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  • noun Plural form of corpsman.

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Examples

  • I remember President Obama repeatedly and completely misprounoucing the word corpsmen when he spoke to U.S. military as “corpse men” and no one made a big deal about it.

    Sarah Palin stands by made-up word 'refudiate,' compares self to Shakespeare | EW.com 2010

  • Had some great doctors, nurses, and corpsmen; the corpsmen are the Navy's physician's assistants.

    CNN Transcript May 25, 2008 2008

  • At daily sick call our corpsmen provided care for not only our Marines, but as I have mentioned before, the soldiers of adjacent Army units.

    Marine Corps Moms 2008

  • Even with a canned speech on a teleprompter our Commander in Chief refers navy corpsmen as "corpse-men".

    Palin's note pad. 2010

  • “I know people who are FMF corpsmen in San Diego who have called about it,”

    BRIAN MAZUROSKI 2010

  • Navy Corpsmen as integrated combat medical personnel, and, like corpsmen in all Marine Corps units, these corpsmen receive the exact same training as the members of the units they support. wikipedia

    david ray reed 2010

  • In a letter in the Feb. 18 edition of Navy Times, Fonseca urged his fellow corpsmen not to take the Tazewell case as representative of the community.

    BRIAN MAZUROSKI 2010

  • Even with a canned speech on a teleprompter our Commander in Chief refers navy corpsmen as "corpse-men".

    Palin's note pad. 2010

  • Actual corpsmen might have some other choice words for Mazurowski.

    BRIAN MAZUROSKI 2010

  • He pointed out that corpsmen are a highly decorated group, with 22 Medals of Honor, 170 Navy Crosses and thousands of Silver and

    BRIAN MAZUROSKI 2010

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