When
AOL finally allowed us to choose screen names, I picked HMCM since the
Navy Reserve
had been such an important part of my life.
The
designation HMCM is a Navy rate (rank) that stands for Master Chief
Hospital Corpsman.
This tells a job designation (Hospital Corpsman) as well as
level of seniority
(Master Chief or paygrade E-9).
In
my 33 years of Naval Reserve service, I worked my way up from SR
(Seaman Recruit)
to HMCM. During my last 18 years I was assigned to Marine
Corps units as a Fleet
Marine Force (FMF) corpsman, hence the picture of the Iwo Jima
Memorial. One
of the figures in this monument is a Navy Corpsman.
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