I got my draft notice in 1971. I felt that I did not want to go to war, so I enlisted in the air national guard and did nine years enlisted. I give a great credo to others who served in Nam as I had a close friend who did not survive his deployment during his time in that war. Much care to Robert Squires for his heroic service for helping to his care to the injured of the so many service comrades.
MS5 Squires does a great job of sharing his experience in Vietnam, and the people he served with. The medical corps is filled with truly great heroes no matter the branch of service.
Absolutely Chet. Like Doc Bartlett and Don Jalufka, he wanted to tell me his story before he leaves this earth. There has always been an urgency about my work.
I wes a patient at 91st in 1970 Many thanks to all medical personnel May have seen lou or this senior medic i was so goofed up i don't remember the staff
Robert , thank you for your service & sacrifice. Be proud for all the lives you saved . Rule NO. 1 young man die in war & Rule NO. 2 Doctor's , nurse's & medic's can't change Rule NO. 1 . ❤❤❤❤😢
Larry. You're a good and decent man. Much respect goes to you. I was in vietnam two tours 69 70 71 with the air force. First tour north of Hue at a small outpost second tour at danang. We got hit a lot with rockets. Came close to dying many tines. A lot of the army guys say the air force had it made. We did compared to the grunts so a lot of air force especially down around Saigon did have it made but at danang it was a different story. Thanks much for your dedication to our troops. GOD bless you.
Hi, thank you SP5 Robert Squire for your story, experiences, and time serving our country in a place where you were needed. A place im sure you didnt want to go but a place you were needed. We all have stories and thnk you for yours. Its incredible how you&the staff cared for all the injured no matter the cost unlike now.. Plse know you live for those who didnt make it back, all veterans do. Your here to make a difference wether large or small, make a difference...grandpa God bless you Bob
That must've been such a difficult role. Seeing all of those young men broken and cut up. Its hard for me to explain how much respect I have for the medics, Corpsmen and medical staff. Thank you Bob for your service and your sacrifices and your continuing burden that you shoulder well enough to be able to be here to tell us all your story. They will all be remembered.
I was an Air Force medic in the late '70's and early 80's so I have a special place in my heart for medics and veterans alike. I was fortunate to have served during peacetime and did not experience the harsh realities of war that Specialist Squires did. Men like him are the real veterans in my book and deserve the highest honor. God bless you Specialist Squires and all the men and women that currently serve or have served out great nation. We owe a debt to you all that can never be repaid!
Thank you Robert for sharing your experience welcome home soldier! My uncle was a medic ( Navy Corpsman) KIA February 15-1968 in Hue during Tet ! Thank you again Larry for another amazing story I am always looking forward to hearing about medics experiencing Vietnam 🇻🇳 MAY GODS RICHEST BLESSING BE YOURS ❤️🕊❤️⛪️❤️🐑❤️🙏❤️🇺🇸❤️🇮🇱🎯. P.s. great photo Happy Anniversary
thank you for your work! sometimes you could just let them talk more on their own and direct them back to the road when the chance arises when you interrupt it cuts off a train of thought that brings out something natural, their own way of telling and thinking etc.
Welcone home, brofher. I left Chu Lai 8 days after that tyhoon (Hester). There was not much left at Chu Lai thereafter. Yours is a great story. You may not have been a field medic, but you saw the worst of war every day you were there, a terrible burden that I can tell still viaits you most every day. God's peace to you and your family.
@@robertsquires3488 Small world indeed. About 6 years after I got home I met a USMC chopper pilot whose hooch was less than 50 feet from where I was at Ky Ha, northwest of 91st Evac. Near where Graves Registration was located, near Rosemary Point and the Sand Ramp where the LST's brought in most of the supplies. He became a friend and I still see him from time to time.
I love to see this, it's got to be the best part of RUclips. Bringing veterans together. I wasn't even a twinkle in my mum's eye when you men were in southeast Asia but I take in as much as I can when it comes to first hand accounts. I thank you all for what you did and always do everything I can to spread the word and remember the fallen. Thank you both.
Welcome home man I’m in. No I’m in a little river. I just right down the road from you. Yeah but down here 16 years it’s good to be hearing your story. Yeah I was in play cool central Highland as you know right up from you and 68 yeah cool.
Please accept my thanks for all your heart-warming comments. Wasn’t sure I could do this after so many years of silence, but was inspired by Larry’s remarkable interview with Lou Eisenbrandt, a courageous nurse who served at the 91st Evac before me.
Great job here Larry and welcome home MS Robert Squires. Question? A good friend of mine was an Army Med specialist who went thru Sam Houston, TX school about same time as you, then on to Chu Lai Air Base in Quang Tin Province on 08/27/1970 (123RD AVN BN, 16TH AVN GROUP, AMERICAL DIV). He was 1 of 7 killed in a rocket attack on 11/30/1970 ... His name is Douglas ("Dougie") S. Bridgers of Louisville, KY. We were HS buds and I've truly missed him
I don't think I knew him but then after over 53 years so many names faded from memory. So sorry for the loss of your frreind. May he rest in peace. Given the 8/27 date he was probably in the class just before mine. I graduated AIT around that date but went on the customary 2 week R&R afterward to get married and then arrived in-country Sept 15th. That may well have been one of the rocket attacks I wrote about in my book as the air base was near our hospital. If so then he most likely would've been brought to the 91st Evac.
Hey Robert , hope you are still kicking . I did Sam in 69 , and was chosen to do Bullis first . You would have thought all those films at Sam would have prepared us more . I worked for a few months at a Evac Hospital in Tay Ninh and some Dust Off . Left there and ended up doing recon for 5 weeks , then as leg and Blue with the 25th . We did the same yrs , but I did a few months in the FRG first . I flew out of Lewis to CRB , left there for the 90th RS . I came back through Oakland in 71 , was there at Oakland for just a few hrs and got home that same day . I hated nape and Willie P . also . STAY Strong brother ! There are less of us by the day .. doc 68-71
Thanl you Doc for that story and your service as well! Dustoff was dangerous duty, and glad you made it back brother. It's good to hear others who shared some of the similar experiences as a medic. Yes, we are certanly reaching the point like to many WW2 vets who passed over the last two decades.
George Van De Wyngaerde M.D. of Phoenix AZ. He was Chief of Staff Good Samaritan PHX in 1990's. But his story is during TET offensive. He was Navy in North & ran field hospital where most all Marines that came in alive, left alive. He's getting old & time is close to his story to be lost. Please, could you help tell his story?
Please contact me Van. I'll be in Phoenix in two weeks doing interviews at that time. I could fit him in. You need to reach out to him first and see if he's open to an interview and then he or you need to contact me as soon as possible. Thank you. EMAIL: lcappetto@icloud.com
I went to that hospital 4 times . I went there to get some arch support for my jungle boots, once to visit a guy from my unit that had malaria, once to visit one of my guys that had bitten by a bamboo viper on his thigh and once to have my hearing checked. In the malaria ward the guy I was visiting was watching the nurse make her rounds very closely. When he thought the time was right he took the thermometer out of his mouth and put it in a glass of ice water. After a few minutes he moved it from the water back to his mouth and a few minutes later the nurse checked his temp and moved on. If your temp was too high they put you in an ice shower till it came down. The guy that had the snake bite looked awful. They had frozen the bite site and a large part of his thigh had turned black. It was quite ugly. While I was in country the Viet Cong were shooting 122mm rockets out of Antennae Valley towards the hospital. A nurse in the hospital was killed by one of them.
The first serious patient I tended to died in a coma on our ward from a viper snakebite to his face that swelled almost twice its size. We had lots of scratches on combat soldiers that turned ugly from the many infections in the jungle. Lt. Sharon Lane was killed on our from a rocket fragment two years before I came in country. We finally got a couple cooling blankets that helped lower sever temps from problems like malaria.
It’s Joe again from Little River South Carolina anyway, you don’t look any you don’t even look at all you look like 40 cool man that’s what they tell me. Call me nice talking to you.
Thanks I eat very helathy and have always worked out at least an hour six days a weak. Good genetics on the outside at least lol But a genetic condition led me to an unexpexted quintuple bypass over a year ago.
Yes. And as he explained and you would have known if you were at the 91st Evan, he saw, smelled, heard and treated the worst horrors of that war every day, for more than 400 days.
Wagon2444 . You don't know squat ! I was in a Evac Hospital in Tay Ninh for just a few months . Later I served as recon , leg and as a Blue . We " field " medic's saw ONLY those in our units that we shipped . In those Evac Hospitals we saw ALL the shit , daily . I am glad I was not transferred to another Hospital when the one at TN shut down .
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Thanks for your service please remember the ones that didn’t make it back home! 67 was my year.
And thank you as well! They are "Gone but not forgotten".
God bless you both
Many thanks Kenneth.
There are a lot of angels watching over you, bless you, and thank you.
Thank you Michael!! Glad you watched Bob's story.
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I watch them all, trying to fill the empty space in my heart. Keep em coming.
I got my draft notice in 1971. I felt that I did not want to go to war, so I enlisted in the air national guard and did nine years enlisted. I give a great credo to others who served in Nam as I had a close friend who did not survive his deployment during his time in that war. Much care to Robert Squires for his heroic service for helping to his care to the injured of the so many service comrades.
Great Mark. I will share with Robert.
God bless this man
MS5 Squires does a great job of sharing his experience in Vietnam, and the people he served with. The medical corps is filled with truly great heroes no matter the branch of service.
Absolutely Chet. Like Doc Bartlett and Don Jalufka, he wanted to tell me his story before he leaves this earth. There has always been an urgency about my work.
A true American and patriot. Thank God we have medics like him.
Thank you Bill!!
Thank you, Medical Specialist, Robert Squires! Thank you , Mr Larry Cappetto!!
God bless you my friend!!
Thank you Robert for your service and sacrifice,you are a hero !
Many thanks Joe!!
I wes a patient at 91st in 1970
Many thanks to all medical personnel
May have seen lou or this senior medic i was so goofed up i don't remember the staff
We may have. Thankful you made it home!
Thank you for your comment Larry. Have you ever told your story?
Welcome home sir, you served with honor, I salute you...72 yo Navy Veteran
Thank you Kenneth!!
Robert , thank you for your service & sacrifice. Be proud for all the lives you saved . Rule NO. 1 young man die in war & Rule NO. 2 Doctor's , nurse's & medic's can't change Rule NO. 1 . ❤❤❤❤😢
Thank you, it means a lot.
Larry. You're a good and decent man. Much respect goes to you. I was in vietnam two tours 69 70 71 with the air force. First tour north of Hue at a small outpost second tour at danang. We got hit a lot with rockets. Came close to dying many tines. A lot of the army guys say the air force had it made. We did compared to the grunts so a lot of air force especially down around Saigon did have it made but at danang it was a different story. Thanks much for your dedication to our troops. GOD bless you.
Thank you Carl. Glad to have you here at this channel.
Hi, thank you SP5 Robert Squire for your story, experiences, and time serving our country in a place where you were needed. A place im sure you didnt want to go but a place you were needed. We all have stories and thnk you for yours. Its incredible how you&the staff cared for all the injured no matter the cost unlike now..
Plse know you live for those who didnt make it back, all veterans do. Your here to make a difference wether large or small, make a difference...grandpa
God bless you Bob
Thank you Marshall!!
That must've been such a difficult role.
Seeing all of those young men broken and cut up.
Its hard for me to explain how much respect I have for the medics, Corpsmen and medical staff.
Thank you Bob for your service and your sacrifices and your continuing burden that you shoulder well enough to be able to be here to tell us all your story.
They will all be remembered.
Thank you for your comment. I'll share it with Bob.
Very touching story, Thank you for your service!
Thanks for listening!!
I was an Air Force medic in the late '70's and early 80's so I have a special place in my heart for medics and veterans alike. I was fortunate to have served during peacetime and did not experience the harsh realities of war that Specialist Squires did. Men like him are the real veterans in my book and deserve the highest honor. God bless you Specialist Squires and all the men and women that currently serve or have served out great nation. We owe a debt to you all that can never be repaid!
Jimmy, thank you!
Great Story! Great American! Thank you! ❤
Glad you enjoyed it!
Never served but i Love everyone that has.
The combat soldiers you saved are a blessing to them and us. Be proud. Thank you Robert Squires.
Another fascinating story. Thank you both.
Thanks Sheila!! Good hearing from you again.
Well done sir.🙏🏼👏🏻🎖
Live now for everyday
Mark, thank you!!
Thank you Robert for sharing your experience welcome home soldier! My uncle was a medic ( Navy Corpsman) KIA February 15-1968 in Hue during Tet ! Thank you again Larry for another amazing story I am always looking forward to hearing about medics experiencing Vietnam 🇻🇳 MAY GODS RICHEST BLESSING BE YOURS ❤️🕊❤️⛪️❤️🐑❤️🙏❤️🇺🇸❤️🇮🇱🎯. P.s. great photo Happy Anniversary
Alvin, always good hearing from you. Thank you for your comment. I'll make sure Bob reads it. God bless you!!
Thank you Bob!
thank you for your work! sometimes you could just let them talk more on their own and direct them back to the road when the chance arises when you interrupt it cuts off a train of thought that brings out something natural, their own way of telling and thinking etc.
Welcone home, brofher. I left Chu Lai 8 days after that tyhoon (Hester). There was not much left at Chu Lai thereafter. Yours is a great story. You may not have been a field medic, but you saw the worst of war every day you were there, a terrible burden that I can tell still viaits you most every day. God's peace to you and your family.
Many thanks Michael for this comment. I believe Bob will read it. God bless you!!
Thank you for those kind words, and Your service in Chu Lai. Seems it’s such a small world with more in common at the core than people want to admit.
@@robertsquires3488 Small world indeed. About 6 years after I got home I met a USMC chopper pilot whose hooch was less than 50 feet from where I was at Ky Ha, northwest of 91st Evac. Near where Graves Registration was located, near Rosemary Point and the Sand Ramp where the LST's brought in most of the supplies. He became a friend and I still see him from time to time.
I love to see this, it's got to be the best part of RUclips.
Bringing veterans together.
I wasn't even a twinkle in my mum's eye when you men were in southeast Asia but I take in as much as I can when it comes to first hand accounts.
I thank you all for what you did and always do everything I can to spread the word and remember the fallen.
Thank you both.
They we,re never given the help they so deserved an needed
Welcome home man I’m in. No I’m in a little river. I just right down the road from you. Yeah but down here 16 years it’s good to be hearing your story. Yeah I was in play cool central Highland as you know right up from you and 68 yeah cool.
Great interview Larry👍🏻
Thank you brother. Happy Resurrection Sunday!!
@@VoicesofHistory 👍🏻
Great historical documentaries.
Please accept my thanks for all your heart-warming comments. Wasn’t sure I could do this after so many years of silence, but was inspired by Larry’s remarkable interview with Lou Eisenbrandt, a courageous nurse who served at the 91st Evac before me.
Bob it's great to have you here. You're one of my men now. I take ownership in my Veterans. Your story is touching many lives.
Welcome home and thanks for your service. I hope you are doing well.
@@Bethlam Thank you! Am am well and able to work out every day to make the best of getting old ;-)
@@robertsquires3488 I served at 91 Evac from 10 Mar 70 to 23 Apr 71 Sp5 L Watts thanks for sharing your thoughts of your experience
@@LarryWatts-bm9ox Thank you,! Looks like our tours overlapped about 7 months. Wherewere you assigned? Small world!
Bravo ✝️☮️
Great job here Larry and welcome home MS Robert Squires. Question? A good friend of mine was an Army Med specialist who went thru Sam Houston, TX school about same time as you, then on to Chu Lai Air Base in Quang Tin Province on 08/27/1970 (123RD AVN BN, 16TH AVN GROUP, AMERICAL DIV). He was 1 of 7 killed in a rocket attack on 11/30/1970 ...
His name is Douglas ("Dougie") S. Bridgers of Louisville, KY. We were HS buds and I've truly missed him
Thank you Bob. Happy Memorial Day!!
I don't think I knew him but then after over 53 years so many names faded from memory. So sorry for the loss of your frreind. May he rest in peace. Given the 8/27 date he was probably in the class just before mine. I graduated AIT around that date but went on the customary 2 week R&R afterward to get married and then arrived in-country Sept 15th. That may well have been one of the rocket attacks I wrote about in my book as the air base was near our hospital. If so then he most likely would've been brought to the 91st Evac.
Hey Robert , hope you are still kicking . I did Sam in 69 , and was chosen to do Bullis first . You would have thought all those films at Sam would have prepared us more . I worked for a few months at a Evac Hospital in Tay Ninh and some Dust Off . Left there and ended up doing recon for 5 weeks , then as leg and Blue with the 25th . We did the same yrs , but I did a few months in the FRG first . I flew out of Lewis to CRB , left there for the 90th RS . I came back through Oakland in 71 , was there at Oakland for just a few hrs and got home that same day . I hated nape and Willie P . also . STAY Strong brother ! There are less of us by the day .. doc 68-71
THANK YOU for your service Charlie!!
Thanl you Doc for that story and your service as well! Dustoff was dangerous duty, and glad you made it back brother. It's good to hear others who shared some of the similar experiences as a medic. Yes, we are certanly reaching the point like to many WW2 vets who passed over the last two decades.
Thank you, Larry. Another great one!
Glad you enjoyed it Scott. Bob is a great man!!
Great interview! Gb
Thank you Gary!!
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Your doing good work.
George Van De Wyngaerde M.D. of Phoenix AZ. He was Chief of Staff Good Samaritan PHX in 1990's. But his story is during TET offensive. He was Navy in North & ran field hospital where most all Marines that came in alive, left alive. He's getting old & time is close to his story to be lost. Please, could you help tell his story?
Please contact me Van. I'll be in Phoenix in two weeks doing interviews at that time. I could fit him in. You need to reach out to him first and see if he's open to an interview and then he or you need to contact me as soon as possible. Thank you. EMAIL: lcappetto@icloud.com
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In the spring of 1971 my lottery number was 2...I joined the Navy, I had no problem with the Vietnamese 12:43
I went to that hospital 4 times . I went there to get some arch support for my jungle boots, once to visit a guy from my unit that had malaria, once to visit one of my guys that had bitten by a bamboo viper on his thigh and once to have my hearing checked. In the malaria ward the guy I was visiting was watching the nurse make her rounds very closely. When he thought the time was right he took the thermometer out of his mouth and put it in a glass of ice water. After a few minutes he moved it from the water back to his mouth and a few minutes later the nurse checked his temp and moved on. If your temp was too high they put you in an ice shower till it came down. The guy that had the snake bite looked awful. They had frozen the bite site and a large part of his thigh had turned black. It was quite ugly. While I was in country the Viet Cong were shooting 122mm rockets out of Antennae Valley towards the hospital. A nurse in the hospital was killed by one of them.
The first serious patient I tended to died in a coma on our ward from a viper snakebite to his face that swelled almost twice its size. We had lots of scratches on combat soldiers that turned ugly from the many infections in the jungle. Lt. Sharon Lane was killed on our from a rocket fragment two years before I came in country. We finally got a couple cooling blankets that helped lower sever temps from problems like malaria.
We need to record your story my friend. Please reach out to me. Thank you.
Thanks Bob. Your story is reaching a lot of people.
I had hepatitis aka shit salad
Highly contagious
Nobody got near me
A chu hoy would help me to the bathroom
Almost 4 weeks at 91st evacuation hospital
guy is hurtin, has to be excruciating to him to even think back ...
I don’t know if if you go to the little river I’m in a little river I go to Myrtle Beach the new clinic I guess they’re OK sometimes I wonder bye
Seldom since our son moved from there., but its a picturesque area for sure! Hope the new VA? clinic treats you well.
Polititions is all about money an image
♥️🇺🇸♥️ Agree with you....True statement...
It’s Joe again from Little River South Carolina anyway, you don’t look any you don’t even look at all you look like 40 cool man that’s what they tell me. Call me nice talking to you.
Thanks I eat very helathy and have always worked out at least an hour six days a weak. Good genetics on the outside at least lol But a genetic condition led me to an unexpexted quintuple bypass over a year ago.
REMF
Yes. And as he explained and you would have known if you were at the 91st Evan, he saw, smelled, heard and treated the worst horrors of that war every day, for more than 400 days.
Wagon2444 . You don't know squat ! I was in a Evac Hospital in Tay Ninh for just a few months . Later I served as recon , leg and as a Blue . We " field " medic's saw ONLY those in our units that we shipped . In those Evac Hospitals we saw ALL the shit , daily . I am glad I was not transferred to another Hospital when the one at TN shut down .
20:20 "You never forget"! His eyes went to the "thousand yard stare"! "Listening!" He made a difference!
Thank you Dick!!