Word: medicant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Medics, doctors, nurses and some among the 140 newsmen watched them with tears in their eyes. The stretcher cases were taken by helicopter to the advance base at Munsan, where a mobile surgical hospital had been erected; the walking patients went by ambulance. The first man to reach Munsan was Pfc. Robert Stell, a Baltimore Negro. General Mark Clark, who was waiting at Munsan to greet the returnees, saluted Stell and made a move to adjust his robe, but a medic beat the general to it. After medical and intelligence processing, the men were offered cigarettes, Cokes, milk shakes, steak...
Bodies in the Sun. For more than three hours Stanley stood guard at the bunker door while a medic within worked on the colonel and another wounded soldier. Once, when his overheated BAR jammed (he had fired 620 rounds from it), Stanley ducked into the bunker, borrowed an M-1 rifle. When reinforcements arrived at 9 a.m., there were eight dead Chinese sprawled in the mud at the corner of the trench. Stanley slithered down the hill, had his cuts treated and returned to his outfit and his Bible. "If the Lord wasn't with...
...zanne and Turner. By the time young Alan was twelve, he was working in oils; two years later he was on his own, doing odd jobs (gardening, repairing bicycles, working on road gangs) for the money to paint full time. After a spell as an infantry medic in World War II, he got a government grant to study art, and last year was far enough advanced to win a scholarship at the Royal College of Art, where he still has 2½ years of study ahead...
...enlisted in the Air Force, found himself, of all things, a medic. In Korea he was the oldest man in the 3rd Air Rescue Group, but he showed the youngsters what an old soldier can do. He went on 64 rescue missions, mostly in "choppers" (helicopters...
That wintry morning, Corpsman Irwin Rietz was on duty in his first-aid station, close to the front line. Through the crump of enemy mortars, he heard a G.I. shout, "Medic . . . medic," and raced to the shallow trench where his first combat casualty lay. The wounded man's helmet had fallen over his face; blood oozed from a jagged hole in his breast. Irwin concentrated on all the things he had been taught to do. "Take it easy, Mac," said Corpsman Rietz as he ripped open the blood-soaked flak jacket and pressed dressings on the wound...