Combat Corpsman: The Vietnam Memoir of a Navy Seals Medic
by Greg McPartlin
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- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0425205827
- ISBN 13
- 9780425205822
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Synopsis
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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- Don Wood Bookseller (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10134
- Title
- Combat Corpsman: The Vietnam Memoir of a Navy Seals Medic
- Author
- Greg McPartlin
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0425205827
- ISBN 13
- 9780425205822
- Publisher
- Berkley Books, New York
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2005
- Bookseller catalogs
- History Military;
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