Posted on Sep 7, 2016
How do you handle the difficulty of explaining to your family what you do in the military?
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I have a lot of prior servicemen in my family. I am as far as I know the first officer and definitely the first to serve in the medical service corps. I tried explaining how !y BOLC got delayed (which is out of my hands but still pisses me off.) they seem to look at me like I have 2 heads . I have risen to and overcame every challenge the military has thrown at me to date, but I feel like some of them kinda look down on me. I am proud of my service to my country and if it was up to me I would be done with my training. As luck would have it I am moving to a new unit that is more on the ball and I will get my training over with an hopefully get some deployments. I usually don't let this kind of stuff bother me. But since it is family an these were people I used to look to for guidance, I really want to be civil. Has anybody out there ever dealt with a situation like this. If so, any suggestions?
Army Medical Department Basic Officer Leader Course (AMEDDBOLC)
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You can tell them that, as a MSC Officer, you handle the administrative and command functions of the Medical Corps whether it be in a line unit like an ASMC or a hospital. Or just keep silent; I gave up trying to explain what I do a long time ago.
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For many years, my job just was not talked about outside of the workplace. Say nothing and there can be no problems.
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I don't. They know I'm a Marine and that's sufficient. The way I see it, the less people know about my job, the better. Even though I have a simple job, I'm very opsec minded because even the littlest detail could be used against us and the mission at hand.
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