Ranger medic and deployment

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Ranger medic and deployment

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I was reading the post about the medic recruitment process and was left wondering how many Ranger medics are typically in a platoon. I'd also like to know if the 30 day trauma center rotation can interfere with deployment. (The one at Grady Hospital, GA)

On a side note, my neighbor is a Major in the Army reserve, and he has told me that Ranger Medics stay back at the hospital and wait for the injured to come to them. I read from this site differently, that medics stay with their platoon and follow it into battle. I'd prefer not to wait and rather be there and have my (future) medical skills at my disposal if the time comes. If someone could please verify, it would be much obliged.

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So if the medics are waiting far in the rear at the hospital, how do the wounded manage to live long enough to get back there? Natural selection?

Once assigned to a battalion, a Ranger's schooling is normally worked in between deployments.
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Fish wrote:Your neighbor is an idiot.
And a confirmed HOMO. Imagine the "SHIT" as deep as it gets, insert (1) Ranger medic, multiply x 3 and you will have something close.......... There isn't one MF'er on earth I admire or wish to buy a beer for that could possibly proceed a RANGER MEDIC. What's your next question there stud?

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The medics in the Big Army go with their units, it would be ridiculous to think Ranger medics do any less. I owe my life to those 68's (Big Army ones).
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Fish wrote:Your neighbor is an idiot.
X a million.
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snafu wrote:
Fish wrote:Your neighbor is an idiot.
X a million.
X a million more.


We had a medic shoot a cocksucker who thought it would be a good idea to fire upon a Ranger platoon. Don't know how he did that from all the way back at the hospital.
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tomasriot wrote:
snafu wrote:
Fish wrote:Your neighbor is an idiot.
X a million.
X a million more.


We had a medic shoot a cocksucker who thought it would be a good idea to fire upon a Ranger platoon. Don't know how he did that from all the way back at the hospital.

I think he was one of those news super long range sniper medics
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Thanks Rangers for the quick (and funny) answers.
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The ditz could also be confused by some facts. Ranger & other SOF medics in training do OJT at hospitals with busy ERs to get real life experience before they get hung out alone with you on the battlefield.
Wounded Rangers like the idea that their medic broke his cherry on some bleeding out gang-banger in an ambulance back in Jacksonville long before he was confronted with your bloody stump.
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Read this and you will see how far away Ranger Medics are from the action....

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Also, BUY (not download the PDF. All proceeds go to one of the Wounded Warrior foundations) a copy of the "RANGER MEDIC HANDBOOK".http://www.narescue.com/Ranger_Medic_Ha ... 59D75.html Show this to your neighbor. Then ask him why Ranger Medics have to learn all this stuff if they are sitting on their ass in some hospital, waiting for casualties.
Better yet, tell him to ask any of the enlisted on the "Review Committies" if Ranger Medics don't work side by side with the men in a rifle platoon. Although, he would have to go to Arlington to ask Marcus Muralles, and I'm not sure Marcus will give him the answer he wants.. and technically speaking, even though he learned his trade as a medic and got Tabbed while in Batt, Marcus was assigned to 160th SOAR when he was shot down on a rescue mission so he was NOT, technically speaking, at the time working in the capacity of Ranger Medic. But I guess the Major is right in some small sense; He was on a rotary wing aircraft, which is to say, a building of sorts.. And they were in flight at the time, so yeah a guess he was sitting on his ass, and they were on a rescue mission, so he was waiting for the injured to come to him (somebody has to carry them to the bird..) So yes, I guess in a very broad sense he was in a "hospital" waiting for the injured...
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Fish wrote:Your neighbor is an idiot.
I'll go one step further.

your neighbor is an asshole who should be stripped of his rank and pushed down a flight of stairs.
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i wish i had something funny to say that hasn't been said already but i don't. i do have to agree with Ranger X though...how do people that stupid make it to Major? reserves or not...thats just plain stupid. i wouldn't trust that guy to lead me to dunkin donuts with a strip map while following a line of cops there.
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