Hospital corpsman

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This article is about the UNSC rating. For other uses of "medic", see Medic (disambiguation).

Corpsman R. Coney inspecting a wounded marine during the Battle of Sector Six.

A Hospital Corpsman, often shortened as Corpsman, or sometimes known as a combat medic in the UNSC Marine Corps or simply medic in both the UNSC Army and Marine Corps, is a rating within the UNSC Navy.

Overview

Responsibilities

In the UNSC Army, a command team is typically comprised of an officer, a radio operator, and a medic. In the UNSC Marine Corps, Corpsmen are assigned to units of various sizes, ranging from smaller units like squads, to larger units like platoons. They treat troops' field injuries in any hostile environments; as such, they are often referred to as "docs". They are also trained for any combat scenario in a light infantry role. Outside of combat, while it is recommended a doctor administers cytoprethaline to personnel before they enter cryo-sleep on starships, medics often perform the cytoprethaline injections.

Equipment

Corpsmen typically adopt the same Battle Dress Uniform as the UNSC Marines; those wearing the M52B body armor are sometimes either distinguished by a red cross on a white background on their chest plates and pauldrons, or adopt dark gray combat utilities with white armor and red details. The post-war Marine BDU use red and white color motifs on body armor, along with the asklepian emblem on the back, to denote medics. Corpsmen assigned to ODST units also employ ODST armors, featuring white and red decals on the helmets and shoulder pad, the latter of which also has the asklepian emblem printed on its surface. Similarly, medics attached to the UNSC Army wear the same battle dress uniform as UNSC Army troopers, albeit with an asklepian emblem on their helmet and shoulder pads. In more recent years, the SUTURE-class Mjolnir has been approved for testing aboard Anvil Station—intended for use by SPARTAN-IV combat medics.

Medics carry both hard and soft cases that contain numerous medical supplies, including biofoam injection canisters and more direct-application tools for field surgery and dismemberment mitigation. They are typically armed with short-to-mid range weapons.

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  Ngoc Benti in a Corpsman variant of the M52B body armor.
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  Helena Gruss in a Corpsman variant of the ODST armor.
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  The medic variant of post-war marine BDU.

Known Corpsmen

• Ngoc Benti - Assigned to Sergeant Zhao Heng Lopez's marine detachment onboard the UNSC Red Horse in 2552.
• Lucas Browning - Attached to the UNSC Infinity in 2559 and became part of the boat crew during the Battle for Zeta Halo.
• R. Coney - Petty Officer, Third Class that participated in the Battle of Sector Six in 2552.
• Helena Gruss - Petty Officer assigned to Sunray 1-1 of Boomerang Company, an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper unit onboard UNSC Spirit of Fire and participated in Operation: SPEARBREAKER in 2559.
• Healy - Petty Officer, First Class attached to UNSC Two for Flinching and assigned to help the training of Harvest's Colonial Militia in 2525.
• Janina Yu - Attached to the UNSC Infinity in 2559 during the Battle for Zeta Halo and ran the field hospital at Lifeworker Central alongside Dr. Shoff.
• Valdez - Assigned to a platoon of ODSTs onboard UNSC Pillar of Autumn in 2552.
• Unidentified corpsman - Assigned to Sergeant Major Johnson's marine unit during the mission to recover John-117 near Mount Kilimanjaro in 2552.

Gameplay

Halo Wars

In Halo Wars, the player can research the "Medic" upgrade at the Barracks for the cost of 3 and 700. It adds a medic to each squad of Marines. He will fight alongside the others with an assault rifle, and when the squad is idle, will automatically begin healing it. While the medic is healing the squad, an Easy difficulty shield will appear over the squad with a green cross over it.

Halo: Reach

UNSC medics make a common appearance in Halo: Reach. They fight exactly like normal troopers, and will not provide medical aid to the player or any allies in gameplay whatsoever.

Production notes

• The UNSC rank structure is largely derived from the system employed by the 21st century United States military, in which a hospital corpsman is an enlisted rating within the navy; corpsmen sometimes serve in a US Marine Corps unit, whereas combat medics serve within the US Army instead. The name "corpsman" is short for "hospital corpsman", which refers to members of US Navy Hospital Corps. Although there has yet to be an official mention of a Navy Hospital Corps within the U