Patrick Thibeault

My Journey as a Combat Medic (eBook, PDF)

From Desert Storm to Operation Enduring Freedom

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Patrick Thibeault has served in the US Army in various capacities since the 1990s, originally training as an Airborne soldier before specialising as a combat medic.

My Journey as a Combat Medic covers his original training and deployment before providing a look at the roles he's since played in the US Army's forces, including his recent deployment to Afghanistan.

It is a no-holds bar look at the modern medic in the US Army, allowing us a glimpse at the training as a soldier and as a specialist, as well as deployment and front line duties and the impact of service on civilian life, including an honest look at PTSD, from the author's own personal experience.

Rather than a technical manual, My Journey as a Combat Medic is a detailed first hand account, concluding with a letter to new medics, providing a career's worth of advice and knowledge as they begin their journeys.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 153
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782000907
• Artikelnr.: 38350572

Autorenporträt

Patrick Thibeault was raised as an Army brat. Upon graduation from high school, he enlisted in the Army, becoming a paratrooper medic. The first unit that he was assigned to was 3rd Battalion / 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne). Patrick deployed to Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm back in 1990. He then joined the Kentucky Army National Guard.

He graduated with his bachelor's degree in nursing in May 2003 from Marian University in
Indianapolis, Indiana and started on his master's degree to become a Family Nurse Practitioner upon returning from combat in 2005. He currently works part time in a medical intensive care unit and full time in an urgent and primary care clinic as a nurse practitioner.

His awards and decorations include the Combat Medical Badge, second award from both Desert
Storm and Enduring Freedom, the Meritorious Service Medical from Afghanistan, and the Air
Medal from Desert Storm. Patrick has also earned the Expert Field Medical Badge and the
enlisted crewmember aviation wings.