One more month

Wow, AIT is going by fast. I love the training I am getting it is a blast. I got my EMT-B certification finished then we moved onto the Whiskey training which is the combat medic portion. We play with needles a lot. From giving shots, taking blood, and starting saline locks or IVs. It is great fun. Last Friday we Validated, which means we had to preform skills to the instructors. Then if we did them right and didn't kill our "patient" we passed. We did things like starting an IV, putting a tourniquet on, apply an emergency trauma bandage, preforming a surgical crich., inserting form of airway management equipment, and a needle chest decompression. To name a few. We have been out in the field doing trauma lanes which learning to safely get to a casualty and preform your medic duties while under fire. It is great fun. This coming week we have STX (situational training exercise). We are completely done with any school type work and it is all hands on. after 2 weeks of that we go to FTX (field training exercise) Which all that it means is we get to play solider for the next 3 weeks. I am getting anxious to find out where my duty station will be. And ready for the real Army. It should be an experience. Being a medic as with any medical job, your learning never really ends, there always something new to learn.