Hi everyone, John here. Just wanted to drop in and introduce myself as I am new to the site.
I am getting ready to start college and am enrolled in the Emergency Medical Services degree program here in Virginia Beach at Tidewater Community College. If everything goes right I will have my EMT-B certification by the middle of July.
I spent 2 yrs as a Sheriff's Reserve Deputy in NM and then 8 yrs in the Army where I was in the Armor branch as an M1 tank crewman and Infantry branch where I was a ground pounder and was trained as a Combat Lifesaver while serving on 4 deployments (1 time in the sandbox of Kuwait and 3 tours in Bosnia as a peacekeeper). After leaving the military I joined the US Department of Homeland Security as a federal officer (looking for bombs and IED's) until I recently left that in order to begin school to gain my EMT-B, EMT-I, and EMT-P.
I love helping people as much as I can and am seriously excited about my new choice of career paths.