Posted on Jul 1, 2018
What do consider to be your greatest professional accomplishment (military or civilian)?
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Completing the nurse anesthesia course at Wilford Hall Medical Center. This set up my next 30 years of my practice, military and civilian.
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CRNA training is no joke and quite an accomplishment. If I could get a re-do I would have taken this path. I have had the pleasure of serving with the AMEDD for 30 years and have had the most awesome Professional Relationships with Army Nurse Corps Officers.
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WH Rose Garden ceremony to receive award as “An Icon of the Cold War” for low profile work developing, managing, and exfiltrating senior assets from East Germany and the Soviet Union, serving as relief pilot documenting arms trade in the Middle East and SubSaharan Africa, and surviving painful interrogation, trial, sentencing, mock execution in Hohenschönhausen prison. Warmest Regards, Sandy :)
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Military - Deployment in the Surge of 2010 - 2011 Kandahar, Afghanistan as Chief of Operations / DPTMS for the NATO Base, I have never slept so little and had so many rocket attacks and Memorial Ramp ceremonies, it was a suck. Sometimes surviving is winning.
Civilian - I have managed lots of systems and had projects with large teams, but I am really proud that code I wrote in the early 1990s is still being used according to friends that work there.
One in IBM Assembler and the other in COBOL 2, languages I have not coded in for many years.
Military - Deployment in the Surge of 2010 - 2011 Kandahar, Afghanistan as Chief of Operations / DPTMS for the NATO Base, I have never slept so little and had so many rocket attacks and Memorial Ramp ceremonies, it was a suck. Sometimes surviving is winning.
Civilian - I have managed lots of systems and had projects with large teams, but I am really proud that code I wrote in the early 1990s is still being used according to friends that work there.
One in IBM Assembler and the other in COBOL 2, languages I have not coded in for many years.
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Ranger school is pure pain is weakness leaving the body and dealing with lack of sleep to get your patrols done. I'm sure it took you over a month to recover. Nothing wrong bragging about your exploits because you basically got a master's degree of infantry training! Good job Lieutenant Fahey!
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CPT (Join to see) Started work on the Space Shuttle Program, three years before the first flight, and stayed until one month after the last Space Shuttle landed. I was honored to be part of the team for 33 years. I only served four years, but coming home alive from Vietnam was an accomplishment for me. Sadly, some of my fellow brothers did not make it home alive.
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Military -becoming an instructor at Ft.Polk La.after my tour in Vietnam
Civilian- becoming a certified welder in my forties in the electric utilities
Civilian- becoming a certified welder in my forties in the electric utilities
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SGT (Join to see) - I have considered it more than once, I have a few schools always knocking on my door, but I cant really justify the expense and I do not believe I would reap a good ROI considering my age.
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I did it for me, just because I knew I could. As for the mine, I have the Civil Service forgiveness program. Besides, like my pap always said: “Never saw a hearse with a luggage rack on it.“ LOL
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