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			MSC History FORWARD PREFACE THE AUTHOR FRONTMATTER Chapter: 1. EARLY MILITARY MEDICINE From Revolution to Reform Establishment of a Permanent Medical Department At War With Ourselves Toward an Ambulance Corps The Letterman Plan Other Emerging Specialties From Appomattox to Havana Lessons From the War With Spain Emerging Themes 2. WORLD WAR I: THE AMBULANCE SERVICE Volunteer Ambulance Officers Medical Department Organization and Doctrine The U.S. Army Ambulance Service Over There Summary 3. WORLD WAR I: THE SANITARY CORPS Administrative Specialty Officers Scientific Specialty Officers Summary 4. BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS Formation of the Medical Administrative Corps Proposals for a Pharmacy Corps Administrative Specialty Officers Scientific Specialty Officers Summary 5. WORLD WAR II: THE ADMINISTRATIVE SPECIALTIES Medical Administrative Corps Expansion Officer Candidate Schools Administrative Specialty Officers Summary 6. WORLD WAR II: THE SCIENTIFIC SPECIALTIES A Modernized Medical Team A Medical Research and Development Team Malaria External Influences Summary 7. MEDICAL SUPPORT FOR A WORLD POWER Creation of the Medical Service Corps The Formative Years of the New Corps The Army-Baylor Program Administrative Specialty Officers Scientific Specialty Officers Summary 8. KOREA The MSC Contribution Developments in the Corps Developments in the Administrative Specialties Developments in the Scientific Specialties Summary 9. THE POST-KOREA ERA Developments in the Corps Opportunity Developments in the Administrative Specialties Developments in the Scientific Specialties Summary 10. MEDICAL SERVICE CORPS OFFICERS IN VIETNAM The Medical Department in Vietnam MSC Officers in the Theater of Operations Scientific Specialties Medical Logistics Dustoff Summary 11. THE CORPS DURING THE VIETNAM ERA Medical Department Organization Developments in the Corps Developments in the Administrative Specialties Developments in the Scientific Specialties Summary 12. THE POST-VIETNAM ERA Modernization of Field Medical Support Developments in the Corps Opportunity Developments in the Administrative Specialties Developments in the Scientific Specialties Summary 13. BEYOND THE COLD WAR Panama The Persian Gulf A Time of Change The Future APPENDIXES A. Milestones in the Evolution of the Medical Service Corps, 1775-1994 B. First Officers Appointed in the Regular Army Medical Administrative Corps C. Zone of the Interior Hospital Positions Opened to Medical Administrative Corps Officers in 1941 D. Chiefs and Assistant Chiefs of the Medical Service Corps, 1947-1994 E. Specialties of the Medical Allied Sciences Section, May 1948 F. National Organizations Invited To Attend the Medical Allied Sciences Conference, 27-28 May 1948 G. Biographies of the Chiefs of the Medical Service Corps H. Medical Service Corps Specialties in 1961 I. Principal Attempts at Writing the MSC History J. Carmack Medal Winners, 1958-1996 K. Medical Service Corps Specialties in 1972 L. Medical Service Corps Specialties in 1982 M. Medical Service Corps Specialties in 1994 N. Chief, Medical Service Corps, Award of Excellence, 1982-1994 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE ILLUSTRATION CREDITS Tables 1. Sanitary Corps Officers by Specialty Area and Grade on Active Duty, 1 November 1918 2. Strength of the Sanitary Reserve Corps, 1921-1941 3. Strength of the Medical Administrative Officers' Reserve Corps, 1921-1941 4. MSC Command Opportunity, 1994 5. Persian Gulf Medical Command and Control Charts 1. World War I Echelons of Medical Support 2. World War II Echelons of Medical Support 3. Organization of the Medical Administrative Corps Officer Candidate School, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, 1942 4. Organization of the Medical Administrative Corps Officer Candidate School, Camp Barkeley, Texas 1942-43 5. Post-Vietnam Echelons of Medical Support Illustrations America's First Apothecary General Surgeon General Joseph Lovell U.S. Sanitary Commission Lodge for Invalid Soldiers Maj. Jonathan Letterman and Staff 57th New York Ambulance Corps Wagons Remove Wounded, Battle of Fredericksburg Confederate Army Capt. Sally Louisa Tompkins Field Hospital at the "Bloody Ford" of San Juan Creek Red Cross Nurse Helps Sick Soldier, Camp Wikoff, New York Conquerors of Yellow Fever Col. William Gorgas in Panama Europe, 1914 Ernest Hemingway in Italy, 1919 Inspector General A. Piatt Andrew Standard Ford Ambulance With Storm Curtains 117th Sanitary Train Officers, France, 1918 137th Ambulance Company Dressing Station, Germany, 1918 Main Gate to Camp Crane, Pennsylvania "USAAC March" Sheet Music Standard General Motors Ambulance Chassis Disassembled Ambulance Boxed for Shipment Sanitary Corps Officers in France, 1919 Capt. Henry N. Pilling Renault Truck Outfitted With Mobile X-Ray Equipment Lt. Jerome Jeffrey Staff of Cornell School of Roentgenology, 1917 Bacteriological Department, Dijon, France Field Laboratory Car, Internal and External Views Sanitary Corps Food Expert, Dijon, France Robert M. Yerkes School of Military Psychology Staff, 1918 Parade Ground, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, 1925 Basic Course Students, Medical Field Service School, 1925 Cox-Klemin Airplane Ambulance Maj. Gen. Merritte W. Ireland Army Industrial College Class of 1929-30 Frederick H. Gibbs Col. William A. Hardenbergh Officer Candidate School Class, Carlisle Barracks, 1941 Capt. Louis F. Williams Lecturing at Medical Field Service School 2d Lt. Elliotte J. Williams With OCS Students OCS Candidates at Camp Barkeley, Texas Station Hospital Staff, Fort Pepperrell, Newfoundland Medical Administration Staff, 19th Medical Service Detachment, New Guinea Lt. David D. Norman Douglas Transport Plane Adapted as Air Ambulance Piper Cub Modified for Use as Air Ambulance U.S. Army Medical Supply Depot, New Caledonia Brig. Gen. Edward Reynolds 1945 Calendar Promoting Disease Control Sanitary Corps Officer Tests Water Specimens, Iceland Army Industrial Hygiene Laboratory Personnel Capt. Donald J. Pletsch Nutrition Officer Conducts Mess Survey in Mississippi 9th General Hospital Laboratory, New Guinea 2d Lt. Robert E. Pryor Oversees Loading of Supplies Mobile Optical Repair Unit Maj. George W. Hunter III 17th Malaria Survey Unit, New Guinea Pharmacy Officer at 8th Evacuation Hospital, Italy Army-Baylor Program Bulletin Lt. Col. Raymond J. Karpen, Lt. Col. Charles S. Gersoni, and Maj. John V. Painter Col. Othmar Goriup and Staff Lt. Col. James T. Richards Hospital Administration Course Graduates, 1953 Lt. Col. John W. Sheridan Helicopter Landing on Deck of Haven 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry, Aid Station Maj. Herman A. Walker With Chinese Prisoner of War 45th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital War in the Wards Cover Wounded United Nations POW on Evacuation Helicopter WACs Check Blood Machine, Camp Roberts Army Hospital Maj. Edward H. Frick at Seventh Army Commander's Preventive Maintenance Course Medical Research Team Member Performs Laboratory Test Col. (Ret.) and Mrs. George W. Hunter III in Japan Students Demonstrate Vigotsky Test of Concept Formation Health Services Trainees Arrive at Fort Sam Houston, Texas Maj. Gen. Laurence A. Potter and Lt. Col. John W. Hammet Col. (Ret.) Joseph Carmack Presents Award to 1st Lt. Charles B. Counselman Corps Anniversary Celebration, Verdun, France MSC Officers Learn To Strap Litter to H-13 Helicopter Optical Department, Rhine Medical Depot Lt. Col. Jack Houser 2d Lt. John L. Charlton, Jr., Examines Patient Army Social Work Recruiting Poster Sanitary Engineers Meeting, 1959 Optometry Officer Checks Patient Dust Off 2d Lt. John R. Howard Capt. George H. Kelling 32d Medical Depot Optical Laboratory "Pee House of the August Moon" Maj. Charles L. Kelly With Brig. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell CW4 Michael J. Novosel 1st Lt. Henry O. Tuell III and Capt. Howard Elliott in a Dustoff Operation 1st Lt. James McGowan Maj. Patrick H. Brady Lt. Col. Paul A. Bloomquist Medical Service Corps Recruiting Bulletin, 1971 Female Officers at Medical Field Service School Col. William C. Luehrs With Lt. Gen. Hal B. Jennings, Jr. Military and Civilian Pharmacists Work Together Parasitologist at 9th Medical Laboratory Lt. Col. Dan C. Cavanaugh Col. Frank R. Camp Audiologist Fits Patient With Hearing Aid Sanitary Engineer Tests Water Army Optometrist Examines Eskimo Patient Remains of Gander Crash Victims Arrive at Dover Air Force Base Lt. Col. Priscilla M. Alston Col. James G. Van Straten Col. Donald H. Triano Lt. Col. Scott S. Beaty Col. Edward G. Bradshaw Lt. Col. Michael A. Shannon and Maj. Donald Fornier Col. Robert F. Elliott Medical Technician Is Lowered From Black Hawk Helicopter Capt. Millie Hughes-Fulford Aboard the Columbia Maj. Morris R. Lattimore, Jr. Soldiers Use Helicopter Transport During Operation DESERT SHIELD Maj. Arthur W. Hapner in Grenada Building Burns During Fighting in Operation JUST CAUSE Fielding Mobile CT Scan to 86th Evacuation Hospital Medical Supply Officer in Saudi Arabia Scenes From the Gulf War Buildings Destroyed by Hurricane Andrew Capt. Steve Horosko III in Somalia Children's Ward at Hospital in Haiti Col. Othmar F. Goriup Col. Robert L. Black Col. Bernard Aabel Col. Roy D. Maxwell Brig. Gen. William A. Hamrick Brig. Gen. Manley G. Morrison Brig. Gen. John E. Haggerty Brig. Gen. James J. Young Brig. Gen. France F. Jordan Brig. Gen. Walter F. Johnson III Brig. Gen. Bruce T. Miketinac Brig. Gen. Jerome V. Foust Brig. Gen. Mack C. Hill

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