he Hospital's combined medical and dental staff of over 400 supported the Naval Training Center and other military installations in the Central Florida region, as well as dependents and retirees.
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After d/c from navy in 77, I went to school and have been RN since 1981. Still taking care of America's Heroes at VA. Getting ready for retirement.
My daughter is following in my footsteps. She is Corpsman @ Bethesda taking care of wounded warriors. She's getting ready to report to Charleston next month.
Not me. Got tiredof it.
The dental clinic was down towards the end of the ramps down by 17, Master at Arms office, Chapel, and sign office (made name tags, etc.). 16 and 15 I believe were Dental.
Which wards or departments?
The Recruit Dispensary was built in the early 70s. It was there in Jan, 75 when I went to boot camp there and I worked there in Jul, 75 when I reported back after HM-A school. It was already well used by then. It was the second thing we saw when we reported to boot camp that night, after seeing the "Doorknob to Hell" across the street from the Dispensary. It was at the very end of the boulevard.
Sorry, I don't.
The first time there, after the ward, I had the occasion to sleep in the building the ER was in, when driving an ambulance. Don't remember many folks. Most times it was out back in the Transportation shack. The second time there (76-79) I worked in the AMCC, EKG, med records (all in the building the ER was in). also did a stint at the Recruit Dispensary. How about HM3 Larry Brown, HM3 Frank Farris? They were with me at the recruit side. Larry Brown was an HMCS in 1995 when I retired, worked at Division Surgeon's Office, 2nd MARDIV at Camp Lejeune. He was at my retirement ceremony.
Joseph, did you know Frank Reusche? ER?
I wrote several paragraphs yesterday and when posting, my iPad autocorrected several words to something that made no sense, and not being able to correct it, I deleted the post. I have since removed the autocorrect feature so now yall will get all my misspellings.
To go back to your post Ted, I don’t know when the Recruit Dispensary was built; I wasn’t familiar with that side much during my first tour. I like you, was stationed at the wooden building my first tour. I showed up in Orlando in December 1971 right out of NHCS San Diego and was assigned to Orthopedics, ward 12. On arriving, was billeted on mainside in a barracks building near the signal school by the lake. After about 6 months or so, I got a room in the bks. buildings in the back of NRMC. In 1972 I got married and moved off-base to La Aloma Apts. on the corner of Aloma Avenue and 436. It was almost walking distance from the back door of ward 12 (about 40 minutes as the crow flies). You could walk across that field in the back and through the neighborhoods. That was OK in the afternoons but early morn and late night was a pain.
I did know the name CDR Maun but my ward nurse was LCDR Lockwood, a beauty, and a Vietnam Vet. After leaving the ward, I never heard from her again. I now work at Bethesda as a civ for BUMED (Health Professions Scholarship Program) and work with several retired NC officers and they haven’t been able to point me in a right direction to find out the status of Nurses we once knew.
I do remember a few names you listed below, but I didn’t know a whole lot of the HMs at ORL, and I believe that to be somewhat of the norm with ward Corpsmen who worked shifts (AMs, PMs & nights) with no order (two days on AMs, three days on PMs, then nights, back on AMs – no rhyme-or-reason how they figured your schedule out, and it changed at the nurses whims). Most of us ended up only knowing the folks we worked with day-in-day-out and the ward nurses and a few docs. When I worked nights, I would get off and head to the galley (and you’re right, low prices and great food) and then head to my rack to sleep the day away. Later when I got off the ward, I worked in Hospital Transportation driving ambulances and picking up and delivering stuff for the hospital. My boss was HM1 Stankewicz. I stood duty in the ER, Transportation shack out back and occasionally got nights at the front desk. I left there in summer 74, went to FMSS at Pendleton and on to Kaneohe MCAS, HI. My wife and I split and I left early, transferred to Camp Lejeune no cost, and later ended up getting ORL again as a reenlistment incentive package fall, 1976, and that’s another story.
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