![]() ![]() Within a few more months, two more platoons moved over. Two Underwater Demolition Team platoons pretty quickly moved to SEAL Team 1 after an additional nine weeks of training on tactics and weapons. We have to have more SEALs.’ So they cleaned out the two Underwater Demolition Teams here on the West Coast.” “When the SEAL teams took those hits, they said, ‘That’s it. They were classmates,” Martin recalled during a recent interview at his home. “There were two devastating hits that SEAL Team 1 took. ![]() The Navy needed its frogmen to pick up rifles and become fighters, too. This edition is heavily illustrated with 80 historical and personal photographs from Greg McPartlin’s tour of duty in Vietnam.They charted coastal waters off Vietnam and made sure that Navy boats had access.īut by then, the first SEALs were being killed or wounded in the Mekong Delta. It is the first inside story of a Navy SEAL medic, a man who wanted to heal, not to kill, but did both to save lives. In a war where you partied with your buddies in Saigon one day and crawled through an enemy-infested jungle hell the next, he proved that he was not only an outstanding medic but a real Navy SEAL the toughest of the tough.Ĭombat Corpsman is McPartlin’s often humorous-and sometimes heartbreaking-account of his year of combat in what had been a Viet Cong stronghold until the SEALs took control and Charlie placed bounties on the men with green faces. Barred as a medic from the make-or-break training of BUD/S considered vital to service as a Navy SEAL, McPartlin had to show he had what it took.īut McPartlin had been in country before. Three months of bagging-and-tagging bodies during Vietnam s Tet Offensive took the luster off of being a Marine but not off McPartlin’s desire to serve his country.Īfter assisting in the sea recovery of Apollo 11 the first ship to bring men to the moon the twenty-year-old McPartlin was redeployed to Vietnam as an elite Navy SEAL. All his life Greg McPartlin wanted to be a Marine corpsman, a medic skilled at saving lives. ![]()
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