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| vietnam123 |
| Posted on: January 30th, 2011, 9:55am |
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| I would like to communicate with anyone that was in Vietnam with Delta Co 3/21 aka "Black Death".I was with this outfit from April 1968 -April 1969. 196 Light Infantry Brigade Americal Divison I had some medical treatment on LZ Center. The VA states that there are not any medical records for anyone treated in a field hospital. My name is David A Estrada. |
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| Hotel28 |
| Posted on: January 31st, 2011, 9:28am |
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David;
I was in 4/31 - 5/67 to 5/68. My medical records show about half the wounds received. One was recorded and signed off by a medic and it was probing a shrapnel wound in the field. Other records (shoulder wound) are missing entirely.
My medevac to 22nd Surg is listed as a chest injury, it was spinal, hip, chest and pelvis.
There was no relationship to severity of injury and recording the treatment. the 196th LIB was not known for good record keeping. Your best bet would be a buddy letter.
Mike Hennigan AKA Gross (106 recoilless) |
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| vietnam123 |
| Posted on: January 31st, 2011, 9:44am |
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| Thanks for your response. I know the feeling. |
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| Fletchw2zero |
| Posted on: January 31st, 2011, 8:12pm |
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| I was in various med detachments over my tour. Nothing from the aid stations on the hills showed up in my records. Nor do my stays in the 723rd med at Baldy. Nothing about the stay at 723rd Med at Bronco or the stay at 91st Evac in Chu Lai. Only one that does show up is at 95th Evac in Da Nang and it is grossly incomplete and inconclusive. It only says tendonitis and treatment with penicillin over ten days. Maybe they were embarrassed because I am allergic to penicillin. Ten days, ten kills, eleven saves, it's a wonder I survived the hospital. |
Fletch
Co B 4/31 May through November 69
C Btry 1/82 Arty Nov 69 thru April-ish 70 radio handle whiskey two zero
Craig Fletcher |
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| vietnam123 |
| Posted on: January 31st, 2011, 8:44pm |
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| Yes I take it as a great injustice. All the lies and all the cover ups commited by our own people to so many gruts and others. |
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| Fletchw2zero |
| Posted on: February 1st, 2011, 12:03am |
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| One of my best buds was given the wrong blood in a transfusion and almost died in the 95th. Both of us had the info on our dog tags. |
Fletch
Co B 4/31 May through November 69
C Btry 1/82 Arty Nov 69 thru April-ish 70 radio handle whiskey two zero
Craig Fletcher |
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| vietnam123 |
| Posted on: February 1st, 2011, 4:29am |
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| I am beginning to see that there there were many more people that just got treated in field hospitals. And then of course no record of treatments. I wonder how many thousands of us got taken advantage of. It was propbably several hundred thousand. No sense of fair play no respect and no honor! |
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| Fletchw2zero |
| Posted on: February 1st, 2011, 5:29am |
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Threre is another very dark consideration to this as well. In years past, there were people who represented the VA v/s vets and were paid bonus money for clearing cases by any means. That resulted in a lot of records being stripped and destroyed without the veteran ever knowing what was in them. Add that to very spotty record keeping at the evac hospitals incountry because of sudden influxes of patients or just plain incompetent record keeping... and here we are.
The med companies apparently did no record keeping that was passed on and the 95th did a crappy job and left out a lot of important information. Or it was culled later.
The only thing we can depend on is each other, just like in the bush. |
Fletch
Co B 4/31 May through November 69
C Btry 1/82 Arty Nov 69 thru April-ish 70 radio handle whiskey two zero
Craig Fletcher |
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| vietnam123 |
| Posted on: February 1st, 2011, 5:42am |
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| Well I guess we can continue to tell all of this stories of saddnes. We could probably go on indefinitly. So many of us have passed on and never received justice or compassion. You are so right we can only depend on each other. Brothers in arms for all time. Grimm Reaper over and out. |
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| Fletchw2zero |
| Posted on: February 1st, 2011, 8:24pm |
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| On the other hand...... they saved the vast majority of us and did it under horrible conditions. Paperwork was a lower priority than patient care. |
Fletch
Co B 4/31 May through November 69
C Btry 1/82 Arty Nov 69 thru April-ish 70 radio handle whiskey two zero
Craig Fletcher |
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| vietnam123 |
| Posted on: February 1st, 2011, 8:34pm |
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| You are right then. They did save many of us. But many of us need saving right now! |
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| Bobkelly |
| Posted on: February 23rd, 2011, 11:32am |
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Your actual medical record would have been at the battalion aid station. The field medic if he had time would have written a treatment tag , if not he would have put an M for morphine on your forehead. In an ideal world a clerk would recorded you in an admissions book ( didn't always Happen). A record of treatment should have been given to you at release from hospital for your record.
I had an Infantrymen attached to B troop 1/1 ACR with a script "release to unit light duty" on crutches show up at the aid station. Mounting a tank or track with crutches is tough. I made a command decision
and notified the Troop he was assigned to the aid station for 10 days. I recorded it in his record , became a bud , and he died Jun 16 1968 the day I arrived home in Philly. Contact your medic, squad members for the buddy letter.
Welcome home Brother Bob "Doc" Kelly CMB |
[face=Sans-Serif][/face]Bob Kelly |
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