[R-390] Subject: Re: [R390] R390/R390A really "classified "

[wli]

These last few days have been a very interesting series of posts for me. I was on active duty in the same time period, with a much less colorful experience. As you know, the Marine Corps has no medical arm, and we in the Navy provided doctors, nurses, corpsmen, and medical equipment to the Corps. I spent all my time teaching Navy hospital-corpsmen on their way to Vietnam, at Camp Pendleton. Although my original orders were cut for I-Corps, Navy Intelligence would not grant me the necessary security clearance for overseas duty since one of my aunts in the old country had married a Party member. Took them hundreds of $'s and a full year before I was finally cleared, only to have the President cancel my orders and those of our Division one day before we were scheduled to deploy. Back then I had a BC-348C and would listen to multiple SW foreign stations to follow the war. Today, I know that had I access to a R390A, I could have picked up many more stations. 

One thing I observed, was that returning corpsmen were outstanding individuals. Much later, when I was in private practice, having former corpsmen on the surgical team was a huge plus…something the administrators above me had no clue. Corpsmen were absolutely the best people to run my heart-lung machine in surgery.

W. Li