Check this article at FrontPageMag.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=22209
So far as I know, Burghardt is alive and kickin', but I don't know if he's home yet or not.
photo at
http://www.snopes.com/photos/military/burghardt.asp

That photo was a sensation too. Yay, Omaha World-Herald. I've got it in here somewhere.

Yeah, that photo was the first thing to mind when I read your thread.

Happy New Year!

One of the things EVERY Marine knows is to be nice to your "doc" I was actually friends with all my "doc"'s while I was in. Yes, Even Pogues know that they MUST love their doc's, and do everything in their power to protect them, because while you are in the service, unless you wanna spend your own money, the only people who take care of your health are the corpsman and your grandmother with her hometales of "if you have a sore throat drink peach nectar with a little vodka" (which actually works, try it)

Marines LOVE THEIR "DOC"'S!!!

During mountain warfare, My assigned doc's grouping (of which I was one) rotated his pack, when he broke a toe. We could have called him a wuss, but he was OUR doc, so we kept him running no matter what. DAMN! not mountain, actually my doc was a stud at moutain, but at cold weather training.

Marines love their docs, but the other branches don't know that, because both the Marines and the "doc"'s are too busy engaging in inter-service rivalry to acknowledge that they love their brothers.

Not blue navy, but green navy, stand there with their fodderish bro's.

I loved my doc's.

Also, I think most would be surprised at just how much those "orderlies treated as nurses" know about physiology and emergency human maintenance (I was elec, so I say maintenance, rather than whatever it is other people call physical maintainence.)

I just read the article. My first comment, I find kinda funny, because "doc" and "green" and stuff is almost a uniquely Marine/navy corpsman thing, because if you go "green" you are ground, rather than floater support, or air, and Marines Bash (even pogues) who chose to accept float support (outside a Meu) or Marines who chose Air. The "green"'s (like myself) realize that that isn't the Corps.

The Doc's who go green, are in fact more green than many of the Marines, that they THINK take for them granted, though I recall, CLEARLY that the Every grunt I ever trained with LOVED their doc, I don't mean, he was A friend, but FLOGGING LOVED.

I would almost say that doc's are the dumb children that require Marines to take care of them, but the truth is? that Doc's are the MOTHERS who know EXACTLY what they are doing, and must be protected at all costs.

10 Marines will become casualties in the name of their doc, so that Doc can come back and take care of them and give them Motrin (the Military equivalent of chicken soup)

You wanna start a war? Snipe a Marine platoons doc.

as an aside.

I cryed during the whole article.

It's like a mother passing, she is older, and is more likely to pass than you, but NOONE! wants that to happen.

In a Marine platoon, company, battallion, the doc who helped you, is NOT! a servant, but a MOMMY! who can carry a pack.

I'll stop here, I will just ramble on even more, if I don't.

These men are so much more than I, why do I get cred, and they get judged, just cuz I was (I hate this fact) clinton era Marine?

I was weak and untested, these men now, are GREAT men, GREATER than any of their commanders. Knowing that makes me cry like a baby.

I just remembered a short lived doc, who was transfered, his last name was "james" ironic, cus that was my middle name, and when the time comes for me to be "successful" I will change my last name from what it is to "james" anyways.

One doc, started bashing america, and he was isolated. Not just Marines, but all green, ALL GREEN which includes army, and a small portion of navy, and a smaller portion of AF!!! Didn't want anything to do with someone who hates America.

The MIL vote is a perenial, powerful and tends to be a a Block vote.

Don't fuck the mil ever. Not only do they have guns meant to protect you, but they also know how to use them.

I delibertatly shot 2124 in boot so I could wear my fathers rifle badge (the only think I know he could send me) but after that I shot in the mid 50's expert, I got the badge that I NEVER wore (necause my alpha's were more impressive with my medlas than they were with my ribbons, Marines should know the wierd conflict of this stuff)

"I WAS" "I DID" "I HAVE" are all crap. Even my depiction of the same things are crap, I just give context. these men now?

These men now, are men, they are more than men, they are hero's. EVERY member of the armed services now are better men than I was, and that includes the women who join the AF.

I served in peace, these great humans, served in war, and the make me realize how small I am, even though I served. They are great, I was just. . . . .eeh good enough.

I love them, and I cry for them, and I HATE that they stand in my stead, when I should be standing for them.

I'm about to cry.

OUT

The article made me cry too, Pinto.