This book includes both Hospital Corpsman NAVEDTRA 14295 and the Advancement Handbook for Hospital Corpsman. The United States Navy training programs have long been the standard used as the pinnacle of training achievement. The Hospital Corpsman training program has been continuously tested and updated to successfully educate every member of the Navy Hospital Corps since its inception. The needs of the instructor, the student, the patient, and the Navy are perfectly balanced. This is the model all educators should follow when developing training programs.

The captivating individual stories of 17 U.S. Navy corpsmen who served in Vietnam, told in their own words. Their accounts relate why they joined the Navy in wartime, why they became corpsmen--the enlisted medical specialists of the Navy and Marine Corps--along with many day-to-day, sometimes minute-to-minute recollections of caring for both the wounded and the dead under fire. They also reflect on the long-term effects the war had on them and their families.

"A US Navy Hospital Corpsman with a US Marine Corps Reconnaissance Patrol Team in the 1950's on covert Korean missions." I could add that "The five missions made by 'Doc Gentry' (assumed name for covert missions) with the Recon Patrols were all successful but, sadly, they suffered casualties on each mission."