Combat Corpsman

　　All his life, Greg McPartlin wanted to be a Marine corpsman, amedic skilled at saving lives. Three months of"bagging-and-tagging" bodies during Vietnam's Tet Offensive tookthe luster off being a Marine-but not off McPartlin's desire toserve his country.　　After assisting in the sea-recovery of Apollo 11-the first shipto bring men to the moon-the twenty-year-old McPartlin wasredeployed to Vietnam as an elite Navy SEAL. Barred as a medic bythe Geneva Convention from the make-or-break training consideredvital to service as a Navy SEAL, McPartlin had to show he had whatit took.　　In a war where soldiers partied with their buddies in Saigon oneday and crawled through an enemy-infested jungle hell the next,McPartlin proved that he was not only an outstanding medic but areal Navy SEAL-the toughest of the tough.　　Combat Corpsman is McPartlin's account of his year in what hadbeen a Viet Cong stronghold until the SEALs took control. It's thefirst inside story of a Navy SEAL medic, a man who wanted toheal-not to kill-but did both to save lives.