Monday, October 11, 2004

Introducing myself

This is Sean from Doc in the Box, might as well give a little intro about myself for those that haven't read my other blog. I originally joined the Navy in 91, missing the entire first gulf war while at school. Stationed at El Toro Marine Corps Air Station with VMFA (AW)-242 an F/A 18 squadron. Did two 6 month unit deployments with them. With them I went to Iwakuni Japan, Okinawa, Darwin Australia, Guam, Wake Island and Hawaii. Then a 4 year stint at the beautiful Naval Weapons Station China Lake (blah). One good thing about that place they had this thing called flex Fridays where you got every other Friday off. Can’t think of any others. Got out of the Navy in 99 to pursue a different career field, was out for 3 years in school and did something totally different from medicine. I'm one of those that came back in because of 9/11. Figured my skills could better used here. So I'm doing my little bit, saving lives when I can, making sure my guys stay healthy and keeping the families in touch with their loved ones. Blogging gives the rest of the world a snapshot of my mundane life (most days). I also run a photo blog that I started just to share my pictures and adventures which became a nice lifeline for the families of my guys. I look forward to adding my voice to the medical folk we have already gathered here.

Friday, October 08, 2004

The life of a "Doc"

Hey everybody!! I'm Marc, the author of "Corpsman Up!"(link on the sidebar). Im a USN Corpsman, stationed stateside at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, MD. "The Presidents Hospital." I'm not going to use this as a medium to promote my blog in any way shape or form, but go check out everyones blogs. Insights and opinions abound in this unbridled, no-holds barred section of the blogsphere and who knows, you might find a blog in particular that you find amuzing or fun to read.

I'd like to take the time now to thank Sean at "Doc in the Box" for the invite to the group blog. I got this e-mail on the other day and I found myself here. Funny how things work out like that.

Well I gotta get back to my killing and slaughtering my boys at Halo. Take care and nobody be a stranger!!!

Thursday, October 07, 2004

New group blog for Corpsman

Send me an email at dustmans@hotmail.com if you're interested in joining, I've been thinking about doing something of this sort for a while but Jason T. approached me for permission to post on my blog. Sorry I'm sort of stingy about that (I don't even let my girlfriend fill in for me!) So instead started up a group blog with an open invite to corpsman.