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?

Howdy everyone, I have some questions regarding CVT school.

1. Can I live out in town, my family already lives in the area.
2. If so what do I need to do to get that rolling as I’m currently in a school?
3. What’s life like after c school for CVT people.

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 🫡

Hey everyone, I’m in FMTB right now and I’m supposed to report to 2nd reg in a couple months, everyone with the same orders has yet to get contacted by our sponsor on exactly where we will be going to in the regiment, where we will be reporting to, etc.

The odd thing is that everyone with 6th reg orders has their battalion, sponsors info, and other helpful things.

I was just hoping there is someone out here that can clear some of this up.

How is the corpsman barracks ? And how is the chance for leave being accepted?

Hey everyone, have orders to 1st MLG 1st CRR (Combat Readiness Regiment) in Camp Pendleton and was wondering if anyone knew what the day to day would be for me as an HM2. I’m assuming overseas screening and such with the “readiness regiment” in the name but just wanna get more details. Thank you in advance!

I am a 0000 reservist and I spoke with my NRC yesterday about reenlisting and I was told that I may be eligible for a reenlistment bonus. Is this true? Even as a 0000 reservist? Seems a little too good to be true and I have my doubts.

I am currently an HM reservist 0000. I've been trying to get into nursing school here in southern california but it's extremely competitive and I need an alternative in case it doesnt work out. I've been looking into either the x-ray tech, CVT, or respiratory C schools as an alternative career choice. How long does the process take from start to finish?

Going to Camp Pendleton in April I was wondering if there is any helpful info I can get going into this as a female and wondering what to expect.