Word: medicant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first dilemma posed by 150 is whether to seek I-O or I-AO status. I-O status exempts the CO from all service in the armed forces. The CO classified I-AO is eligible for non-combatant duty and usually serves as a medic. It is much easier to get a I-AO than a I-O because I-AOs count toward fulfilling local boards' quotas. Draft boards often bargain with CO's seeking I-O status and try to get them to settle for I-AO. A stock question which draft boards pose is "Would Christ help civilians...
Watching the volunteer nurse clean a soldier's gaping wound, the Army medic asked her a routine operating-room question: "Are you sterile?" Grinned Comedienne Martha Raye, 50: "At my age, you better believe it." Even the wounded G.I. managed to smile at that crack. It was the sort of thing Martha kept up all through the long night at the field hospital at Soctrang in the Mekong Delta as she gave her finest performance since arriving in South Viet Nam last month for her third visit to the troops. Heavy casualties had been airlifted into Soctrang from...
When a nine-man infantry squad set out one night this month to lay an ambush for the Viet Cong near the Bao Trai airstrip in the northern coastal region of South Viet Nam, Paul Widtfeldt Jr., an unarmed medical specialist, went along. Next morning, nine of the ten men were found shot through the head. Among them was redhaired, bespectacled Medic Widtfeldt, who had been killed while tending a dying buddy. For his courage, the Army revealed last week, Widtfeldt, 21, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, will be posthumously awarded a second Bronze Star; his first was presented in August...
Lone Protection. Those who object only to bearing arms are classified 1-A-O and trained as Army medics; some 3,500 are now serving, scores of them in Viet Nam, where, almost to a man, they have won praise for their bravery under fire. Says one general: "There is the question of their courage. They have to prove themselves." They are quite capable of it. Said Medic Widtfeldt a few months before his death: "I feel the same as everyone else in combat-scared. My only protection is my faith...
...buddy taught him drums and guitar, and they formed a combo. But they couldn't hack it playing honky-tonks, so Sadler tried the Army. Then came eleven rigorous months of Special Forces training that qualified him for his green beret as a combat medic. Along the way, at Fort Sam Houston, he says, "I started writing songs because I had a terrible time playing anybody else's music." His first audiences were the boys in the barracks and the girls in the bordellos below the border in Nuevo Laredo. "The Army doesn't like...