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"They were glad to be there," Pilch said. "They had all kinds of problems like lice and malnutrition."
The POWs told Pilch that the bombs had been falling constantly on them.
"It broke their spirits," he said. "Pitchil said he saw a lot of unusual diseases that were extremely rare in North America, such as elephantiasis and parasitic worms that enlarges and hardens tissues in the lower body.
Most of the injured people that Pilch saw were Iraqis.
"They looked like concentration-camp victims," he said. "They were so skinny that you couldn't even get an I.V. in their arms."
"It was interesting because I'm studving pharmacy." he said.
The worst part of his job was seeing the malnourished children, Pilch said.
"There weren't that many allies, only one or two who had stepped on a mine," Pilch said. "But the POWs came by the truckload."
Pich said he spent a lot of time playing volleyball, lifting weights and running around the perimeter of him. He lost 20 pounds while he was there.
Pilch said that his experience in the gulf had taught him to have more patience with people.
"Sometimes I walked 10 to 12 miles a day out of boredom." he said.
The locals in Saudi Arabia frequently approached the camp and asked whether they could take chairs or other items home, he said. One man invited Pilch and some friends to drink coffee.
He said the man could not understand why U.S. citizens let women into the Army and allowed them to drive and carry weapons.
"He wanted to know how many wives — plural — that I had," he said.
Pilch returned to the United States on May 10. Everyone in his company who went to the gulf came home, he said.
"I wanted to go back to school real bad," Pilch said. "I am glad to be a student again. It was fun to go through enrollment."
Mike McCarthy, Independence, Mo., junior, also was in the same company as Pilch and Borders.
where he worked as a medical lab specialist. He tested blood for different components, such as glucose and sodium potassium chloride.
MeCarthy said he often went to the lab on his days off because
"Working in the lab is a learning experience for me," he said. McCarthy is majoring in cyteotechnology, a clinical lab science that seeks to distinguish normal cells from abnormal ones.
He said his experience had not made a big impression on him.
After the fighting stopped, the hospital became a community hospital for Iraqi civilians. McCarthy said
"I like to be able to get in my car and go where I want," he said. "I like to talk to people and call friends. I enjoy going to class, but that will probably wear off."
"They had problems that they'd had for years and just never gotten medical treatment," he said.
home, he appreciated things more.
He saw a one-year-old baby that had diarrhea and had been vomiting for six months. The child died a couple days later, McCarthy said.
"I've worked in a hospital before." McCarthy said. "I don't see a difference between a woman and her children who were mangled by a cluster bomb and a woman who takes her kids out in the minivan without a car seat and gets in an accident. One's not worse than the other."
He worked from 9 p.m. to 8 a.m. every night and on duty the night the air war started, but he found out about the allied bombings from CNN.
McCarthy said now that he was
He said he became embarrassed when people asked about his experiences in the gulf.
"It wasn't like I've seen the horror of war," he said. "I just went over there and worked in a lab. When my boss was over, I went back to my tent.
"It wasn't like doing 18 months in the jungle. I don't feel like I did some heroic thing."
Clayton said he sometimes went into Saudi Arabian towns to eat and shop.
Gene Clayton, St. George sophorm, operated a switchboard and was responsible for radio maintenance in a transportation unit.
"The people were friendly on the whole," he said. "They were happy we were there."
They often walked up to him and said, "Saddam bad."
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