Word: medicant
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...actors stop attitudinizing and fall smartly into their roles, and the rivalry between Barnes and Elias begins to suppurate sensationally. Elias, a night-world Natty Bumppo, believes only in his skills and his men; he is both in Viet Nam and above it. Barnes can act as impromptu medic to save a soldier's life or, with equal vigor, kill a village woman in front of her husband. In him the grunts find everything worth admiring and hating about war. And even a man determined to kill the sergeant must wait for his approval before blasting him to perdition...
...explosion. Worried shouts and the barking of orders surrounded one of the American wounded as he lay on his back in the same hall, bleeding heavily. Another wounded American sat stunned with blood flowing from his mouth and gashes on his head and neck. Outside, a Navy medic lay dead from shrapnel wounds. And on the roof of an adjacent building, a Marine was dead after getting shot in the face in gunfire that came with the mortar. About half an hour later, the dead and the wounded were brought to Brown, who says at times he struggles with...
...Army medic who served in Iraq from 2003 to 2004 and is now stationed in El Paso, Texas...
...wanted, so will stick it to the end." Sgt. Jimmy Downing recalls the fighting at Villers-Bretonneux in 1918: "We charged?charged like hell hounds ... We were Berserk, every one of us." After the battle of Fromelles, where Australia lost 2,000 men in a night, medic Alfred Langan records the courage of the wounded: "God it made you humble and brought tears to your eyes...
PLEADED GUILTY. Melson Bacos, 21, U.S. Navy medic; to kidnapping and conspiracy in the murder of Iraqi civilian Hashim Ibrahim Awad; at Camp Pendleton, Calif. As part of a plea deal--murder and other charges against him were dropped--Bacos testified that he tried to intervene, then watched as two Marines fired 10 rounds into Awad's head after abducting him from his home in the Iraqi town of Hamdania. One of seven Marines charged in the crime, Bacos was first to go to a court-martial...