Word: corpsmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Twice they hit casualty stations on the beach. Many men who had been only wounded were killed. The command post of one of the assault battalions got a direct hit which killed several officers. An artillery battalion based near the beach had twelve men killed. One group of medical corpsmen was reduced from 28 to 11; the corpsmen were taking it, as usual...
Amphibious Medicine. To care for the sick and wounded the Navy has created "amphibious medicine" to go with its amphibious warfare. First in line are medical corpsmen, "the real heroes of our medical organization," who land on the beaches with assault troops. From the corpsmen stretches a chain of medical facilities-aid stations, field hospitals, hospital ships, advance base hospitals-which have saved the lives of 98 out of every 100 wounded...
...that night, all next day, Infantryman Edwards fought to stay conscious. He knew that unless he did, he and anyone who attempted to move him before he could warn them would be blown to pieces. He smoked some cigarets which the Germans had overlooked, and waited. Hours past midnight, corpsmen came. Soldier Edwards had just enough strength left to warn them. They gingerly cut the wires and, after 70 excruciating hours, got him to safety...
...Army's only offering to men under draft age is its Enlisted Reserve Corps. The program merely grants deforms to college men until the end of the term during which they register for the draft. At that term's close, corpsmen receive orders to report to a replacement center in their home service command. Application forms and physical examinations are to be had at 808 Commonwealth Avenue. Enlistment here carries no implication of special training...
...typical of any day at San Diego. In the orthopedic ward men with arms in casts or limbs elevated in the air by counterweights tried doggedly to write, wove lace doilies, made sketches of battle scenes they remembered. Some with wounded arms and hands played poker while Navy hospital corpsmen stood by to handle the cards...