Combat "Nurses" in Afganistan

My SEAL buddy Sam told me about the school these guys go to in order to be special forces medics. They're pretty cool. I did some research about them and found out they do all kinds of stuff from Surgery to dentistry to veterinary medicine. I guess they do so much on people without anesthetic that their motto, according to Sam, is "the operator feels no pain" it takes more than a year to finish the school and they send SEAL's to it as well as Green Berets (for those who don't know they are the special forces for the Navy and the Army respectively)

This is a clip for a Nat Geo presentation they did on a group of GB's who work in Afghanistan fighting the taliban, they do a lot of "hearts and minds" operations in order to help the local people trust their government and resist the taliban.

Being in the medical field I think this guy, obviously Jewish by birth, is really cool. If I could snap my fingers and have any job it'd probably be this one. I really have a heart for the afgani people and how miss treated they are by the taliban, it really is terrorism at its worst. These people are putting their lives at risk just accepting aid from Americans.

I put this video together just to show the kind of things they do and deal with. This is a clip form a medical clinic in a village where there had been a lot of gun fighting with the taliban in previous weeks. In addition to medical supplies they brought rice, flour, and hand crank radio's tuned to the pro-government radio stations.

Enjoy.






(Oh BTW, your prayers are working wonders. I did really good on a practice exam for the NCLEX-RN and my RN friend tells me their are 6 openings on the floor I want to work on at the hospital. Keep it up, thanks!)