THE BACK OF THE MEDIC

Veni Vidi…

25 September 2008

Vomiti

Proud To Serve

24 September 2008

For those who want to see my team (I am almost dead center in the middle row): I am very proud to serve with DMAT CA-11, NDMS, and my country.

I just got home from deployment yesterday. We first went to Atlanta, staging in anticipation of Ike landing in Miami. Then it changed course, crossing over Cuba as a strong Cat 4 storm, into the Caribbean Ocean, and then back over Cuba one more time before setting its sights on the Galveston, TX region very [...]

Never Forget

11 September 2008

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It was seven years ago today that this nation was attacked by terrorists. It changed many of our lives in ways we are still discovering. We traded some of our openness and freedoms for what we hope is enhanced security against further attacks; TSA screening everything we own when we board a plane, “LiveScan” fingerprinting [...]

Training and Stress

8 September 2008

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While Hurricane Ike decides what to do, we are here training. It seems like busywork, and to some extent it is, but there are aspects to deployments that need reinforcement. Even to those of us that are deployment “veterans” (i.e. those who have been on a 2 week mission in austere settings before), you can’t [...]