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Medical Clearing Company

Medical Clearing Company

Posted: 3 May 2005 4:44PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 3 Jun 2006 10:00PM GMT
My father, Robert Larrick, was a young doctor in the 618th Medical Clearing Company in Korea. He died in 1996, never telling any of us in his family much about his Korean War experience.

Is there anyone out there who knows about medical clearing companies?

I wish I had realized before Dad died how little I knew. . .

Re: Medical Clearing Company

Posted: 11 Jan 2015 11:47PM GMT
Classification: Query
Med clearing companies are units which receive wounded from the front line medics, stabilize them and transfer them rearward to the appropriate facility for tending to their specific wounds. The company generally has perhaps 120 temp beds (cots) x ray and some lab capabilities. Patients with minor wounds might stay a couple of days and be returned to duty, more serious wounds or disease would be evacuated. These units traditionally have about 4 physicians and perhaps 6 med service officers and many enlisted med technicians.

Re: Medical Clearing Company

Posted: 15 Apr 2015 10:57PM GMT
Classification: Query
His unit landed at Inchon after the invasion. They set up on Spt 26th near Seoul. The next major assignment was a Hamhung and then Wonson during the Chosin Res campaign. The unit was dispatched wherever needed for the duration of the war and provided key services for the multitudes of wounded.
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