Thinking about becoming a combat medic. What specific things

medicine
you're not too bright are ya buddy

>>34731138
gun shot wounds, tourniquets, how to insert ivs, how to keep cool headed.

Do medics call in cas vacs themselves or does a SNCO do it? I mean everyone should learn but who really does it?

>>34731138
Get your paramedic, if you get that then you have a chance to be a combat medic.

Worry about not breaking your fat ass in Basic Training and AIT.

Coursework is so fuckin easy you can pass it with 0 prior medical knowledge. Don't worry about being some high speed brainiac and skip EMT phase if you don't have EMT Basic at this point.

What you need to worry about is if you're going to show up at your first unit dicked up and unfit and can't run 2 miles within 15:54 with a shitty can't do attitude.

Talk to a fuckin recruiter time yesterday. 68W is a big ass MOS, if its unavailable tomorrow slots will open like your mom's legs within a month. There is a new training class starting about every 3~4 weeks with 300~400 turds.

t. Senior Line Medic

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>>34731212
Um i browse /fit/ im pretty sure i can pass

>>34731230
no but seriously i'm already in good shape

>>34731238
Then your next step is speaking with a recruiter and telling him you want 68W will not sign for anything else.

Take the asvab and get a GT score higher than 110. If I can do it hungover, fatigued and hungry you can do it too no fuckin excuses.

Talk to a recruiter in the morning.

>>34731138
How to cope mentally with doing everything you can to save a friends life only to hear they died in casevac.

>>34731138
>hey guys i wanna do x in the military, should i study?
No you fucking dip that's what TRAINING is for.

They will teach you what you need to know. Study taking care of your joes, and they will take care of you.

>>34731287
More like
>how to cope mentally with swabbing latrines stateside for the next 8 years

>>34731293
>>34731294
I don't see how pre-studying would hurt

>>34731138
https://youtu.be/YgU0YytQVbs

>>34731312
Quit jumping the steps hero. You're not even in AIT yet. Study the Army song, general orders, soldier's creed, Army values. Basic Soldier's Blue Book shit.

>I don't see how pre-studying would hurt
>I don't see how
>I don't see
>I

NO ONE CARES ABOUT PRIVATE I. DO FLUTTERKICKS.

>>34731138
>What specific things should I study
I bet basic anatomy (bones and blood vessels and all that stuff) wouldn't hurt. Also, I'd strike up an acquaintance with local paramedics and maybe firefighters and just ask them.

>>34731138
>What specific things should I study?

Roadmarching with about 70 pounds of rucksack.

Too many "combat" medics want to be fat pieces of shit and work in an aid station handing out motrin rather than actually being on the line with the men, and then when it's time to hump a ruck, they fall the fuck out and their grunts have to give THEM the I.V..

>>34731335
I want to distro this info now that its out there.

The I.V Instant Hydration meme must end here and now.

Drinking water rehydrates in average about 20 minutes quicklier than getting an IV. I am sick and motherfucking tired of troopers begging me to stick them because they're too dumb to drink fucking water or they want to snapchat a run of the mill direct line IV on the AC.

>>34731297
prepare for the worst bla bla bla. Nothing wrong with being mentally fit and able to not internalize deaths etc.

Maybe being a normal solider who knows basic medical training would be easier

>>34731347
>Drinking water rehydrates in average about 20 minutes quicklier than getting an IV

That's the dumbest fucking thing I'll read on 4chan today.

Glad you're not my "medic".

>>34731347
When drinking water, scientific studies have shown that it can take up to 2 hours to completely absorb 500ml of water. Furthermore, your body can only absorb about one liter of water an hour from your GI tract. So, if you are 3 or 4 liters dehydrated (which can easily happen during a hard night of drinking and possible vomiting,) it can take 6 to 7 hours to rehydrate via oral ingestion of water.

>quicklier

also, ELECTROLYTES, IT'S WHAT PLANTS CRAVE.

>>34731373
Eat 12 dicks window licker. Your circulatory system is very greedy. Whatever fluids you introduce into it, the circulatory system will hold onto before it distributes it to your cells. Only when it determines its at capacity will the circulatory system deliver excess to your fluid depleted cells in your body. Drinking water on the other hand doesn't have to bypass the circulatory system checkpoint. This is of course falls under the typical run of the mill """""""dehydration""""""" scenario where Joe gets side stitches or feels warm because he sweat a little and failed to maintain proper hydration.

Tell me how to do my job.

>>34731402
>Drinking water on the other hand doesn't have to bypass the circulatory system checkpoint.
Yeah, I'm going to agree with >>34731373

>>34731323
If you know the forth and fifth general orders you get a cookie

4. I will guard my post from flank to flank and not take shit from any rank.

5. Deny, deny, deny, state your innocence, make counter-accusations.

>>34731402
>Drinking water on the other hand doesn't have to bypass the circulatory system checkpoint

I don't even know what to say.

>>34731402
>Tell me how to do my job.

Your job is obviously not being a medic, or at least it sure as fuck shouldn't be, because you are one clueless motherfucker.

We're done here, clown.

>>34731425
You sound like a complete piece of shit welfare in uniform case.

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>>34731394
>Elctrolytes its what plants crave!

I got that reference

>>34731162
A doctor is different from a medic.

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>>34731402
How the fuck do you think water gets from the GIT to anywhere else in the body?
>Pic fucking related

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>>34731402

>>34731187
This and if not this emt training and work your deadlift and dragging type exercises you will need them

>>34731335
We turned a medic into a cook on deployment for exactly this

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>>34731545
What would we do without you here to explain this.

>>34731175
PSG and RTO do 9 lines, all medic has to do is treat and direct cls while in a ccp

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>>34731138
your ass

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>>34731138
>What specific things should I study?
Water. Motrin. Fresh socks.

>>34732439
it's a kind of help too :^)

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>>34732494
And Ranger IVs

>>34731212
Wouldn't taking a Wilderness EMT course and hiking a bunch before enlisting give you some advantage? Is there any benefit to doing well in AIT?

>>34732510
http://www.realfirstaid.co.uk/rectal/
> The system is gravity-fed, allowing the rectum to absorb only what is needed. Do not be tempted to force fluid into the rectum. They won’t like it. Neither will you.

How to fuck other men in the ass.

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>>34731138
Do you have boobs?
> A British hero medic says a fellow UK soldier who had just lost his legs to a bomb blast asked her to flash her breasts to help relieve his pain.
> Private Emily Tomkins refused, but saved his life, earning a bravery award for her heroics in Helmand, Afghanistan, the UK Sun reports.
> Tomkins, 21, initially gave the man a shot of morphine, but explained she could not risk giving any more despite his agony.
> Then he said: “Well do something useful and show me your boobs.”
http://archive.is/QidLW

>>34732626
was he sued for sexual harassment?

>>34732626
What a cunt, won't even show a dying man some nips.

>>34732634
No, she was a good sports, bongs aren't that crazy. I'm not sure he could have pulled it off with a female burger 68W though.

> A female Army medic comments on Gawker’s version of this story that this all too common for female medics.

> “Here’s the deal. I am an Army medic, and I have heard this kind of sh– so many times. I have had guys ask me to flash them, give them oral sex, have sex with them, so they ‘feel better’. It is the biggest bunch of bull—-. If it was one guy, badly wounded, who cracked a joke, I might give him a pass. But it’s so many of them, and it’s so often. I am highly trained. I am extremely good at my job. I love my job. I am here to save your miserable f—ing life. At least *pretend* like you see me as a fellow soldier, maybe even as a person, rather than a camouflaged fleshlight on legs.”

>>34731138
Check out this guy's YT channel, he talks about all things 68W.
https://www.youtube.com/user/ARCHIEzzle

>>34732654
>bongs aren't that crazy

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25078544

Civie paramedic here, If I enlisted would I be able to do all the cool shit I can now Like RSI and advanced cardiac care. or Is it just BLS trauma focused medicine?