DoD News briefing -- Part 2 of 2.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-14 March 2003-US DOD: DoD News briefing -- Part 2 of 2(C)1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:03132003 One thing you may not know about Navy medicine, you may notice that you don't see a Marine uniform here. Navy medicine provides the health care to the Marine Corps as well as the Navy.

So you find my 3,000 deployed doctors, nurses and corpsmen on ships, hospital ships, fleet hospitals, and ashore everywhere a Marine goes. There was a wonderful quote from one of our Marine four-stars recently who said, "No Marine ever took a hill out of the sight of a Navy corpsman." If there's a meta-message that I think carries the essence of what we try to do, it's that the Department of Defense medical department has taken the World Health Organization...