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Hey I am a Air force flight Medic and did 4 month at Balba in So Cal and the training was great but in San Anton TX at the Air force Hospita itl is a trauma one center and the training there is very good. Now the Navy is all around well train so a corpsman can work just about anywhere but the schools is about 14 weeks the same as the Air Force but we have a second part which is 8 week long in a Hospital. In the Air Force the Medic special in areas ICU, Medsur, etc, and you have the IDMT (independent Duty Medical Tech) where as a corpsman have IDC (independent Duty Corsman) unlike the Army medic Trains more PA as Warrent Officers. then the Navy and Army have a combat medic schools which the Air Force can attend the Army Combat Schools where as the Air Force don't one but we do have the PJ's which are the best of the of all the special forces and the flight medic which is one of the best jobs in the military so if I have rank them the top will be the PJ, IDMT/IDC, Flight Medic, Combat medic/Corsman, Corpsman, Army/Air Force Medic (hospital base) and that about it. What the military should do is give them all their LVN/LPN they are all over trainined for the LVN/LPN and EMT-B.

Its fun we fly to Hawaii a lot. Its on our route. You have to go to Fight school and survial school (about 8 weeks) then their ground schools two weeks. and about six training flight on your primary airplane. you will not have a normal life whiled you are training so don't plan to go to school like PA, or NP you won't have the time. you will have to fly at least once every two months but count on every month. I have been to Japan, Hawaii 4 time this year, Guam and about five states. Training missions are nice but the live ones with real Patients are the best. you will fly with two nurses and three medics (medics are LVN/EMT-B that suture, do IV's and give drugs but no narcotic that's your job) most medics in the reserve are cops Firefighter/paramedic they are straight (most are but don't be surprise don't ask) most of the Male RN with two years RN are to but there is are a few, most of us don't care just pull weight (99% us don't care but there are old timer). If you do it you can get a lot out of it but it not easy. Most nurses find the schools easy but you have to stay healthy and some find that hard. The time it demand out of your life is hard for most. but flying home 30 wounded marines with tatter and broken body from war to their family is worth it. I never done that I have flown premature babies in incubators and on vents for heart operations on more then once, a mother in labor to the states so the baby can have a heart operation when it's born or it would have die. Reties home to die in their homes with their families around them and I have brought home Soldiers that were less then 46 hours from the battle field home to their families. It's not a glamorous job but it have its monuments.

I am a flight medic at march afb in ca and a nursing student. what do you want to know.