Posted on Sep 27, 2015
Does anyone have any input on how to get a seat/reclass into 68C?
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I found out that I am qualified to get back on active duty due to my active federal service time being low enough. I am hoping to get a slot for 68C at MEPS next week! Thanks for everyone's input and advice. I have wanted to be back on active duty since I got out so I am so excited to have that opportunity!
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SPC (Join to see)
I sure will! The process is going a little slower than I had hoped. I am thankful to have the opportunity and am ready to be back. I had a 109 GT score and need a 110 to qualify for 68C so brushing up on math before taking the ASVAB in two weeks.
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SGT(P) (Join to see)
SPC, I believe you now need either a 107 or 109 GT score for the 68C program since we are in desperate need of soldiers. Keep us posted. If you have any questions about the program, please let me know. I am in the program now and am less than 90 days from graduation.
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Hey, sorry but in I am looking to reclass to 68C and I have a few questions. During phase II, is everything still like AIT? As in you still do organized PT, go to breakfast, school, ETC.
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First of all look up on ATRRS under 68C1 for specific criteria. The big question is are you Active or Reserves or NG? This does make a big difference is how you can request a slot. I the reserves you should contact your training NCO and look into available positions and put I a request. Oml is important. Active you need to be in a slot and have time as a medic. You will be competing with others that have been waiting longer. Also if you can get a slot and you know where you would like to do your phase 2 at you will have to find then correct phase 1 start date for the phase 2 site.
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I plan on attending a bridging program to get my BSN once I graduate. Thanks for your input! I am RST'ing with a new unit here in Colorado and will ask the training NCO there if they have any advice. I know there aren't many medical units here so the hard part is going to be finding the unit that will send me.
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I have heard great things about that program! I need my GPA to be higher. It is unbelievably competitive. I would have the Hazlewood Act being that my home of record is in Texas. I will have to do more research on their bridging program. Thank you!
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SPC (Join to see)
That is awesome! Once I complete 68C school this will definitely be a top contender!
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Since ther eis also conversation about RN here. When I did 68C schol at Sam. We had to Soldiers in my class that both did the Excelsior school while doing the 68C program. Courses coinsided with each other for the ADN program. Tthen check out the AECP and see if you can complete the renmaining cources that way.
https://www.excelsior.edu/programs/nursing
https://www.excelsior.edu/programs/nursing
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SPC Smith,
I am currently in the 68C class stationed down at Ft. Gordon for Phase II. We have 2 prior service 68W in our class currently. They said it was up to the discretion of their command as well as slotting opportunities. Both had to wait a year + in order to obtain a slot on a 68C roster.
It's a good program. Challenging, but if you have prior medical experience you should be able to cruise through. More Phase II sites around the country are partnering with the 68C program to offer either an ADN or BSN program similar to the AECP. For example, GRU (Georgia Regents Hospital) agreed to recognize the military credits obtained through this course and make them applicable to an ADN program.
Best of luck on your future ventures!
I am currently in the 68C class stationed down at Ft. Gordon for Phase II. We have 2 prior service 68W in our class currently. They said it was up to the discretion of their command as well as slotting opportunities. Both had to wait a year + in order to obtain a slot on a 68C roster.
It's a good program. Challenging, but if you have prior medical experience you should be able to cruise through. More Phase II sites around the country are partnering with the 68C program to offer either an ADN or BSN program similar to the AECP. For example, GRU (Georgia Regents Hospital) agreed to recognize the military credits obtained through this course and make them applicable to an ADN program.
Best of luck on your future ventures!
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This largely depends on component branch, and your line scores. If active it's largely a reinlistment perk for those with the scores. In National Guard and Reserves it's about proximity to units with the MOS, your willingness to travel to those units, and your scores. NG has far fewer 68C slots, so I would research reserve medical units the call them and inquire. (That is if you are in a reserve component). Either way you will need to contact a recruiter, however it may help to know where a slot may be available before talking to the recruiter, but don't put that off as those slots usually go fast, contact the recruiter ASAP, then do your own research on the side.
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Thank you for the feedback everyone! I am in the reserves. I am currently working with a great retention SFC that has referred me to an AMEDD recruiter. I am not in my window to reenlist for another 2 years. The main issue is trying to find a reserve unit in Colorado that is in need of a 68C that would be willing to send me to school. Thanks for your input! :)
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No offense but why would you want to become a [civilian] LPN/LVN?
The pay is nothing to brag about and you are barely one step above an orderly.
An EMT gets more meaningful things to do than an LPN/LVN.
And, of course, LPN/LVN means skilled nursing facility patients.
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The pay is nothing to brag about and you are barely one step above an orderly.
An EMT gets more meaningful things to do than an LPN/LVN.
And, of course, LPN/LVN means skilled nursing facility patients.
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SSG Paul Forel
WO1 (Join to see) - I'm sure that made you feel good to say that. Point in fact, I did not 'fail' the course, I chose to leave since the course was so far off the mark of what I was interested in. I was offered Germany or Vietnam and since I had enlisted to be in a medevac/dustoff unit in RVN, I chose Vietnam where I eventually got the job I had been hoping for. Amazing that you would hassle a combat medic who has seen more blood than most people see milk in the cereal growing up. I've also cleaned out more 'rasberry jello' from the cabin floor of my H model than most people have seen in their fruit cup in high school. You have seen my A & D's, yes? Come out to KC, MO and say what you have to say to my face, Braden.
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SSG Paul Forel - Paul, you can keep your idle threats to yourself, you don't scare me. You spent a considerable amount of time on this thread being argumentative and provoking. My comment obviously struck a nerve with you, which serves you right based on your tone and attitude throughout this thread. You might think that your honed grammar skills and extensive vocabulary acquired from being an internet badass can somehow excuse you from being the way that you are, but it doesn't.
Thank you for being a keyboard warrior and giving me the details of your 214. By all means, down vote this response as well.
Thank you for being a keyboard warrior and giving me the details of your 214. By all means, down vote this response as well.
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MSG Mark Million
Not sure how many orderlies make $24 an hour but, having been through the 68C program in 1995/1996. I work as an LPN in Missouri making $25 an hour. Granted 19 years experience helps the pay, but I guarantee your LPN make more than the orderlies at any facility you would care to name.
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Your not wrong but let’s not forget we’re talking about the army still, so the pay for her job at her grade will not matter. Yes, if she gets out and only had a LPN then she wasted her time. My expertise with most people in this MOS is that they use it as a block to achieve some sort of nursing degree. If she’s smart violet that equates to a BSN. but I agree if she was looking to be an LPN for a civilian role she is better off becoming a paramedic or just going to school for a nursing degree
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If you are reenlist menu eligible talk to your career counselor. If you are not, send a 4187 along with all supporting documents to the HRC, health services branch.
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