Where to go after BOLC?

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Hello!

I just received an email from my branch manager with the following choices:

Ft Bliss

Ft Hood

Ft Bragg

Where does everyone recommend?

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Specializes in EMS, ED, Trauma, CEN, CPEN, TCRN.

Ft. Bliss is in El Paso ... a nice drive to places like New Mexico and Colorado, but El Paso is pretty much dead and brown. It's a desert. However, a desert has its own beauty, and I hear the hospital there (Beaumont) is excellent. Ft. Hood is kind of isolated, but is not too far from Austin. I like Texas in general, but I've never been to Ft. Hood either. Don't know much about it. Same with Ft. Bragg -- I've been through the area, and my husband was stationed there back in the day, but I'm not too familiar with the hospital. Hmmmm. I know this isn't much help! LOL.

Do you have family? Kids? Friends in NC, TX, or the southwest?

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I'm torn between Ft. Hood and Ft. Bragg. I'm 22, single, and no friends/family in either place. I feel like Ft. Hood has a lot more variety as a hospital because it's bigger, but Ft Bragg is only a 3 hr flight from my family and they have a lower cost of living (I think). The branch manager is cutting my orders tomorrow so I need to decide!

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Texas livin' is cheap too. I'd probably go with Hood. I picked Ft. Stewart from my options, but Hood was my second choice (my other two choices were Ft. Sill and Korea, haha).

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Thanks Lunah!

I'm going to go with Ft. Bragg. I have a friend who's been stationed at both, and that's the one he would choose and thinks I would like it better. I should be getting my orders tomorrow!!

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Specializes in EMT, ER, Homehealth, OR.

Been to both Hood & Bragg and Bragg would be my choice.

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Bragg is not bad and the hospital is an actual MedCen. It does get cold in the winter though! So is this typical that they give you three choices to choose from?? Did they ask for preferences beforehand?

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Actually, one of the reasons (though a minor reason) I chose NC is because I am from MA, and I have a lot more winter clothes than summer clothes! Haha, it's silly but true.

I'm going to assume that I got these three choices because these are the only places taking new graduates at this time. When I was supposed to go back in Oct, They only gave me the choice between Ft Bliss and Ft Hood.

I got my RFO....still waiting on my actual orders. I'll be driving down in less than 4 weeks!

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How exciting!! :) My husband was stationed at Bragg for a while ... I believe they refer to the surrounding city, Fayetteville, as "Fayette-nam." LOL

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Wow I have been stationed at all 3 and I would NOT go back to Bliss lol however Bragg and Hood are hard because I loved them both! What a hard choice

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