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Summary - July 1967
To be written
July 8
Gary P. Breshears, Echo Company, 4th
Battalion 12th Infantry, 199th
Light Infantry Brigade is wounded and brought to the 24th
Evac. (Source: Gary Breshears)
July - Exact Date Unknown
SP4 Ken Bowen with portable x-ray equipment.
From an email message Ken wrote:
That was "state of the art"
for a field portable x-ray machine in 1967. Most everyday
someone went to the wards to do chest x-rays. Until they completed the
cover over the walkways it could get dicey. The lab guys had it even
worse because they went more often. In the monsoon season we were
soaked. So were the machines by the time we got to the wards. Those
machines pumped up the kilovolts! We were lucky we didn't get
electrocuted. It was rather primitive. Remember the 24th
was "Semi-mobile" and in theory we could pack up and move.
We had the wheel around portable x-ray machines and also a coffin
style (100 ma) knock down machine too. We were also hand developing
the films. The chemicals, heat and wet mess made the dark room rather
nasty. It was often more art than science to get good
pictures.
By December '67 things got
significantly better. The addition on one end of our Quonset Hut was
finished. We added another diagnostic room, the automatic film
processor and a new dark room. A big help was when Long Binh Post got
reliable power and we switched from our generators. We "midnight
requisitioned" some asphalt tile and laid the floor over the
rough concrete. That really improved things too. What memories.....
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Courtesy Dan Cunningham
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