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Comment by btmom on January 25, 2011 at 5:56pm

Pam, Brandon is already qualed as an ambulance drive in Sasebo, this training would put him in the back, LOL.  Talked to him this morning, he had an 86 on his test yesterday, he's almost 2 weeks thru it.

Comment by btmom on January 25, 2011 at 5:55pm

Also Brandon picked orders like the 2nd class after the fiscal year so the billets filled right up on the new year, that might have made a difference.

Comment by btmom on January 25, 2011 at 5:53pm

Texas Doc Mom, I know Ma Navy calls the shots I spent 7 years in and hubby spent 10.  He's okay with it if that's what the Navy wants.  Once he's done in Japan tho, I think an extension would be required for him to go to that training, but maybe not.

Comment by Pam on January 25, 2011 at 4:00pm

The EMT class is five weeks long - military style!  In the civilian world it would be at least three months.  He will actually be going out on an ambulance, which he's super excited about.  I've never had the pull for the healthcare industry, so it's hard for me to understand that.  LOL.  Jamie had some wonderful teachers at his school that encouraged this field and he has a really good understanding of science so he was "wired" to be a Corpsman I guess.

Jacqueline - I know your excited to attend his graduation!!  Good luck to him and I know his journey is not over as far as his training goes.  I'll continue to keep him in my thoughts!

Comment by Pam on January 25, 2011 at 12:00pm

I heard that out of the nearly 300 Corpsman that just graduated from FMTB in San Diego last month, only about 20 didn't go green.  Amazing.  Although my son is at his duty station, he has been told he will eventually be deployed especially since he's gone through FMTB.  It's funny that when he first started this journey last April, I never even imagined the Navy being in the Sandbox.  Wow have I learned a lot!!  TDM said it right - Navy Mom says go, you go!

 

Jacqueline - He's doing great!!  Like BTmom's son, he's going through an intense EMT course right now, but he's loving his duty station.  We talk every weekend - or as he calls it "his weekly this is what I've done call!!"  Your son still has several months of training left right?

Comment by TexasDocMom on January 25, 2011 at 10:15am

John, my son's best friend enlisted in the Marines a year out of  high school. My son had promised me two years of college before the military. After 9/11, he had made it clear he was enlisting, no doubts. He enlisted in the Navy for a couple of reasons...one, we're a Navy family, two, because I think his plan after picking corpsman was to volunteer to go green so he could serve with the Marines. He knew I'd not like him enlisting in the Marines with a guaranteed deployment...so he just kind of backed around that. And his number three reason for the Navy? David Robinson of the San Antonio Spurs. Naval Academy, military career before his steller career in the NBA. (could have been his Number One reason...he thinks I don't know!) Now as an E5, they are offering whatever C school he wants...but he says "I'm a CORPSMAN, I have my job. " but I think he's good with being an instructor, teaching combat technique to incoming medical personnel. He likes the job, he thinks it's important...and he's 60 miles from home and the sweetest girl in the world. All of that makes me hopeful that he's not going to re-up...now if he just doesn't get called up to deploy again in the next two years (my prayer, not necessarily his...).

btmom, for your own sanity, do not count on no FMTB or overseas deployments. Ma Navy makes the calls. That's how my mom and dad ended up having every one of us in a different location!

Comment by btmom on January 25, 2011 at 8:46am

When my son got his orders he had the option to go to FMTB training before reporting to Japan, but it was not required and he didn't do it.  His understanding is that it will be unlikely they'll send him after his tour there but still might.  His chief has been talking to him about a C school but he is stationed in Japan until Oct 2012.

Comment by Dan's Dad (John) on January 25, 2011 at 8:40am

Dan called it being "voluntold"

Comment by TexasDocMom on January 24, 2011 at 11:29pm

Greenside... training and serving with a Marine battalion. Blueside is serving in Navy clinics, hospitals and other medical tech jobs.

Comment by Deana (Ship 11, Div 053) on January 24, 2011 at 11:25pm

greenside???

sorry, new lingo!

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