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Donald J. Reppert

         
Branch of Service: U. S. Army
Years of Service: 1951 - 1952
Final Rank: Private First Class

 

 

Medals and Decorations

Occupation of Japan Medal
National Defensive Service Medal

 

 

 

 

Warfare Specialization

  • Psychiatric

Tours of duty

  • Infantry Basic Training - Ft. Leonard Wood, MO

  • Medical Basic Training - Brooks Army Medical Corp - San Antonio, TX

  • Psych Corpsman at Beaumont Hospital - El Paso, TX

  • 163rd Hospital - Psych Corpsman - Koizumo, Japan

  • General Hospital - Osaka, Japan

 

 

Significant Experiences

Worked every hospital ward except OB

Sat up nights with detached retinas - bathed and bandaged shot up GI's - played poker to get funds to buy shakes and burgers for the plane loads of wounded that came from Korea with no funds

Give insulin therapy and electroshock treatments

 

     


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