Jeffrey Levine describes how he joined the Navy under duress, trained as a corpsman, and then volunteered to go to Vietnam to serve with the Marines. He remembers being “immediately embraced and I felt wanted, needed … and I felt the same toward them immediately,” even though he “was a little embarrassed being called Doc, because I hadn't done anything to earn a title like that…. I was living off the reputation of my predecessors.” Just over a month after arriving up near Da Nang, Mr. Levine was shot in the head with a .50 caliber round while helping a fallen Marine. His helmet didn't do anything to protect him. “It barely held water,” he recalls. “I lost all of my lower jaw, my eye. My entire forehead is now a tantalum plate.” He woke up in St Albans Naval Hospital in New York three months later. Over the next 30 years he had roughly 250 surgeries to repair his head and face. Mr. Levine went on to become a registered nurse.