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I am a medical doctor, prior service army and navy with honorable discharges from both. I have 20 years service for rank, not retirement, and I am 44 years old, airborne, air assault, expert field medical badge qualified. Civil affairs branched too with wartime deployment experience. I am interested in some form of special ops but I think I am getting too old to safely jump anymore and I am a single dad for the past two years since my wife (now-ex) went psychotic when I tried to deploy with the USMC at the beginning of OIF. Does anyone know anything about Eglin AFB and jobs for Air Force physicians in special ops? I've also thought about Germany.
It's okay to have fear. It's what you do with your fear that makes you who you are and who you will be. Airbornedad to airborneson
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| The only "Special Ops Docs" are flight surgeons, talk to a medical recruiter about becoming a flight surgeon at Hurlburt Field if Special Ops is the only mission you want to support. Personally, most Flight Surgeon jobs are pretty good. They get monthly fam rides with the squadron they are assigned to (sucks to be an A-10 or F/A-22 doc though).
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What does a flight surgeon for a spec ops squadron do? Getting too old to jump.
It's okay to have fear. It's what you do with your fear that makes you who you are and who you will be. Airbornedad to airborneson
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SN (10/31/2005)
The only "Special Ops Docs" are flight surgeons, talk to a medical recruiter about becoming a flight surgeon at Hurlburt Field if Special Ops is the only mission you want to support. Personally, most Flight Surgeon jobs are pretty good. They get monthly fam rides with the squadron they are assigned to (sucks to be an A-10 or F/A-22 doc though). I agree........special ops jobs as a flight surgeon you best bet would be down at Hurlburt Field in Florida.
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airbornedoc (11/2/2005)
What does a flight surgeon for a spec ops squadron do? Getting too old to jump.General med stuff for aircrew and their families, theadmin procedures are different for flyers then the gen military population, for example; there are med restrictions for flyers, (and flyers get better care). The school is (IIRC) 6 weeks long, then you head to an operational squadron. Typically work out of the clinic, but you deploy with the squadron as their Doc, and like I said, you get monthly (weekly if your schedule allows, and you are in good with the sqdn) fam flights. I am interested in what the recruiter says. We did not meet medical recruiting last year, so the recruiter should be willing to give you something.
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Just wondering how the meeting went and what you found out?
"The sergeant is the Army." - General Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Meeting went well. Although I have 6 3/4 years of service as an 04 he told me it would next to impossible to bring someone in as an 05. He said I would go to 05 within a year though. The SSGT told me he could send me to flight surgeon school within two months of submitting the paperwork then I could stay in Florida, where I live, and stay in Cocoa Beach or FT Walton Beach (Spec Ops ) or go to Ramstein Germany where my psycho ex-wife would have a hard time finding me. I need all opinions about living overseas especially how it affects kids. I may be the only physician to have been in all four branches of the service, Army, Navy-assigned to Marines, and USAF. Doc out.
It's okay to have fear. It's what you do with your fear that makes you who you are and who you will be. Airbornedad to airborneson
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airbornedoc (11/16/2005)
Meeting went well. Although I have 6 3/4 years of service as an 04 he told me it would next to impossible to bring someone in as an 05. He said I would go to 05 within a year though. The SSGT told me he could send me to flight surgeon school within two months of submitting the paperwork then I could stay in Florida, where I live, and stay in Cocoa Beach or FT Walton Beach (Spec Ops ) or go to Ramstein Germany where my psycho ex-wife would have a hard time finding me. I need all opinions about living overseas especially how it affects kids. I may be the only physician to have been in all four branches of the service, Army, Navy-assigned to Marines, and USAF. Doc out. How old are the kids? Ramstein is a C-130 base. You'd get to see Europe, and make a once/twice a month visit to Kosovo and Bosnia (i.e. tax free paycheck), which is an advantage. Ft Walton would be my number one, Various 130's, MH-53's, soon the Osprey plus some other aircraft. Flight Docs are more involved during certain mission, then in other commands. Cocoa Beach is (IIRC) Patrick AFB, Reserves have a Rescue Group there, The rest of the base supports NASA and I believe the only planes you'll see are T-38's (yawn). Like any trip to the recruiters office--get it in writing, especially the flight surgeon course.
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