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What do they do exactley? Do they go out into the field with the troops? And can they do P.Coy and Pathfinders selection?

I see that one of the specialities you can go for in the para reg is Combat Medical Technician, is this the same job but your a para first and foremost?

Thank you very much.

And you get to carry a gun.

I thought everyone carries a gun these days, even padres and chaplins.

Tab wrote:And you get to carry a gun.

That's got to be a plus!

1) CMT RAMC
2) CMT Unit sponsored
3) Regimental Medic
4) Unit first aider ( or bandies)
5) Patrol medic (SF)

then there are real medics, Navy and now RM (in my day all commando medics were RN, now they have Bootnecks too)

Surgical support teams (nurses, Doctors etc) also suppliment 3 Cdo within the field hospitals (Red and Green Life Machine springs to mind)

The only unit to have CMT trained ranks from within their own is the Patherfinders I believe, Most other CMT are RAMC who have jumped out of planes and run around catterick with an ickle stretcher....oh and spent a few trips to Brecon to fill in Hats in the Wheatsheaf.

If you want to be a medic and see combat try the RM/RN route, you tend to work alone, the training is longer and better and you do have a lot more skills and responsibilities (remember RN medics were intially trained to work alone on a ship without backup) you get to do the commando course and if you go SBS get to jump out of planes and WRENS aswell.

Army medics tend to work in groups, one to hold the box, another to paint it, and a third to fill it with blankets and a stripey medic to tell them to do it all over again.

RAF medics are all gay and spend their lives filing and walking around airfileds in ill shaped berets and puttees.

Look out for patrol medics, they claim to be doctors after a 7 week course and mincing around civvy hospitals shagging nurses, some are good but they are known to operate well beyond their limits and think they are god.

Myself: Well I am qualified as a civvy paramedic, ATLS, ALS, PALS, AMLS, ACLS, ATACC, Offshore / remote area Medic, Tactical Environment Medic (Close Protection), Diver Medic, CP Medical Instructor, PHTLS, Ex RN Medic RM attached, NAEMT Special Ops Div, NAEMT Mil Division and NAEMT international Division, seen the world and prescribed brufen in some rather lovely places!

as for what medics do..well.....everything from routine sick parades in camp for coughs and colds, remote area hearts and minds, major trauma care under fire, adventure training medicine for biffs who cream in bouldering, sexual health, admin (lots of), and when I served with the RM I tended to do alot of stuff in a field aswell, but the MPs told me off so I stopped. In the private world of PMCs I carried a sidearm and a M4 and was a shooter first medic second, also looked after welfare aswell. I have provided medic cover in the rockies, alps, middle east, norway etc etc often alone and 2 years ago i set up and ran a full squadron development (private) to an african country, which included everything you care to think of, medical evac to UK, resupply, helo casevac and all pre deployment training, innoculations. You also do medicals on people wanting to dive, parachute, go SF etc etc. The down side is you are also responsible for hygiene / health and safety. which must be traumatic in the army, and the shit house / cookhouse.

If you go medic go Commando, Airborne or SF, you will get to do lots of things to lots of people with sharps knifes and needles.

....and Ive carried a gun

I`ve got a huge spot on me arse mate, do you know anyone straight enough to have a look at it

harry hackedoff wrote:I`ve got a huge spot on me arse mate, do you know anyone straight enough to have a look at it

No such thing as a straight medic Harry

but there are bent coppers........... tooooo shay!

Doc wrote:but there are bent coppers

Careful....I know where you live.
I would have thought with all those qualifications you could have gotten a real job by now.
With a real weapon
( Don't tell RC I said'Gotten')

RN Cdo Medics,
A more sarcastic bunch of bastards God has yet to find.

Bloke trapped his left boot in a stirrup as he was hitting warp factor six down the fire break. As his body rotated, he broke every bone in his left leg all the way up untill he popped his pelvis.
A bit like a paper cut but just a tad more tears involved.
I was nearly half a mile away and I could hear the screams. They reminded me of so many young girls I have known etc etc
As I arrived at the scene, young Lofty had his left foot nicely tucked in behind his left ear and my first response was "You little twat! Have you seen what you`ve done to these farkin skis? Do you know how much they cost? etc"
Anyhoo, along comes Jack. Hands in pockets,very concerned skiing with hands out of site, no poles. Pardon?
Heyup Ginge, did you shag that fat bird last weekend or what? No? you say? Must`ve been the only one who didn`t. Heyup Floss, crabs sorted are they?
What`s up with this cnut?" Looks like he`s broke his leg, mate."Yup that`d be right, has he had any Brufen and does he know how far to fark off?

jabcrosshook wrote:What do they do exactley? Do they go out into the field with the troops? And can they do P.Coy and Pathfinders selection?

I see that one of the specialities you can go for in the para reg is Combat Medical Technician, is this the same job but your a para first and foremost?

You're getting some confusing answers here mate, I think this will clear things up;

You could join Para Reg, then specialise as a medic when you get to Battalion. In camp you would work in a med centre, on ops you would be out on the ground with the blokes.

Or you could join the Medical Corps, in which case it would depend entirely as to what job/trade you apply for as to what you would be doing. However most Medical Corps soldiers work in an RAP or field hospital.
Of course you could do P Coy or PF, same as anyone else, but not many do. (the first ever Medical Corps bloke to pass PF selection-in 22 years-did it last year)

Just for information the Para Regiment was the only ones in the British Army to Arm it's medics during this period. They all carried a 9mm Browning pistol and were instructed that they should use to protect themselves and the wounded they were tending