To my felloew Americans

[usaf-vet]

87. To finish my story as it relates to the above.

To complete the story, after field medicine training, I went to Operating Room Scrub Tech training.

During the Vietnam War, soldiers were treated in a field hospital, like the MASH hospital from TV, to stabilize them for transportation back home. To my knowledge, the route was always the same: first to Germany, Ramstein Air Base, for further care, then to the U.S.

Once they were in the U.S., the military tried to hospitalize them as close to home as possible so they could be near family.

In my case, that was the military hospital in South Carolina where I was stationed. We often admitted them 3-4 days out of the jungle. We would care for them until they were well enough to be discharged.