Vietnam veteran kept up the fight
By Lou Michel
NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Updated: June 4, 2012
At 19 years old and recently graduated with a degree in aviation mechanics from Burgard Vocational High School, Al Brusetti attempted to enlist in the Air Force and the Army.
“There was no work in the area, and I wanted to continue in aviation,” Brusetti said.
He received disappointing news from both branches.
“They said I was overweight. I weighed about 220 pounds, but it was from weightlifting and sports.”
Though the economy was hurting, Brusetti secured a maintenance position with the county at E.J. Meyer Memorial Hospital starting in 1961.
But by 1965, when Brusetti was almost 26, Uncle Sam sent him a draft notice. This time Brusetti was looking pretty good, though he was still the same weight.
“The doctor who gave me the physical said I wasn’t overweight. I was ‘heavily muscled.’ Those words are actually in the report from the physical,” said Brusetti, who still gets a chuckle from them.
The muscular soldier arrived in Vietnam in August 1966 as a member of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade.
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