Combat Corpsman: The Vietnam Memoir of a Navy Seals Medic Paperback - 2005
by Greg McPartlin
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
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 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 by the Geneva Convention from the make-or-break training considered vital to service as a Navy SEAL, McPartlin had to show he had what it took.
In a war where soldiers partied with their buddies in Saigon one day and crawled through an enemy-infested jungle hell the next, McPartlin proved that he was not only an outstanding medic but a real Navy SEAL-the toughest of the tough.
Combat Corpsman is McPartlin's account of his year in what had been a Viet Cong stronghold until the SEALs took control. 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.
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Details
- Title Combat Corpsman: The Vietnam Memoir of a Navy Seals Medic
- Author Greg McPartlin
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition: F
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Berkley Books, New York, New York
- Date 2005
- Features Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 10134
- ISBN 9780425205822 / 0425205827
- Weight 0.78 lbs (0.35 kg)
- Dimensions 8.98 x 6.1 x 0.91 in (22.81 x 15.49 x 2.31 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Southeast Asian
- Library of Congress subjects Vietnam War, 1961-1975, United States - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005052511
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Summary
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 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 by the Geneva Convention from the make-or-break training considered vital to service as a Navy SEAL, McPartlin had to show he had what it took.
In a war where soldiers partied with their buddies in Saigon one day and crawled through an enemy-infested jungle hell the next, McPartlin proved that he was not only an outstanding medic but a real Navy SEAL-the toughest of the tough.
Combat Corpsman is McPartlin's account of his year in what had been a Viet Cong stronghold until the SEALs took control. 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.
