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  Robert John Friedhaber February 8, 2012 at 11:41am

  I finually found my Bootcamp group photo
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  kenneth mcdowell February 2, 2012 at 3:31pm

  THANKS FRED.  I GET BACK TO ILL. ON OCCAISON I WILL TRY TO GET THERE TO SEE IT.  KEN
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  kenneth mcdowell February 2, 2012 at 2:51pm

  IT MIGHT BE SPELLED BARY.  KEN  MCDOWELL
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  kenneth mcdowell February 2, 2012 at 2:50pm

  I went through boot in Co.151, 1959. I was in camp Berry, is there still a camp Berry?  Ken Mcdowell HMC USN RET 
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  Ray J Elliott February 1, 2012 at 7:48pm

  I was at Great Lakes Aug. 74 under Chief Johnson (barbme1@yahoo.com)
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  Donald Paul Kent January 8, 2012 at 6:44pm

  Went to Boot Camp at RTC, Great Lakes. June 1976 had a blast.
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  Ron Ruiter January 8, 2012 at 7:02am

  Once I went through Field Med School at Montford Point at Camp Lejeune, I never wore my Navy uniform again, only a Marine uniform from then till I got out 3 years later.
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  Ronald Earl Bereman II January 7, 2012 at 1:39pm

  The 1st Class Corpsmen on the Destroyer I was on  (DD 872) was transfered to Vietnam and was KIA the first or second week he was there.  Robert, you must have been in the group just before us at Great Lakes, we were in blues.  Doug, OUTSTANDING (Silver Star)!!
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  Doug Wean January 7, 2012 at 11:43am

  Robert,

  There were 638 Hospital Corpsmen "Killed in Action" during the Vietnam war! They were FMF Corpsmen, NEC-HM-8404's.
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  Robert John Friedhaber January 7, 2012 at 11:31am

  I had no idea that navy Corpsmen went to Vietnam . Thank you Doug.
  I just remembered, my father in law in WWII was a Navy Corpsman and wore the Marine uniform .