Originally Posted by
Neosporin
with respect to the question and being about SEALS. I was a hard hat diver and personally know three of us as airline pilots. Also I want to ask about the corpsman comment. I know teams from Hawaii, and while operating in Korea and the PI.
The two corpsman I knew regarding this conversation, they were both Dive Med Techs. One was with SDV's and wore cammies but wore his Med tech dive pin.
What is the real progression for them, I never was concerned then.
I heard there is one at Delta.
Dive Med Tech is a corpsman who goes to Panama City for dive training (they have a special program which emphasizes dive medicine). These guys get farmed out to various diving activities, and can perform basic diving tasks, although their purpose in life is dive medicine, chambers, etc.
DMT's can be found at any diving activity including seal teams/SDV/VSW, etc, but they are nor SEAL operators. The seal operator corpsmen do both BUDS and the Army SF Med Tech course. They are SEALs first, and are there mainly to kill people...combat and ISR is their primary job.
Any corpsman who is assigned to the marines will attend a fairly short course in ground-pounder skills and get the 8404 NEC. This is good for any non-diving marine unit. A corpsmen who goes to marine diving activities (force recon) will also need to attend all of the normal recon schools, including the combat diver course, and then he will go to special dive med tech course just for marine diving corpsmen.
The army has few diving activities...my guess is that they don't have enough to support a career path for DMT's, so they borrow them from the navy.
If you really like going to schools, the corpsman rate might be for you.