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This bears out what I have said many times. A combat soldier's knowledge of
a war is limited to what he can see and hear. Civilians, reading the daily
newspapers at home, knew far more about the war than I did. At night, when I
couldn't see anything and didn't hear anything, I didn't know a damn
thing.
Bob Dove
1st Raider Co. 1950
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Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 7:55
AM
Subject: Re: Conscientious Objector
In a message dated
9/2/2002 10:18:39 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ChosinMead@aol.com
writes:
Regarding Medics being armed, As you may know, the Marines do
not have medic's, we are given Navy Corpsmen (who Marines regard as
Marines), I have never seen a corpsman armed-doesn't mean they couldn't have
carried weapons. I will tell you this, at the Chosin Reservoir, when the
hospital tent was about to be overrun, the Doctor and Chaplain were handed
Carbines and told to fire at anyone coming thru the tent flap. when Chinese
appeared in the flap, the Chaplain couldn't bring himself to fire, but the
doctor wiped out 3 Chinese soldiers. Lee
I never saw a Naval Corpsmen
"attached to a Marine rifle company" who didn't carry both a carbine and a 45
side arm. In the book "This is War" there is a full page picture of a Corpsman
attached to C-1-1. The picture of the corpsman shows that he is carrying both
a carbine and a 45. During fire-fights corpsmen were doing what they are
trained to do and that's tending to the wounded and not playing soldier.
All the corpsmen attached to my company "B-1-1" were similarly armed.
Don Gill
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