What’s it like for a 68W4O working at MEPS?

2021-07-22T14:26:56-04:00

What’s the day to day like for a medic (E7) working at a MEPS?

Response by 1SG(P) Private RallyPoint Member made Jul 22 at 2021 6:42 PM

2021-07-22T18:42:19-04:00

SFC Eady, I can’t speak to being actually stationed at a MEPs. However, looking at your profile and you career timeline, it really depends on what your end career goal is. If you wanna talk about it email me, I’m in global.

Response by SGT Erica Smith made Jul 26 at 2021 3:47 PM

2021-07-26T15:47:32-04:00

Hahahahahaha! I’m so sorry. Day in a life of being an E7 at MEPS. You will spend all day fighting with the branch liaisons. They will blame you for everything. The command team will throw medical bus whenever the opportunity presents itself. Everyone, from the recruiters, your own command team, and recruits will hate you. It is your job to be the buffer and go between for the doctors. So when the doctors disqualify someone, it’s your fault. Doctors aren’t working fast enough, your fault. People can’t violate regulations, your fault. Paperwork and getting yelled at is what you do. People will threaten you, your rank, and your position. But your job is to uphold the regulations that qualify and disqualify people. Everyone will fight you daily on that. And if you uphold the regulation, they will hate you for it.
You are also the direct supervisor of civilians. Who are set in their ways, hate you because you are new, and you can’t fire because of their ironclad Union contract. So when you aren’t fighting with people about regulations, you are fighting your civilians to do work. You can write them, file complaints. Doesn’t matter. They aren’t going anywhere. Honestly, it’s a terrible job and if you can get out of doing it, I would.
One sweet benefit, no deployments, duty rosters, and most days end around 1430.