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COMBAT CORPSMAN: THE VIETNAM MEMOIR OF A NAVY
SEALS MEDIC
Greg McPartlin
The first inside story of a Navy SEAL medic, a man who wanted to
heal--not to kill--but did both to save lives. 6x9 inches, 336
pgs.
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 20-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 & 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.
WHAT THE EXPERTS ARE SAYING:
"I wish I could make up anything as riotously wonderful yet
starkly realistic as this book." --H. Jay Riker
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
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, CA.
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