Combat Corpsman

The Vietnam Memoir of a Navy SEALs Medic

Greg McPartlin

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G P Putnam's Sons
01 November 2005

Military history; History of medicine

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.

By: Greg McPartlin
Imprint: G P Putnam's Sons
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 356g
ISBN: 9780425205822
ISBN 10: 0425205827
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 01 November 2005
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Greg McPartlin is a former Navy SEALs medic who served a year in Vietnam just as the war was escalating. He is the owner of McP's, a SEAL hangout bar in Coronado, California.

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Combat Corpsman

The Vietnam Memoir of a Navy SEALs Medic

Greg McPartlin

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