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Sounds like fun to me, but I'm a freak. Lol
PENSACOLA, Fla. — The Naval Aerospace Medicine Institute (NAMI) launched a new course July 11 at the Navy Medicine Operational Training Center (NMOTC) in Pensacola for seven search and rescue hospital corpsmen.
The Flight Medic Course (FMC) is where search and rescue corpsmen will receive their required flight medical training.
In the past, this training was done mostly within Sailors' respective commands. No formal course existed to provide standardized training across the fleet until the Navy joined with the Army and Air Force in 2004 to provide a more structured education.
PENSACOLA, Fla. — The Naval Aerospace Medicine Institute (NAMI) launched a new course July 11 at the Navy Medicine Operational Training Center (NMOTC) in Pensacola for seven search and rescue hospital corpsmen.
The Flight Medic Course (FMC) is where search and rescue corpsmen will receive their required flight medical training.
In the past, this training was done mostly within Sailors' respective commands. No formal course existed to provide standardized training across the fleet until the Navy joined with the Army and Air Force in 2004 to provide a more structured education.
Navy launches new flight medic course
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Note: if you read the whole article it goes on to say that the training is now separate, they're going away from not towards standardized training.
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Interesting. It makes sense as their job is quite a bit different from an army flight medics job most of the time, being more closely related to a coast guard rescue swimmer's role. Fort Rucker's course had a major overhaul very recently and I imagine that's why the navy is doing this. The Army guys were shifted into a 10 month course, 9 months at Fort Sam Houston to make them Critical Care Paramedics and a month at Fort Rucker to bring it all together and familiarize themselves with Army Aircraft and Aeromedicine.
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Thank you SGT (Join to see), for the information about Fort Rucker. I had a friend who was a Navy aero rescue member. Is this different in that they will be a flight medic/rescue team?
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SGT (Join to see) - I'm not too familiar with the Navy but from what I know the Navy is sometimes are called upon to do water rescues while at sea and for this they deploy Navy rescue swimmers. These are the same guys that will be going through this new class I'd imagine. They also have been called upon lately to do medevac missions in Afghanistan but on a much smaller scale than Army Dustoff and Air Force Pararescue. I would be willing to bet that they do a lot of their training in and around the water in this class and much like Coast Guard rescue swimmers expect them to be expert swimmers in great shape. In short this is the same job that your friend held but they're tailoring their initial training to meet their operational needs it sounds like.
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