Primary Responsibilities
Provide Navy medicine support to Marine units, including field care, evacuation coordination, preventive medicine, and medical readiness.
Navy Medicine / Marine Corps MOS Profile
Fleet Marine Force Reconnaissance Corpsman
Fleet Marine Force Reconnaissance Corpsmen are corpsmen assigned to reconnaissance units who support recon teams with advanced field medicine and recon-specific integration.
Code / PipelineNAVMED-FMF-RECON-CORPSMAN
MOS NameFleet Marine Force Reconnaissance Corpsman
CategoryNavy Medicine
Unit AssociationNavy Medicine / 2nd Recon / Force Recon
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Marine Corps MOS Profile
Responsibilities and Pipeline
Training Pipeline
Complete Navy accession training and Hospital Corpsman “A” School or officer medical accession requirements.
Billet Progression
This Navy Medicine track supports Marine units through field medical readiness and casualty-care integration.
Current Member Tracking
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USMC Responsibilities
Fleet Marine Force Reconnaissance Corpsman is described here by practical Marine Corps duties, billet expectations, and training progression. This section avoids game-language so the page reads like a professional MOS reference.
- Provide Navy medicine support to Marine units, including field care, evacuation coordination, preventive medicine, and medical readiness.
- Integrate with Marine small units while preserving medical ethics, documentation, training, and casualty-care standards.
- Maintain clinical skills, field medical skills, equipment accountability, and trauma response procedures.
- Support health services planning, training, and casualty response in garrison and field environments.
Training Pipeline
The pathway is shown at a broad public level. Exact prerequisites, screening, quotas, course names, and assignments can change by fiscal year, manpower requirement, medical qualification, command screening, and schoolhouse policy.
- Complete Navy accession training and Hospital Corpsman “A” School or officer medical accession requirements.
- Attend Field Medical Training Battalion or Fleet Marine Force-related training when assigned to Marine units.
- For reconnaissance/SARC/SOIDC tracks, complete screening and advanced medical, amphibious, dive, airborne, and prolonged field-care training as required by the pipeline.
- Serve with Marine units, battalion aid stations, reconnaissance teams, aid stations, or independent-duty billets based on rating/NEC and assignment.
Billets And Skill Growth
- Entry-level Marines focus on core tasks, equipment, field discipline, and reliable execution.
- NCOs supervise small teams, enforce standards, plan rehearsals, and train junior Marines.
- SNCOs and officers manage readiness, risk, training plans, inspections, reporting, and integration with adjacent staff sections.
- Instructor and staff billets preserve standards, document lessons learned, and build repeatable training for the next rotation.
Chain of Command Matching Logic
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Rank / Grade Requirements
Grade LaneNavy enlisted qualification path
Entry / Award Basis
Fleet Marine Force Reconnaissance Corpsman path requires Hospital Corpsman qualification, field medical training, screening, and assignment to reconnaissance or similar Marine forces.
Typical Rank Use
Normally petty officer grades for team and platoon corpsman billets; chief petty officer and above for senior medical leadership and operations billets.
Schoolhouse & Qualification Requirements
SchoolhouseNavy Hospital Corpsman / Field Medical Training Battalion / Naval Special Operations medical pipeline as assigned
Navy medical training covers corpsman fundamentals, field medical support, Marine-force integration, trauma care, evacuation procedures, and independent-duty skills by rating or NEC.
Entry QualificationsScreening / Prerequisites
Requires Navy medical rating eligibility, medical readiness, swim or special-amphibious screening where assigned, security eligibility where required, and completion of formal medical schools.
Associated SchoolsFollow-On Training
- Field Medical Training Battalion for green-side corpsmen
- Fleet Marine Force qualification process
- Reconnaissance / special amphibious corpsman screening when assigned
- Dive, airborne, SERE, trauma, and independent-duty medical training by billet
Course titles, quotas, prerequisites, and sequence can change by fiscal year, manpower requirement, medical qualification, and current schoolhouse policy.
Current Members in this MOS
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MOS Association
Navy Medicine / 2nd Recon / Force Recon
This page links the occupation lane to Navy Medicine / 2nd Recon / Force Recon. Matching chain of command members appear in the Current Members section above.