Combat Corpsman: A Navy SEAL Medic in Vietnam

Combat Corpsman: A Navy SEAL Medic in Vietnam by Greg McPartlin. perfect edition. ISBN: 9780979435430.

TRAINED TO HEAL . . . AND TO KILL All his life Greg McPartlin wanted to be a Marine corpsman, a medic skilled at saving lives. Three months of bagging-and-tagging bodies during Vietnam s Tet Offensive took the luster off of being a Marine but not off McPartlin s desire to serve his country. After assisting in the sea recovery of Apollo 11 the first ship to bring men to the moon the twenty-year-old McPartlin was redeployed to Vietnam as an elite Navy SEAL. Barred as a medic from the make-or-break training of BUD/S considered vital to service as a Navy SEAL, McPartlin had to show he had what it took. But McPartlin had been in country before. In a war where you partied with your buddies in Saigon one day and crawled through an enemy-infested jungle hell the next, he proved that he was not only an outstanding medic but a real Navy SEAL the toughest of the tough. Combat Corpsman is McPartlin s often humorous account of his year in what had been a Viet Cong stronghold until the SEALs took control and Charlie placed bounties on the men with green faces. It s the first inside story of a Navy SEAL medic, a man who wanted to heal not to kill but did both to save lives.