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| (Webmaster note: It appears that the 95th Medical Group (an Army Reserve or National Guard unit) was released from active duty and returned to the US on 21 February 1955. The 95th was replaced by the 30th Medical Group, which was activated at Landsthul on the same date. For more on the 30th Med Gp in Germany, click here.) | |||||||||||||
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| (Source: Email from Jason Gottlieb, 8th Evac Hosp) | |||||||||||||
| I arrived at Zweibruecken, Germany, Classification & Assignment (C&A) as a rifleman after completing basic at Ft. Dix N.J. Because I had already graduated from college and had completed some graduate work at Boston University in Social Work, I was assigned to the 8th Evacuation Hospital at the Landstuhl Army Regional Medical Center. After being on post for several weeks I was given TDY to the 320th General Hospital on post and served as a medic and psychiatric social work technician with the NP unit there commanded by Lt. Col Stephen Mourat. In Jan 1955, my parent unit, the 8th Evac, was reassigned to Bad Kreuznach outside of Mainz to run the 120th Station Hospital. There I served in the same capacity working under Capt. De La Torre, the hospital psychiatrist. I had participated in the first NATO maneuver in Europe in October 1954, Operation Westwind, when our allies had troops out all over the continent. It was an exciting exercise. Just prior to that I attended the 7th Army NCO Academy in Munich. I found that to be one of the most memorable times in my life. The instructors were top caliber and some of them were college professors called back from the reserve. Many of them had served in WW2 and were able to impart to us the wisdom of those involved in real combat rounding out the classes on tactics. I have practiced law in Los Angles for 47 years and can say that I never regretted a day spent with the 7th Army in Europe or the men I served with. Just ran across the web site after meeting a former Special Forces member who is now a lawyer in L.A.and we exchanged stories. When I told him about my chance meeting of an airborne trooper in a Munich bar stationed with a unit that jumped over the Bavarian Alps in ther early 1950s he knew of the unit since it was a predecessor to the Green Berets. He called my attention to your web site. I found it to be informative and educational. Excellent for research in the field onf military history. You have included material that really resonates with me. Thanks you for your supreme effort.
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| 399th Evacuation Hospital (Semi-mobile) | |||||||||||||
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| (Source: STARS & STRIPES, March 3, 1952; The Evacuation Hospital: Concept, Modes of Operations, and Organization, chapter in Manual of Disaster Medicine, Springer-Verlag, 1989) | |||||||||||||
| The 399th Evacuation Hospital, a 400-bed semi-mobile field hospital, is stationed at Landstuhl and commanded by Lt Col Howard S. Reid. The 49-tent hospital is staffed by nine administrative officers, a chaplain, two dentists, 42 nurses, 29 medical officers, and 239 Army technicians. The technicians include personnel trained in medical, operating, laboratory, pharmacy, X-ray and dental work. The hospital is complemented by full administrative services, which maintain records of all aspects of the patient's care. The evacuation hospital is usually located not far from the combat zone. The function of the evacuation hospital is to sort out all the wounded brought to the hospital from the front line, resuscitate them, and render all supportive treatment necessary to prepare them for transport to another hospital in the rear.) |
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| (Webmaster note: It appears that the 399th Evac Hospital (an Army Reserve or National Guard unit) was released from active duty and returned to the US on January 17, 1955. The 399th was replaced by the concurrently activated 128th Evacuation Hospital. To read more about the 128th Evac Hosp, click here) | |||||||||||||
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