Word: medics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sergeant Donald Hohman, 38, an Army medic, repeatedly fasted to protest the treatment of the hostages. Said he: "They would throw me into solitary every time I would fast. I guess I bugged them by not cooperating with anything they wanted me to do. Until we got onto the plane Tuesday, I hadn't really seen many of the other hostages...
...people were seasick, but there was no hysteria." By 9:30 a.m., helicopters began hoisting people from the lifeboats in baskets and ferrying them to the rescue vessels. Only a handful of passengers suffered any ill effects from the cold. Said Master Sergeant E.L. Nardi, an Air Force medic: "Eight hours later, we would have lost half of them...