Flight Paramedics Needed: 68W E-4 or E-5

Hey SSG did you get your paramedic through the Army of so id like to know how you did?

When you go to the flight medic course the army puts you through paramedic and critical care. When I went through the program they were also giving the opportunity to get you FP-C cert but I heard they dropped that recently.

Yes, I got mine here through the program, I did fairly well this is a tough course especially if you don’t normally do this kind of thing coming from the line. I AM HERE NOW and I assure you they are still doing the FP-C. Knox if you wanna message I can tell you about the course.

SSG Hall,
I currently have a course date for the program and was wondering if you had any advice or suggested study material to help me to be successful during the course.

What's the chance of getting ALC tacked on while down at JBSA? Do they offer it?

Also, people tell me it is a full PCS with dependents. Is this true?

SSG (Join to see) - That is true, if a military course is longer than 6 months it is usually a full PCS move w/ dependents. This course is 10 months long, a word of advice if you get a reservation for this course when you get here get an apartment up by the university. As far as ALC it has been asked and attempted but so far no one has gotten a slot.

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How many "candidates" have you all lost up to this point ?

CPL (Join to see) - Out of all the classes honestly only 2 maybe 3 have failed out. The course goes in stages your school final, NREMT-P and Critical Care. If you fail the school final…twice you get recycled to another class. If you fail paramedic skills twice you get a third shot at a different location. If you fail the NREMT-P written you get a second shot paid for by the school or third at your expense.The kicker is you must be a paramedic to continue onto Critical Care so you will be postponed from AirLIFE ride outs. We haven’t lost one person in my class of 27… due to academia. Class FM11

Hey SSG, what's the pt situation over there? I've got a buddy going to the November class. I know when I went we had pt every morning at 0500 with D 187

SSG(P) (Join to see) - PT is scheduled every Mon Wed and Fri, but we havent done it in a while. since PT is an early day they want you to get sleep before tests...Well we pretty much test every day and by the time you get to critical care your basically on clinicals the entire time.

Hey SSG, I am an nationally registered paramedic. I’m stationed here at JBSA right now for 68w AIT, I have heard different things about putting in a packet for the flight medic program but I was wondering if you know anything about apply right out of AIT and how I would go about that. I appreciate any info.

We have had a few medics get chosen directly out of AIT for the course and they were not paramedics. I have two flight paramedics in my company that came in just like you with their NRP and came straight to the aviation side. When do you graduate? I can look into more to try and pull you over.

Same here.

Get your packet together and I will give you the information as to where to send it.

I sent it to 1SG Faughnan at branch, he says the same thing.

I'm sorry usually this course takes precedence, MSG Faughnan cant get you out of it if someone could he would be the one to do it.

Update: I got a slot in the course; I start 23 Sep 15. The trick was to go through Mr. Ackerson, the Assignments guy.

Yes. The army as a whole is still needing flight paramedics. The flight paramedic course is still young.

I'm here at the course now, they have the contract to be taught at the University of Texas Health Science Center until 2019... you got time.