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36th Evacuation Hospital, Vung Tau, Republic of Vietnam, 25 November 1969 [80] 38th Evacuation Hospital, Florence, Italy, 8 September 1945 [ 84 ] 39th Evacuation Hospital Camp Miles Standish, Massachusetts, 14 November 1945 [ 85 ]
The United States Army Medical Command, Vietnam (USAMEDCOMV) provided Echelon/Role 3 Health Service Support to units of the United States Army, Vietnam (USAV). It was a Table of Distribution and Allowances organization created by consolidating the staffs of the 44th Medical Brigade and the USAV Surgeon's Office.
Upon graduation, she joined the Army Nurse Corps and served in Vietnam, at age 21, in 1968–1969. She served in the burn unit of the 36th Evacuation Hospital in Vung Tau and at Pleiku in the 71st Evacuation Hospital, 30 miles from the Cambodian border in the Central Highlands, just 10 to 20 minutes by helicopter from the field.
On 1 April 1968 the 1st Australian Field Hospital was established at the base and 8th Field Ambulance moved forward to Nui Dat. The 100 bed hospital was the main facility supporting 1 ATF, while the nearby U.S. 36th Evacuation Hospital was available to provide specialist services. [4]: 244
The Civilian War Casualty Program was envisioned to be a referral system, where the Republic of Vietnam Minister of Health, through the U.S. Agency for International Development, would select certain cases, currently hospitalized in host nation facilities, to be moved to the 36th Evacuation Hospital for further, more definitive medical care.
Noack was medevaced to the U.S. Army's 36th Evacuation Hospital at Vũng Tàu, but died shortly after arrival. [ 1 ] It quickly became clear that Noack was a victim of friendly fire as A Company, approaching the creek from a different direction, had fired upon the B Company listening post, mistakenly believing it to be a Vietcong position. [ 1 ]
Long Binh Post was a sprawling logistics facility and the largest U.S. Army base in Vietnam, with a peak of 60,000 personnel in 1969. [ 4 ] The Viet Cong attacked the Long Binh ammunition supply point on 4 February 1967 destroying at least 15,000 high explosive 155 mm artillery rounds. [ 5 ]
85th Evacuation Hospital: 31 August 1965: 6 September 1965: Qui Nhon 91st Evacuation Hospital: 3 December: Tuy Hoa 93d Evacuation Hospital: 4 November 1965: 10 December 1965: Long Binh 98th Medical Detachment (KO) 4 June 1966: 11 July 1966: Nha Trang 104th Medical Detachment (KD) 24 June 1966: 28 June 1966: Saigon 105th Medical Detachment (LA ...