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Hello everybody, hopefully I am posting this in the right spot. My name is Brian and I am a Electronics Technician in the Navy. I will complete my 6 year enlistment in 2014 when I am 24. I am setting up goals and a plan for when I return to civilian life. I would like to go to school and become a EMT. Work part time as a EMT and stay a full time student. I want to get my bachelors in medical science or biology of some sort and apply for PA programs. This is what I have came up with in my own head and would like to know the reality of it all. Any opinions or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for reading and have a nice day.
 
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Brian, does the military offer you to take courses? I've heard they have a community college or similar thing. If so then I would suggest you start taking classes through it, assuming you have the time and the motivation. If you're interested in EMS and medicine then it's a good idea to begin to take classes like biology, chemistry, anatomy, physiology, etc.
 
If you are still OK pushing electrons for a living, get into testing, repairing and maybe designing tomorrow's (and today's) electronic health devices like defibrillators, cardiac monitors, lab doohickeys etc. Pay is MUCH better than EMT, job security probably good, and you can springboard off your experience.
 
Bstone, Yes I can take online courses from community colleges for free while active duty. I have the motivation to learn but time is against me with the ships schedule. I have one more 7 month deployment next year and only then I will be able to take maybe two online classes.
 
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Bstone, Yes I can take online courses from community colleges for free while active duty. I have the motivation to learn but time is against me with the ships schedule. I have one more 7 month deployment next year and only then I will be able to take maybe two online classes.
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Do they offer things like college algebra, biology, and chemistry? Bio and chem are hard to do without an actual in-person lab, but math can be done anywhere. I would strongly urge you to take a college algebra class and maybe up to statistics though the online college, that way you won't have any problems with doing the insane amount of calculations necessary for chemistry and physics.
 
Mycrofft, I came into the Navy to be a corpsman. They "accidentally" changed my job to ET and said they could not change it back. lol they got me! Electronics are neat but I want to work with people, not on the machines. I want to be a EMT to gain experience while in college and to better myself for applying to PA programs. Thank you for the response.
 
Bstone, I will keep an eye on the math courses when my deployment nears. Thanks for the heads up.
From what I have read in florida I apply for a emt course. One semester later if all goes well and I pass the state test, and I become a EMT-B?
 
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Bstone, I will keep an eye on the math courses when my deployment nears. Thanks for the heads up.
From what I have read in florida I apply for a emt course. One semester later if all goes well and I pass the state test, and I become a EMT-B?
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If you take the course and pass the exam (ideally you'll take the National Registry exam and maintain that certification) then you'll be an EMT-B.
 
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