There is an urban legend, propagated by Doc Berry and Fred Hill, that Doc Berry once did a "crevice search" for a leech on some poor G.I.'s posterior. I checked with Don Koch and others, and they say it didn't happen, but we will none the less humor Fred and Doc. Fred did an Army Archives search and recently came up with the following:

On (Classified Date) while assigned as a combat medic with Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion 28th Infantry Regiment, First Infantry Division operating within the (Classified) Province, within the Republic of South Viet Nam, Doc Berry brought distinction to himself by rushing to the aid of a hysterical soldier who thought he may have been the victim of reverse ingestion of a leech.

Without benefit of latex gloves, a surgical mask or eye protection, Doc Berry repeatedly and digitally probed the soldier's wound. With little or no regard for his personal safety he kept probing in an effort to extract the critter. While doing so Doc Berry became nauseated, continued to probe until passing out. After regaining contiousness, Doc Berry then rushed the patient to a medivac helicopter to be probed by sadistic doctors with cruel probing devices at an undisclosed Mash Unit.

Doc Berry, because of his devotion to duty as a combat medic, because of his total disregard for his personal safety and because of his bravery in facing something no soldier -- including a medic -- should have to face, is hereby awarded the Disgustable Star.

Johnathan Blownbladder
BG, Proctology Corps, USA
Commanding

Congratulations Doc. Your deviate, I mean devotion, to service to your country, above and beyond the call of duty, deserves recognition. I am sure that it is only coincidence that, shortly after "discovery" of this in the archives by Fred that he was commissioned in the "Boy Nurse Corps."