POSTS FROM OUR SHIPMATES OR THEIR FAMILIES

 Thanks Rita, I just put the link up. This way people can see them all rather than just a few. Space seems to be limited. Maggie

By popular demand, I've added a series of US Navy Rating T-Shirts at:

http://www.hullnumber.com/Whats_Your_Rating_Sailor.php

Thanks for your support of Navy veterans.

My best wishes to you and yours,

Dave Schultz - Web PO - www.HullNumber.com

 

I was a Navy Corpsman, who served from 1968-1975, mainly in Rota , Spain . 
I have a neighbor who was also a medic, special forces, and on July 4, 1970 he brought by helicopter from the field, 
a patient named Jeffrey Baum, E-4 USA, and at 2080 he was listed in the log book as placed on the VSI list( Very serious list) with DX: Amputation, traumatic right arm and both legs.

When my neighbor, Ed Carnes, removed the patient from the floor to the receiving area, he got back to his base, and was cleaning out the area, that has a lot of blood on the floor, and he found a chain with a cross on it, it had belonged to this Jeffrey Baum-

The next trip to the Sanctuary, he made sure the patient got this, and this is when he was told that they performed a triple amputation on Mr. Baum.

Ed has been looking for years to try and find Mr. Baum, to see how he is doing and to put some closure on this event-

As a medic, I understand his emotions and wanting to see if Jeffrey had a good life, or not.

I have been working with Max Cleland office and he was able to get me a copy of the log pages from that date July 4, 1970

Some of the names on the log that apparently worked that day are:

LCDR Kendall : Watch Commander

LT Smith: JOOD

LCDR Emma: Administration

LT Foreman: Anesthesia

HMC Gaddus: Chief of Day

LCDR Davis : Dental

The 2050 notation on Jeffrey Baum states it is listed by LCDR Shoemaker

No listing for Surgeon for that day,

I know or read from a report that between June 1970 and June 1971 the USS Sanctuary only had two triple amputee operations.

Would you know anyone who would know how to reach Mr. Baum; knowing full well, he may not want to talk to anyone, but you don’t know unless you ask.

Any assistance would be very much appreciated.

I am emailing you from my work email

Thanks

Chris Hood
cshood@concentric.net  
chood@coastalinternationallogistics.com

    I found this video  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ervaMPt4Ha0&feature=player_embedded

Very well made. Moved me deeply. Although no Navy personnel in there that I could see, It really said it all.  Check it out.

I am the new Military Liaison for Hospice of the Valley in Phoenix, Arizona.  I am helping our patients who have served in the armed forces.

I decided to look up my old ship, and I found a lot about the USS Sanctuary.

I was deployed to the Sanctuary in March, 1971, just about 6 weeks before we left Da Nang, South Vietnam.  I was assigned to the engine room working as a snipe.  I brought her back from Vietnam and we spent several months at Mare Island, Vallejo, CA before taking her down to Hunter's Point, outside of San Francisco.

Out of a crew of over 500, they only kept 25 of us on board to be a 'care taker' crew.  I spent the rest of my tour on the Sanctuary until I was discharged just before she went out on sea trials in December 1972.

I still have the medal plaques that were on the Captain's state room doors when we decommissioned her.  I probably shouldn't have told you that, but the statute of limitations has probably expired by now.  I was assigned as the ship's artist.  So I painted all the state room doors and parking signs for the officers.  I had a real easy job the last few months on her.

I didn't realize that she is still afloat.  I read her history on Wikipedia and I am still impressed with her to this day.

Thank you for putting this site together and I look forward to hearing from you.

Take care, and thank you for your service!

Tom Fenner
MM3 (passed but not advanced)