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Within two weeks of graduating from Samford University in May 1969, I was re-classified by the local draft board as 1-A (ready to be drafted!!). My father, Gilbert F. Douglas, Jr., M.D., had served in the US Navy Medical Corps during WWII; so I grew up hearing stories of his time aboard the USS Columbus CA-74 and landing in China and Japan. I volunteered for the Navy in October 1969, went to boot camp in Orlando, FL and then to Hospital Corps School in Great Lakes, IL company 70-01. I spent four years in active duty and then twenty years in the reserves, retiring in 1994 as a Senior Chief Hospital Corpsman (www.mscpoa.com and www.navychief.com).
My Duty Stations included:
Naval Hospital Portsmouth, VA
Naval Hospital Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
USS Vreeland (DE 1068)
Navy and Marine Corps Reserve Center, Bessemer, AL
Naval Hospitals at: Jacksonville, FL; Naval Hospital, Camp LeJeune, NC, Marine Air Station, Cherry Point, NC, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, MD, Naval Support Activity – Mid-South, Millington, TN; Special Boat Unit 23, Navy Amphibious Base, Little Creek, VA; Fleet Hospital Training, Camp Pendleton, CA; Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Washington, DC; Naval Aerospace Medical Institute, Pensacola, FL; SEAL Base, Coronado, CA.
Recalled to active duty and served at Philadelphia Naval Hospital during Operation Desert Storm.
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