Word: corpsman
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Those carefree days came to an abrupt end when Uncle Sam beckoned and Venter obliged by becoming a Navy hospital corpsman. By 1967, when he was just 21, he was in Vietnam, stationed at the Naval Hospital in Danang. Venter was the senior corpsman in the emergency room during the Tet offensive. For five days he worked around the clock to mend, save or just ease the pain of thousands of young men. Shortly after Tet, when physician Ronald Nadal met him, Venter was in trouble again, following an altercation with a senior officer whom Venter advised to perform...
Nadal adopted the ne'er-do-well corpsman, and the two worked closely over the next few months. Impressed by the young man, Nadal urged him to go to college after the war. "You felt this was someone who was not educated but who had a lot of raw intelligence," he says...
...surfer and a hospital corpsman in Vietnam. He is a presidential adviser on germ warfare and a millionaire yachtsman who, in his 82-ft. sloop Sorcerer, won the first transatlantic race he entered. Indeed, Sorcerer is an appropriate name for a boat owned by J. Craig Venter, one of America's most high-profile biologists. For Venter has conjured up an audacious plan that has so shaken the world of science that it was the focus of a congressional hearing last week...
...members of the military reserves and one Coast Guard medical corpsman sued the U.S. government on the ground that the services' treatment of homosexuals is unconstitutional. The suit comes in response to the compromise between the Clinton Administration and the Pentagon that allows gays and lesbians to remain in the military as long as they keep their sexual orientation private. The House Armed Services Committee voted 43 to 12 in favor of retaining the ban in some form, and Congress is considering whether to write the new regulations into...
Homosexuals who try to maintain a relationship proceed with utmost caution. Bill, a Navy medical corpsman, has a civilian lover. When they are together in Bill's apartment complex, which is populated by a lot of Navy personnel, they are careful not to touch or exchange intimate glances. Bill is a veteran of the double life. He visits straight bars with his straight friends, "dates" a lesbian friend, and once hired a prostitute while in port in the Philippines. "I just took her to my hotel, and we talked," he says...