Like everyone else, Marines have first names like Jim, John, Ted, Harry and so on. The Navy Corpsman that serves with the Marines all have the same first name and that is "Doc". The Marines do the fighting and the Docs treat their wounds and hopefully save their lives. Earning the privilege to be called "Doc" by the Marines is an honor that every Navy Corpsman pursues with a passion and for many that honor will be paid with their lives. This is a true story about what it was like to serve as a Doc with a Marine Rifle Company at the high water mark of the Vietnam War. You will experience the day to day hardships and the battles in Leatherneck square through the eyes of a Doc. While the Marines are locked in a life and death struggle with a well-equipped, well trained and battle hardened enemy, it is the Doc that answers the call for "Corpsman-up" to somehow reach the Marine before he bleeds to death. It may just take a quick bandage to get the Marine back in action but all too often it's the Doc who is there to see their friends take their last breaths.

This is not the exaggerated story told by Hollywood or the liberal bias media of atrocities against the civilian population and the incompetent leadership and dope-abusing soldiers and Marines. This is a true story of one man's experience of outstanding leadership (follow them to the fires of hell kind of leadership). It is a story that begs the question of how does the Marine Corps take the average and often times scrawny boy off the street and instill in him something special that allows the Corps to almost starve him, work him for eighteen hours a day, deprive him of adequate sleep for months at a time, make him go months without a shower, have him live in conditions that would be considered inhumane for any animal, have all of his friends killed around him in battle on one day then ask him to get up and fight again the very next day, all while being accused of crimes back home. Please, you owe it to yourself to read what these boys did for you and for a deceived Nation.