"Rick, I went to corp school in great lakes April 1958 .At the hospital in Newport and then over to the Marine barrack after that .Naval station in Newport at that time was a very busy place . Jim"
"After Navy worked a few jobs, but put my Navy training as corpsman to work and went into Firefighting/emt .Put in 25 years loved every bit of it.Best thing i ever did was jion the Navy and be come a corpsman"
Yes - That was me. The surfer was Bill Orner. When we reported in, the old nurse that was over staffing told us she hated corpsmen from San Diego and made us demonstrated a spiral reverse bandage. I did OK and was assigned to dirty surgery. Orner struggled and she sent him to food service if I remember correctly.
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Yes - That was me. The surfer was Bill Orner. When we reported in, the old nurse that was over staffing told us she hated corpsmen from San Diego and made us demonstrated a spiral reverse bandage. I did OK and was assigned to dirty surgery. Orner struggled and she sent him to food service if I remember correctly.
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