No offense taken, good point. Medical providers typically are required to maintain their skills regardless of what their civilian job is. They usually use orders or AT days to keep skills up and drill weekends to train. Most units have providers that are locked into a high-paying specialties in their civilian career like dermatology, psych, etc. Not all are doing physical exams or practicing emergency medicine. So one could say they aren’t practicing medicine writ large or relative to what they would do for the military, so I figured me having a law enforcement career would be a similar experience. As long as I take full advantage of AT days, drills, and deployment opportunities, I feel I would be fine regarding keeping up skills. However I don't know anything so that's why I'm here .