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I hate to say it, but sometimes I tend to get somewhat wordy  I think too much so for this forum. If you'd like to send me an email, I'll get back to you ASAP.  Address in my profile. Pro Patria  Bob

Daftandbarmy:  Just realized I didn't answer your point of whether or not our care was superior to the past. We were only 6 years from WW 2, and our training, equipment and establishments were based on what was in effect in that period. About the only major change was the availability of...

Good question, Daft. The establishment called for one Cpl, RCAMC for each rifle company. I don't believe Support Co'y got one. Back at the RAP was the RMO, (we had a Captain at one time, followed by a Major followed by another Major) a Sgt., battalion Hygiene Cpl, and a couple of other Cpls or...

FURTHER TO ABOVE: My apologies. Seems as though the bugs got at my PC again  . Line three :salute: should not be there  Don't know where or why it came from.

Fascinating subject with many good and bad points. Speaking from my own viewpoint as an ex-member of the Corps,  who served with the RCR in Korea, we had no whole blood products other than plasma.  In the rifle companies we had NO blood byproducts whatsoever. Plasma was the product of choice...

Very interesting point, in all seriousness. Last year I gave a shell dressing dated 1943 (Johnson and Johnson, I believe) to my GP's wife ( a nurse of course, what else?) for her collection. We used them in Korea and this one had been with me for the years since then obviously. She had...

Thanks for the reminder, Geo.  I had completely forgotten about the bush dress, although now I wear almost the same thing in the decent weather, tan Tilley pants and shirts, short sleeved. Can't bring myself to buy the jacket though.  My best web belt with the monster Corps buckle is hanging on...

Just back after "uncrashing' my PC,  and getting my head unscrambled after a scientific experiment proving that arena ice IS harder than my head, last week.  On the subject of Patrol Blues, they were, in my day of the 50'and 60's, THE formal order of dress for  ALL noncommissioned ranks, BUT NOT...

Sorry you appeared to take personal offence at my comment, but that was a generalization, NOT a personal barb. At my age I don't have the urge to do that. Mellow lives longer.

I find it somewhat mindboggling to read some of the unbelievable "poor me" notes and all the whinging I see here on this issue. Some of you people  have NO idea how fortunate you are that military medicine has advanced so far since my time in the Corps. Why did I go into the service at all? As I...

From the perspective of more than half a lifetime away, I can say frankly, I have had large, flat feet all my life which have NEVER bothered me. When Iwas a kid in the 40s, I had custom built shoes with arch supports in them, and they were terrible comfort-wise.  When I went into the Corps in...

Just a quick PS to my last post. David Wright, is that the badge of the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps on your post?  I have a connection with 3 RAR, Old Faithful, the jumping battalion.

Glad to see this question come up as it brings back a lot of good memories. I don't think there are too many of us around, but on 22 Dec 1950, (that's NOT a misprint, that is 56 years ago) this writer was the 2nd man in an all medical unit to qualify as a jumper. The first guy out the door...

I'm certain that there are more of us, past and present, who are saddened by the death of Cpl Eykelenboom.I extend my personal heartfelt sympathy to his family.  It brings to mind even more so the Corps, Service motto, "In Arduis Fidelis".  Often unsung, unnoticed, but always present  when ...

At the risk of repeating myself, I say again that I am in constant amazement at the change of procedures and attitudes existing today as opposed to my time some 50 years ago. The biggest joke in Korea was the bulletproofing  provided by the GC cards. China and North Korea did NOT honour anything...

And a good day to any of you reading this.  I just discovered this site today and must confess amazement at the way  medical care in the field has progressed. The acronyms alone are astounding, and have me as confused as the day I first arrived at the RCAMC School in March 1950. I shall wander...