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Hello guys, so I graduated high school and then went straight to the army and became a preventive medicine tech. -
6 months after my enlistment and at my unit I was assigned to do entomological surveillance, that’s when I found that the Zika virus was at fort bragg, NC Which is the largest populated base in the military. In doing so I made the news paper and the highers heard of this. -
When I discovered that the Zika virus was at the base, the hospital commander and garrison commander (3 star general) personally selected me to be a health physicist for the army and I became 1 of 57 to have that tittle in the army. -
I deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan back to back where I was the lead health physicist there with an officer surveilling camps and the waters for alpha poisoning. During my second deployment I lost a friend of mine and after I decided to get out. The picture below he took on our first deployment -
I got out active duty but the army had to keep me because of my tittle so they offered a 20000 dollar bonus to stay for another 4 years I said yes of course -
I was tasked to go to New Jersey when the whole Covid thing was new, we were at a station where we held more than 500 people after we got it up and running we went to a hospital where I was one of the leaders in charge for Covid tracking and aiding as a preventive medicine specialist, also got rewarded by the general in charge of all Covid operations during the national emergency. -
I then was offered a job at LANL to be a health physicist there working on classified areas and got my top secret security clearance. -
I had my daughter in New Mexico and she relieved a lot of the PTSD I was recovering from. She became my best friend and my pain. -
After everything was said and done, I decided not to do any more health physicist stuff. The work was boring and the area wasn’t ideal. Even thou the pay was amazing I missed home. So I decided to go back to school for nuclear medicine since it was close to that field. And yeah here I am. I got hired by my clinical site and will attain a full time job once graduated. Picture below I had 12 pets 7 cardiacs and 2 bone scans. That was a day. -
Happy New Years guys, cheers to a new year