Thanks for all your answers. He is home now and the communication was sparse for us but he was a Medic and was in a bad place. Im sure yours will be better John. :}

Hell-o everyone; I just joined the group today, although I’ve been coming to this website for some time. I was a U.S. Army Medic on active duty from July 1964 to October 1970. Lost my eyesight during the Vietnam War and was totally blind for about 5-years; went thru about a dozen surgeries and got my eyesight back. I am 100% service connected and currently living in Fairfield, CA. I joined the army at the age of 17 and took basic at Ft. Dix, NJ; originally I am from New York, and then I went to Ft. Sam Houston, TX for my medic training. As a medic I was stationed with a number of different units, artillery unit at Ft. Sill, 2nd Armored Div. at Ft. Hood, and one year in Darmstadt, Germany with an Evacuation Hospital. I was also stationed in Okinawa and the former Republic of South Vietnam (1967-68) with a transportation company. After the military I settled in Colorado for a few decades, got my masters and doctorate degrees and became a counselor. I have worked for the VA as a readjustment counselor and also was a college teacher for a while, but today I am retired and moved from Colorado to California to be closer to my 40-year old son, my only child, who is a lawyer in Los Angeles, but I prefer to live in Northern California. Because I live in California I can go RVing year round, which I definitely do, and who knows, we may get to meet each other at some military campground.