Posted on Apr 8, 2015
Dental Corpsman and regular Corpsman. Should they stay merged or go back to being seperate rates?
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I'm a dental corpsman and I keep getting asked by other rates, other branch members and even non dental corpsman what I think about the corpsman/dental rate merge and our advancement test experience as a dental tech.
What are your thoughts? Do you think the rate merge was beneficial or hurt the rates?
I'm still new in the Navy and wondered why the dental corps. and hospital corps. merged together. What were the pros and cons to doing it? I'm coming on 3 years and I don't really see the point of it. In my opinion, the dental corps should be a seperate rate again.
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What are your thoughts? Do you think the rate merge was beneficial or hurt the rates?
I'm still new in the Navy and wondered why the dental corps. and hospital corps. merged together. What were the pros and cons to doing it? I'm coming on 3 years and I don't really see the point of it. In my opinion, the dental corps should be a seperate rate again.
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I've never heard of a Dental Corpsman? I've heard of Dental tech rating. They are not Corpsman and should not be called a Corpsman.
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Umm im pretty sure i am a dental tech and a corpsman i did the exact same training with other corpsman and then on top of that i had an additional 6 weeksof dental tech training so i would have enough to disagree with you PO3.
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PO2 Timothy Klym
HM and Dental Techs merged (again) around 2006. They go through Corpsman Basic together and Dental Tech is now a C School.
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Likely to reduce costs and overhead by decreasing the number of stars overhead. Many of the tasks performed would be within the same realms of care.
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I don't want to seem like a douche, but I think that we should be our own rates again.. I've met a lot of Dental techs, and to be fair a lot of them don't know how to give medical care like a regular quad zero. Dental techs are really good at their jobs and quad zeros are really good as far as medical emergencies go. If you are going to keep the rates merged then at least make Dental techs get refresher training on medical care every year or so.
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