How is it that you, a law student, were assigned to a hospital?
When I was drafted, the Army assigned me an MOS (job title) of Operating Room Specialist. I do not know exactly what criteria they used, but I suspect it had to do with education and the testing that was given to us. Some with higher education were assigned to tanks or infantry so sometimes there did not appear to be logic to these assignments..... Luck of the draw. As I had completed my first year of law school, I felt I would be assigned to be a law clerk in JAG, but it was not to be.
Did you, in fact, have any medical training prior to being sent to Vietnam?
No, I did not. After Basic Training in Ft. Polk, La. I was sent to Ft. Sam Houston in San Antonio for Medic Training, and then to Ft. Sill in Okla. for Operating Room training. The training was extensive.
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