Thinking about Joining the Navy... Corpsman style

[datalink7]

Originally posted by: dabuddha

Originally posted by: datalink7
Don't do it.

You would be throwing your life away in a stupid way.

Join the Army.

😛

*I'm in the Army.



All this time we got the fable of Sleeping Beauty all wrong.

The prince didn't kiss her to wake her up. No one who's slept for a hundred years is likely to wake up.

It was the other way around. He kisses her to wake himself up from the nightmare that has brought him there.

Been playing Max Payne 2, eh? 🙂

:beer:😀

 

[jemcam]

All I can add to the BS posters who have never served is that the Army gave me the strength physically and emotionally to tackle anything that I wanted to do. No job or college can teach you that.

It sucks at times, but it's great at times. I don't regret one second of my approx. 17 years that I was serving my country.

Don't knock it if you haven't tried it. Let me put it this way: How many people have you spoken to that were in one of the Armed Services that said they hated it and regretted doing it? (This is not to include draftees since they didn't go of their own free will, but I'll bet a good portion of those folks won't have regretted it.)

 

[DaviDaVinci]

Originally posted by: PipBoy
sounds good. keep in mind that you could go to war and die.

Working at a Qwiky mart has the same risks just as other jobs 😉

Btw, my friend (26 yrs old) , thanks to his military career just got offered to be a FBI Special agent. But he turned it down because he got a better offer to work for the US Embassy. $40k starting base pay plus danger pay, no tax. He'll be working somewhere in the Networking field. ALLLL expenses paid. Traveling. Getting CS certifications. Retires in 15 years. I don't know, i think he'll be ahead of a lot of people in the long run.

 

[CanOWorms]

Originally posted by: jemcam
All I can add to the BS posters who have never served is that the Army gave me the strength physically and emotionally to tackle anything that I wanted to do. No job or college can teach you that.

It sucks at times, but it's great at times. I don't regret one second of my approx. 17 years that I was serving my country.

Don't knock it if you haven't tried it. Let me put it this way: How many people have you spoken to that were in one of the Armed Services that said they hated it and regretted doing it? (This is not to include draftees since they didn't go of their own free will, but I'll bet a good portion of those folks won't have regretted it.)

I think you can learn outside of the armed forces to be emotionally and physically strong. If you had to learn it while you were in the army then you were probably some misfit that needed some correcting 🙂

I'm not knocking it or insulting it. You armed forces people are so sensitive 😀

 

[KK]

My vote goes to the AF. It's just like a 9-5 job most of the time. do four years and then get out and get a job, or finish up your college.

KK

 

[ScottMac]

I was a corpsman from '75-'79. Boot camp generally sucks, but if you're in decent shape, it's a breeze (I wasn't, it wasn't).

Corps School (Great Lakes) was one of the best times of my life. The class was basically 50/50 male/female ... mostly party people.

First duty station was Camp LeJeune, but at the Naval Hospital, not with the grunts (until later when I moved to Dispensary Services and filled in for vacationing Corpsmen). I loved it. I went to the range enough to qualify expert with .38, .45, and rifle (M16 was nearly brand new issue). Corpsmen with shooting ribbons get an extra beer from the Marines. 😀 "FMF Corpsmen" go through 8404 school (Field Med School). You learn battlefield medicine, dragging people around by the collar, gunbelt, whatever and general "how to do grunt stuff." You do gain the option of wearing the Navy version of the Marine Uniforms (even the dress blues, but with Navy insignias).

I transferred up to NRMC (Naval Regional Med Center, Portsmouth VA - near Norfolk) and did my last two years in a Research Lab and got certified as an Electronmicroscopy Technician (also did photomicroscopy).

Keep in mind that there's Corpsman jobs for anything you'd see in a hospital or clinic... and then some. That includes 'Vertical Transport Operator" (the evevator guy ...) Security, Lab, Ward Medicine / Nursing, CCU, ICU, Pharmacy (tech), ER, ambulance, Aviation (flight certified is a tough area to get into ... Patient transport via Helo and big Air Ambulance, Psych, OR tech, supply, medical records, pretty much anything, any job within a medical environment. In the field, you can be with the SeaBees (construction), with the Grunts, in a Sub, EOD, SEALs, ship, boat, " Anywhere in the Fresh Air."

"All-in-all, I had a ball!" I also did two 13 weeks stints (TAD / Temporary Assignment of Duty) with Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD Group Two) from Fort Story VA. Crazy people don't crazy things with stuff that blows up (in this case, sweeping the Inter-coastal waterway for unexploded artillery rounds at Cp. Lejeune).

The military also has facilities for recreation. While at Cp. LeJeune, I started learning to fly at the base flying club. A Cessna 150 went for $11.00 / hour (wet) and the Flight Instructor was another $8.00. There ain't anywhere in these here U-nited States where you can/could get any plane (and Instructor) for under $20. At the time, civilian Clubs were getting $35-40 and hour for the plane and `$12-15 for the CFI.

There's other perks: real job experience (employers even count it as real), advanced job skills, college cash, VA loans, probably some travel, and some of the tightest friendships you'll ever have. Not too mention snappy uniforms and, as a corpsman, you have access to all the Procaine Penicillan (but being the Doc, you get to take the pills......) you can use...

You don't (didn't have to) do the full seven on active duty. When I was in it was a six year hitch, with four years active, two years inactive (active reserves are/were an option).

Good Luck

Scott

 

[alm4rr]

Originally posted by: illusion88
work in exotic locations

if by exotic you mean BLUE and locations you mean the ocean, go for it. Maybe, since you are EMT, you may want to look into the Coast Guard. It's a pretty good deal

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