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Before we go any further, it is a very unpopular ( among the men in Olive drab) job in the armed forces. The Army and other services are understandably pre-occupied with the Fighting Arms- Infantry, Cavalry (now tanks), artillery and so on. The popular idea was the type of people attracted to this posting were essentially draft-dodgers, concientious objectors to War, and so on. I have been around enough to know that aming the rank and file, it was a very Unpopular MOS or Military occupational specialty) By the way, the Army does not in a big way( again unlike combatant arms) go out of their way to recruit medics- or medical specialists as they are more properly called. Specialists have their own rank structure outside of the usual chain of command as they do not lead troops, so to speak. The recruitment of Commissioned Officers as Doctors and Nurses is a whole nother smoke- this is actively encouraged and advertised in magazines, etc, many in the Health Care field. as for the enlisted aidmen, it remains an unpopular task! Necessary, but unpopular. It"s a bit like - well I have a cousin who is a chemist, having studied this complex subject in College, I assumed he had a(he-man) application such as an Oil refinery or even a paint factory where paints are compounded. He told me he worked for a Pharmaceutical plant (Dowwnn!) that"s a girl"s job, ) I guess it is a gut reaction.

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