12/5/2023 0 Comments Us navy vietnam war christmas![]() ![]() This new medevac system saved the lives of thousands of men who in previous conflicts would have died in the battlefield waiting for medical assistance. The Vietnam War was the first major conflict to use the helicopter to transport wounded quickly to medical facilities sometimes a man would be in the hospital receiving medical care barely half an hour after he had been wounded. Usually the more confident and experienced the nurse, the better they were able to cope with the stress and the sheer number of casualties they treated on a daily basis. They arrived in Vietnam with various levels of nursing experience, from newcomers to the field with barley six months of Nursing under their belts to experienced veterans of twenty plus years. The nurses served in the hospital ships of the Navy, the airlift helicopters and airplanes of the Air Force and the hospitals and field hospitals of the Army. These women volunteered for a variety of reasons: to serve their country, to help the service men who were wounded, to receive training and an education, to further their military careers, to prove themselves or just to have an adventure. ![]() Like many of the men going over to Vietnam to serve their country, young women from all over the nation volunteered to serve as nurses in the hospitals and medical facilities in South Vietnam. ![]()
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