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'Kishine Barracks and the 106th General Hospital' is at once a personal, social, political, and medical history. Local national (Japanese) staff and the denizens of Yokohama also figure in this story, as do of course the men and women, Americans and others, assigned to the 106th at Kishine, and even the families of those who were there. But some were from the Marines or other Navy units, and a few were from the Air Force and even allied military forces. Army, most were men, and most were Americans. Most patients who passed through the 106th were affiliated with the U.S. This means I am now in my 70s, as are most of the thousands of personnel, wounded, injured, and ill who crossed paths at the 106th between 1965 when the hospital opened and 1970 when it closed. I was 24 when I arrived in December 1965 and 25 by the time I left in October the following year. 50 years is not a long time in the flow of human history, but it is a significant period in the life spans of the people who passed through the 106th in the late 1960s. A few died in the hospital and were flown home in caskets. Soldiers wounded in Vietnam were evacuated to Japan, treated and returned to duty in Vietnam if possible, or stabilized and sent to the United States for further treatment, recovery, and rehabilitation. I never set foot in Vietnam, but Vietnam set foot in me, at the 106th General Hospital, at Kishine Barracks in Yokohama in Japan, where I worked for 9-plus months as a laboratory technician. I enlisted in October 1963, 10 months before the Tonkin Gulf Incident that sparked the Vietnam War, and I was discharged 3 years later, 2 years into the war. Army as a medical corpsman, ambulance orderly, and laboratory technician. Kishine Barracks and the 106th General Hospital War, protest, and urban legends in Szabo stayed in one of the buildings called 'R&R Hotel'īuildings behind guard post are movie theater and gymnasium Taken February 1962 by Jim Szabo while on R&R from Korea Main gate of Kishine Barracks from southwest Mess hall ( right) and heliport ( right foreground)

Ward C, Ward D, and X-ray Lab between D and EĮnlisted men's quarters (E) and Kishine chapel ( distant right) Ward A ( left), Ward B, and Pathology Lab between B and C The wards and labs of the 106th General Hospitalġ966 photograph by Pathology Lab microbiology chief Jim Terry Sam Houston)ġ06th General Hospital (Kishine Barracks)Ĭrossing the tees and dotting the eyes of a life half lived half a century ago Tales by or about some of the people who were there for whatever reason 1957-1965 Kishine Barracks and the 106th General Hospital Life and death in the Vietnam War medical communications zone in Japan By William Wetherall

The crisis of genten ninja village english