[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

Mr. Monday was a Marine Corps medic for 6 years.

????

A son of a longtime friend is a Navy corpsman, serving with Marines. I didn't know the Marines ever had medics of their own.

[stylin19a]

I don't think they have his bio right...He's a Marine, but I remember him being in the reserves.
And you are right...Marines had Navy Corpsmen takin care of em.

[Michael.SF.]

Monday was a Marine, I have never heard him described as a "medic".

However, I don't thing too many Marines would take offense at calling a medic (who served on the front lines with them) a "Marine".

(I don't believe Monday ever served in combat)

[Preachin']

"Mr. Monday was a Marine Corps medic for 6 years."

If he was, he had to have done at leas part of it as a reservist while playing MLB.

He was born in November, 1945, and started with KC in 1966.

This would have made him 20 in April, 1966.

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

You are correct. Navy corpsmen go into the field with Marines.

[Steel and Fire and Stone]

Mr. Monday was a Marine Corps medic for 6 years.

????

A son of a longtime friend is a Navy corpsman, serving with Marines. I didn't know the Marines ever had medics of their own.

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That's a distinction without a difference.

My father was a Navy medic attached to the Marine Corps every single day after he left boot camp, which included most of the hellish "island-hopping" campaigns in the Pacific. There was not a single Marine he supported who would not have considered him "a Marine".

I also served with the Marines as a Navy Officer, and conversely, not a single Marine I served with or who worked for me would have mistaken me for a Marine Corps Officer. That's the difference between how Marines regard their Navy medics, and any other squid. :)

But as a (former) member of the Department of the Navy, I'm proud of our Marine Corps. Semper Fidelis

SFS

[CholeraJoe]

They don't. The Marines' medics are all Navy.