Where did the US military treat amputees during the Vietnam War soon after the soldiers got injured?

There were 2 large military hospitals, with full surgical staff. One at Tonsanute and one at Cam Rhan Bay. I should think that either of them would have handled the initial treatment, with evacuation probably being to one the hospitals in Japan.

Well in actual fact the soldiers from North Vietnam wern't called Charlie, they were referred to as the NVA. Now the guerilla fighters in the south were called Viet Cong, initials VC, and in the international phonetic alphabet its spoken Victor Charlie. You shorten that and you get Charlie. And that's where the name came from. mikey: Right answer but you could have been a little nicer about it. Schools don't teach that sort of thing anymore and by the way I am a public school graduate and I knew the answer as well as you did.

Parrish Island, SC, Camp Lejune, NC, El Toro base, CA

are examples of marine bases. The one that he iniatially deployed from, should have the information you are looking for.

In the field. Which mean not far from where they fight.