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A Navy Corpsman is an enlisted member of the U.S. Navy Medical Corps. Corpsmen provide medical and dental services to Navy and Marine personnel. Hospital Corpsmen perform duties as assistants in the prevention and treatment of disease and injury and assist health care professionals in providing medical care to military personnel.
Twenty naval ships have been named after hospital corpsmen. Prior to selection to the command master chief program, the 11th MCPON, Joe R. Campa, was a hospital corpsman. On 29 September 2016, the Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus terminated the corpsman rating along with all U.S. Navy enlisted ratings.