Orderlies

[medicineman]

Your job as I see it isn't directly transferable into the Army as a Med Tech - you'd have to do your paramedic training, etc and you need some high school science and math to get into the trade. 

MM

 

[sean m]

Firstly thank you everyone very much for the help. it was very kind of all of you to take the time to do this.  I don't think I have the math and science smarts to pursue med tech. In this career I would hope to get a job in the emergency room and learn a good amount of skills there. Hopefully these could be useful in the combat zone. Even though it is not combat
related life preservation hopefully a good amount could relate to it. At least it would be better than nothing right? Maybe it could also apply to a surgery unit in the field.

Your job as I see it isn't directly transferable into the Army as a Med Tech - you'd have to do your paramedic training, etc and you need some high school science and math to get into the trade. 

MM

 

[Kat Stevens]

I think it would be very handy training for a counter terrorism HUMINT operative.

 

[R. Jorgensen]

I think it would be very handy training for a counter terrorism HUMINT operative.

:rofl: :rofl:

 

[medicineman]

Maybe it could also apply to a surgery unit in the field.

I don't think you're listening - you'd have to be a med tech to work in a field hospital/surgical unit - at the least.  Your experiences in the ED will help you deal with some of the nasty things you might be exposed to in combat, however, unless you become a medic, you likely won't be employed that way...you could become a combat arms soldier, take a TCCC course and be employed in that role in the field, but that's about as far as that would go right now.

MM

 

[1feral1]

Hello,

Does anyone know if the army has orderly positions there are no topics relating to this and there does not seem to be anything on the internet. Would it be something positive to be a trained orderly as a soldier?

What? HUMINT is on the backburner for now?

If you choose the career path for this new 'obsession', I am sure you can find many subject hits with one press of the search button.


Best of luck with the CFMS queries.

OWDU

 

[Scott]

sean m,

Below you'll find the Wikipedia page I was able to google using your description of an orderly. Please post links when you reference a webpage for your info instead of regurgitating it as your own.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orderly

 

[mariomike]

A Canadian medical "orderly" won a V.C. during the war:
"Corporal Topham was serving as a medical orderly in the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion.":
http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/gal/vcg-gcv/bio/topham-fg-eng.asp

His V.C. reads, "On 24th March, 1945, Corporal Topham, a medical orderly, parachuted with his Battalion on to a strongly defended area east of the Rhine.":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_George_Topham#Details
Everything I have ever read about Cpl. Topham describes him as a "Medical Orderly".
If I recall correctly, when I enrolled the term was "Medical Assistant", and later "Medical Technician".