This is what each lifesaving item does in a Marine’s first aid kit
The purpose of combat is to deny the enemy control an area by inflicting the largest loss of life possible. When a friendly troop is wounded on the battlefield, the…
23 heroic Navy corpsmen who earned the Medal of Honor
Update: This story was corrected to reflect that Byers was a Special Operations Combat Medic.
U.S. Navy Hospital corpsmen are part of a tradition that predates the American Navy itself. In the age of sail, corpsmen (then…