Finally got my swear in date

[73BARMYPgsp]

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I know a bunch of people on here hate HPSP, but for those of you who either have not been disenfranchised by it, are not grumpy and pissed off about the way the military treated you, your family, your pet, or otherwise think its pretty cool to have been selected--

I am being commissioned on Saturday, 05MAY07 by my current National Guard Commander. It has been a long process (because I am an old man and needed an age waiver) but I finally made it.

In 2009, when I go back on active duty, I will be an 0-3E, with 6 years. That means I wil do 14 years as a Clinical Pscyhologist (PhD) to retire. I will be 50 at that point.

 

[LumberJack]

So-

I know a bunch of people on here hate HPSP, but for those of you who either have not been disenfranchised by it, are not grumpy and pissed off about the way the military treated you, your family, your pet, or otherwise think its pretty cool to have been selected--

I am being commissioned on Saturday, 05MAY07 by my current National Guard Commander. It has been a long process (because I am an old man and needed an age waiver) but I finally made it.

In 2009, when I go back on active duty, I will be an 0-3E, with 6 years. That means I wil do 14 years as a Clinical Pscyhologist (PhD) to retire. I will be 50 at that point.

CONGRATULATIONS! I hope I'm doing the same next year.

Not frightened off yet,

LumberJack

 

[Mirror Form]

So-

I know a bunch of people on here hate HPSP, but for those of you who either have not been disenfranchised by it, are not grumpy and pissed off about the way the military treated you, your family, your pet, or otherwise think its pretty cool to have been selected--

I am being commissioned on Saturday, 05MAY07 by my current National Guard Commander. It has been a long process (because I am an old man and needed an age waiver) but I finally made it.

In 2009, when I go back on active duty, I will be an 0-3E, with 6 years. That means I wil do 14 years as a Clinical Pscyhologist (PhD) to retire. I will be 50 at that point.

I'm not sure, but I'd imagine that as a clinical psychologist you won't be in the same boat as most HPSP people.

 

[BomberDoc]

The PhD shrinks I know are a lot happier than the MD/DO types. There is a lot of crazy in the military. It can be extremely interesting at times as well as shocking and horrible. Enjoy.

 

[i want out]

So-

I know a bunch of people on here hate HPSP, but for those of you who either have not been disenfranchised by it, are not grumpy and pissed off about the way the military treated you, your family, your pet, or otherwise think its pretty cool to have been selected--

I am being commissioned on Saturday, 05MAY07 by my current National Guard Commander. It has been a long process (because I am an old man and needed an age waiver) but I finally made it.

In 2009, when I go back on active duty, I will be an 0-3E, with 6 years. That means I wil do 14 years as a Clinical Pscyhologist (PhD) to retire. I will be 50 at that point.

Enjoy your 15 month deployments, or will it be PCS orders to the suck by that time...

seriously, try not to stand to close to the edge when your talking private timmy off the ledge.

i want out

 

[73BARMYPgsp]

Newsflash--people wearng the uniform of the united states military deploy. (Even doctors!!) It's the Army, not golfing and white lab coats. The primary mission is war fighting.

When you asked your recruiter about it he/she probaby said something like "oh no, MD's don't go anywhere" and you believed it.

 

[Ex-44E3A]

When you asked your recruiter about it he/she probaby said something like "oh no, MD's don't go anywhere" and you believed it.

Uh, none of us were that dumb.

I did several deployments to the desert (in a way, they were actually a nice vacation from the political snakepit back home). However, the skill atrophy was definitely noticeable. They stuck me out there on every single deployment, and I got dumber every single day I was there. I saw sick-call primary care, and almost NO emergency-medicine-type stuff. When I got back to the US, I actually had to pause and think "OK... chest pain... what do I do with that again?" It was sobering... and that was after only 3 months.

And I didn't even have it as bad as the poor surgeons. At least I was kinda-sorta seeing the kind of stuff I saw in the military ER (basically an urgent care). The surgeons didn't operate for months at a time... talk about skill atrophy. They also were unaccustomed to seeing "sick call," and actually had to occasionally ask about common things. That's no dig on them; these were "common things" that the surgeons simply don't treat, and probably hadn't seen since internship.

Now... 15 months of that? Talk about suckage. You try taking a year+ off from your chosen specialty and then trying to get back on the horse.