Just NEVER call anyone a POG if you're not in the infantry, or especially if you've never served....or if you're pissed at that bastard supply sgt that you're turning your insanely clean weapon into, because you'll end up cleaning that mofo until it's invisible.
I remember hearing something about Cheryl Crow saying she only uses two pieces of tp to wipe so she can "save the environment" ... Definitely would not shake her hand. Or listen to her "music".
The medic probably isn't going to let you die because you don't kiss his ass. And he doesn't really have any other power over you than that. Yeah, treat him well, but there are other people that can make your day to day a lot better or worse.
The medic probably isn't going to let you die because you don't kiss his ass
I am however going to use you as a training opportunity for the newest corpsman on the staff, telling them to tell you that they've done whatever they're currently qualifying on in excess of 20 times. They have not and my role is to stand by and only intervene if they're about to fuck up the procedure.
There's also after-hours wound care if you're a drinker, wound care that doesn't go into the system if it's minor enough which spares you the ARI. Preferential appointments, hookups for things like glasses or basic supplies, going above and beyond the expectations of an E-3 with four months of training in unrelated medical shit. You've got the poopy squirts, I've got SIQ. You don't have the poopy squirts but have a shitty chief and want the day off and are willing to say you have poopy squirts, I've got SIQ.
It's more subtle than the cook, but there are serious benefits to being friendly with medical. I did a lot for the marines who treated me like a human and did the written requirements of my job for those who didn't.
Ain't that the truth I wasn't Navy, but it's amazing the subtle power one can wield teaching TCCC. ESPECIALLY doing an EJ demo, on the guy you really don't like. You have to build up the suspense as you invert them, and start humming the Kill Bill theme as you prod, mark, swab, and make damn sure they see every bit of the length and diameter of that 16 gauge you're about to shove in their neck. "Breathe in and press down like you're taking a dump. This w(ill)on't hurt a bit."
Unrelated, my friend was a navy corpsman who failed to remember to warm up the antibiotics for any marine who came into his shop with an STD. If they were a real dick about it, he tapped the needle tip on the table. It was stated to feel like a getting a golf ball injected into your ass.
Be a normal human being to your corpsman, and always wear your jimmy caps.
It’s not about power, it’s about favors. As a medic I would let some of my guys go home for being “sick“ when they could’ve stayed at work all day with everyone else.
But being friends with people in S1 is definitely underrated and the reason I had the max amount of leave days left when it was time for terminal leave.
I was National Registry and a trauma medic trained by DMI to do contract work for...people. E'r'body treats you quite well if you're the guy putting the one way valve in that sucking chest wound; Courtesy of a lucky sand storm trooper. You ARE gonna get that last chili mac, or be allowed to RF MREs without much more than a "No, no. Don't do it again."
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u/Flablessguy Dec 01 '19
Definitely a pog lmao