In Memory of….. SFC Wayne Eugene Slagel.
You may be gone, no longer living on this earth; but you will live on - in the memories of your family and friends. There will always be a part of you living in those who knew you. You will live on because we remember you!
SFC, US Army, Combat Medic, WW II, Korea, Vietnam
One of only two soldiers to ever receive 3 awards of the Combat Medic Badge for serving in 3 different Wars, in this case WW II, Korea and Vietnam.
Slagel Dining Facility at Fort Sam Houston, Texas is named in his honor. Fort Sam Houston is Home of the Combat Medic.
Photos of Wayne Slagel and his Combat Medic Badge are by Paul Webber at the AMEDD Museum, Fort Sam Houston, TX, August 2006
The other soldier with 3 awards of the Combat Medic Badge is Henry Lavor Jenkins
Awards
Bronze Star w/V device and 4 Oak Leaf Clusters
Purple Heart
Army Commendation Medal
From http://home.pcisys.net/~pwebber/31_id/
text/slagel_brittingham_deas.txt
Olden Times #648
Dr. Thomas M Deas, M.D.
24 August 2002
There are two of my Medics that I want to write about today. The first is a Man who has passed away a couple or three years ago with Cancer of the Stomach. His name was Wayne Slagel. Back in late l944, we were on Morotai and my First Sgt. Max M. Wainwright came into the dispensary and told me, "Major, there is a Corporal from a Medical Supply Dump who wants to get into a Combat Medical Detachment, and wants to see you about it." Well, I figured that he must want to transfer awful bad to want to get out of a
"cushy" rear echelon job that was safe to one of hard work and fraught with danger, so I went out to where he was to see him.
He told me this story about having a brother in the Marines and they had been in Combat and that he didn't want to come home to have his brother "crow" over this "soft" job and he wanted to get into an outfit that would get into combat. Well, I looked at him and he looked quite sincere, but I was overloaded with extra noncoms in my Detachment. I was also under strength, so--------- I told him the situation and that he would have to come in as a Private. He readily agreed and I started the transfer that day. He was with us the next day and I put him down in 3rd Battalion. He had already been trained to care for casualties, so he didn't need any training. After that I kind of forgot about him, more or less and we were later shipped to the Philippines. From all accounts he conducted himself very well because he received a Bronze Star for Valor and was promoted to T/5 Rank. Well, the War was over before long and I left the outfit. Meanwhile he was awarded the Combat Medical Badge.
After the War when we started having Reunions, I was able to get in touch with "Doc" Slagel in TAYLORVILLE, Illinois, and he made two or three Reunions. I found that he stayed in the Philippines in some branch of the Service. Started a "Helping Hand Service," collecting books here and yon for a Library there. The Library was named after him. Later he was assigned as an Instructor at MFSS, Carlisle, PA and by then was a Sergeant First Class.
During the Korean War he served as a Medic in the 27th Inf. Regt. (the Wolfhounds) in several difficult battles including the one at "Heartbreak Ridge." He was awarded his second Bronze Star for Valor and his second Combat Medical Badge. In l963 he retired from the Army and stayed in Korea working on Rodent Control Programs with the U.S. and Korea.
In l967 he volunteered for active duty and was assigned to his old Unit (the Wolfhounds) as the NCOIC of a Battalion Aid Station in Vietnam. Here he was wounded trying to treat an injured soldier in combat and was awarded the Purple Heart. He also was awarded two Bronze Stars for Valor. During his career he is ONE of TWO Known RECIPIENTS of the THIRD Combat Medical Badge. Besides this he earned Bronze Star "V" with four Oak Leaf Clusters, Purple Heart, Army Commendation Medal ,Good Conduct Medal, 6th award, Army of Occupation Medal WWII, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with Arrowhead and 2 Stars, WWII Victory Medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, Vietnam Service and Campaign Medals, Philippine Liberation Medal, National Defense Medal. His Medical Detachment (124th Infantry) was also awarded the Philippine Presidential Unit Citation and The United States Presidential Unit Citation (in the Philippines}.
SFC Wayne Slagel died in 1999. The U.S. Army Medical Corps saw fit to honor him in a ceremony with his Family by naming a Building (Dining Facility) The SFC Wayne E. Slagel Dining Facility, Building 1377, in the Medical Area near Brooks General Hospital in San Antonio, Texas. He was one of MY Boys!!!!!
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Sources: US Veterans Gravesites
Many thank yous to W Lawyer for obtaining and providing the photo and giving permission to use it on findagrave.
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You may be gone, no longer living on this earth; but you will live on - in the memories of your family and friends. There will always be a part of you living in those who knew you. You will live on because we remember you!
SFC, US Army, Combat Medic, WW II, Korea, Vietnam
One of only two soldiers to ever receive 3 awards of the Combat Medic Badge for serving in 3 different Wars, in this case WW II, Korea and Vietnam.
Slagel Dining Facility at Fort Sam Houston, Texas is named in his honor. Fort Sam Houston is Home of the Combat Medic.
Photos of Wayne Slagel and his Combat Medic Badge are by Paul Webber at the AMEDD Museum, Fort Sam Houston, TX, August 2006
The other soldier with 3 awards of the Combat Medic Badge is Henry Lavor Jenkins
Awards
Bronze Star w/V device and 4 Oak Leaf Clusters
Purple Heart
Army Commendation Medal
From http://home.pcisys.net/~pwebber/31_id/
text/slagel_brittingham_deas.txt
Olden Times #648
Dr. Thomas M Deas, M.D.
24 August 2002
There are two of my Medics that I want to write about today. The first is a Man who has passed away a couple or three years ago with Cancer of the Stomach. His name was Wayne Slagel. Back in late l944, we were on Morotai and my First Sgt. Max M. Wainwright came into the dispensary and told me, "Major, there is a Corporal from a Medical Supply Dump who wants to get into a Combat Medical Detachment, and wants to see you about it." Well, I figured that he must want to transfer awful bad to want to get out of a
"cushy" rear echelon job that was safe to one of hard work and fraught with danger, so I went out to where he was to see him.
He told me this story about having a brother in the Marines and they had been in Combat and that he didn't want to come home to have his brother "crow" over this "soft" job and he wanted to get into an outfit that would get into combat. Well, I looked at him and he looked quite sincere, but I was overloaded with extra noncoms in my Detachment. I was also under strength, so--------- I told him the situation and that he would have to come in as a Private. He readily agreed and I started the transfer that day. He was with us the next day and I put him down in 3rd Battalion. He had already been trained to care for casualties, so he didn't need any training. After that I kind of forgot about him, more or less and we were later shipped to the Philippines. From all accounts he conducted himself very well because he received a Bronze Star for Valor and was promoted to T/5 Rank. Well, the War was over before long and I left the outfit. Meanwhile he was awarded the Combat Medical Badge.
After the War when we started having Reunions, I was able to get in touch with "Doc" Slagel in TAYLORVILLE, Illinois, and he made two or three Reunions. I found that he stayed in the Philippines in some branch of the Service. Started a "Helping Hand Service," collecting books here and yon for a Library there. The Library was named after him. Later he was assigned as an Instructor at MFSS, Carlisle, PA and by then was a Sergeant First Class.
During the Korean War he served as a Medic in the 27th Inf. Regt. (the Wolfhounds) in several difficult battles including the one at "Heartbreak Ridge." He was awarded his second Bronze Star for Valor and his second Combat Medical Badge. In l963 he retired from the Army and stayed in Korea working on Rodent Control Programs with the U.S. and Korea.
In l967 he volunteered for active duty and was assigned to his old Unit (the Wolfhounds) as the NCOIC of a Battalion Aid Station in Vietnam. Here he was wounded trying to treat an injured soldier in combat and was awarded the Purple Heart. He also was awarded two Bronze Stars for Valor. During his career he is ONE of TWO Known RECIPIENTS of the THIRD Combat Medical Badge. Besides this he earned Bronze Star "V" with four Oak Leaf Clusters, Purple Heart, Army Commendation Medal ,Good Conduct Medal, 6th award, Army of Occupation Medal WWII, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with Arrowhead and 2 Stars, WWII Victory Medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, Vietnam Service and Campaign Medals, Philippine Liberation Medal, National Defense Medal. His Medical Detachment (124th Infantry) was also awarded the Philippine Presidential Unit Citation and The United States Presidential Unit Citation (in the Philippines}.
SFC Wayne Slagel died in 1999. The U.S. Army Medical Corps saw fit to honor him in a ceremony with his Family by naming a Building (Dining Facility) The SFC Wayne E. Slagel Dining Facility, Building 1377, in the Medical Area near Brooks General Hospital in San Antonio, Texas. He was one of MY Boys!!!!!
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Sources: US Veterans Gravesites
Many thank yous to W Lawyer for obtaining and providing the photo and giving permission to use it on findagrave.
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In Memory of….. SFC Wayne Eugene Slagel.
You may be gone, no longer living on this earth; but you will live on - in the memories of your family and friends. There will always be a part of you living in those who knew you. You will live on because we remember you!
SFC, US Army, Combat Medic, WW II, Korea, Vietnam
One of only two soldiers to ever receive 3 awards of the Combat Medic Badge for serving in 3 different Wars, in this case WW II, Korea and Vietnam.
Slagel Dining Facility at Fort Sam Houston, Texas is named in his honor. Fort Sam Houston is Home of the Combat Medic.
Photos of Wayne Slagel and his Combat Medic Badge are by Paul Webber at the AMEDD Museum, Fort Sam Houston, TX, August 2006
The other soldier with 3 awards of the Combat Medic Badge is Henry Lavor Jenkins
Awards
Bronze Star w/V device and 4 Oak Leaf Clusters
Purple Heart
Army Commendation Medal
From http://home.pcisys.net/~pwebber/31_id/
text/slagel_brittingham_deas.txt
Olden Times #648
Dr. Thomas M Deas, M.D.
24 August 2002
There are two of my Medics that I want to write about today. The first is a Man who has passed away a couple or three years ago with Cancer of the Stomach. His name was Wayne Slagel. Back in late l944, we were on Morotai and my First Sgt. Max M. Wainwright came into the dispensary and told me, "Major, there is a Corporal from a Medical Supply Dump who wants to get into a Combat Medical Detachment, and wants to see you about it." Well, I figured that he must want to transfer awful bad to want to get out of a
"cushy" rear echelon job that was safe to one of hard work and fraught with danger, so I went out to where he was to see him.
He told me this story about having a brother in the Marines and they had been in Combat and that he didn't want to come home to have his brother "crow" over this "soft" job and he wanted to get into an outfit that would get into combat. Well, I looked at him and he looked quite sincere, but I was overloaded with extra noncoms in my Detachment. I was also under strength, so--------- I told him the situation and that he would have to come in as a Private. He readily agreed and I started the transfer that day. He was with us the next day and I put him down in 3rd Battalion. He had already been trained to care for casualties, so he didn't need any training. After that I kind of forgot about him, more or less and we were later shipped to the Philippines. From all accounts he conducted himself very well because he received a Bronze Star for Valor and was promoted to T/5 Rank. Well, the War was over before long and I left the outfit. Meanwhile he was awarded the Combat Medical Badge.
After the War when we started having Reunions, I was able to get in touch with "Doc" Slagel in TAYLORVILLE, Illinois, and he made two or three Reunions. I found that he stayed in the Philippines in some branch of the Service. Started a "Helping Hand Service," collecting books here and yon for a Library there. The Library was named after him. Later he was assigned as an Instructor at MFSS, Carlisle, PA and by then was a Sergeant First Class.
During the Korean War he served as a Medic in the 27th Inf. Regt. (the Wolfhounds) in several difficult battles including the one at "Heartbreak Ridge." He was awarded his second Bronze Star for Valor and his second Combat Medical Badge. In l963 he retired from the Army and stayed in Korea working on Rodent Control Programs with the U.S. and Korea.
In l967 he volunteered for active duty and was assigned to his old Unit (the Wolfhounds) as the NCOIC of a Battalion Aid Station in Vietnam. Here he was wounded trying to treat an injured soldier in combat and was awarded the Purple Heart. He also was awarded two Bronze Stars for Valor. During his career he is ONE of TWO Known RECIPIENTS of the THIRD Combat Medical Badge. Besides this he earned Bronze Star "V" with four Oak Leaf Clusters, Purple Heart, Army Commendation Medal ,Good Conduct Medal, 6th award, Army of Occupation Medal WWII, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with Arrowhead and 2 Stars, WWII Victory Medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, Vietnam Service and Campaign Medals, Philippine Liberation Medal, National Defense Medal. His Medical Detachment (124th Infantry) was also awarded the Philippine Presidential Unit Citation and The United States Presidential Unit Citation (in the Philippines}.
SFC Wayne Slagel died in 1999. The U.S. Army Medical Corps saw fit to honor him in a ceremony with his Family by naming a Building (Dining Facility) The SFC Wayne E. Slagel Dining Facility, Building 1377, in the Medical Area near Brooks General Hospital in San Antonio, Texas. He was one of MY Boys!!!!!
**********************************************
Sources: US Veterans Gravesites
Many thank yous to W Lawyer for obtaining and providing the photo and giving permission to use it on findagrave.
*********************************
.
You may be gone, no longer living on this earth; but you will live on - in the memories of your family and friends. There will always be a part of you living in those who knew you. You will live on because we remember you!
SFC, US Army, Combat Medic, WW II, Korea, Vietnam
One of only two soldiers to ever receive 3 awards of the Combat Medic Badge for serving in 3 different Wars, in this case WW II, Korea and Vietnam.
Slagel Dining Facility at Fort Sam Houston, Texas is named in his honor. Fort Sam Houston is Home of the Combat Medic.
Photos of Wayne Slagel and his Combat Medic Badge are by Paul Webber at the AMEDD Museum, Fort Sam Houston, TX, August 2006
The other soldier with 3 awards of the Combat Medic Badge is Henry Lavor Jenkins
Awards
Bronze Star w/V device and 4 Oak Leaf Clusters
Purple Heart
Army Commendation Medal
From http://home.pcisys.net/~pwebber/31_id/
text/slagel_brittingham_deas.txt
Olden Times #648
Dr. Thomas M Deas, M.D.
24 August 2002
There are two of my Medics that I want to write about today. The first is a Man who has passed away a couple or three years ago with Cancer of the Stomach. His name was Wayne Slagel. Back in late l944, we were on Morotai and my First Sgt. Max M. Wainwright came into the dispensary and told me, "Major, there is a Corporal from a Medical Supply Dump who wants to get into a Combat Medical Detachment, and wants to see you about it." Well, I figured that he must want to transfer awful bad to want to get out of a
"cushy" rear echelon job that was safe to one of hard work and fraught with danger, so I went out to where he was to see him.
He told me this story about having a brother in the Marines and they had been in Combat and that he didn't want to come home to have his brother "crow" over this "soft" job and he wanted to get into an outfit that would get into combat. Well, I looked at him and he looked quite sincere, but I was overloaded with extra noncoms in my Detachment. I was also under strength, so--------- I told him the situation and that he would have to come in as a Private. He readily agreed and I started the transfer that day. He was with us the next day and I put him down in 3rd Battalion. He had already been trained to care for casualties, so he didn't need any training. After that I kind of forgot about him, more or less and we were later shipped to the Philippines. From all accounts he conducted himself very well because he received a Bronze Star for Valor and was promoted to T/5 Rank. Well, the War was over before long and I left the outfit. Meanwhile he was awarded the Combat Medical Badge.
After the War when we started having Reunions, I was able to get in touch with "Doc" Slagel in TAYLORVILLE, Illinois, and he made two or three Reunions. I found that he stayed in the Philippines in some branch of the Service. Started a "Helping Hand Service," collecting books here and yon for a Library there. The Library was named after him. Later he was assigned as an Instructor at MFSS, Carlisle, PA and by then was a Sergeant First Class.
During the Korean War he served as a Medic in the 27th Inf. Regt. (the Wolfhounds) in several difficult battles including the one at "Heartbreak Ridge." He was awarded his second Bronze Star for Valor and his second Combat Medical Badge. In l963 he retired from the Army and stayed in Korea working on Rodent Control Programs with the U.S. and Korea.
In l967 he volunteered for active duty and was assigned to his old Unit (the Wolfhounds) as the NCOIC of a Battalion Aid Station in Vietnam. Here he was wounded trying to treat an injured soldier in combat and was awarded the Purple Heart. He also was awarded two Bronze Stars for Valor. During his career he is ONE of TWO Known RECIPIENTS of the THIRD Combat Medical Badge. Besides this he earned Bronze Star "V" with four Oak Leaf Clusters, Purple Heart, Army Commendation Medal ,Good Conduct Medal, 6th award, Army of Occupation Medal WWII, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with Arrowhead and 2 Stars, WWII Victory Medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, Vietnam Service and Campaign Medals, Philippine Liberation Medal, National Defense Medal. His Medical Detachment (124th Infantry) was also awarded the Philippine Presidential Unit Citation and The United States Presidential Unit Citation (in the Philippines}.
SFC Wayne Slagel died in 1999. The U.S. Army Medical Corps saw fit to honor him in a ceremony with his Family by naming a Building (Dining Facility) The SFC Wayne E. Slagel Dining Facility, Building 1377, in the Medical Area near Brooks General Hospital in San Antonio, Texas. He was one of MY Boys!!!!!
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Sources: US Veterans Gravesites
Many thank yous to W Lawyer for obtaining and providing the photo and giving permission to use it on findagrave.
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