The Battalion Aid Station is where sick bay was. These are the guys that provided the giant orange pills so you didn't get malaria. I never knew of any malaria cases so they must have been good pills.
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I'll buy a sixpack for whoever can tell me the full name and email of the large black corpsman attached I believe to B-1-1 on Hill 41 (due west 2 clicks from Hill 22 and 12 clicks SW of Danang Airbase) in Sep-Dec 1965, shown at left in this pix (a routine patrol west of H41; here checking IDs with village chief - -Big George is on left -photo Bill Stevenson contact dking@1stbn1stmarines.org |
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Upon arrival in Vietnam in August of 1965 the Bn set up near Da Nang. This is the Battalion Aid Station. -photo from Richard Medved |
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Doc Efta sometime between August 65 and Sep 66. -photo from Richard Medved |
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Doc Feltner KIA 30Oct65 on Hill 22. Taken sometime between August 65 and Sep 66. -photo from Richard Medved |
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Doc Freeman sometime between August 65 and Sep 66. -photo from Richard Medved |
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Doc Medved sometime between August 65 and Sep 66. -photo from Richard Medved |
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Doc Winston sometime between August 65 and Sep 66. -photo from Richard Medved |
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Doc Murphy, '67 - photo from Tom Murphy |
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Dick "Doc Pop" Conklin, '67 - photo from Tom Murphy |
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Doctor Koch, late '67. - photo from Tom Murphy |
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Doctor Koch, '67. - photo from Tom Murphy |
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Doc Jack or Jim Hohnson, late '67. - photo from Tom Murphy |
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Doc Shawn Bittles, '67. - photo from Tom Murphy |
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BAS, late '67. - photo from Tom Murphy |
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Doc Dancheck, New Jersey, '67. - photo from Tom Murphy |
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Doc Mike Claus, Flat Rock, Illinois, '67. - photo from Tom Murphy |
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Doc John La Barre, '67. - photo from Tom Murphy |
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Doc Murphy and Doc La Barre, '67. - photo from Tom Murphy |
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This pic of the BAS was taken on or about the day that 1/1 took over the TAOR of 2/27. Sept. '68. Rainy season was well underway. -photo from Dave DeVries |
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Doc Howard the battalion surgeon and S-2 at A-3 in August of 68 drinking some scotch with Capt Trautwein. In the background is Lcpl Frey and Brown, company radio operators. -photo from Joe Fulginiti A 1/11 FO |
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One of the corpsmen (I don't remember his name ) and Cpl Gilbert (Andy) Anderson. He was the driver that made all the R&R runs. This is taken in front of the BAS bunker in '69. -photo from Lee Hodge |
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We used to go out fairly frequently to a 'ville named An Trach
which was west of the Reg. area. We gave shots to about 250 kids
one day. Handed out lots of aspirin, band aids and such.
There were some really sick people on occasions. Had a young girl
one day that had been carried for some incredible distance on a
makeshift litter. She had a severe infection in here lower leg.
when I opened it to drain, a piece of bone popped out about 6"
long. Her tibia had been fractured. She never whimpered or
cried. Filled her full of Pen-G and told her family to bring her
to the BAS every day. Never saw her again. We had a Dentist
from 1st Med in Danang that would accompany us some times. He
would pull teeth without Novocain, barely a sound would come from the
patient. The pic attached of sick call was at the BAS at the Batt.
area (Phong Luc 2). The Corpsman with the hat on is Joe
Maribito, the older guy in back was Jack Snyder. He had to
be the oldest E-3(HN) in the navy. He finally made E-6 and retired
then continued to drink himself to death. The guy in the
foreground is me Dave DeVries. The second picture was
taken at the "Alamo" early Dec.'68, on HWY. 1 . Louie, the big
kid would mooch cigarettes and c-rats. Note the cigarette in his
little brothers mouth and c-rat in his hand. Looks like it may
have been pound cake. -photo
from Dave DeVries
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Rick Teno, Delta 1/1 Doc - photo from Rick Teno |
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Dave DeVries, Delta 1/1 Doc - photo from Rick Teno |
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Jerry Watkins, Delta Squid Six, who succeeded Don Hill. from about Dec.
'68 trying to set up a 'shot' clinic. Don't give corpsman dangerous
weapons. HM1 Cecil Yandell to his right. Don't know who is in the
background. - photo from Rick Teno
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Jerry Watkins, Delta Squid Six, f******* new guy. - photo from Rick Teno |
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Wild Bill (Shitcan) Sheehan. Doc w/ C 1/1. Real good medicine man.
- photo from Rick Teno
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Tim Hupp also a corpsman with C 1/1 joined at the hip with Bill. I
think Bill and Tim were probably the last people to see Gunny Rush. I
believe they went out to the USS Repose to see him just before
they shipped him to Japan. - photo from Rick Teno
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1stLt White and Corpsman Chuck Hancock at Bravo Co stand down party, '71. -photo from Chuck Hancock |
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BAS stand down party at China Beach -photo from Chuck Hancock |
