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re: Any Gulf War vets on here willing to share their story?
Posted on 10/18/16 at 2:52 am to PsychTiger
Posted on 10/18/16 at 2:52 am to PsychTiger
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I've heard traumatic stories for every US conflict WWII and since. You really don't want to know.
My brother was in-country Viet Nam for 3 weeks before being injured. The first two weeks were training.
What he described in his one week in the field can not be printed here.
I have seen some of the things he described in a graphic war movie. Can't remember which movie. Sorry.
Posted on 10/18/16 at 3:00 am to rmnldr
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all stories are welcome.
For Viet Nam info read:
365 Days
Book by Ronald J. Glasser
The injured were sent to Japan for treatment after being medivacced.
quote:
In this gripping account of the human cost of the Vietnam War, Ron Glasser offers an unparalleled description of the horror endured daily by those on the front lines. "The stories I have tried to tell here are true, " says Glasser in his foreword. "Those that happened in Japan I was part of; the rest are from the boys I met. I would have liked to disbelieve some of them, and at first I did, but I was there long enough to hear the same stories again and again, and then to see part of it myself." Assigned to Zama, an Army hospital in Japan in September 1968, Glasser arrived as a pediatrician in the U.S. Army Medical Corps to care for the children of officers and high-ranking government officials. The hospital's main mission, however, was to support the war and care for the wounded. At Zama, an average of six to eight thousand patients were attended to per month, and the death and suffering were staggering. The soldiers counted their days by the length of their tour--one year, or 365 days--and they knew, down to the day, how much time they had left. Glasser tells their stories--of lives shockingly interrupted by the tragedies of war--with moving, humane eloquence.
Posted on 10/18/16 at 6:40 am to rmnldr
My buddy was a medic in the first gulf war. He stayed in Kuwait. He said they literally had jerk off contest to see who could come the fastest.
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