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Just behind the front lines in Korea last weekend, U.S. soldiers were diligently hunting rabbits. With trap and snare they were also trying to catch rats and mice. There was nothing frivolous about this: the soldiers were medical corpsmen, assigned to help run down an enemy which has killed at least 25 of their buddies and made hundreds ill since June: the virus, or something like a virus, that causes epidemic hemorrhagic fever...
...camp he soon began to make regular appearances at sick call. The medics tested his eyes, ordered glasses for him. Amborski complained of low back pain, but they could find nothing wrong with his back. His appetite fell off. He went back to the dispensary complaining of diarrhea. The corpsmen gave him bismuth cocktails. Stanley wrote to his father: "Get me out of here, Dad. I'm going to fall dead soon...
Barricades & Ambuscades. "At a burned-out police substation, a group of marines waited behind a wall, tending three of their wounded and a wounded enemy soldier. The corpsmen shouted for an ambulance. A marine from the other side of the street replied: 'Bring 'em out on litters. The major says we've lost four ambulances, seven corpsmen and four drivers since last night. We ain't got the ambulances to replace 'em.' The medics swore softly, placed the wounded on litters and started back...
...Britons could depend on help from guerrillas and from intelligence corpsmen hidden in the hills. One British agent, a Cretan, actually lived next door to General Kreipe's Villa Ariadne, near the north coast. Through him, Moss and Leigh-Fermor learned the general's daily routine to a nicety-off to headquarters by car at 9 a.m., back in the evening any time after 8 or 8:30 p.m., depending on how many rubbers of bridge he stayed to play...
Scribner's Characters. The ridge became quiet. Medical corpsmen, leading stretcher-bearing teams of brave and unflinching South Koreans, began to cross the valley to pick up the wounded. They carried the wounded through the valley at the foot of the ridge and up a narrow trail to an aid station just beyond the bean fields where General Craig sat sweeping the height with his field glasses. I sat there beside him, wondering if the stream of litter bearers would ever stop coming up out of that damned valley...