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Hospital Corpsman
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Service Details
Current Service Status
USN Retired
Current/Last Rank
Senior Chief Petty Officer
Current/Last Primary NEC
HM-8425-Surface Force Independent Duty Corpsman
Current/Last Rating/NEC Group
Hospital Corpsman
Primary Unit
2014-2015, HM-8425, 2nd Medical Bn, 2nd FSR/FSSG
Previously Held NEC
HM-8482-Pharmacy Technician
Service Years
1993 - 2015
Official/Unofficial US Navy Certificates
Decommissioning
Desert Rat
OPSAIL 200
Operation Enduring Freedom
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Order of the Dirt Sailor
Order of the Ditch
Order of the Sand Sailor
Order of the Magellan
Order of the Shellback
Order of the Emerald Shellback
Order of the Sand Squid
Panama Canal
Persian Excursion
Plank Owner
Realm of the Czars
Sandbox Sailor Operation Iraqi Freedom
From Month/Year - / 2006
To Month/Year - / 2007
Unit USS Shrike (MHC-62) Unit Page
Rank Chief Petty Officer
NEC HM-8425-Surface Force Independent Duty Corpsman
Base, Station or City InglesideState/Country Texas
Patch
Hull number MHC-62
Type
Surface Vessel
Parent Unit
Surface Vessels
Strength
Minesweeper
Created/Owned By
Not Specified
Last Updated: Dec 14, 2015
Best Friends The Whole Crew...
Best Moment Deployment in Bahrain onboard USS CARDINAL (MHC 60) from May through October 2006. RONEX/GOMEX 07-2, May 2007 (Man, that was COOL!)
Worst Moment The impossible challenge that we made possible from February through April 2006. Then after assembling the best crew possible on the best MHC, they decommissioned the ship and the crew...
Chain of Command LCDR Rome Ruiz, CO LCDR Walter Brewer, XO
Other Memories "THE BUTCHER BIRDS" "Are you READY...ALWAYS READY!!!"