Flight surgeon
![A deployed U.S. Navy flight surgeon performs a shipboard exam in the Persian Gulf in 2004.](/Images/godic/202501/13/_040531-N-9630B-025_U.S._Navy_Flight_Surgeon,_Lt._Cmdr._Scott_Carlson_of_Downers_Grove,_Ill.,_performs_and_eye_examination_on_Operation_Specialist_1st_Class_Naron_Williams_of_Jacksonville,_Fla0651.jpg")
![Medical debriefing of Major John H. Glenn, Jr., USMC after orbital flight of Friendship 7 on 20 February 1962 aboard the aircraft carrier USS Randolph (CVS-15). The debriefing team for Lt. Colonel Glenn (center) was led by Commander Seldon C.](/Images/godic/202501/13/19620220-JohnGlennMedical0651.jpg")
![Aviation Warfare insignia](/Images/godic/202501/13/Navy_Aviation_Warfare_Insignia0651.png")
A flight surgeon is a military medical officer practicing in the clinical field variously known as aviation medicine, aerospace medicine, or flight medicine. (Although the term "flight surgery" is considered improper by purists, it may occasionally be encountered.)