How to Use corpsman in a Sentence

corpsman

noun
  • When the bombing stopped, Somes and the corpsman emerged to see where they would be needed.
    — Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 27 Feb. 2018
  • All were Marines except for Bradley, who was a Navy corpsman.
    — Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2019
  • The Snapchat post also said the corpsman and her friend made a baby dance to rap music.
    — Jeanette Steele, sandiegouniontribune.com, 20 Sep. 2017
  • For one, the former Marine corpsman served in three tours of Iraq.
    — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • There is a doctor aboard one of the destroyers and hospital corpsmen aboard both.
    — sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 June 2018
  • All were treated by Navy corpsman aboard the vessel, and nobody was taken off the sub.
    — CBS News, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Fifteen Marines and one sailor, a Navy corpsman, were killed in the incident.
    — Gordon Lubold, WSJ, 11 July 2017
  • Cannon Sample was a hospital corpsman who was in Lane’s ward when she was killed.
    — Dake Kang, The Seattle Times, 28 May 2017
  • His company lost 22 service members and a Navy corpsman in eight months.
    — Gregory Svirnovskiy, The Arizona Republic, 12 Aug. 2022
  • The sailor, Houston said, is a corpsman assigned to Camp Pendleton.
    — Andrew Dyer, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2019
  • Margie Talavera was a Navy corpsman at the tail end of the Vietnam War.
    — Kevin Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The sailor was a Fleet Marine Force corpsman serving alongside them in the infantry unit.
    — Matt Seyler, ABC News, 4 May 2021
  • 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
  • Navy corpsmen serve as medics to deployed Marine units, and their doctors are naval officers, not Marines.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Search-and-rescue corpsmen were overhead, with a hovering helicopter squadron.
    — Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The dead included 11 Marines, one Navy corpsman and one Army soldier.
    — Courtney Kube, NBC News, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The Romulus resident served five years in the Navy and was a hospital corpsman.
    — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 29 May 2022
  • 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
  • Hoppert also served as a Navy corpsman from 2010 to 2015.
    — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Eleven Marines, one Army soldier and one Navy corpsman died, along with nearly 200 Afghans.
    — Seth Liss, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2021
  • His father was a Navy corpsman who brought the family to Oceanside in 1955.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 May 2026
  • Venter was a Navy corpsman in Vietnam from 1967 to 1968.
    — Francie Ebert, NBC news, 30 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Alexander came to Oceanside in 1957 as a Navy corpsman stationed at Camp Pendleton.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 May 2021
  • This was an alias for Marvin Margolis, a former Navy corpsman who Baber said was mentioned as a suspect in Short’s killing in a grand jury report.
    — Martha Ross, Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Out in the Pacific Ocean, Navy corpsmen, doctors and other first-responders on ships and in airplanes were on hand should something unexpected happen.
    — Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 16 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • His grandfather, Chris Heidenreich, was a naval officer, and his uncle, Chip Heidenreich, served as a corpsman with the Marines.
    — Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Charles Cram, a Los Angeles native, served as a Navy pharmacist’s mate — now known as a corpsman — providing lifesaving care to Marines during World War II.
    — Adisa Hargett-Robinson, The Washington Examiner, 1 Apr. 2026

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