corpsman
noun
corps·man ˈkȯr(z)-mən 
1
: an enlisted man trained to give first aid and minor medical treatment
2
: a member of a government-sponsored service corps
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web After World War II, and after serving as a Navy corpsman at Great Lake Navy Base in Chicago, Wertheimer started working as an inventor. 
Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2022 Among them were 11 Marines, plus one Navy hospital corpsman and another service member, according to the Pentagon. Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2021 Eight Marines and a Navy corpsman died when their AAV sank in the Pacific Ocean during a ship-to-shore training maneuver off the coast of San Clemente Island. Paul Best, Fox News, 30 Aug. 2022 Another was a Navy corpsman assigned to the Marines. San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Aug. 2022 His company lost 22 service members and a Navy corpsman in eight months. Gregory Svirnovskiy, The Arizona Republic, 12 Aug. 2022 Milley, who was then sixty, was the son of a Navy corpsman who had served with the 4th Marine Division, in Iwo Jima. Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022 Don Stevens of Hondo struck up a fast friendship with a fellow Navy medical corpsman, Louis Ritemeyer, at Balboa Naval Medical Center in San Diego just before the war in Korea broke out. Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 26 July 2022 The Romulus resident served five years in the Navy and was a hospital corpsman. Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 29 May 2022 See More
Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2022 Among them were 11 Marines, plus one Navy hospital corpsman and another service member, according to the Pentagon. Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2021 Eight Marines and a Navy corpsman died when their AAV sank in the Pacific Ocean during a ship-to-shore training maneuver off the coast of San Clemente Island. Paul Best, Fox News, 30 Aug. 2022 Another was a Navy corpsman assigned to the Marines. San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Aug. 2022 His company lost 22 service members and a Navy corpsman in eight months. Gregory Svirnovskiy, The Arizona Republic, 12 Aug. 2022 Milley, who was then sixty, was the son of a Navy corpsman who had served with the 4th Marine Division, in Iwo Jima. Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022 Don Stevens of Hondo struck up a fast friendship with a fellow Navy medical corpsman, Louis Ritemeyer, at Balboa Naval Medical Center in San Diego just before the war in Korea broke out. Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 26 July 2022 The Romulus resident served five years in the Navy and was a hospital corpsman. Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 29 May 2022 See More Word History
Etymology
corps + man entry 1 (originally short for hospital corpsman, member of the Hospital Corps in the U.S. army and navy)
First Known Use
1900, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Medical Definition
corpsman
noun
corps·man ˈkō(ə)r(z)-mən, ˈkȯ(ə)r(z)-
plural corpsmen -mən
: a military enlisted person trained to give first aid and minor medical treatment