541 Med

Staff	Call Sign or Position	Tour Served
Cpt Dr. David Campbell	Wizard 6 - Flight Surgeon	68 - 68
Dr. James W. Soileau	Wizard 6 - Flight Surgeon	68 - 69
Dr. Thomas A. Artabane	Wizard 6 - Flight Surgeon	69 - 70
Dr. James A Passmore	Wizard 6 - Flight Surgeon	70 - 71
Dr. Douglas Hagen	Wizard 6 - Flight Surgeon	71 - 72
Edward A. Artis	Wizard 5 - NCOIC	70 -71 -72
Randell Callison	NCOIC / SGT
Timothy Dziuk
Bill Falk
Mike Feeney
Jack Hartman	Temp NCOIC at DiAn
Norman E. Hatch	Clinical Specialist / NCOIC / SP6	68 - 69
John Hitchins		72
Louis B. Holly	Clinical Specialist / SP6	69 - 70
Mike Ladeau		69 -70 ?
Joe Marzluf
John Metcalf
Miller
Peter Novy	Medical Specialist , SP5	68 -70
Bob Rogers
Edward Vredenburg	NCOIC / Medical Specialist / SP4	69 - 70
SSG Taylor	Wizard 5 - NCOIC	69
Daniel Webster	Medical Specialist / SP4	68 -69
Bob Young

Welcome to DiAn (after hasty retreat from Tay Ninh in late 71) from the highly skilled staff at the 541st. Medical Detachment................... We serve the best, ................. Especially the Blackhawks, Crusaders and Rats.
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(Photo by Ed Artis)

Here is an old picture that I found a couple of years ago showing some of the men from the 541st Med Det (oa) as we took a break during one of our MEDCAPS (Medical Civic Action Projects ) that we did from time to time in Cambodia. I believe that this picture was taken sometime in early to mid 1971. That's me, Ed Artis standing in the middle, Dr, then Specialist 4 Bob Rogers ( left ) and Dr (Capt) Doug Hagen (right) our flight surgeon at the time.

We would fly from Tay Ninh West, a US military base camp in Vietnam usually late in the afternoon to a Special Forces Camp near Snul right on the border between Vietnam and Cambodia, spend the night there and in the morning we would either walk or be driven across the border into Cambodia where this clinic was set up near a refugee camp.

We would spend the day working there, doing whatever was needed to treat the various wounds and diseases that we saw and then at the end of a very rewarding day we would return to the SF Camp have a couple cool ones and wait for a helicopter from the 187th AHC " CRUSADERS ", the unit that we were assigned to, to return and take us back to Tay Ninh.

Working at the Tay Ninh Provincial Hospital and on projects such as this, first with Capt Thomas Artabane and SP6 Holley and later Capt James Passmore and then his replacement Capt Doug Hagen, all from the 541st Med Det (oa) is where I began my career as an international humanitarian and for that experience in Vietnam I will forever be grateful.

Ed Artis

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