Combat Corpsman: A Navy SEAL Medic in Vietnam

Special Illustrated Revised Edition

TRAINED TO HEAL ... AND TO KILL

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 of 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 from the make-or-break training of BUD/S considered vital to service as a Navy SEAL, McPartlin had to show he had what it took.

But McPartlin had been in country before. In a war where you partied with your buddies in Saigon one day and crawled through an enemy-infested jungle hell the next, he proved that he was not only an outstanding medic but a real Navy SEAL the toughest of the tough.

Combat Corpsman is McPartlin’s often humorous—and sometimes heartbreaking—account of his year of combat in what had been a Viet Cong stronghold until the SEALs took control and Charlie placed bounties on the men with green faces. It is the first inside story of a Navy SEAL medic, a man who wanted to heal, not to kill, but did both to save lives.

This edition is heavily illustrated with 80 historical and personal photographs from Greg McPartlin’s tour of duty in Vietnam.

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

First printing, April 2017 by Lone Star Publishing

Imprint: Lone Star Publishing/Event Horizon Publishing Group

Distributed by Event Horizon Publishing Group
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eISBN: 123-0-00162-265-2

Electronic version by Baen Books and Event Horizon Publishing Group