Important question regarding to med tech in navy

[Halu]

Hi guys,

              I recently applied to become a medical technican in the navy, my girlfriend is concern that i won't be home at all due to duties overseas, i tried to comfort her and it doesn't seem working.
I was wondering if anyone can tell me what's the life as a med tech in navy is and how often i have to travel overseas and how long is the period ?? thanks

 

[ModlrMike]

Firstly, just because you wear a Naval uniform as a Med Tech, doesn't mean you'll be posted to a Naval unit.

Secondly, if you do get posted to a Naval unit, you likely won't get a ship until after your QL5 (3-4 years in).

 

[BorderMedic]

Hi all, you will have to excuse my ignorance on this as well. I am currently applying for Med Tech as well but am still unsure of which element would suit me the best, so if a naval medic is not on a ship... where might they find themselves?

 

[aesop081]

where might they find themselves?

Anywhere.

 

[TimBit]

Including the Sandbox. Not that anyone coming in now would get qualified in time, but...

 

[Neill McKay]

Hi all, you will have to excuse my ignorance on this as well. I am currently applying for Med Tech as well but am still unsure of which element would suit me the best, so if a naval medic is not on a ship... where might they find themselves?

Med Tech is what's called a "purple" trade -- it exists in all three elements (navy, army, and air force).  People in purple trades don't serve exclusively with their own element.  For example, you will find navy cooks at army bases, army clerks at air force bases, air force supply technicians at navy bases, and so on.  You could have a varied career that includes time in a ship, on a base of any element, in the field, or anywhere else.

 

[BorderMedic]

So if you really don't belong to any, how can you be an "army medic" on a ship?

Does that just mean you signed up as an army medic so you call yourself that?

I understand that they don't really "belong" to any element, just not sure how the title is derived I guess.

 

[aesop081]

So if you really don't belong to any, how can you be an "army medic" on a ship?

You are a medical technician, wearing a land element uniform and your current posting is on a ship........thats how.

The trade is "med tech" not "army medic" or "navy medic" or "air force medic".

 

[medicineman]

As I've said in a number of threads, your element is just the colour clothes and or accoutrements you wear to work - I'm army, on a Navy base, wearing diving medicine dolphins and airevac wings and was posted to a submarine at one point...it doesn't matter, you're a med tech regardless (or PA in my case).  Of course med techs in the Army look cooler  :nod:...

MM