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  Lindsey E. Ford HMC (SW) March 31, 2013 at 10:54am

  I just created a new medical command for the Medical Clinic at Pearl Harbor.
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  Lindsey E. Ford HMC (SW) March 24, 2013 at 11:30am

  Anyone know what happened to HMCS Garrelts or LCDR Carroll that were at HM "A" school in San Diego in 72/73?
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  Gregory Charles Hunt March 18, 2013 at 10:40pm

  Yes, as a corpsman i carried a lot of bodies, in civilailan EMS I have move even more. It is part of the job. I never leaves the mind. Yes, I member the glass iv bottles, and can still regulate drip rates by counting the drops, I still use maskng tape too, in the field. There were also glass jars of water for chest tubes. I remember the "grey goast" ground transport ambulance used to cross the 300 miles of desert to San Diego. I broke down often in the middle of the Salton Sink refusing to start. There were of course no radios, no telephone  and certainly cell phones were only seen on Star Trek. Critical enlisted wounded Marines lay in my care with no help coming but God.
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  Gregory Charles Hunt March 18, 2013 at 10:30pm

  I am still a medic on Oklahoma Civilian Ambulace for the last 32 years in the field. I am still a Corpsman, Navy and Marine. 36 years serving..
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  Gregory Charles Hunt March 18, 2013 at 10:26pm

  United States Navy RTC/NTC, NRMC Balboa San Diego C School Hospital Corps, Marine Corps Air to Ground Combat Training Center Twenty NIne Palms three years on the run with US Marines.. Field,and B.A.S. Branch Hospital. Honorable Discharge. I remember the troop carriers towed by tanks, the dust, heat, and bombs!  Radio active skies and large scorpions.

   
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  Ron Bryan February 21, 2013 at 6:55pm

  BZ to all who where and are Corpsmen.
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  Martin Kinsey February 16, 2013 at 8:58pm

  Hi Joshua: You were lucky to go to school at Great Lakes. Mt recruiter said I would go there to after boot camp. He was not a very good liar as I ended up  at corp school san diego california on 23 november 1970. Five months later I was at Naval Hospital Beaufort South Carolina where I toiled for 25 months in a land where the people  do not know the civil war was over and they lost. Martin E. Kinsey USN/RETIRED!
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  Jim Decota February 15, 2013 at 6:32pm

  David, I know what you mean about "haunting"! I was born and raised in Boston. So, I never took any pics of the place. It is good though that they saved a few of the buildings there. The enlisted barracks is now condos.They even have a web page for it!  http://100captainsrow.com/
  
  The old hospital down by the river is still there and condos as well as some of the officer's quarters and the old maint. bldg
  
  LT, I see that the Portsmouth buildings are still standing. I wonder what the future for them is! Although, it looks as though the old hospital in Newport is slated for the wrecking ball!
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  David Fauquier February 15, 2013 at 6:02pm

  Jim, I do remember those tunnels going every which way. They did go to the woman's barracks. I guess I just missed the Waves being in the same barracks...there probably are a few tails to tell around that. When I became a Senior Corpsman on the Ward I worked on I got a room with one other guy...moved out of the open dorm. I have a lot of pictures that I have to dig out and scan to post here... God the memories of this place are haunting!!! 
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  Robert M.Pelletier February 15, 2013 at 10:48am

  I was a corpsman at the Portsmouth, NH Naval Hospital and frequently made ambulance runs to the Chelsea Naval Hospital.