Introduction

[Marcus]

My name is Marcus Andrews. Im 24 years old and live in Madison, WI.

Recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin La- Crosse and have been a firefighter/paramedic intern ever since.

I've been actively interested and researching options in the military for around a year now. I want to keep it medical and I keep coming back to SOCM because it's the highest level of training out there from what I've gathered. It also sounds like one hell of a time.

Anyways, I'll be reading posts and threads from here on out looking to really narrow down the job that is the best fit for me. Any tips or advice is very much appreciated.

Marcus

 

[Red Flag 1]

Welcome to SS.

 

[CDG]

Welcome to the site.

 

[ShadowSpear]

Welcome!

 

[BuckysBadger24]

Any tips or advice is very much appreciated.

Once you sign on the line, stay away from block parties and State Street. :-"

Welcome, best of luck to you!

 

[AKkeith]

Welcome.

 

[Muppet]

Welcome.

M.

 

[Marcus]

Thank you guys!

Didn't have the time to say what I wanted on my bio yesterday. Just going to post it on here as an update and a little more background for anyone reading this.

I have no military background. Just a civilian.

Throughout college I realized what I wanted wasn't the path that I was going down. I wanted something more out of my future. Something that made me happy/excited/scared on a daily basis because how we feel about what we do is really all we have. I changed my major and I went full into firefighting and became a paramedic.

I realize now that I enjoy the medicine aspect more than I do the fire side of things. After all, you can train a monkey to put out a fire. The more I realize this, the more I want to train and expand my knowledge. After running EMS on the civilian side for 2 years now, I feel like I'm getting shorted on the amount of skills I can practice or knowledge I actually need to use, as most of the time I feel like a taxi driver for local nursing homes. Granted, there are good calls that get the juices flowing but they are so few and far between.

I know the model of EMS is based on the military and the Vietnam war. I know that when you are needed in the military it is not simply for someone who fell from standing and has a bump on their elbow. I feel like I would enjoy the fast paced nature of SOF, but again I have no military experience so I can't be certain. But I know when I join I'd want to be top shit, I don't want to play a mediocre role. This is what draws me to SOF. In my head before I sleep every night I'm always thinking, "well what's next, what else am I going to do, what else can I do that is better than this." I'm never happy where I'm at and it's almost a curse. But, my mind always comes back to the military and I'm wondering if this is the "calling" everyone seems to talk about.

So thank you for having me on this forum and allowing me to research all of the options that are available.

Marcus

 

[Scubadew]

Welcome. Go get it.