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  Joseph Pelot December 13, 2013 at 8:18pm

  May take some doing. I know I have a pic of the front of the hospital hidden away, when it was an NRMC. I too worked at the recruit side but the second time I went back (1977-79).  I worked in Outpat records when it was above the ER at the hospital, worked with two civilian ladies there, making phone appointments, then later went to Recruit Medical Records and stood duty in the dispensary at nites and weekends taking care of  sick recruits. Some Fridays, I drove the ambs to the parade grounds for recruit graduation ceremonies.  There were always recruits dropping out.
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  Randall L. Bruns December 13, 2013 at 8:05pm

  Mr. Pelot, you have brought back many memories.  I got to NRMC Orlando in July of '75 and I remember those gray ghost ambulances.  I spent the first six months at the Recruit Dispensary up on the wards and there were two of them there, then over to the main hospital to ICU/CCU and Out-Patient Services.  How well I remember those ramps !!  My last seven months I worked the ER and remember having to run to either end of the wards, 3 & 12, when there was a Code Blue. 
  I would love to see an overhead picture of the hospital grounds, along with any other pictures of the old hospital.
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  Joseph Pelot December 13, 2013 at 6:47pm

  I graduated Hospital Corps ‘A’ School, San Diego, in December 1971 and was assigned to Nursing Services (Ward Corpsman) - (Ward 12-Orthopedics and ENT) at what was then Naval Regional Medical Center (NRMC), Orlando. Somewhere I have an old pic of that hospital that was previously a really spread-out wooden-framed Air Force hospital with ramps and walkways all over the place. If you wanted to get from one ward to another (or anywhere for that matter), you had to go outside and walk up and down those covered walkways.  Anybody remember that? The first time I was stationed there, I was there from December 1971 to June? 1974. I worked Orthopedics for several years and eventually went to Hospital Transportation in the back of the hospital, across from the barracks buildings on the circular roadway, as an ambulance driver. That was when a dependent could call for an ambulance from off-base anywhere in the Orlando area and we would have to go.  We covered the Orlando/Altamonte Springs area (and at that time, we drove old hearse-type gray Pontiac Bonneville ambulances (think of Ghostbuster’s car) and even remember a trip or two transporting patients from Jax and Daytona Beach. Those were the days!
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  David King December 8, 2013 at 4:38pm

  74-76.  SOQ first, then Purchasing Officer at the chowhall.  Ward head was LCDR Zatzariny.  Best nurse I could have.    Loved running the ramps in the rain!
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  Randall L. Bruns September 6, 2013 at 12:30am

  I was there 7/75-1/79.  Started my Navy career there at RTC Jan, '75.  After HM-A school in GLAKES.  It was Naval Regional Medical Center while I was there.  When I first got back to Orlando I started at RTC Dispensary on the wards, then ICU/CCU, then Out-Patient Admin/Clinics, and finally ER.
  Can't forget CDR Marcotte running on those ramps.  Lots of good memories while there.
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  Donald Everett Crews September 5, 2013 at 9:45pm

  Stationed at NH Orlando in the 70's (can't recall exact years).  Worked as an ENT Tech until I made HM1 then transferred to RTC and worked in Active Duty Sick Call taking care of recruits.  Enjoyed my tour in Orlando.  My wife and I were married in Orange Park, Florida so Florida became sort of a second home for us.  We had two daughters born at NH Orlando.  One in 75 and the other in 76.  Hated to see the Hospital and NTC shut down.  Good memories there.
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  ted blair July 30, 2013 at 12:00am

  Stationed at NH Orlando, Nov 1969 to Aug 1972.  assigned first year to RTC, Recruit Evaluation Unit, then to Naval Hosp in 1971, becoming Senior Corpsman in 1972.  Attended Rollins College, lived off base at the del Coronado apts. Enjoyed the duty in Orlando, great friends, great times, sad the place has been torn down.

  Ted Blair HM2
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  Phillip Oyler September 12, 2012 at 8:01am

  Trying to make contact with HMC Vicki Greenwood.  Chief...I need help from you in getting a statement identifying my work on the floors as a Corpsman, so I can present my military record to the State of California and challenge the LPN/LVN exam.  Thanks, Phillip HM2/FMF Oyler.  918.694.1709, phillip.oyler@gmail.com
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  Vicki Greenwood March 10, 2012 at 4:01pm

  My husband HMCS Tom Greenwood and I were stationed at NH Orlando 1986-1990.  I worked Manpower and he worked in Patient Admin.