Navy Puts Out Graphic Novel About Corpsmen, The Medics Who Also Fight - NPR (blog) - Bill Chappell -

The U.S. military has used video games to help train their personnel — and to help boost recruiting. Now the experiences of Navy corpsmen have spawned a new graphic novel, published by the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Medicine. As the KPBS blog Home Post reports, The Docs was born out of a desire to prepare new corpsmen for the mental stress of combat. And that stress is substantial. Corpsmen are often called on both to fight and to try to save the lives of wounded Marines. As Jamie Reno of KPBS writes, surveys of U.S. combat personnel show that "at the height of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2007, corpsmen were exposed to more intense combat than any other Navy component."

You can read the NPR blog post here, and you can read the full "graphic novel" for free, here.