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Hello everyone. This is my first post. I have been reading posts for awhile and am thankful for all of the great posts and information on this site. I am enlisting in the active Army for 68WM6(LPN) and am looking for first hand knowledge of the types of duties being performed by them in Iraq. I am prior service and familiar with the Army way. I have been working in Iraq for 3 years as a "Security Consultant". Are M6's working on the larger bases, like the green zone, Victory, etc., or are they running patrols as medics?

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Specializes in Ortho, Med surg and L&D.
Hello everyone. This is my first post. I have been reading posts for awhile and am thankful for all of the great posts and information on this site. I am enlisting in the active Army for 68WM6(LPN) and am looking for first hand knowledge of the types of duties being performed by them in Iraq. I am prior service and familiar with the Army way. I have been working in Iraq for 3 years as a "Security Consultant". Are M6's working on the larger bases, like the green zone, Victory, etc., or are they running patrols as medics?

It seems that there is a high concentration of folks with the 68WM6 mos posting on the "medic" forum, under the Army discussion header at the http://www.military.com site.

Possibly you would find helpful answers there too.

Gen-a new 66H

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Thanks. I have been there also. Lots of good stuff there too.

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Specializes in Trauma/ER.

I am a 68W40M6, the M6 can be assigned to a Combat Support Hospital that could deploy to the larger areas, Ibsinea, Balad, Mosul ect. A M6 could also be assigned to a Forward Surgical Team (FST), they typically go to the smaller FOB's and fill the gap from the BAS/FAS for the BCT. I have deployed in with both types of units. As a norm most M6 will stay at the larger/higher levels of care. Some M6 will get shifted down to the BAS level and could end up on patrol. The big reason for this is EDAS (the system that PCS's enlisted) this system only reads the first 5 digits of your MOS prior to generating a EDAS cycle and placing you on orders. Once the Army switched us from 91C to 68W we obtained an ASI that sits in slots 6 and 7 of the MOS code. Normally the Assignment Manager of the M6s catches this mistake. Don't get me wrong, I would deploy tomorrow as a line medic, if given the oppertunity "doc" is the greatest honor title you can receive in military medicine.

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