In fact, Corpsmen are navy soldiers (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy_Hospital_Corpsman) but some are assigned to USMC units. When they are with USMC, they wear the same uniform than USMC ; so the current marpat woodland and desert uniform. But they usualy change the branch tape and have their own US Navy branch tape and ranks :


(US Navy ranks pinned)




(US Navy name tape and corpsman badge embroidery on name tape)


(note the US Navy branch tape and the cap without EGA !)





And there's another difference between US Navy Corpsmen and USMC marines - their garrison cover ! The USMC garrison hat have an EGA embroidery on it. The ones of US Navy Corpsmen doesn't have the EGA, but they pinned their own USN rank ;









For comparison, here's one of the USMC (with EGA embroidery) :









And last one in woodland marpat :

Just one more pic with their marpat desert hat ;

P-E wrote:Just one more pic with their marpat desert hat ;

I just cant help myself.......Seaman Crabb......I bet he caught A LOT of flack when he was promoted.

all joking aside, great work with this reference....Corpsmen definetely dont get enough credit!

Very cool and well researched post, I much prefer MARPAT over ACU,and would love to have the woodland version in my collection....I can wait though


Keep this stuff coming P-E,it's good