a former Navy corpsman attached to a Marine batallion during the 1968 Tet Offensive in the Vietnam War. There are things “I hadn’t talked about for 20 years when I got out of the service ...

Aberdeen native Chuck Gabriel volunteered to join the Navy and served as a hospital corpsman from 1966 to ... Wirick was a ...

Mathieu was accepted into the Navy’s hospital corpsman training. But he talked his way out of it before graduating after a Marine told him life expectancy for a medic in Vietnam was two weeks.

Lawmakers are working to award the Congressional Gold Medal to retired Cmdr. Everett Alvarez Jr., who spent eight and a half years in captivity after being shot down during a bombing mission during ...

received the Navy Cross posthumously for extraordinary heroism as a corpsman with Company L, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, in connection with operations against enemy forces in Vietnam. Powell’s ...