Dicksmith

It was a mixture of pure medical alcohol and Navy-issue canned orange juice. Once the fire went out a little, I kind of liked it. We had a few more, the dicksmiths (the divers’ name for corpsmen who are qualified divers) said “Happy New Year,” and I left for home.

I hit the starter, but all I got was the kind of halfhearted cough I give out when the friendly dicksmith is (squeeze-squeeze) testing me for hernia.

All of a sudden the dicksmith started hard-assing one of the deck apes for lifting his pogey bait.

No one could mistake Doc for a Dicksmith (slang for corpsman, medic).[…]You’re a dicksmith (medic)?[…]A couple of areas, medicine and chamber operation, really appealed to Doc. Being a dicksmith, they would.