Posted on Feb 19, 2019
Is it possible to explore too many opportunities?
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Currently I’m a 68C. I like my job but don’t like the medical fields culture in the military. I would like to do one of two things. 1) move into the SOF realm as a Civil Affairs Specialist. 2) fly.
I have already attended civil affairs assessment and selection once. I was not selected and told that I was a good candidate but needed more military experience to better meet their ideal candidate. I would love to work in CA. I like their mission, and the work they do would allow me to use all the skill sets I’ve obtained from college and the Army. I am also still torn on staying enlisted or commissioning.
At the same time I have an interest in flying and applying to WOCS does seem like another good option that would allow me to learn something challenging and still be an asset.
I’m just afraid that I will end up trying to take advantage of too many opportunities leaving myself more scattered with no defined plan. Is it worth exploring my other interests or should I just focus on returning to CAAS a better candidate?
I have already attended civil affairs assessment and selection once. I was not selected and told that I was a good candidate but needed more military experience to better meet their ideal candidate. I would love to work in CA. I like their mission, and the work they do would allow me to use all the skill sets I’ve obtained from college and the Army. I am also still torn on staying enlisted or commissioning.
At the same time I have an interest in flying and applying to WOCS does seem like another good option that would allow me to learn something challenging and still be an asset.
I’m just afraid that I will end up trying to take advantage of too many opportunities leaving myself more scattered with no defined plan. Is it worth exploring my other interests or should I just focus on returning to CAAS a better candidate?
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Further, ROTCs, COSTEP, and also USMC platoon leaders course (PLC), can, I think, all be used for grad school, PLC is less well known....
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http://www.usphs.gov
Look at the nursing page, also, look up Jr and Sr COSTEP, the USPHS analogue to ROTCs...their toll free recruiting phone is [login to see] , I believe....
Look at the nursing page, also, look up Jr and Sr COSTEP, the USPHS analogue to ROTCs...their toll free recruiting phone is [login to see] , I believe....
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http://www.USUHS.edu/gsn
Look at this, it:s the DNP program for nurses at USUHS, you have to likely be O-3 or O-4 with a few tours to have a chance for it, however, you might care to look at it....
Look at this, it:s the DNP program for nurses at USUHS, you have to likely be O-3 or O-4 with a few tours to have a chance for it, however, you might care to look at it....
The mission of the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences is to educate, train, and comprehensively prepare uniformed services health professionals, scientists, and leaders to support the Military and Public Health Systems, the National Security and National Defense Strategies of the United States, and the readiness of our Uniformed Services.
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And I'm just curious...what aspects pit you off from the clinical side? I'd wanted clinical when I was in, I'm total perm disabled now, however, I went doctoral level allied health before that, though we shut my license sevl yrs ago...would you possibly care to also try for higher clinical being as you're already on that side? The intersvc PA program at Ft. Sam Houston, the enlisted program to encourage enlisted who'd want medicine? RM? NP? I'd be interested if you could elaborate on that aspect as well, if possible....
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SPC (Join to see)
I love my job and helping people. The culture in the medical field from my experience and what my friends are experiencing at other bases is lack luster to say the least. Things are done in a check the box manner to ensure they have covered their own skin. The NCOs that do care stop helping because to many times their superiors think it’s a great idea and take over the effort to boost their own NCOER, while not actually following through.
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Capt Daniel Goodman
I follow...most people don't realize that, as in !any things, the bloom wears off the rose real fast, clinical existence included, of becomes a dull grind of patient notes, scrips, orders, and repetitive surgeries, where I'd assisted some 200-300 times, aside from treating while in seven yrs of residency, of which I finished six, some 10000 patiemts in all...so, one has two basic alternatives...stay where one is, or seek to do !ore, incl research, which was what I'd wanted, yet never got...there's am old adage...you are where God sows you...now, if you want to uproot and transplant yourself, you'll also find, as a famous comedienne said, Erma Bombeck who wrote for a paper by us, and also wrote a book with the sa!e title, The Grass is Always Grener on the Other Side of the Septic Tank...meaning that, no matter where you go, there you are, a lime from a movie I'd heard...all tasks have boredom, as well as routine, that's unavoidable...the question for you is, where would you find routine most palatable, once novelty wears off, as is inevitable, you know? So, as I'd said, elaborate if you'd care to, and I'll try to help you sort out which plebian existences might be the most bearable for you, once novelty evaporates, so far as I can, such info would also help others on here try to do likewise, OK?
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If you stay enlisted, AFIT, the USAF grad school has apparently let senior enlisted, both USAF as well as Army in, to do their PhDs, I saw YouTube videos on that aspect...you could also submit for either AFIT or Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), as warrant or commissioned, all warrants and commissioned are allowed, I also !mention that merely to make you aware of that as well....
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http://www.ocsfoundation.org
You might well find this useful, it only goers the I've main OCS programs, not Army WOCS, or direct commission indoc OIS type programs, though you'll likely find the forum pages useful...elaborate more, associates, bachelors, grad level, GPAs, grades, actual course titles, STEM coursework, hobbies, interests, reading, sports, incl any martial arts...you'll have to start a masters from day one, if you commission, or Bach or masters if you go warrant, it:s absolutely requisite, I found that most definitely to he true...I perceive you want civil affairs, I perceive that, or SOF, or aviation...if there's a mil aero club where you are, have you made use of it? Have you done any FAA licensing for sport pilot, private pilot, instrument rating, multiengine, and/or commercial, gone on any check rdes on a helicopter, would you want fixed wing or rotary wing (there's been material on Jere about Army fixed wing as opposed to solely rotary). Would you possibly want to go intersvc at all? Have you looked at any flight programs in other svcs, not just Tue normal five, but also NOAA Commissioned Corps, which has a 5 yr term, if you get it, though they're quite small, pure science, and quite selective...also, would you think about going rear seat, not solely pilot, specifically, mav/WSO? I did the aeromed eval for naval flight ofcr (NFO), I was passed, I just never got to go intersvc...if you want civil affairs, as you say, you'll need to go possibly intl relns for a masters, maybe law assigned to civil affairs (CA), that would depend on your interests, obviously...have you taken the GRE genl and/or subject tests? The GMAT? The LSAT? The more you elaborate, the more can be suggested for you, humor me, try to do a really detailed biosketch, with as much concrete detail as you can give, even if only generally, yet with the kind of details I'd mentioned, it'd help a good deal to try to help you explore different concrete possibilities seriously, I tend to have an interest in career/educ questions like those you'd asked, that's why I always try to ask such things whenever anyone sends in the kind of stuff you were asking about, if you'd care to chat at all, just ask, OK?
You might well find this useful, it only goers the I've main OCS programs, not Army WOCS, or direct commission indoc OIS type programs, though you'll likely find the forum pages useful...elaborate more, associates, bachelors, grad level, GPAs, grades, actual course titles, STEM coursework, hobbies, interests, reading, sports, incl any martial arts...you'll have to start a masters from day one, if you commission, or Bach or masters if you go warrant, it:s absolutely requisite, I found that most definitely to he true...I perceive you want civil affairs, I perceive that, or SOF, or aviation...if there's a mil aero club where you are, have you made use of it? Have you done any FAA licensing for sport pilot, private pilot, instrument rating, multiengine, and/or commercial, gone on any check rdes on a helicopter, would you want fixed wing or rotary wing (there's been material on Jere about Army fixed wing as opposed to solely rotary). Would you possibly want to go intersvc at all? Have you looked at any flight programs in other svcs, not just Tue normal five, but also NOAA Commissioned Corps, which has a 5 yr term, if you get it, though they're quite small, pure science, and quite selective...also, would you think about going rear seat, not solely pilot, specifically, mav/WSO? I did the aeromed eval for naval flight ofcr (NFO), I was passed, I just never got to go intersvc...if you want civil affairs, as you say, you'll need to go possibly intl relns for a masters, maybe law assigned to civil affairs (CA), that would depend on your interests, obviously...have you taken the GRE genl and/or subject tests? The GMAT? The LSAT? The more you elaborate, the more can be suggested for you, humor me, try to do a really detailed biosketch, with as much concrete detail as you can give, even if only generally, yet with the kind of details I'd mentioned, it'd help a good deal to try to help you explore different concrete possibilities seriously, I tend to have an interest in career/educ questions like those you'd asked, that's why I always try to ask such things whenever anyone sends in the kind of stuff you were asking about, if you'd care to chat at all, just ask, OK?
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