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as a combat medic , you get the best of

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both worlds . You get the respect of

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having a highly needed and highly

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valued skill asset and at the same time .

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Another way to say you get paid to do

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some pretty cool stuff . Trust being a

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combat medic gives you and affords you

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a lot more training opportunities than

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you would ever see civilian world , a

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lot greater scope of practice . You get

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to see a lot more , You get to do a lot

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more . You have a lot more

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responsibilities . One of the biggest

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reasons in my decision to volunteer for

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this deployment was the ability to take

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my medical skills and use them in the

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real world on a deployment to help my

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brothers and sisters downrange . We all

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know how each other works . We know

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that if something's going to happen and

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we can all band together and we can

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accomplish the mission at hand . It's a

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good one . I'm really excited to uh ,

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to go overseas and use my my medical

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skills . Um , and actually put them to

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the test with the circumstances being

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shot at whenever we're actually working

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with the Afghan nationals . And then of

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course working with our local

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interpreter , we're gonna be supplying

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aid to the Afghanis and of course our U .

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S . Soldiers , the provincial

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reconstruction team that we're working

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with has our own more or less medical

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platoon as medics . We're always

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looking for ways to further our own

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training to get better at what we do .

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And after a while it helps to throw

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sort of a curve ball into it . He

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cannot see or hear anything , he's

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doing everything completely blinded .

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We will blindfold ourselves and put in

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some kind of audio device and we

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deprive our senses . Were having to

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push our instincts to a new level .

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We're saying okay now you have to be

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able to do everything that you normally

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do , but now you can't see now you

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can't hear it makes the job of doing it

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in real life that much easier . The

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fact of the matter is when you're in a

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combat scenario , you're not always

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going to have the guy lying perfectly

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flat on the ground , perfectly still

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with no noise or anything around you by

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blindfolding ourselves . You that much

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more increase the likelihood that when

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you can see in a combat environment

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that you'll be more successful and

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that's one of those things that's very

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key to the survival of a lot of our

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troops overseas . Combat trauma is kind

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of the bread and butter of army medics .

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That's really our focus I . E . D .

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Blast gunshot wounds , shrapnel , that

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kind of thing . Okay I can't see

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anything , I can't hear anything .

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There is a sense of fulfillment and

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purpose to it that I at least to this

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date . Haven't found in any other

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occupation