Posted on Jan 17, 2020

'68 Whiskey' Actually Means Something in the Army

CW5 Jack Cardwell

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'68 Whiskey' Actually Means Something in the Army

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Combat Medic

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Afghanistan

Posted 5 y ago

Responses: 9

SPC Kurt Hesselden

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Posted 5 y ago

Where would so many of us on here be without our combat medics ?
If there isn't a special medal for these folks there sure as hell should be.
As if being medically trained to keep you alive with some of the worst wounds imaginable laying in the dirt wasn't hard enough. They have to treat you, most often presenting themselves as targets as they save your life.
Not enough thanks for this type of bravery and training...

Hopefully the show differs from the MASH type hospital scenes and can show what these folks actually do on the ground with the grunts.

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SPC Joseph Kopac

5 y

They did get a award. It was a Badge, not a medal. The Medical Infantry Badge. Just like Grunts got the Combat Infantry Badge.

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SPC Kurt Hesselden

5 y

SPC Joseph Kopac - Then they need a V for Valor to go with it. With everyone else flat prone or behind cover, these guys had to kneel over a wounded grunt doing procedures they could not do prone before they could be moved to cover. Takes a special kind of courage as rounds are snapping by, tracers whizzing by and dirt puffs all around them from close hits. Owe my life to one special 68W.

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SPC David S.

5 y

Can't agree more - some of these individuals are as well females. Very brave individuals saving lives. Here's a great story that's worth spreading. Glad to see she earned a silver star for her heroics.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/23547346/ns/us_news-military/t/female-medic-earns-silver-star-afghan-war/

Female medic earns Silver Star in Afghan war

A 19-year-old medic from Texas will become the first woman in Afghanistan and only the second woman since World War II to receive the Silver Star, the nation's third-highest medal for valor.

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MAJ Byron Oyler

5 y

A simply thank you is more than enough. My great great Grandfather was an ambulance driver in France WWI, Father a medic in Vietnam, and before nursing school, I was an enlisted medic. As you can see, it kinda gets in your blood and we are just thankful that you infantry boys still invite us along and have faith in us. It is an honor.

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