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My NREMT-B certification expired while I was serving in Afghanistan this year, I have already tried calling them, but I was on hold for about two hours... I am curious if anyone has dealt with this, I have read a few things here and there saying that I have to produce military orders, which will...

hello everyone, just wanted to mention that I will be deploying to Afghanistan very soon here... I am not sure if i will have internet so I am saying goodbye in advance... I will be doing a Embedded Training Team mission, I will be the only medical provider for several marines and soldiers, plus...

so sometime in the near future i might have the option of becoming a certified American Heart Association CPR/BLS instructor, so they can have someone teach the people who need their cards renewed... anyways i am already NREMT-B and PHTLS certified... I also might get the opportunity to get ACLS...

hello all... as most of you know, i am in the navy and once i get out i will start school and get my AS in para-medicine. since the new GI Bill will pay for my schooling AND will give me a monthly living allowance, i have a couple of options on what schools i want to go to... i can either stay...

so i recently went through a class taught by a Dr. Hagmann, a retired COL in the army, he still is an emergency physician today... anyways he was explaining the subject of C-spine, and how it has become such a big issue... he started off with a story of a paramedic. the paramedic came upon a...

hey so, while in the navy i have had the opportunity to go to OEMS (operational emergency medical skills) this course has been by far the BEST course i have ever attended in my entire life!!! im not exaggerating... the BEST... the class was taught by a retired army COL. his name is Dr. Hagmann...

hello all, so im going back to CA in about a year and i wanna start my paramedic training, i plan on getting my AS for several reason, but thats not the point... so i have looked at all the main colleges that offer the paramedic program but none in san diego county seem to offer a paramedic AS...

hello all, i was curious, alot of paramedic programs have pre-reqs stating that applicant must have prior EMT experience... generally will they consider military experience good enough? i am a corpsman in the navy, and i am trained to about the EMT-I level. my daily jobs consists of taking care...

hello everybody... my name is greg and i am in the navy as a hospital corpsman 8404... i am certified in NREMT-B but my expiration date is coming soon... right, now i am overseas in japan, and wont be back until after the date that my card expires... will NREMT give me an extension until i can...

alright, so right now i am a FMF corpsman in the US Navy, i am assigned to a marine corps unit and am taking care of marines... my ultimate goal right now is to eventually become a flight paramedic, in the civilian world... i realize that i cant just "become" a flight paramedic, but that i have...

i am gearing up for a deployment to afghanistan for 9 months... this is a special deployment where i am the only medical provider... i will be with several marine officers, and several high ranking enlisted marines, i also care the the afghan soldiers... our mission is to train and mentor the...

hello everyone, my name is greg and i am a corpsman in the navy, i am stationed in okinawa and my command has finally picked me to go TAD to the firehouse and work as a EMT... one thing, i took my EMT class before i joined the navy and have never worked on a rig, besides in training... i have...

hey everybody... i was wondering if anybody works for or knows anything about getting hired as a paramedic (single role) for the chicago fire department, as well as for FDNY EMS.... i know that FDNY EMS gets paid horribly and i know that CFD paramedics have a quick burn out rate, actually they...

hello everyone... my name is greg and i am a Hospital Corpsman in the U. S. Navy... im here for any questions one might have on military, military medicine, and hospital corpsman, and anything else... i aswell have questions to.. when i get out i plan on getting an associates in...

hello all. my name is Greg and i am a Navy hospital corpsman, i will be getting out of the navy around 2012/2013. i am currently in okinawa, japan and will be leaving the island in dec 2010... i am currently a EMT-B and am about to go TAD to the camp firehouse as a EMT on the ambulance... my...