# Boasting About My Soldier Daughter **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 28, 2016, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boasting-about-my-soldier-daughter/753378 "2016-04-28T23:30:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f08c70/32.png) [@Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Brother_Walker)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2016, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boasting-about-my-soldier-daughter/753378/21 "2016-05-01T19:49:53Z")
Congrats on passing the EMT test! As a former Army medic myself, I would suggest going for the State certification. The military offers many opportunities to gain certifications and licensing chances (qualified by military training). I think it’s a great chance to get any certification or skills that you can take to the civilian world and use in case the military doesn’t work out. And of course, keep all documentation of the training and certifications for future records. Army training can become quite useful down the road. Job opportunities, college credits, and what not. ---
**Author:** ![Chihuahua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dec6dc/32.png) [@Chihuahua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chihuahua)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2016, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boasting-about-my-soldier-daughter/753378/22 "2016-05-02T19:56:34Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > Her long term goal, she says, is to be a doctor. Baby steps. > > She’s already explaining homeostasis and hypotension on Facebook. She told me yesterday that she had a rubber tube shoved up her nose and had to perform a tracheotomy. I asked if she was having fun. Her exact words, “I’m having a fucking blast.” Ugh. I did that once, just as an experiment. It was uncomfortable, but not terribly painful. (The nasal tube, not the trach.) Most people use words like “EMT” and “Paramedic” interchangeably, and don’t realize that being a Paramedic means you are a higher-level practitioner than, say, an EMT-B. Army medics are technically below the skill level of a Paramedic, but they exist in this weird gray area in which they are allowed to do certain procedures that the civilian hospitals reserve for Paramedics. By necessity, they are willing to accept a higher level of risk than civilian hospitals would. But as long as she’s having fun with it, good for her. My AIT was not fun AT ALL. And there will be lots of opportunities for the Army to pay for more advanced schooling in the future. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2016, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boasting-about-my-soldier-daughter/753378/23 "2016-05-02T20:55:13Z")
She’s also eligible to be promoted to Private, First Class. She’s enjoying her freedom after passing the EMT test…last Saturday she and her friends went to Sea World. ---
**Author:** ![scootergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@scootergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scootergirl)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2016, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boasting-about-my-soldier-daughter/753378/24 "2016-05-03T00:48:46Z")
Good for her! Congrats! ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2016, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boasting-about-my-soldier-daughter/753378/25 "2016-05-03T05:49:19Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > Her long term goal, she says, is to be a doctor. Baby steps. I had a student who followed a similar path to dentistry 😃 I would have loved to see the looks in his very-bohemian parents’ faces any time they had a conversation with their firstborn gone soldier. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2016, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boasting-about-my-soldier-daughter/753378/26 "2016-05-03T12:35:06Z")
And now she’s on crutches because she aggravated a sprained ankle into Achilles tendonitis. She’s still in Whiskey phase, but may be recycled to a company that’s a little further behind. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2016, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boasting-about-my-soldier-daughter/753378/27 "2016-05-03T12:54:22Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > Good for her. Does she have any idea yet where the Army will send her for her first duty station? Typically, a location on the other side of the world from the one she asks for. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2016, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boasting-about-my-soldier-daughter/753378/28 "2016-06-17T17:43:34Z")
Update…she’s graduated from Fort Sam Houston today and is on her way to her new post, Fort Eustis in Virginia! She’s attached to a transportation brigade. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2016, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boasting-about-my-soldier-daughter/753378/29 "2016-06-17T18:53:27Z")
Yeah, Fort Eustis is all about Training and Logistics. It’s near Norfolk and Newport News and you can get to DC in about 4 hours. Hope she enjoys it. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2016, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boasting-about-my-soldier-daughter/753378/30 "2016-06-18T13:48:26Z")
Guess who woke me up this morning with a cup of coffee? Little stinker got ten days leave and didn’t tell me, and arranged for her brother to pick her up at the airport last night after I was asleep. Yeah, no gym for me this morning! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2016, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boasting-about-my-soldier-daughter/753378/31 "2016-06-18T16:49:27Z")
Congratulations to your daughter, and to you for raising her so well, and my thanks to her for her service to this great republic! ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2016, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boasting-about-my-soldier-daughter/753378/32 "2016-06-18T17:04:29Z")
Medic - awesome, congrats! You should be proud! Older post: > [@hajario](#): > > I’m pretty sure that EMT training as a civilian is more or less the same as you described as the military novel. You don’t need to take any elective courses or humanities to get an EMT cert. ivydaughter is so much more than just an EMT. She is a soldier, first and foremost. Military people learn how to be part of a team, and that is a trait valued in the civilian world for when she transitions out of the Army. Congratulations, **ivylass**! ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2016, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boasting-about-my-soldier-daughter/753378/33 "2016-06-19T03:28:05Z")
Oh, gross. She’s watching pimple-popping and cyst-popping videos. She says it’s cathartic. Is this was medical people do in their spare time? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![XanderCrews](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ee59a6/32.png) [@XanderCrews](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XanderCrews)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2016, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boasting-about-my-soldier-daughter/753378/34 "2016-06-19T09:09:51Z")
Congrats to her. She will forever be known as Doc. ---
**Author:** ![davida03801](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5e925/32.png) [@davida03801](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davida03801)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2016, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boasting-about-my-soldier-daughter/753378/35 "2016-06-19T12:42:43Z")
Congrats to her, and you. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2016, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boasting-about-my-soldier-daughter/753378/36 "2016-06-19T12:43:50Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > Oh, gross. She’s watching pimple-popping and cyst-popping videos. She says it’s cathartic. Is this was medical people do in their spare time? :eek: No. Just no. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2016, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boasting-about-my-soldier-daughter/753378/37 "2016-06-19T23:55:18Z")
Does any of the Hollywood depiction of gory medical stuff affect you? I watched an episode yesterday where a character got shot in the eyeball and I had my hand up covering the screen the whole time. (Musket ball, didn’t travel far enough into the brain to kill the person, but he is minus an eye now.) ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2016, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boasting-about-my-soldier-daughter/753378/38 "2016-06-21T06:04:16Z")
Hey congrats and all (haven’t been around a lot lately so don’t know what I missed). Erm, the videos, well, after the videos they showed us for the first aid class in BCT, yeah, I’d say pimple popping videos would be cathartic, relaxing, and what-have-you. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2016, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boasting-about-my-soldier-daughter/753378/39 "2016-09-14T15:45:05Z")
I’m going to bump this…Ivygirl has done her first few real world medicy stuff! She’s been assigned to a boat that goes out for a few days at a time for training. She doesn’t do anything…she’s just there in case someone needs medical attention. On her second trip (oops, I guess you call it a mission) they’re getting ready to leave when there’s a scream, “MEDIC!” from the boat docked next to theirs. Turns out a civilian contractor cut his leg pretty badly. She whipped on a tourniquet and got him stable for the paramedics to take him to the hospital. (She thought the wound was pretty cool. I guess that’s a good sign for a medic.) The boat she left on hit some rough seas and she’s had to deal with seasick trainees. One guy had been vomiting for a few hours and was in danger of dehydration, so she’s putting the word out that if you puke twice, come see her…she’s got something to help with that. My little girl is having a blast. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2016, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boasting-about-my-soldier-daughter/753378/40 "2016-09-14T16:27:16Z")
Thanks for the update. Been curious, but not enough to risk appearing stalker-ish. And as others have said (and better), thanks to her for her service. Glad she found a billet that suits her: they can be hard to come by. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boasting-about-my-soldier-daughter/753378.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boasting-about-my-soldier-daughter/753378.md?page=3)