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Navy Corpsman, Army Medics, And air force medics?

Is being a Navy corpsman more exciting than being an army combat medic? what opportunities do navy corpsman have that army medics wont have? what about the army medics? can navy corpsman become flight medics? can navy corpsman go out on search and rescue missions? what about the army? now the AIR FORCE. Does the air force have medics? what is the job called? because i have looked through there jobs and i can't find medic in there enlisted job lists? What the diff between navy corpsman and Air Force medics? do air force medics preform medical treatments while flying? Basically, i want to know what the air force medics are called too, because i can't find medic jobs in the air force enlisted job page. what is that job called. what opportunities do air force medics have?

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1. dude go DEVILDOC/HM (FMF) in the Navy...nuff said
2. Aerospace Medical Services Health Services Management Medical Materiel Biomedical Equipment Bio-environmental Engineering Mental Health Service Diet Therapy Public Health Cardiopulmonary Lab Physical Medicine Aerospace Physiology Aerospace Medical Service Surgical Services Pharmacy Diagnostic Imaging Medical Laboratory Histopathology Cytotechnology Optometry These are all the medical fields in the Air Force.
3. Being a medic is being a medic. The Navy training is great but the Army also has extensive training if you want to work hard. Flight medics.....not sure. The Army does have flight medics and the Air Force has aerospace medical specialist. Same difference between the Navy and Air Force medical training as the Navy and the Army. Search and Rescue is a speciality field and the Navy and Coast Guard have these medics. They are called PJs. If you want to be enlisted and learn the most and get the most excitement then you will need to be a SF Medic (Army), SEAL (Navy) or Black Ops (Air Force). Go on line to each service then talk with the recruiter of each service before you decide. Don't believe everything they tell you and make sure everything is in writing. Good luck.
4. Navy Corpsmen have one real advantage over medics in the other services-- variety. A Navy Corpsman can do everything an Army combat medic does, while serving with the Marine Corps. Navy corpsmen serving with the Navy's air wing fly as fully-qualified flight medics. Navy corpsmen who qualify as IDCs (Independent Duty Corpsmen) serve aboard ships and submarines where there are no doctors (where there may be no access to doctors for significant amounts of time, so they have to be trained to do whatever is necessary in an emergency-- a Corpsman has performed an apendectomy aboard a submarine in a war zone!). Corpsman serve with the SEAL Teams. They do Navy Search and Rescue. In the field, so to speak, they can qualify for their Aircrew, Surface Warfare, Submarine, Fleet Marine Force, and SEAL devices; meanwhile on shore duty they can qualify as X-ray techs, lab techs, and even LPNs-- essentially every other hospital technical specialty there is, short of RNs and MDs (the Navy has ther own nurses and doctors). The Army medics can do the hospital and FMF equivalents, along with Special Forces. Air Force medics can do the same hospital specialties, along with Flight Medic and Special Forces. Coast Guard Corpsmen are probably the best Search and Rescue teams on the planet. But pretty much only Navy corpsmen can have the opportunity to serve in such a wide variety of fields.
5. The Navy Corpsman are great and awesome. they can do a lot of things any other branch does