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4 JANUARY 1966 “LIVE” PATIENT Dr. James H. Chandler completed his residency at Columbia University, then under one of a series of Vietnam-era physician recruitment plans, reported for duty with the US Navy. He received orders to the Marine Corps’ Field Read More