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Has anyone here ever been on the Comfort/Mercy/similar? Any advice on how to best prepare (academically) for what I'll see? Textbooks to read through, etc?
Would it be worthwhile to have you remember STD testing and Tx as well as initial pregnancy management strategies while underway? <snicker>
Buy your own sat phone. Rent it. Profit.
It's all PR. Very little lasting benefit.
Sweet gig if your SL counts it as a deployment. Sucks otherwise ( see general surgery circa 2010).
What do you mean counts it as a deployment? How do deployments count? Do you just mean that the SL keeps you from going on a different deployment for a year?
These deployments did not reset your dwell time but were still "counted" for Internal Medicine and its subspecialties (ie the IM SL and the subspecialty SLs considered 4 months on the Mercy as equivalent to 9 months in the sandbox).
Develop a Family care plan. ANYTHING could happen while deployed with family. Prepare for the worst hope for the best.