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I am trying to understand what life is like as a 68C. I'm a Prior Service MP looking to get back in and trying to see if any of the medical MOS would be a good fit. As I understand it, you are normally assigned to a hospital/MTF or assigned to a CSH. I would assume that the hospital/MTF is just shift work. What about the CSH side? Is it just screwing around in the motorpool or what?
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68C: Practical/Vocational Nursing
68C: Practical/Vocational Nursing
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CSH life = PT, motorpool Mondays, cage most of the other time reorganizing and then depending on the unit, EDRE’s and CSH/FST setups.
Clinic/Hospital is pt on your own (well, used to be, now dependent on your section), shift work with little variations. Throw in a sprinkling of battalion taskers that make you feel like a soldier every couple of months and otherwise enjoy nearly normal life on the Ward.
~memoirs of my 9 years active duty 68wM6/68C from WRAMC, LRMC, 47th CSH and 135th FST.
Clinic/Hospital is pt on your own (well, used to be, now dependent on your section), shift work with little variations. Throw in a sprinkling of battalion taskers that make you feel like a soldier every couple of months and otherwise enjoy nearly normal life on the Ward.
~memoirs of my 9 years active duty 68wM6/68C from WRAMC, LRMC, 47th CSH and 135th FST.
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SGT Jamarl Jones
Thanks for the input. What's the distribution in terms of the numbers of 68C's stationed at MTF/Hospital versus CSH/FST? Is it 50/50? 75/25?
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With the Defense Health Agency “ownership” of the MTFs, all soldiers will be assigned to field units and will hopefully get the opportunity to spent some amount of time in the MTF to maintain clinical skills. That will largely depend on the culture within the unit as mission command will belong with the field units.SGT Jamarl Jones
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SGT Jamarl Jones
MSG (Join to see) - Thanks for the input. I'm completely ignorant when it comes to any terminology as it pertains to the 68-series. So, what does it mean when you say "...be assigned to field units"? Does this mean I will be doing motorpool Mondays most of the time and hopefully get to work in an MTF? Also does the term MTF mean a catch-all for all clinical settings (both hospitals and troop clinics)?
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