Sentences with phrase «as a medic during»

He had initially trained as a doctor, and served as a medic during the Second World War, but took up art after being captured in Tunisia in 1943 and interned in Hereford, Texas.

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Born on a cotton farm in southern Mississippi, Campbell served as an army medic in the South Pacific during World War II.

There are a few carefully placed scenes illustrating Spencer's desire to save lives, to be a hero, whether training as a medic or thinking quickly during an active shooter alert.

«Hacksaw Ridge,» Mel Gibson's latest high - minded cinematic massacre, tells the story of Desmond T. Doss, a God - fearing American pacifist who served as a combat medic during World War II and personally carried 75 wounded soldiers from the Battle of...

He even served as a medic in the Confederate army during the Civil War, but was disheartened to learn how the sons of large plantation owners had been exempted from the military draft.

Prior to entering private practice psychology, Dr. Bracy trained and served as a U.S. Army combat medic and surgical technician stationed in Germany during the Vietnam war, and worked as a cardiovascular perfusionist for 17 years.

The potential supply of medical professionals to meet this demand was seen during World War II, when Dr. Eugene Stead realized that an intermediate role might be possible through employment of soldiers who had gone through a 2 - year medical training program to become medics in combat.1 By the end of the Vietnam War, a large number of medical corpsmen had returned to the United States, providing a large pool of medically inclined, highly trained individuals without the ability to practice as physicians.

Prior to becoming a therapist Jonathan was an army officer in Germany, serving as a platoon leader of combat medics in a forward - deployed tank battalion, followed by service as the company commander of the 130th Station Hospital in Heidelberg during Operation Desert Storm.