Summary:

Provides medical and operational services for Fleet Marine Force Reconnaissance personnel engaged in direct action and reconnaissance operations. Performs paramedical skills, basic life support, minor surgical procedures and other routine and emergency medical health care procedures as required. Instructs and advises operational personnel in measures for prevention of illness and treatment of injuries associated with swimming, open and closed circuit SCUBA diving, military freefall and amphibious operations. Performs duties using open and closed circuit SCUBA in direct support of Fleet Marine Force Reconnaissance Units. Conducts underwater searches to include detailed ship-bottom searches. Inspects and maintains SCUBA and related equipment. Knows the laws of diving and gas physics and understands the theory and practice of decompression and the use of decompression tables. Performs duties as a hyperbaric chamber operator. Recognizes all types of illnesses associated with diving to include oxygen and carbon dioxide toxicity, nitrogen narcosis, type I and II decompression sickness and air gas embolism. Enters the chamber as the inside tender to care for patients suffering from decompression sickness as well as other conditions requiring hyperbaric treatment.

Source ratings: HM

Paygrades Authorized to Hold NEC: E3-E6

Training Course: Course Mandatory

Open to Women: No

SPECIAL NOTES: 1. NEC is awarded upon completion of all of the following courses: 1) USMC Basic Reconnaissance, 2) USMC Combatant Divers, 3) Army Basic Airborne School, 4) USMC Special Amphibious Reconnaissance Corpsman Diving Medicine, 5) Joint Special Operations Forces Trauma Medic.

2. Recommendation for removal of NEC HM-8427 will be made by the member's Commanding Officer based on an evaluation of the individual's proficiency and professional performance in accordance with the provisions of OPNAVINST 6400.1 (series). Send 1221/2 to EPMAC (Code 49) via the ECM (10).

3. Must continuously maintain Dive/Jump qualifications to retain NEC.