 They call me Doc, you know, that's it's probably one of the best titles. I've ever had So we're standing at attention It's the day that they're announcing where everybody's going and they got to private James McLuhan Southeast Asia Vietnam He must have been wrong He he's got to be wrong. I'm staying here. I I got Initiated the very first day we hit our first ambush had a man die had a few people to patch up And I shot a man. That's a lot to digest in your first day of Knowing where you're at now and and what you're gonna be facing Teen 13 or 14 choppers combat assaulted us into the area near the base of New Yon Hill Well, it was a hot LZ Which means that the minute that we got there We were fired upon I jumped up I Weaved and sprinted through the fire and split in Next to him like I was sliding into second base and I said well you hang on to your M16 because you're going up on my shoulders So I threw him up firemen's style and Weaved as my way into the through the crossfire and just as I get to them I hear this on godly explosion. Well, it was an RPG to exploded nearby me and just pelting me from head to foot. I Felt it. I mean the I felt a sting of it But with the adrenaline flowing knowing that here's two guys. Let's get going here. We got take care of him What are you gonna do now? About 10 meters away Two NBA looking at me just like I'm looking at you only they got AK forces sevens in there They're hands and I I had given my weapon up in Folger In Aiken they don't have any weapons either and I said gentlemen follow me And I turned and I sprinted Down that trench line and then I realized this is slowing me up So I got in the out into the open because I could run faster and I'm weaving and then literally could hear and see the bullets Skipping off the ground they're firing at me When they did finally get in and I got everybody on lieutenant carrier says to me get on doc Well now I'm real I look down and I've got blood All over me And then I my thought goes back to being on top of the berm and explosion and feeling the Ping and and I realized Yeah, I mean I said no, I'm not getting on He said why not I said to him you're gonna need me. I said well, I'll have to ask my boss. I Can remember what he said he looked at me said what the hell you're still doing here? so I can't tell you the mixed emotions that I had taken my My personal stuff out of my pack and leaving my men I Excuse me, I knew I was going to safety, but I was also leaving my men and And I was their medic They've also shared with me that they had mixed emotions, too They were glad that I was getting out of the field, but they they didn't want to lose me as their medic, so I Was helicoptered in I became the liaison for Americal Division for the remainder of my tour, which was about five months