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Reader Reviews for "Mass Casualties: A Young Medic's True Story of Death, and Dishonor in Iraq"

Reviewed by JASON MCDONALD	1/24/2010
I am a Hospital Corpsmen who has served three tours in harms way during some of the fiercest fighting on the front lines: Ramadi: 2004 January - 2004 November and Baghdad 2005 November - 2006 December. This is a awful book written on a Goose-Bump or Teenage romance novel/tabloid level by a immature medic. This book contains college freshman rebelliousness, with one persons self serving aims. It contains little to know literature on the self sacrifice and life saving expertise of our medical brothers and sisters. The word MASS CASUALTIES means any large number of casualties produced in a relatively short period of time, usually as the result of a single incident such as a military aircraft accident, hurricane, flood, earthquake, or armed attack that exceeds local logistic support capabilities. It does not mean whiney, undisciplined, hypersensitive REMF among a highly undisciplined U.S. Army unit that he could have tried to change earlier without making the U.S. Army`s role more difficult by bad publicity. That is, if this young mans story is correct. This young man took military dirty laundry and hung it on a hook for everyone to see. He states "I am doing it for the good of the soldier." This young man is using exploitation. Most of us professional health care providers/combat medics and corpsmen agree that by not taking internal action and going through civilian channels, you will make the military system weaker. They now have to try and fix all of these issues while fending off more oversight slowing down corrective action. If the military trys to operate like a civilian organization it will fail. The power of a individual sailor, marine, soldier, airman to make individual change through the appropriate channels is at its highest. Now there will be outside agencies trying to handle military affiars and raising questions that could have been dealt with more decisively, with more quickness and maintaining good order. If he felt so strongly or had the stones about his convictions he could have reported this to the Inspector General for action to be taken. If it still did not happen and as a last resort, he could have brought this to stars and stripes after he exhausted all measures. Mr. Anthony, you are a philanthropist, a whiner and a fake who lacks integrity and courage to bring up these matters affectively while in the military. Please ensure that you take any medic insignia, chevrons or identification and send it back to the military for someone with the appropriate honor, commitment and courage to serve. Its apparent this non-medics aims are for recognition and book sales despite his raising some funds for the troops. I fear that with my post, more personnel will read this book. If you want to read this book, do so at a library, borrow it from someone or read it in a book store. I would not recommend buying this book about a whiner who lacked the courage do take action in the organization. Sincerely: Doc Hey Mr Anthony, if you want the negative and positive truth about real corpsmen, medics and surgeons please see the below. Rule Number Two: Lessons I Learned in a Combat Hospital Memoirs of a Combat Medic by SSG Elissa Lonsdale�fs Combat Medic: World War II by John A Kerner Saber's Edge: A Combat Medic in Ramadi, Iraq (Hardcover) Doc: Heroic Stories of Medics,Corpsmen,and Surgeons by Mark R. Littleton The Gift of Valor: A War Story by Michael
Reviewed by Richard Arrington	9/11/2009
I hope this book open the eye's of those who have chosen to keep them closed. You are a wonderful writer.
Reviewed by Terry Rizzuti	7/2/2009
Michael, It very much sounds as though your journey is taking you places similar to my own. I wish you the best of luck. Terry