Posted on Aug 9, 2018
Simon Hemingway
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I'm enlisted in the US Army as 68w I know you can get stationed anywhere, but my question is what are the odds of what I actually do?I know there is hospital, clinic, line medic ect But I was curious if anyone could quantify what exactly is the most likely thing I'll be doing ?
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SSG Clinic Ncoic
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Motorpool Maintence, screening whiny soldiers with fake problems 90% of the time.
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SSG Clinic Ncoic
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Look bro, I'm not gonna bs you. I love being a medic and there is always going to be people like that. Most of the time its too trigger a MedBoard so they can medically retire without finishing their contract.
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SGT Christopher Hayden
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My wife can confirm that this is true, especially in 1st Cav.
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SPC Assistant Ncoic Tmc#4
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My current life here on Gordon. Sick call for whiny AIT students who don’t want to be in CoC formation so they fake diarrhea and storm out the clinic when you deny their request for quarters and give em light duty. Lol
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SPC Platoon Medic
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Can confirm 90% is just people who don’t have anything wrong with them
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SGT Evacuation Platoon Team Leader
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I was assigned to a field artillery unit at my first duty station, then went onto hospitals for my second and third duty station and now I’m assigned to a support battalion (a Charlie Medical company)...as a medic (along with pretty much every MOS in the Army) you can go pretty much anywhere...just depends where the Army needs you.
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Male Medics are typically assigned to MTOE units their first assignment. This generally means combat units but it’s not set in stone. I’ve met (and trained) plenty whose first units were also in the MEDDAC (clinics/hospitals). Keep your options open, LEARN, and follow the guidance you're given, you’ll be okay.
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Simon Hemingway
Simon Hemingway
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Thank you. Most straight forward answer so far. My aim, altho lofty, is to be in the top of my class at ft Sam Houston. I am a good listener and learner. Thank you for your encouragement.
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PFC Healthcare Specialist (Combat Medic)
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What are the chances as a female being attached to a combat unit? Can I opt to be attached to a combat unit, or is it predetermined upon my enlistment as a female that I'd be working in a clinic/hospital?
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What possible assignment can I get as a 68W? What is the most likely thing I'll be doing?
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Motorpool maintanence I’ve been in 3 units 2BSB and 1 MP company there’s a lot of units it’s possible but not probabable that you can predict what you will do but the only thing that will always be the same is 1layouts 2sweeping/mopping and 3nothing makes sense
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SPC Healthcare Specialist (Combat Medic)
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80% go to line units and 20% go to clinic out of AIT. Once you’re in AIT about half way through you’ll get your projected orders to where you’ll be goin to most likely with your UIC (unit identification code) just copy and paste it into google and it should pop up.
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Simon Hemingway
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Thanks.
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SPC Kristina DeRosier
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Ummm... It's the military... you could be doing anything, and your MOS. You are paid 24-7 as a soldier... Remember that... you are not exempt from any other job. As a Whiskey? Administration of shots, meds, referrals for medical, and sick call slips? Absolutely! There is always more. Just go with it.... The military is about "adapting and overcoming". We can all sit here and tell you what to expect, and we will "all" be wrong because thing's just change.
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SGT Evacuation Nco
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There isn’t much of a way as others have said. In AIT you’ll get your orders for your first unit/duty station and it could be anything. Even if it’s nothing you’re thrilled about, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to learn wherever you go and there are pros and cons to any capacity you are in. If you stay in for a while you’ll rotate around to field units, hospital, FST, clinic, etc.
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PVT Charles Kelly
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It all depends on the setting. But for the most part it's all the setting you described. For example:
1. Garrison - This can be clinic/field work: A) Clinic setting dealing with injury/illness AND B) Field setting. Your infantry company goes out to perform maintenance training. You ensure people are taken care of medically with injuries or dehydration etc
2. Deployment - More or less same concepts as garrison. Difference is that the "field" focuses more on what you generally think a line medic is. Managing injuries from trauma situation, educating soldiers for medical work out on the line in hostile environment etc. Occasionally, you might have rotations in the hospital type setting while deployed. If a mass casualty situation happens and one of your battalions soldiers is injured, they eventually get sent to your station. A typical station will have a couple 68W and a physician.

Hope this helps!
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SPC William Weedman
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I was Active Duty almost 30 years ago, but here is my military career went. From Fort Sam I went to a medical company in Korea near the DMZ. Every male that was AD either went to Korea or Germany, about 90% of the females were also sent to Germany but a few stayed stateside, I don’t recall any women in my class going to Korea. Our medical company became a Charlie Company support battalion while I was there. From Korea I went to Fort Hood to an Evacuation Hospital (today it is a Combat Surgical Hospital). My mission while there was working the Aviation BAS at Fort Hood airfield. I left Active Duty and enlisted into a NG Charlie company in a support battalion for an Armored Division. So I lived in BDUs for a year, was issued hospital whites in Texas and wore BDUs on the weekend in the Guard.
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When leaving AIT as a guard soldier, I asked around to see what types of units some of our guys got sent to. We had a few going straight to other schools (airborne or air assault), a few going to hospitals (one in Hawaii), line units, and a few unlucky sons of guns that ended up being stationed at reception units for IET soldiers....
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