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deployment
hi,
my best friend is a combat medic in the Army, and she's very likely being deployed to Afghanistan in May. i'm scared for her. She'll be barely 19 when she goes over, and i know combat medics have dangerous jobs. i don't know what to say to her when the subject comes up. i want to support her and be brave for her but i don't know what to do. any advice?
thanks and thanks for everything you guys do for us.
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here's the deal with female medics:
most all of them are assigned to a "charlie med" unit in the special troops battalion of a brigade combat team. three of them are usually attached to the combat battalions to provide medical care for female patients (as per afghan customs). the bulk of them stay on the Brigade headquarters base to provide care for the wounded coming in from the line battalions. they're about as safe as you can get. but she's going to be seeing and patching up dudes who are seriously fucked up. just send her care packages, and make sure to write letters to her, she's going to need something to take her mind off of the work she's going to be doing. when she calls, just listen if she's having a bad day, and try not to say things like "my day sucked" or "my life is hard". those are usually things that set soldiers off on an angry rant. me, I just like to hear that things are fine and dandy back home, we don't need drama when we call home. though if its funny, you should tell, because every chance to get a laugh in is a good one.
don't worry about her being in danger, she's got a better chance of getting killed driving through philadelphia than she does getting hurt over there...hell those are the odds of a combat trooper like myself getting hurt, so her odds are much better than even that. she's got at least 2500 gun-toting whackjobs like me watching her back at all times. and we love our medics.
-Gunner
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