone have any info on what it is you do as an hm filling the ERCS billet? Or can at least show me where I can do some research? I’m a little over a year in so trying to find shit can still be confusing lol

Would like to hear people’s thoughts on this, I’m currently in medic school to help fill some SMT roles and then this gets put out…

Good evening yall, I got orders to 4th MAW, does anyone have any experience there on what I’ll be able to do? It says I’ll be in the clinic but I was wondering if there’s any opportunities for me to do some wing stuff, currently in field med. any feedback would be appreciated!

L03A here with orders to C School starting in JAN25. Currently in Zone A but will be in Zone B a month after I start school (FEB25). Therefore, I don't qualify for the STAR Program.

I was trying to do OTT but it seems that's not the case anymore. I'm left with either reenlist or extend. My orders have an OBLISERV of AUG28. I've chosen the extend option but the paperwork isn't finalized. Reason I'm posting is to see if I'm not missing anything before I finalize the paperwork. Namely, I don't want some surprise I wasn't aware of when I try to reenlist after my school is over.

If you have been in similar shoes and don't mind sharing some words of wisdom as to which path might be better. I'd greatly appreciate it.

Hello everyone just wanted to put this out there, looking for advice, I’m at the “amazing” medlog, and it’s not as bad as they say, it’s worse, looking to see if I can duty swap or transfer, preferably to division, I’m physically fit and better suited for div, and I have brought this up through my coc multiple times but they refuse to help me, anything helps, thank you

So recently my marine chain has been tweaking out hard due to some of the boots making poor decisions and just dropped a whole shabang in the gc. Items such as: needing a buddy pair everywhere you go including the gym, 0530 room inspection every day, uniform inspection every day, no being in your room from this hour to this hour. Without breaking opsec it’s the chill out time and they are indeed not chilling out. What should I do and how should I go about it or do I just bite the bullet? Send help pls :(

What's up? I have a question about Xray C School. Can anybody answer my question? I'm thinking of putting in a C School package for Xray tech, and before I do, I want to know if anybody knows if I will have to reenlist to get the school. I currently have three years left on my contract. I reenlisted back in 2023. I wonder if I can just do the obligation to serve to get the school.

Hi everyone, I’m currently a third class L03A but having a degree in biomedical engineering and planning to get BMET as the NEC. As far as I was told people can earn NEC without getting through C school. Did anyone do this before and can anyone point to me how to get there? Tia

I served in the Corps back in the early 80's (Field Artillery) and later went to the Army (NBC). In retrospect, I think I would have set myself up better, both service- and post-service by going to the Navy and sticking with the Corps as a Corpsman (I'm in hospital administration now). I had nothing bad to say about the Corpsmen who were assigned to my various units in the Marines, but I've wondered what sort of training would I have been in for had I gone Navy instead of Army.

For example, is there one all-encompassing program for Corpsmen, whether you go to the Marines or not, or a separate program for those going that route? Is the program equivalent to a civilian EMT, or LPN/RN? How long would one expect to be with a Marine unit before being moved out, or is that a career line of its own? At what ranks would a Corpsman normally be assigned to a field unit? As a former Marine, how would I have fared among Navy personnel? (When I went to the Army, I kept my rank- E-4 at the time- and moved up the ladder pretty quickly compared to 'normal' Army NCO's.)

For present purposes, is there a Big Book of Corpsman-ing that centers on the Marine aspect of the job (one that doesn't require too many crayons, as I've eaten almost all of mine)? I'd just like to go back and see what I potentially missed and maybe pick up some knowledge here and there- you can never know too much.

In any case, you guys rock and I've always admired 'Doc' for getting out there with us doing the thing- I'm proud to have served with you ~

Hey, everyone! Figure I’d float this out there to see whatever info I could get. As of a couple weeks ago I got soft orders for Lemoore. Background: I’m an HM3 and this is my 2nd duty station. I’m married to a civ. I have an idea of the area from what I’ve been told so not really in need of recommendations for activities or places to see. My questions for recent people who were/ are there. 1. What’s the command/ leadership like? What’s the work environment like? What’s some great hands-on departments to work in? Do we ever do anything with the aviation side of the base?(taskers or duties and so on) What are some training opportunities the base has that I should look into? Any answer to any question would be perfect. Thank you all for your time and feedback 🫡