Let's be an Army Nurse!!

I know, I know... I just joined! How did I get a deployment already?! From what I hear, deployment assignments have been difficult to come by in the past few years for those who were seeking them. However, the life of a medical officer is a bit different from that of a combat soldier. I'm a member of the 44th Medical Brigade, which responds to a lot of humanitarian needs and medical training exercises. For example, while I was in BOLC, many soldiers from the unit I was assigned to were sent to Texas to respond to the COVID relief effort. I arrived on base just as they were returning! Also, there is an annual training event for austere medicine in Senegal that I also missed out on while I was at JECC. There are opportunities out there!  For me, I was eager to get some experience under my belt and I wanted to venture away from the hospital whenever possible. During a training exercise in the field, I told my commander that I was eager to contribute and my home life was in a great pos

Hello again everyone! I apologize for the delay in posting, as I've been quite busy. I'll tell you why in just a moment, but first I'd like to address some questions! The website is not posting my responses to comments, so while that's being figured out, I'll just repond here.       First, training courses that are TDY(temporary orders) certainly allow you to use your phone. Even at my initial training, we always had internet access and text/calling abilities. Even in the field, I was able to plug my phone in to charge and use my mobile data. Specialty courses (like the JECC course I recently attended) are very similar to civilian business trips. You are given a hotel room, reimbursement for food or provided meals, and you're expected to learn the material. All of your free time is yours to do whatever you like, including calls and video chats with family! With that being said, some courses that require social isolation such as the SERE training may have rules a