I know several guys who had crossed over. You would likely start off as an HN or possibly an HM3. You would skip bootcamp, probably go to field medicine, BRC, well Reconnaissance Training Course or whatever it is called now. After BRC you would go jump, dive and the first half of the Special Forces medic course (18D). You will finish the last half when you go back as a senior SARC to be an independent duty corpsman. I don't know how the assignments get divided up between recon and MSOB. I would carefully consider which field you would like to go into as they both offer different experiences as the two communities start to branch away from each other.[/quot
Will the SARC's role, whether it be in Recon or MARSOC, still be that of an operator first? I was recently told by an HMC that the MARSOC's doc won't operate nearly as much as a Recon doc. And, contradictory to that, I was told by a Captain in the Marine Corps that spent the last 3 years in MARSOC that they are hurting ridiculously bad for SARC's. He said their operational tempo was 7 out/2in, 7 out/2in.
What're your thoughts?