AOTC #86 “Happy Bday USMC & Happy Veterans Day” FINAL

First the links to today’s shows as promised:
Retention and Recruiting info for FY2010
http://www.npc.navy.mil/NR/rdonlyres/906D94A9-06C1-403C-91FA-CF836EB86F46/0/NAV09321.txt
fraud ring targeted deployed soldier – Army News, news from Iraq, – Army Times
AF seeks nominations for heroism award – Air Force News, news from Iraq – Air Force Times
Chiefs: Eval delays cost us chance to advance – Navy News, news from Iraq [...]

Uniform Uniformity?? (Say that 5 times fast wacka wacka wacka!)

This type of article is fun.
It gets people seeing red, green, sandy and they just go plain NUTS!!
NUTS I SAY!!
It seems that Congress wants to mandate our operational uniforms.  (WHO KNEW? )
But first.. I want to show you the 4 services Cammie uniforms, and then I will post the article from Navytimes.
For once I have [...]

BuMed warns of swine flu vaccine hoax message

A bogus report claiming that sailors aboard a ship died from the vaccine for the H1N1 virus has popped up on blogs and in e-mail inboxes in recent weeks.
“This is pure fantasy,” said Cmdr. Cappy Surette, a spokesman for the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
The report aims to incite opposition to the mandatory vaccine [...]

Do you remember Beirut October 23rd 1983? Corpsman.com Does

Thank you to John Wiley for writing this up and helping us remember.

On October 23,1983 two suicide truck bombers attacked the Marine Barracks in Beirut.  241 American troops were killed during that attack.  Among the dead were 15 Navy Corpsmen.
These “Devil Docs”were not killed in the heat of battle.   Their stories don’t ring out in [...]

NEWS ALERT!!: UPDATE on POST 9/11 GI BILL RULES!! We get PAID!!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 25, 2009
Secretary Shinseki Orders Emergency Checks to Students Awaiting Education Benefits
Thousands of Checks to Alleviate Student Financial Burden
WASHINGTON – Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki announced the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has authorized checks for up to $3,000 to be given to students who have applied for educational benefits and [...]

Happy “BIRTH DAY” to the new CPO’s

I was going to put this post up yesterday, the day the new CPO’s were all pinned.
But no one would see the post as they were all to darn tired from the previous 24 hour festivities..

So today when all are awake, I wish you all a happy “BIRTH DAY” on your new life, [...]

Where were you on 09/11/01?

I put this out to our readers at Corpsman.com, I asked them to send me a 1 to 2 paragraph blurb explaining where they were and what they were doing on that fateful day.
I am going to display the responses un-edited.  This was supposed to be the lead story today, but with the tragic loss [...]

AOTC #78 Memorial for HM3 Benjamin Castiglione –Posted

This had to be the hardest show I have ever done.
To have Ben’s Mom, and Cousin in the chat room while we broadcasted, It was everything I could do to make it through the show.
She knows all Doc’s have her families back.
You can watch the video below, I will post the Audio later tonight for [...]

Marine Corps “Do you trust me?” and other news Military Sitrep (Video)

What the hell Marine Corps??
“DO YOU TRUST ME?”
This is just plain Nuts and Studpid.. Get it togethor!!
D/C

Ok it’s Official We need your Support!! We are on Life Support!–Updated!

I have robbed Peter to pay Paul.
Ad Revenue is down by about 80% this year over last year.
Some have donated to help us out (About 3% of our regular users), and for this we are grateful.
But the truth is now, for Corpsman.com to survive we need your assistance.
Since we started in 2004, we have never [...]

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