MASH Doctor in Vietnam: A Memoir of the War and After

During the Vietnam War, the 27th MASH played a critical role in treating survivors of the deadliest attack on any firebase, and Reuel Long's memoir recalls the casualties he cared for, including one he crossed paths with 44 years later. An addendum provides an insider's account of the U.S. military's initial failure to remedy a fatal design flaw in the M16 rifle.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 277 pages
Publication date: 03 November 2022
Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc

Reuel Long's experiences as an MD in the emergency rooms of Flint, Michigan prepared him for only some of what he would see in a mobile army surgical hospital. Antiwar sentiment among the doctors in basic training at Fort Sam Houston set the tone for his tour as a general medical officer. In March 1971, the 27th MASH played a critical role in treating survivors of the deadliest attack on any firebase during the Vietnam War. Long's vivid memoir recalls the casualties he cared for during the war, including one he crossed paths with 44 years later—who, in his own words, describes his rehabilitation from the loss of his legs and his protesting the war from a wheelchair. An addendum gives an insider's account of the U.S. military's initial failure to remedy a fatal design flaw in the M16 rifle, which caused an unknown number of American casualties.

Long's experiences as an MD in the emergency rooms of Flint, Michigan prepared him for only some of what he would see in a mobile army surgical hospital. Antiwar sentiment among the doctors in basic training at Fort Sam Houston set the tone for his tour as a general medical officer. In March 1971, the 27th MASH played a critical role in treating survivors of the deadliest attack on any firebase during the Vietnam War. Long's vivid memoir recalls the casualties he cared for during the war, including one he crossed paths with 44 years later—who, in his own words, describes his rehabilitation from the loss of his legs and his protesting the war from a wheelchair. An addendum gives an insider's account of the U.S. military's initial failure to remedy a fatal design flaw in the M16 rifle, which caused an unknown number of American casualties.

Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781476690483