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Alan Basham

Alan Basham

Retired Navy corpsman and Vietnam MAG-16 medevac "Flying Doc" who later served as Senior Lecturer of Psychology Emeritus at Eastern Washington University.

Sep 14, 2026

The Vietnam Experience

The Vietnam Experience

011: The Bloodiest Job in the Vietnam War

Sep 14 · 58m

speaker_0HOST
0:02
The Vietnam Experience Podcast, Episode 11, The Bloodiest Job in the Vietnam War, with Navy Corpsman Alan Basham.
Alan Basham
Alan BashamGUEST
0:10
The irony was some guys joined the Navy or Air Force or Coast Guard in order not to be in the Army or the Marines in Vietnam.
Alan Basham
Alan BashamGUEST
0:17
Because they were almost all destined for either infantry or armor.
Alan Basham
Alan BashamGUEST
0:22
So most of the guys who went in the Navy and got assigned to the Medical Corps...
Alan Basham
Alan BashamGUEST
0:27
I had no idea at the time that they might very well end up being the corpsman with the Marines in the tropics.
Alan Basham
Alan BashamGUEST
0:35
That's where I wanted to be.
Alan Basham
Alan BashamGUEST
0:36
That's what I was thinking about doing when I left college to go in is I want to go do that.

18 MINS LATER

speaker_0HOST
18:56
do any of those uh those medical evacuations stand out in your mind for a reason

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