Coast Guard Doctor Recruits Them Young. Dr. Wilbur K. Bennett, Lieutenant (), of Omaha, Neb., a Public Health Service physician assigned to duty with the Coast Guard, is shown beside the station wagon in which he visits his patients on Cape Hatteras Bank off the coast of North Carolina. A wind-swept emerged sand bar, this barren 60-mile splinter of sand is the home of people whose lives are inexorably tied up with the Coast Guard, the only occupations being fishing and the Service. There are no civilian doctors on the island and Dr. Bennett has been authorized to care for civilians as
Coast Guard Doctor Recruits Them Young. Dr. Wilbur K. Bennett, Lieutenant (), of Omaha, Neb., a Public Health Service physician assigned to duty with the Coast Guard, is shown beside the station wagon in which he visits his patients on Cape Hatteras Bank off the coast of North Carolina. A wind-swept emerged sand bar, this barren 60-mile splinter of sand is the home of people whose lives are inexorably tied up with the Coast Guard, the only occupations being fishing and the Service. There are no civilian doctors on the island and Dr. Bennett has been authorized to care for civilians as well as service men -- the only such authorization given a military doctor in this country. Since last September, Dr. Bennett has delivered almost two score babies. A bit of humor unconsciously comes into being each time the physician steps into his station wagon to attend a child birth. Inscribed in bold letters on the side of the vehicle is the legend, " Coast Guard Recruiting Service.".
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Keywords: 17-a2-218, 26-, coast, guard, history, job, rdss, rg
