Navy MOH Recipient dies at 79
You know I’m partial to the Navy and Docs.
Navy Times is reporting that retired Master Chief Hospital Corpsman William Charette, Medal of Honor recipient, died yesterday at 79 years.
Charette enlisted in the Navy in 1951 and joined Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, which left for Korea in February 1953. It was March 27, 1953, during the Chinese attack on Marine outpost Vegas when Charette threw himself over his patient during a grenade attack, absorbing the blast with his own body, according to the Military Times Hall of Valor.
In separate instances, Charette removed his battle vest to put on a patient, tore parts of his uniform to dress battle wounds and stood up in a trench, braving gunfire, to attend to a patient.
Mr. Charette is like the soldiers and sailors we know, trust, admire, served with: the kind of men and women we’re raising our children to be. Unlike the filth we’ve been inundated with lately.
Category: Historical, Navy, Real Soldiers
I bet he’s taking care of the wounded up there.
Thanks for posting this. This is the model all medics must live up to. The best of the medics spirit. RIP Doc.
Semper Fi Doc…. you’re with your Marines now.
Selfless. Leading by example. Something that the OWS_______ folks will never understand, because it’s about the others, not about themselves.
God Bless and keep all the Corpsmen and Medics. They represent the better angels of our nature.
Sailor, rest your oar.
Under the wide an starry sky,
Dig my grave and let me lie,
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And laid me down with a will,
And this be the verse that you grave for me,
Here he lies where he longed to be,
Home is the sailor home from the sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.
Rest in peace, Master Chief. May God comfort your survivors.
May we never forget your example.
I was catching this AM and saw this I have a couple of very dear friends who live in Lake Wales, Fl (also a vet) and here is his response to me.
Bill Charette was part of the “gang of three”, that met up every Saturday morning @ 7:00, to have breakfast and harangue the waitresses. I was in attendance for a few of the Political, what was wrong with what was going on and how to “fix” the problems breakfast’s.One of the first Navy Seals, Master Chief Emmett Barrett (ret), Former POW in North Korea for 3 years, Bob, MacLean and Bill Charette, Each real men and real Hero’s in their own right. You would never know to talk with them, humbler men you will never meet. Bob MacLean was my Neighbor and my first and best friend here in Lake Wales. Now all three are gone with the ages. Their friendship lasted for a long time and I’m sure the gang has hooked up again in heaven, because they each have spent their time in hell………..
It was a little of a year ago that Mike and his buddies laid to rest Bob MacLean.
Rest in Peace, Job well done.
U.S. Navy Hymn
Eternal Father, strong to save,
Whose arm hath bound the restless wave,
Who bidd’st the mighty ocean deep
Its own appointed limits keep;
Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee,
For those in peril on the sea!
O Christ! Whose voice the waters heard
And hushed their raging at Thy word,
Who walked’st on the foaming deep,
And calm amidst its rage didst sleep;
Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee,
For those in peril on the sea!
Most Holy Spirit! Who didst brood
Upon the chaos dark and rude,
And bid its angry tumult cease,
And give, for wild confusion, peace;
Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee,
For those in peril on the sea!
O Trinity of love and power!
Our brethren shield in danger’s hour;
From rock and tempest, fire and foe,
Protect them wheresoe’er they go;
Thus evermore shall rise to Thee
Glad hymns of praise from land and sea.
RIP, Doc Charette.
Words are Insufficient.
RIP Master Chief.