Marine Corps Battalion Aid Station
Because of the strictly combatant role of the Marine Corps, the Marine Corps does not have organic medical personnel and the Navy supplies medical officers and hospital corpsmen for them. As with the Army, the battalion surgeon is the chief medical officer in a Marine battalion. The battalion surgeon is a staff officer who advises the battalion commander on health and medical matters pertaining to the battalion. A battalion surgeon carries the United States Navy rank of Lieutenant (O-3) or Lieutenant Commander (O-4).
The staffing of a Marine Corps BAS is slightly different from the Army. The battalion surgeon technically manages the BAS including the Assistant Battalion Surgeon, either a Medical Officer or physician assistant Medical Service Officer as well as corpsmen. The BAS may also be manned by Independent Duty Corpsmen, a corpsmen trained to function independently of a medical officer and who function much in the same way as a physician assistant. A Chief Hospital Corpsman, known as the Battalion Chief, is also usually part of a BAS and supervises the other corpsmen.
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