Navy Corpsmen In Vietnam Quotes

“can’t drink that stuff. It changes me and I have had problems in the past. I like it way too much, but know it can only hurt me bad, real bad!”
― John Peck, Navy Corpsmen In Vietnam: The Story of Doc John Peck

“Dai Loc to Camp Evans area,”
― John Peck, Navy Corpsmen In Vietnam: The Story of Doc John Peck

“Falciparum and Vivax patients were on separate wards.”
― John Peck, Navy Corpsmen In Vietnam: The Story of Doc John Peck

“Most often, we were not alone in the showers, there could be up to ten men in there at once, ten showerheads so it could and did often”
― John Peck, Navy Corpsmen In Vietnam: The Story of Doc John Peck

“Falciparum Malaria and that my unconsciousness was not a good sign as Falciparum Malaria often effects the brain.”
― John Peck, Navy Corpsmen In Vietnam: The Story of Doc John Peck

“Gunny, I just did my job, but thanks for noticing.”
― John Peck, Navy Corpsmen In Vietnam: The Story of Doc John Peck

“He had just hit the wall before the rest of us did, and that is all there was to that.”
― John Peck, Navy Corpsmen In Vietnam: The Story of Doc John Peck

“Dan was a good marine and a very fine young man. He was a devoted son and a good Christian young man from the teaching of his mother and grandmother, by all accounts.”
― John Peck, Navy Corpsmen In Vietnam: The Story of Doc John Peck

“You know that God does not look at death like we do. He sees it as the beginning and not the end, something much better to come for us.”
― John Peck, Navy Corpsmen In Vietnam: The Story of Doc John Peck

“had not liked him very much back in the world. I had misjudged him. It took coming all this way out here for me to find out what a good man and great friend he was.”
― John Peck, Navy Corpsmen In Vietnam: The Story of Doc John Peck

“From that time on until I left the company, our relationship was good. He acknowledged me and all the Corpsmen as “his” Corpsmen and no longer “the” Corpsmen.”
― John Peck, Navy Corpsmen In Vietnam: The Story of Doc John Peck

“changed bandages and reinforced ankle and knee supports”
― John Peck, Navy Corpsmen In Vietnam: The Story of Doc John Peck

“splinting it using a tongue”
― John Peck, Navy Corpsmen In Vietnam: The Story of Doc John Peck

“Marines could whine like babies in garrison or in the rear but all that whining seemed to disappear when the shit hit the fan and the situation was real.”
― John Peck, Navy Corpsmen In Vietnam: The Story of Doc John Peck

“stitched up the laceration and left a piece gauze in at the end of the wound for a drain.”
― John Peck, Navy Corpsmen In Vietnam: The Story of Doc John Peck

“If he dies on me this conversation and my recommendation will be part of my report to the Battalion Doctor and I am sure on up to the Battalion Commander.”
― John Peck, Navy Corpsmen In Vietnam: The Story of Doc John Peck

“we not in it for the glory; we are only in it for the money.”
― John Peck, Navy Corpsmen In Vietnam: The Story of Doc John Peck

“made sure that the living were tagged with the time and amount of morphine and IVs we had given.”
― John Peck, Navy Corpsmen In Vietnam: The Story of Doc John Peck

“The kids were impossible to stick without doing a cut down to expose the vein.”
― John Peck, Navy Corpsmen In Vietnam: The Story of Doc John Peck

“It could be tricky, you needed to use enough diesel fuel to burn up the waste but not too much to blow the waste out of the drum or even cause a pretty good explosion.”
― John Peck, Navy Corpsmen In Vietnam: The Story of Doc John Peck

“do not worry about tomorrow until you get to tomorrow,”
― John Peck, Navy Corpsmen In Vietnam: The Story of Doc John Peck

“They are straight out of Corpsman School and 6 weeks of Field Med School, and then boom, here they are.”
― John Peck, Navy Corpsmen In Vietnam: The Story of Doc John Peck

“The road and the top of the hill had been sprayed with oil to keep the dust down.”
― John Peck, Navy Corpsmen In Vietnam: The Story of Doc John Peck

“What a job. Waiting to kill or be killed on almost a daily basis. No way you didn’t take that home with you for long-term problems. You just couldn't kill time and time again, especially when you could see their faces and their death rattle and not be affected and screwed up a little, the rest of your life.”
― John Peck, Navy Corpsmen In Vietnam: The Story of Doc John Peck