Health Care Specialist

Duties and Responsibility:

All of the military medics must provide emergency medical service to people with battlefield casualties. They must also assist with inpatient and outpatient care and treatment. Prepare blood samples for laboratory examinations. One of the most important things these people have to do is prepare the patient, operating room, and supplies for surgery.

Salary:

Health care specialists get paid about $38,488 USD annually.

Education:

To become an army health specialist you need ten weeks of combat training, and apart from that you need sixteen weeks of advanced individual training. You need to learn patient-care techniques, emergency medical techniques, methods of sterilizing used equipment, and plaster-casting techniques.

Demand for Profession:

The demand for this profession isn’t very high because as the seniors leave, new young soldiers usually arrive on the spot to replace them.

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Reflection:

I wouldn’t become a military health care specialist because I find it as a very stressful job where you can be killed in a matter of seconds. I also generally don’t ever think about joining the army. I much prefer to be an engineer, maybe in the nuclear field but an engineer none the less.