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Moving in with the second wave of attacking troops, Cathy dodged machine-gun fire, clicked off frame after frame as she and the men scurried up the hill. She stopped long enough to record one particularly poignant sequence-a corpsman bending to help a wounded buddy, jerking upright in anguish when the man died, and plunging away, yelling "I'll kill them! I'll kill them!" At the summit she flopped into a bomb crater, kept on aiming her camera. At 22, Cathy is used to such scenes. She spends more time at the front-three weeks...
...American Medical Association meeting, Dr. Kurland offered as a prime example the case of a U.S. Navy hospital corpsman, aged 20, who wanted to re-enlist after two years of duty. To meet the Navy's physical requirements, he had to drop 50 lbs., and while on a rigorous diet in the metabolic ward of the Naval Hospital in Oakland he lost weight fast. No sooner was he back on duty than he discovered that his newfound slimness was a surprising disadvantage. He was expected to do chores from which he had formerly been excused. His wife expected...
...corpsman endured these hardships for little more than a week. Then back he went to overeating. He gained a pound a day for two months and retreated to the sanctuary of adiposity, where less was expected of him and he no longer felt inadequate. In other cases, said Dr. Kurland, drastic reducing has also led to depression rather than emotional relief. For many of the extremely obese, he suggested, their very weight is a source of emotional stability...
Control of the Drill. Instead of relying on any one of 75 local physicians -general practitioners, obstetricians, ophthalmologists, pediatricians and the like-Dr. Stevenson called on Whittaker, a highly skilled former Navy medical corpsman, to assist him on three occasions from October 1965 to July 1966. At those times he was called upon to operate a cranial drill and a flexible saw used to remove patches of skull. What were Whittaker's qualifications to do such work? After attending hospital corps school and a naval operating-room technicians' school, Whittaker testified, he had served not only...
...appease those who charge that boards are arbitrary in their decisions, now plucking one Peace Corpsman from the Phillipines, now blessing a second's trip to Nigeria, the Commission will ask for Selective Service National Headquarters to establish strict guidelines for deferment. Selective Service officials admit the local boards will follow any formula the national headquarters hands them -- they have too many men to classify to do otherwise -- and that the guidelines have been left vague on the theory that a man unsure of his draft status is a man who may enlist...