{"product_id":"combat-corpsman-the-vietnam-memoir-of-a-navy-seals-medic-paperback","title":"Combat Corpsman: The Vietnam Memoir of a Navy SEALs Medic - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGreg McPartlin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll his life, Greg McPartlin wanted to be a Marine corpsman, a medic skilled at saving lives. Three months of \"bagging-and-tagging\" bodies during Vietnam's Tet Offensive took the luster off being a Marine-but not off McPartlin's desire to serve his country.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter 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. Barred as a medic by the Geneva Convention from the make-or-break training considered vital to service as a Navy SEAL, McPartlin had to show he had what it took.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a war where soldiers partied with their buddies in Saigon one day and crawled through an enemy-infested jungle hell the next, McPartlin proved that he was not only an outstanding medic but a real Navy SEAL-the toughest of the tough. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCombat Corpsman is McPartlin's account of his year in what had been a Viet Cong stronghold until the SEALs took control. It's the first inside story of a Navy SEAL medic, a man who wanted to heal-not to kill-but did both to save lives.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGreg McPartlin is a former Navy SEALs medic who served a year in Vietnam just as the war was escalating. He is the owner of McP's, a SEAL hangout bar in Coronado, California.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.91 x 8.98 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53532109635891,"sku":"9780425205822","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/s3xxpj-vy.myshopify.com\/products\/combat-corpsman-the-vietnam-memoir-of-a-navy-seals-medic-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}