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U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Claudio A. Martinez/Released 100617-M-1298M-037.jpg
Jun 17, 2010
Chief Simeon Cadavos, the oldest corpsman on the air station, and Seaman Apprentice Zachary Hallowood, the youngest corpsman on the air station, cut a cake in celebration of the 112th birthday of the Hospital Corpsmen at the south side mess hall here June 17. During the Spanish-merican War, Congress approved a bill which created the naval rates of hospital apprentice, hospital apprentice first class and hospital steward on June 17, 1898, officially bringing the hospital corpsmen to birth.
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