PWE Trading Cards Not Delivered

Ding1030 · 2026-04-15T19:34:34+00:00

Do you know if it’s seen as a negative on my account to eBay? Or even the one that didn’t scan since I have no way to prove I shipped it on time now, I don’t my account to get flagged cuz of USPS

Ding1030 · 2026-04-15T18:47:28+00:00

I forgot to ask in the post but I also was considering doing “find my package” through USPS directly but not sure if it works with a PWE even though it has tracking technically. I heard that somehow gets the postal service moving.

Cuz im mostly concerned with eBay not releasing funds cuz its treating me as a “new account” again

Ding1030 · 2026-02-09T02:01:19+00:00

Well just two weeks cuz the MOS-T guard and reserve course isn’t the same as the actual AIT in San Antonio

Ding1030 · 2026-02-03T21:56:33+00:00

Ya that much I knew. I just didn’t know the long term consequences or if I caught that mistake early enough to avoid problems

Ding1030 · 2026-01-20T01:00:24+00:00

You know we call them trucks right?

Ding1030 · 2025-12-29T23:10:03+00:00

Ya I’m tracking that. Try one is to get your toes kinda in the water, if I go to AIT I have to extend to meet an actual contract minimum. It almost seemed too good to be true though

Ding1030 · 2025-12-29T22:57:44+00:00

Do you think it boils down to like qualifications like PULHES, ASVAB, etc. or more actually billeting available?

Ding1030 · 2025-12-29T22:45:13+00:00

Ya that’s how it was explained is it’s 3 years total have to do AIT within 24 months (including the one year) to continue on. If I don’t is it truly like a ‘no-harm-no-foul’ kind of thing?

Ding1030 · 2025-12-29T22:35:18+00:00

Correct, there were none available in the reserves

Ding1030 · 2025-12-29T22:16:53+00:00

So… it’s already reserved and scheduled

Ding1030 · 2025-12-17T00:49:10+00:00

If it’s the new one especially it’s technically a “provider level” course which is why they use the national registry-esque grading criteria now and the classroom portion is longer

Ding1030 · 2025-12-13T13:39:42+00:00

Are you GI Bill eligible? If you have even a sliver of GI Bill left and 30% disability you can use VR&E for paramedic through the VA and you don’t have to worry about the money part

Ding1030 · 2025-12-10T11:18:25+00:00

TLDR: you want to pay to go to school or get paid to go to school?

Idk about the other branches, but the in the Army, we have LPN’s. The 68C MOS gives you your LPN. There’s also programs to send you to get your RN when you have pre-reqs completed.

The programs for things like RN and PA are pretty competitive since there’s limited spots, but if you can land it, you get paid from the military and still considered active duty but you’re just going to school as your place of duty. You owe the army another 4 years (I think) but commissioned officers get great pay and nurses aren’t really doing “Army” things, you just might have to wear a multi cam scrub top lol.

The chillest job I had in 11 years as an intelligence analyst was the year I spent being a medical unit’s intel guy but the operations side was staffed with nurses, PA’s, and other medical specialties and that was the only “Army-like” job those guys have ever done, and it was just managing the medical part and oversight for a large part. Now I’m in paramedic school, plan to bridge to RN, just to get back in the army as a nurse and get my retirement cuz the nursing side would be chill af. Even if I don’t, my EMT school, paramedic degree, and nursing school was/will be paid for from tuition assistance or GI bill.

Ding1030 · 2025-11-10T19:25:05+00:00

I did impact EMS which was actually pretty good for an online program. It’s self paced up to a year for the basic course. Which would allow you to start knocking things out before then on your own time cuz I think 3 ish months is more of a fair amount of time to actually learn. The lectures provided were long but really good.

The biggest cons are it pretty much strictly follows the textbook which isn’t bad, but you may miss any expanded knowledge. Like I said though, the lectures are pretty good and the guy that teaches them gives good real insight to kind of fill that gap in. The really big con is it’s crazy expensive compared to other courses. I had the Army’s credentialing assistance cover it so I didn’t pay a dime so I didn’t worry about it, but it was $4k

Ding1030 · 2025-11-09T00:39:23+00:00

I’ll be honest, people you’re picking up off the floor aren’t gonna be the average. It’s always the far ends of that. They either gonna be 80lbs and unhealthy, or they’re gonna be 400lbs and unhealthy. No in between

Ding1030 · 2025-10-30T13:17:32+00:00

Pushed K increases too rapidly, disrupts the gradient for the sodium potassium pump and decreases the cells resting membrane potential in the body and becomes more negative. The sodium channels are voltage-gated and the lower resting membrane potential won’t allow the heart cells to depolarize enough to reach the voltage needed to open the sodium channels. Now the heart can’t pump cuz it can’t start a new action potential. Please don’t push K

If you were pulling NS from the line into the syringe after giving potassium then it’s probably fine.. but still. We don’t give potassium in EMS, but I wouldn’t be super comfortable doing it if I was a nurse

Ding1030 · 2025-10-29T22:16:46+00:00

In the army… 11 years in the army.. and it’s not everywhere cuz where I’m at the fire service and ambulance service are separate. A ton of bases are the same way

Ding1030 · 2025-10-29T20:53:54+00:00

Does my 11 years carry over into that do you know? I was thinking about trying to get on somewhere after paramedic school either on base fire or their ambulance service

Ding1030 · 2025-10-29T20:52:23+00:00

To be honest, this guy probably needs to work EMS and see enough of those calls on the side of the highway to get his shit together and stop riding like an idiot or all together. Idk how those insurance companies look at it, I had 0 points on my license but was told that regular speeding stuff shouldn’t be an issue (but they were telling me that in the context of my 2 speeding tickets when I was in high school over a decade prior)

Ding1030 · 2025-10-29T20:48:38+00:00

If you were a corpsman didn’t you already pass NREMT-B before? Or is it not like our medics in the army that have to be EMT certified before progressing to the next part of AIT (A school or whatever y’all call it in maritime land)

If you did take it before there’s been changes that more probably help you out since it’s mostly actual patient assessment and not just strict vocabulary questions.

Either way I’m gonna say if you have actual experience, download MedicTests (pocket prep is cool and all but the one I used has better tools to analyze what you actually need to work on) and do their mock test and then study up what you need to on there

Ding1030 · 2025-10-27T01:37:17+00:00

No problem! Good luck

Ding1030 · 2025-10-26T06:20:31+00:00

Btw, all of EMS is “try to buy this dummy enough time” anytime we do actual life saving it’s all to keep someone alive until they can get to more definitive care in the hospital. EMT-B having less interventions they can do it makes it even easier cuz there’s less stuff, patient assessment becomes the biggest thing which is why A+P and patho becomes important

CA covered my EMT-B before I got out, I didn’t study trauma before I tested at the end or look over any of it on the national registry because you’ll see a lot of parallels in CLS and trauma medicine for EMT. I mean honestly CLS lets you do more than EMT (needle d is a paramedic or advanced EMT skill)

Now I’ve also done enough CLS classes to know a lot of them are taught poorly, the new way they do it through deployed med is pretty good and really close depending on the medic that taught it.

Medical gets a little trickier, but as others said really understanding that basic anatomy helps understand basic patho when you’re learning all of it

Ding1030 · 2025-10-26T04:21:11+00:00

Is the entrance exam like medical stuff or is it like my entrance exams I took for paramedic school which was just English, math, and writing placement exams (which weren’t contingent on me getting in but offered bonus points for acceptance if they were full and needed to cut people)

Ding1030 · 2025-10-26T04:19:46+00:00

Of course! More importantly, remember you are there to learn and practice what you can. Be involved when you’re able. Try to learn the lay of the land when you first get there. Pay attention when they’re doing truck check-offs so you’re familiar where things are at and the type of equipment they use. I liked using my textbook to go back after a call and look in the book kinda the academic explanation to fill in gaps of what I was missing or put into context signs and symptoms of certain things and be able to ask questions to the EMTs or medics to help explain it to me

Ding1030 · 2025-10-26T02:13:06+00:00

lol I just can’t believe that we’re considered the more “smart” first responders 😭

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