USN Hospital Corps School Great Lakes

The USN Hospital Corps School Great Lakes was established in 1913 at Naval Station Great Lakes, Illinois, to train enlisted personnel as Hospital Corpsmen for the United States Navy. Over the decades, it became the primary training site for Navy medical personnel, especially during major conflicts such as World Wars I and II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War, graduating thousands of corpsmen vital to Navy and Marine Corps operations. The school underwent numerous expansions and curriculum updates to meet evolving medical and operational needs. In 2011, as part of the consolidation of military medical training, the Hospital Corps School at Great Lakes closed, and instruction was relocated to the Medical Education and Training Campus at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas.