I got my draft notice in 1971. I felt that I did not want to go to war, so I enlisted in the air national guard and did nine years enlisted. I give a great credo to others who served in Nam as I had a close friend who did not survive his deployment during his time in that war. Much care to Robert Squires for his heroic service for helping to his care to the injured of the so many service comrades.
I wes a patient at 91st in 1970 Many thanks to all medical personnel May have seen lou or this senior medic i was so goofed up i don't remember the staff
thank you for your work! sometimes you could just let them talk more on their own and direct them back to the road when the chance arises when you interrupt it cuts off a train of thought that brings out something natural, their own way of telling and thinking etc.
MS5 Squires does a great job of sharing his experience in Vietnam, and the people he served with. The medical corps is filled with truly great heroes no matter the branch of service.
Absolutely Chet. Like Doc Bartlett and Don Jalufka, he wanted to tell me his story before he leaves this earth. There has always been an urgency about my work.
Please accept my thanks for all your heart-warming comments. Wasn’t sure I could do this after so many years of silence, but was inspired by Larry’s remarkable interview with Lou Eisenbrandt, a courageous nurse who served at the 91st Evac before me.
That must've been such a difficult role. Seeing all of those young men broken and cut up. Its hard for me to explain how much respect I have for the medics, Corpsmen and medical staff. Thank you Bob for your service and your sacrifices and your continuing burden that you shoulder well enough to be able to be here to tell us all your story. They will all be remembered.
Thank you Robert for sharing your experience welcome home soldier! My uncle was a medic ( Navy Corpsman) KIA February 15-1968 in Hue during Tet ! Thank you again Larry for another amazing story I am always looking forward to hearing about medics experiencing Vietnam 🇻🇳 MAY GODS RICHEST BLESSING BE YOURS ❤️🕊❤️⛪️❤️🐑❤️🙏❤️🇺🇸❤️🇮🇱🎯. P.s. great photo Happy Anniversary
Hi, thank you SP5 Robert Squire for your story, experiences, and time serving our country in a place where you were needed. A place im sure you didnt want to go but a place you were needed. We all have stories and thnk you for yours. Its incredible how you&the staff cared for all the injured no matter the cost unlike now.. Plse know you live for those who didnt make it back, all veterans do. Your here to make a difference wether large or small, make a difference...grandpa God bless you Bob
I was an Air Force medic in the late '70's and early 80's so I have a special place in my heart for medics and veterans alike. I was fortunate to have served during peacetime and did not experience the harsh realities of war that Specialist Squires did. Men like him are the real veterans in my book and deserve the highest honor. God bless you Specialist Squires and all the men and women that currently serve or have served out great nation. We owe a debt to you all that can never be repaid!
Welcome home man I’m in. No I’m in a little river. I just right down the road from you. Yeah but down here 16 years it’s good to be hearing your story. Yeah I was in play cool central Highland as you know right up from you and 68 yeah cool.
Welcone home, brofher. I left Chu Lai 8 days after that tyhoon (Hester). There was not much left at Chu Lai thereafter. Yours is a great story. You may not have been a field medic, but you saw the worst of war every day you were there, a terrible burden that I can tell still viaits you most every day. God's peace to you and your family.
@@robertsquires3488 Small world indeed. About 6 years after I got home I met a USMC chopper pilot whose hooch was less than 50 feet from where I was at Ky Ha, northwest of 91st Evac. Near where Graves Registration was located, near Rosemary Point and the Sand Ramp where the LST's brought in most of the supplies. He became a friend and I still see him from time to time.
I love to see this, it's got to be the best part of RU-vid. Bringing veterans together. I wasn't even a twinkle in my mum's eye when you men were in southeast Asia but I take in as much as I can when it comes to first hand accounts. I thank you all for what you did and always do everything I can to spread the word and remember the fallen. Thank you both.
I went to that hospital 4 times . I went there to get some arch support for my jungle boots, once to visit a guy from my unit that had malaria, once to visit one of my guys that had bitten by a bamboo viper on his thigh and once to have my hearing checked. In the malaria ward the guy I was visiting was watching the nurse make her rounds very closely. When he thought the time was right he took the thermometer out of his mouth and put it in a glass of ice water. After a few minutes he moved it from the water back to his mouth and a few minutes later the nurse checked his temp and moved on. If your temp was too high they put you in an ice shower till it came down. The guy that had the snake bite looked awful. They had frozen the bite site and a large part of his thigh had turned black. It was quite ugly. While I was in country the Viet Cong were shooting 122mm rockets out of Antennae Valley towards the hospital. A nurse in the hospital was killed by one of them.
The first serious patient I tended to died in a coma on our ward from a viper snakebite to his face that swelled almost twice its size. We had lots of scratches on combat soldiers that turned ugly from the many infections in the jungle. Lt. Sharon Lane was killed on our from a rocket fragment two years before I came in country. We finally got a couple cooling blankets that helped lower sever temps from problems like malaria.
George Van De Wyngaerde M.D. of Phoenix AZ. He was Chief of Staff Good Samaritan PHX in 1990's. But his story is during TET offensive. He was Navy in North & ran field hospital where most all Marines that came in alive, left alive. He's getting old & time is close to his story to be lost. Please, could you help tell his story?
Please contact me Van. I'll be in Phoenix in two weeks doing interviews at that time. I could fit him in. You need to reach out to him first and see if he's open to an interview and then he or you need to contact me as soon as possible. Thank you. EMAIL: lcappetto@icloud.com
It’s Joe again from Little River South Carolina anyway, you don’t look any you don’t even look at all you look like 40 cool man that’s what they tell me. Call me nice talking to you.
Thanks I eat very helathy and have always worked out at least an hour six days a weak. Good genetics on the outside at least lol But a genetic condition led me to an unexpexted quintuple bypass over a year ago.
Yes. And as he explained and you would have known if you were at the 91st Evan, he saw, smelled, heard and treated the worst horrors of that war every day, for more than 400 days.
