Deep-Sea Stories with Len Starbeck HMC Dive Medical Tech and Independent Duty Corpsman

HMC DMT/Independent Duty Corpsman Len Starbeck joined the Navy in 1977 and retired in 2005.  You can read about his incredible Navy journey in his self-published book "Medical Diver, What is a Medical Diver?"  Len has a potential television mini-series in the works.  Len served 24 of 28 years of active duty as a medical diver.  Len vividly describes his journey, saying they are awash in extraordinary adventures that await future medical divers.  He speaks of the inherent dangers involved in diving and the detailed intricacies of diving medicine, physiology, and hyperbaric medicine that embraces the role of a medical diver and in training his fellow divers.  Doc Starbeck served deployed with the Marines.  The duty stations he mentions are Puerto Rico, Navy Diving and Salvage Training Center in Panama City, Florida for 1C and Dive Medical Technician school, Joint Task Force Central Identification Laboratory Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, USS Edenton ATS-1, Harbor Clearance Unit One San Diego, California, Underwater Construction Team One Port Hueneme, California, and Explosive Ordnance Disposal  Mobile Unit 3.
Doc Starbeck recalled these Sailors he served with who were influential in his successful Navy career, Navy Officer Lou Marinocci, HMC Pedro Gonzales, MDV Rafael Hernandez, MDV Bud Killbury, MDV Marty Harholser, MDV Jim Phalin, DMO Jed Morrison, MDV Mike Washington, Craig Buttons, and Kevin Wells. 

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