On the field, as I made my way across, the stretcher parties still strove to separate friend from foe.
A stretcher party had taken away the woman with the broken leg.
So he had pulled the bodies into his office until a stretcher party could be spared.
The project manager was organizing stretcher parties, which meant a number of the civilians would have to leave their personal luggage behind.
The next one they brought back alive, and handed him over to the stretcher party.
Against the orders of another Medical officer he then returned with a stretcher party for the other two wounded.
While returning to the rear, the stretcher party observed two men approaching who they believed were Marines.
"Arrange stretcher parties to carry our wounded back, and number the dead."
The stretcher party had done its work, taking the remains of Theo Gray out by the back way.
As the call connected he added, 'I'll include a stretcher party for the patient.'
