Download or read book Navy Corpsmen in the Vietnam War written by Harry Spiller and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-06-02 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The captivating individual stories of 17 U.S. Navy corpsmen who served in Vietnam, told in their own words. Their accounts relate why they joined the Navy in wartime, why they became corpsmen--the enlisted medical specialists of the Navy and Marine Corps--along with many day-to-day, sometimes minute-to-minute recollections of caring for both the wounded and the dead under fire. They also reflect on the long-term effects the war had on them and their families.

Download or read book Navy Corpsmen in Vietnam written by John Peck and published by Navy Corpsmen in Vietnam. This book was released on 2023-06-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the testimony of Navy Corpsman (8404) assigned to the Marines during a specific period of time of the Vietnam War. The stories are based on actual situations that happened. While I have taken the liberty of rearranging time lines and changing some of the locations of the events and situations for the sake of the story, the basic occurrences happened pretty much the way they are written. Some things in life are even more unbelievable but too uncomfortable to tell, things that hurt yourself and may hurt others if you put real names and places to them. So, for me, writing this book, flowing the time line that I was, in fact, in Vietnam and mixing things up a bit, was the easy way out. I had no intention of ever writing a Historical Novel, and I certainly do it with this book. This is just a story about Navy Corpsmen in Vietnam, one particular one who loses his faith in almost everything, especially God. He wants to know why all this is happening around him and why has God allowed it? He is angry, very angry, with God and this World and just wants to understand why! The truth is he believes in God, but simply has lost faith in God. Acknowledging that it is very hard to accept that God is at work or even present when thrown in a circumstance like War. Do not get upset, or get spun around the spoke of a wheel with the details. The importance of this story is not in the minutia of small facts, but about good men in an untenable situation trying to save lives in an Unwinnable War. This particular man's story, who lost his faith in God and Humanity, but was able to regain back one of the two. I leave it up to the reader to decide where the truth may lay and where a story goes away from the path. The truth is that all of these things happened, some to me and some to others and were told to me by Corpsman and Marines during my time in NAM. Many of the experiences we endured in Vietnam we have share with one another. Others no one will ever share with anyone. They are hard to believe for those who have never been to War and maybe even for some who have. There are some experiences that most of us have deep inside. Stories that are pushed down and never visited except as nightmares in the very dark of night. This book includes true episodes of the actions and reaction of Navy Corpsman (8404) assigned to the Marines during a specific period of time of the Vietnam War. The stories are based on actual occurrences, or pieces of actual situations that happened. While I have taken the liberty of rearranging time lines and changing some of the locations of the events and situations for the sake of the story, the basic occurrences happened pretty much the way they are written. This is not a book that describes all the treatment rendered or a full picture of the blood and guts wounds suffered in that War. I have left most of that up to the imagination of the reader. I allude to them mostly without full description. I have had enough visions and memories of those events and my description would I believe only get in the way of the story. The reader can use their own imagination to visualize a situation where you are providing Field Treatment to numerous Critically Wounded Casualties under direct enemy fire. There are several books that describe and provide photos that show the types of injuries and wounds that occurred in Vietnam. The gore of such wounds and the gore resulting from those types wounds are well documented and displayed in other types of literature...

Download or read book Combat Corpsman written by Greg McPartlin and published by Lone Star Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All his life Greg McPartlin wanted to be a Marine corpsman, a medic skilled at saving lives. Three months of bagging-and-tagging bodies during Vietnam's Tet Offensive took the luster off of being a Marine'but not off McPartlin's desire to serve his country.After assisting in the sea recovery of Apollo 11?the first ship to bring men to the moon'the twenty-year-old McPartlin was redeployed to Vietnam as an elite Navy SEAL. Barred as a medic from the make-or-break training of BUD/S considered vital to service as a Navy SEAL, McPartlin had to show he had what it took.But McPartlin had been in country before. In a war where you partied with your buddies in Saigon one day and crawled through an enemy-infested jungle hell the next, he proved that he was not only an outstanding medic but a real Navy SEAL'the toughest of the tough.Combat Corpsman is McPartlin's often humorous account of his year in what had been a Viet Cong stronghold until the SEALs took control'and Charlie placed bounties on the ?men with green faces.' It's the first inside story of a Navy SEAL medic, a man who wanted to heal'not to kill'but did both to save lives.'An accurate and humorous account of an early Navy SEAL platoon in Vietnam.'?Frank ThorntonMost Decorated SEAL from Vietnam era

Download or read book Navy Medicine in Vietnam Passage to Freedom to the Fall of Saigon written by Jan K. Herman and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Marine Down Corpsman Up written by Ron Mosbaugh and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-08-29 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, a highly decorated sailor, relates the history of his thirteen-month tour of duty in wartime Vietnam in 19661967. He, embedded within the Marine Corps, tells about treating the wounded while exposed to live-fire conditions on everything from squad-size patrols to company-size missions. The author also relates how he fulfilled his responsibility for the marines health in camp; he was often the only medical person within miles. He describes the procedures for getting the wounded aboard a helicopter and transferred to a field hospital. Added to his responsibilities was caring for civilians as the United States tried to win the hearts of the Vietnamese people. He even had to treat a wounded Vietnamese who was still wearing the bandage he got from a prior skirmish with the Americans. Of equal interest to the author are the effects of battle not only on the warrior at the time but also in his life after military service. PTSD even affected this corpsman, and he suffers from itboth inpatient and outpatient experiences. Nineteen years old at the time of the war, he describes how quickly youth and social behavior are lost in combat. The author tells his story in fresh, readable prose and does not lose the reader in the actions of higher authority. He gives personal statements in a short reflection at the end of each chapter.

Download or read book CAP Mot written by Barry L. Goodson and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water buffalo dung to keep the mosquitoes away. Ordinary villagers like Mamasan Tou would set up a security network so the CAP marines could afford the occasional luxury of a nap or a few minutes to write a letter home. The only time a CAP marine left the jungle was when he was rotating home, wounded or dead. Goodson's thirteen-month tour of duty was almost over when he was wounded. He spent several weeks in various hospitals before going home, and facing a whole.

Download or read book Journey Of A Young Navy Corpsman written by Eliz Honegger and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-31 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vietnam War was the prolonged struggle between nationalist forces attempting to unify the country of Vietnam under a communist government and the United States (with the aid of the South Vietnamese) attempting to prevent the spread of communism. This book is a true personal story of a young Navy corpsman's tour-of-duty with the 1st Marine Division's elite 1st Force Reconnaissance Company in Vietnam during the years of 1967-1968.

Download or read book Navy Medicine in Vietnam written by Jan K. Herman and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Navy Medicine in Vietnam begins and ends with a humanitarian operation-the first, in 1954, after the French were defeated, when refugees fled to South Vietnam to escape from the communist regime in the North; and the second, in 1975, after the fall of Saigon and the final stage of America's exit that entailed a massive helicopter evacuation of American staff and selected Vietnamese and their families from South Vietnam. In both cases the Navy provided medical support to avert the spread of disease and tend to basic medical needs. Between those dates, 1954 and 1975, Navy medical personnel responded to the buildup and intensifying combat operations by taking a multipronged approach in treating casualties. Helicopter medical evacuations, triaging, and a system of moving casualties from short-term to long-term care meant higher rates of survival and targeted care. Poignant recollections of the medical personnel serving in Vietnam, recorded by author Jan Herman, historian of the Navy Medical Department, are a reminder of the great sacrifices these men and women made for their country and their patients.

Download or read book A Navy Corpsman s Vietnam Tour 1967 1968 written by Charles Cary Catchpole and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-05-18 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a true account of my tour in Vietnam during 1967 to 1968. I was assigned to the 1/26 Marines stationed at the KheSanh Combat Base. I spent time on Hills 881 south, 861, and 950. I am a survivor of the 1968 Tet Offensive at KheSanh

Download or read book Life Story About War In Vietnam written by Erline Vonbank and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-31 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vietnam War was the prolonged struggle between nationalist forces attempting to unify the country of Vietnam under a communist government and the United States (with the aid of the South Vietnamese) attempting to prevent the spread of communism. This book is a true personal story of a young Navy corpsman's tour-of-duty with the 1st Marine Division's elite 1st Force Reconnaissance Company in Vietnam during the years of 1967-1968.

Download or read book U S Marines in Vietnam written by Jack Shulimson and published by U.S. Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1997 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was donated as a part of the David H. Hugel Collection, an archival collection of the Special Collections & Archives, University of Baltimore.

Download or read book The Untold Experiences of a Navy Corpsman written by C. Gilbert Lowery and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A US Navy Hospital Corpsman with a US Marine Corps Reconnaissance Patrol Team in the 1950's on covert Korean missions." I could add that "The five missions made by 'Doc Gentry' (assumed name for covert missions) with the Recon Patrols were all successful but, sadly, they suffered casualties on each mission."

Download or read book Dust Off written by Peter Dorland and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2001-07 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Combat at Close Quarters written by Edward J. Marolda and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2015 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work describes riverine combat during the Vietnam War, emphasizing the operations of the U.S. Navy’s River Patrol Force, which conducted Operation Game Warden; the U.S. Army-Navy Mobile Riverine Force, the formation that General William Westmoreland said “saved the Mekong Delta” during the Tet Offensive of 1968; and the Vietnam Navy. An important section details the SEALORDS combined campaign, a determined effort by U.S. Navy, South Vietnamese Navy, and allied ground forces to cut enemy supply lines from Cambodia and disrupt operations at base areas deep in the delta. The author also covers details on the combat vessels, helicopters, weapons, and equipment employed in the Mekong Delta as well as the Vietnamese combatants (on both sides) and American troops who fought to secure Vietnam’s waterways. Special features focus on the ubiquitous river patrol boats (PBRs) and the Swift boats (PCFs), river warfare training, Vice Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr., the Black Ponies aircraft squadron, and Navy SEALs. This publication may be of interest to history scholars, veterans, students in advanced placement history classes, and military enthusiasts given the continuing impact of riverine warfare on U.S. naval and military operations in the 21st century. Special Publicity Tie-In: Commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War (Commemoration dates: 28 May 2012 - 11 November 2025). This is the fifth book in the series, "The U.S. Navy and the Vietnam War." TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction The First Indochina War The Vietnam Navy River Force and American Advisors The U.S. Navy and the Rivers of Vietnam SEALORDS The End of the Line for U.S. and Vietnamese River Forces Sidebars: The PBR Riverine Warfare Training Battle Fleet of the Mekong Delta High Drama in the Delta Vice Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr. Black Ponies The Swift Boat Warriors with Green Faces Suggested Reading

Download or read book U S Marines In Vietnam Fighting The North Vietnamese 1967 written by Maj. Gary L. Telfer and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fourth volume in an operational and chronological series covering the U.S. Marine Corps’ participation in the Vietnam War. This volume details the change in focus of the III Marine Amphibious Force (III MAF), which fought in South Vietnam’s northernmost corps area, I Corps. This volume, like its predecessors, concentrates on the ground war in I Corps and III MAF’s perspective of the Vietnam War as an entity. It also covers the Marine Corps participation in the advisory effort, the operations of the two Special Landing Forces of the U.S. Navy’s Seventh Fleet, and the services of Marines with the staff of the U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam. There are additional chapters on supporting arms and logistics, and a discussion of the Marine role in Vietnam in relation to the overall American effort.

Download or read book Corpsman Up written by Paul Baviello and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-02-17 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Corpsman Up" is the cry that echoes across the battlefield whenever a Marine is wounded in combat. The book tells the story of men at war from a unique perspective; that of a medical specialist assigned to a Marine combat platoon. It is 1969; Hospital Corpsman Mike Lombardo arrives in Vietnam determined to follow in the footsteps of his Dad and Grandfather in war. He quickly discovers there is nothing glamorous or heroic about war. Through Mike's eyes you go on a journey into a living hell and experience the thrills and horror of combat, the agony of the wounded and dead and see foxhole relationships develop between blacks and whites, farm boys and city kids. Experience the anguish, and concern with Mike, when friend after friend is wounded and he knows that their lives are in his hands and then wonders for the rest of his life if he did the right things.

Download or read book Combat Medic Vietnam written by Craig Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The personal stories of ten decorated Army medics and Navy corpsmen describes their harrowing wartime experiences in Vietnam, from their encounters with the brutalities of the area to their frustrations with failure. Reissue.