In the Marine Corps Times... ...Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Amilcar Rodriguez and the rest of the unit — made up of members of Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command, Army Special Forces and Afghan army commandos — came under heavy machine-gun and small-arms fire. The corpsman, carrying an M249 squad automatic weapon, took out multiple fighters.At one point, while setting up an overwatch position on a rooftop with the Afghans, Rodriguez heard one of the Marines yell, “Corpsman up!” Rodriguez, equipped with his SAW, located the sniper position in a building and pulled the trigger, emptying the 200-round magazine and killing the two-man enemy team. While fighting ensued all around, Rodriguez dashed over to a wounded staff sergeant and quickly began to treat his leg wound and drag him to cover. But suddenly the corpsman felt shocks of pain... Read the whole awesome story about a Hospital Corpsman (recon) that demonstrated "decisive, aggressive action" and his recovery....(good job, MCT!).
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