Combat Corpsman
The Vietnam Memoir of a Navy SEALs Medic
$43.33
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
1 November 2005
Summary
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 twenty-year-old McPartlin was redeployed to Vietnam as an elite Navy SEAL. Barred as a medic by the Geneva Convention from the make-or-bre…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780425205822 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0425205827 |
| Author: | Greg McPartlin |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | G P Putnam's Sons |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2005 |
| Weight: | 356g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 20mm |
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About The Author
Greg McPartlin
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, California.
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