Long Daze at Long Binh: The humorous adventures of two Wisconsin draftees trained as combat medics and sent off to set up a field hospital in South Vietnam Paperback – March 21, 2017

Donovan & Borchart form a tag-team as they weave together dozens of snapshots of their two years serving together, from the day they were sworn in together, through months of training, then more than a year in Vietnam as they helped build and open the 24th Evac Hospital in Long Binh. This is a very entertaining memoir of the early days of massive US involvement in Vietnam. It also hits a little closer to home for me than perhaps some other readers. Four years later, as I was serving in another unit just a few blonks away, I spent a memorable night on sick call there while they tried to figure out what was wrong with me. Thankfully they succeeded, and I was soon healthy again.

The authors share their account of their experiences as medics at a hospital in Vietnam. They were in the war somewhat early and as such traveled to Vietnam on a troop ship. The book is written in an interview style and is easy to follow. A website has photos available but I would have preferred them to be included in the book. For other reading check out "Duster Duty, 1967".

1st I really did not like the way it was set up to read, just an odd way of it. It was a good read but not much about about doing their medical jobs. Got kind of boring about 2/3 the way thru. And the cover is wrong, nothing about Helicopter medics. It was something different to read about, but I really can not buying this book.

Enjoyed the book immensely. Spent Sep ‘66 - Sep ‘67. Belonged to the 1st Sig Bde Security Force. Had to secure the site located behind Long Bing Post and Repo-depot and 400 meters north of the Long Binh Ammo Depot. Your book brought back many forgotten memories of the AOR we all had to work in. Same as with the communication challenges with the South Vietnamese civilian workers that supported the US Army during period. Looking forward to reading other books you have written. Enjoy life and Aloha from Hawaii.

I served at this same evac hospital though a couple of years later so I can relate to a lot of their stories. They built fine facilities. The nurses had it made thanks to these guys and others who helped build it. They're good writers and the style of their writing worked well. Some of their stories made me blush, but I'm an old lady now....doesn't matter like it would have back then. You don't have to be a medic to relate. A great read. Thanks, for writing.

It takes you through a journey that hundreds of reluctant young men took from civilian life to soldier s in a war they knew little about and cared even less about and back after earning the right to be called a Veteran.

Having spent the year of 1968 in the area around Long Binh and a considerable amount of time in the camp securing it most of these recollections do not correlate with what I encountered.A lot of the memories seem to exactly what can be found in any book about the Vietnam war but this does not make them accurate.I was hoping for an accurate description of what was actually happening but that seems to be difficult to find anymore without political or personal feelings interfering.

I really enjoyed this book. It brought back so many memories of my time in Vietnam. I was stationed at Cam Ranh Bay, (68-69) but the cast of characters whether Vietnamese or G.I., were similar . At my detachment we also used a Agent Orange barrel for a barbeque. But we burned out the barrel before we used it, thus we exposed the whole area to as we know now toxic smoke. If you served in Vietnam you will enjoy this book. It's like sitting in the barracks and hearing everyone BS about their day. 5 stars for it, from this Vet.