Alan Basham enlisted in the Navy in 1967 and trained as a hospital corpsman with a special emphasis in airsea rescue and medical evacuation. In Vietnam, Basham was among an elite team of Fleet Marine Force medevac corpsmen (MAG16 Flying Docs) who flew medevac missions with USMC helicopter crews. After returning to the United States, he left the military and embarked on a career in psychology, training students in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Eastern Washington University for twentytwo years.

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Chapters:
0:00 Training with the Marines
2:33 Hand to Hand Combat
3:12 Aviation Medical Training
6:38 Surprise Orders to Vietnam
8:30 “Welcome to the Nam, Doc”
10:42 Volunteering to Fly
12:04 “The Wild Bunch”
13:10 Marble Mountain Medevac
17:35 Scariest Guys in the War
18:27 Fighting with the Marines
18:43 My Worst Mission
24:44 Saving 7 Marines
33:54 An Unbelievable Scene
36:28 “I had Become the War”
42:00 Marine Brotherhood
42:52 Call Signs, Friendship, & War
46:18 Types of Wounds
47:08 Booby traps
48:05 Street Fight in the Jungle
48:20 A Grotesque Day
53:02 Homecoming & PTSD
56:47 Reflections

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