L11A

Description

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.