Replying to a message of Gary Wiltshire to Phil Payne:

 GW> From: Gary Wiltshire 

 GW> Always get your "jabs" by nurses rather that physicians if you
 GW> possibly can.  They're more experienced.  The same is true of
 GW> corpsmen vs. doctors in military medicine in the US.

A couple of days after Christmas, 1964, I got on a plane at Travis AFB, CA,
en route to my first overseas assignment, Clark AB in the Philippines.  But
I had to get two shots before I could board the airplane.  In fact about a
hundred other people had to get shots, too.  About 2200 (10 p.m. to you
civilians), in the air terminal, there was precisely *one* corpsman in the
aid station who had to give one or more shots to over a hundred people in
the shortest time possible - after all, the plane was *leaving*.  The
corpsman loaded the two syringes, swabbed my arm, placed the syringes
between his index and middle, and middle and ring fingers, pushed the
needles in and squeezed the syringes with the palm of his hand.
The Navy troop in line ahead of me had to get five, three in one arm, two
in the other, took about a minute.

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