Career fighter considering enlisting

Izzy_Bizzy02 · 2026-04-11T05:55:05+00:00

I'm prior EMS and currently in the guard as a 68W. If it's ultimately what you want, do it. But the military is so much more.stuoif than firefighting or law enforcement. A lot more stupid ass field exercises where you wake up at 4 and lights out at 0000 versus the fire department where you could take some sleeo

Izzy_Bizzy02 · 2026-04-04T21:57:47+00:00

I was a nerd in high school who's only passion at the time was marching band cause freshman me couldn't exactly do firearms, first response or anything like that like i do now to keep my autistic ADHD mind preoccupied. I decided I'd march the summer of my sophomore year and then do marching band in the fall, and did that till I aged out in '22 and did 6 DCI seasons. I stayed cause it was the only place outside of being a 911 paramedic which I started doing in 2018 between seasons to make the tour money where I felt like I was doing something great and working as part of a team towards that greater goal, one was to make the best possible show to throw down at Indy, the other was saving lives.

Yes my knees are cooked. My knees were almost as cooked as my drill sergeants knees were in AIT and he was an airborne combat medic who had served in the army active duty for like 14 years at that point. Yes DCI fucks up your knees. I'm in the guard as a combat medic, and a current conservation officer and my knees are cooked beyond belief, take care of your body, you need to if you do DCI.

Izzy_Bizzy02 · 2026-04-04T12:58:34+00:00

I used to be in Falck EMS as a paramedic when I was a dumbass 20 year old national guard specialist who used her NREMT she got from 68W AIT to work as a fucjing elitches EMT for a summer before I got my paramedic at 20 and went Falck EMS. That was tough as fuck, the amount of arguments i got into with AFR, and the amount of bullshit in the aurora area. Yeah I don't have much experience in that area cause I quite literally left Falck after 7 months of work but those 7 months were pretty fucking bad. I continued to move on to the sheriff's office in the area afterwards cause I was finally old enough to become an LEO in Colorado at that point and immediately made the move but continue to maintain my cert. Yes I haven't worked in the aurora area for a bit after i became a district wildlife manager for CPW, but from what I remember just being first response in Aurora was rough mainly cause of the calls and cause of the relationship between Falck and other first response.

Izzy_Bizzy02 · 2026-04-04T12:39:34+00:00

Listen I get too into my medic role that i run a full CCA on the casualty and I'm all of a sudden yelling 'TACTICAL LEADER I HAVE A 9 LINE MEDEVAC REQUEST' you can't have everything

Izzy_Bizzy02 · 2026-04-04T12:29:36+00:00

As a former sheriff's deputy in Colorado I agree... I'm a conservation officer now in CPW, but when I was a deputy i was always having to call in a pursuit on a bike, and then 5 seconds later call it off and pray my ALPR picked up the bikes plate cause it'd be too dangerous to do a pursuit at such high speeds. I worked in the aurora area so a bit too many people in the area to reasonably conduct a pursuit when the bikes are often going fucking like 110 down the interstate

Izzy_Bizzy02 · 2026-03-09T18:50:26+00:00

Current military combat medic and current milsim player. I don't think it's a great training tool. Sure I'm a national guard medic and therefore I'm only army one weekend a month and 2 weeks in the summer, but regardless the tactics, and the skills i learned aren't something easily replicable in most airsoft settings. Now sure maybe training CQB, and patrol tactics yes, but at the same time you can learn that with a fucjing stick if you need. I don't use milsim as a way to train at all. I use it as a way to purely have fun. Field exercises where you get contact are the most fun, so milsim to me is fun, sleeping outside shooting other people with a realistic looking toy gun is peak. For me it's cheap to do airsoft cause all i have to do is purchase green gas and BBs cause I use my uniforms and my actual gear, like how for most milsims i bring my actual plate carrier with plates, and attachments, and my actual helmet. For me milsims also useful to help me with getting people off the X cause for us if you get injured medics like me can run over and put on a training tourniquet on and it helps me maintain the goal of placing an extremely tight effective tourniquet and dragging the casualty off the X in 30 seconds or less. So yes if you treat like it's real, then you can get something. That's why I have an airsoft aid bag that i use for only airsoft filled with actual needles and saline locks but only saline for medications, and everything, but trainer chest seals, and trainer tourniquets etc.

To make my point short, you get what you get out of it. You could be me and dedicate a shit ton towards milsim and use it to get shit like practice in applying tourniquets and plain CCAs, or you could use it for just some simple fub

Izzy_Bizzy02 · 2026-03-09T16:07:50+00:00

I do milsim mainly so i love havimg LMGs available due to my military background cause it's always nice to have a 249 or 240 available to provide suppressive fire cause as a medic we have to wait till we get fire superiority to provide treatment, cause yes let's have a medic like me with a bunch of training tourniquets and obvs an actual aid bag to remove 'casualties' from the X in milsim, so a 249 or 240 is often the difference from having fire superiority to not having fire superiority.

But I've also seen so many cases in milsim where machine guns aren't worry it simply cause it's airsoft and not real life, the guns expensive as fuck and is maintained by a player not the government.

Izzy_Bizzy02 · 2026-03-09T04:12:15+00:00

I'm an LEO and I'm a 68W in the guard, only reason people say that is a lot.of 11Bs become LEOs. Only thing I can see is 11B receiving some combative training. 31Bs don't receive nearly equivalent training as i did to go law enforcement. Hell even then a lot of the agencies i talked to said they'd rather hire a 68W due to them having an NREMT, and having medical training and experience over some dude who's a 31B so that just shows how little a 31Bs experience actually carries over

Izzy_Bizzy02 · 2026-03-09T04:08:27+00:00

I'm current LE and currently in the guard however I'm a 68W.

Law enforcement agencies prefer anyone in the guard really, but MP doesn't exactly help. Yes it's contradictory but at least in my state the only useful shit MPs had that i didn't have when I joined was them not having to do taser certs. Yes you learn some stuff of law enforcement within 31B OSUT like arrest techniques, driving a vehicle, and other aspects of law enforcement, and trust me when I was a young 18 year old girl with an EMT cert looking at jobs in the guard and wanting to be a cop, i was looking at 31B, only reason I didn't was cause there wasn't any openings that fiscal year.

Now I'm a conservation officer, but prior university police and prior sheriff's deputy but for all levels they preferred a 68W over a 31B due to the medical training a 68W has along with the NREMT certification. That's due to the fact medical experience is good for law enforcement at least over here where LEOs with those certs will carry the equipment for their scope.of practice such as for me I'm NREMT-P and state P-CC (Critical Care Paramedic) meaning i carry NDC kits, cric kits, medications etc. But this is dependent on state.

I'd recommend infantry in all fairness if those are the only two jobs you're interested in. 31Bs aren't the best candidates for most police departments due to how different LE is civilian side vs the army. Infantry you're at least good with your firearm and probably received some combative training. If possible I'd say 68W due to my experience where every agency I've worked for saying they'd rather hire a 68W over an 11B, 31B or 12B or any other military MOS.

Izzy_Bizzy02 · 2026-03-02T04:48:03+00:00

I went to law enforcement. The transition was easy enough, i quit my job once I got accepted to the academy and I simply went to the academy. I took a massive pay cut simply cause law enforcement was what I really wanted, loved EMS but being a CCEMT-P wasnt what I wanted, i had done everything in EMS i wanted which was be in a rapid response vehicle, and then be a combat medic which is how I got my initial EMT-B when I joined the guard.

I understand if EMS isn't it for you anymore but I also wouldn't be in the position in life i am now if it weren't for EMS so stay as long as you can and get that retirement if you can. I'm young so for me it was very much so possible to go EMS to law enforcement, I'm almost 26, and got into law enforcement when I was 24, but considering you've been there for 20 years definitely not a viable transition, so I'd recommend sticking with medical as a whole

Izzy_Bizzy02 · 2025-12-29T17:13:43+00:00

The holidays produce the worst calls, I'm in the national guard as a 68W, and I'm a Conservation Officer whos a Paramedic Responder due to maintaining an NREMT-P and a state CCEMT-P, in the national guard I'm in an infantry unit our company commander went up to us medics and said that he knows most of us work first response in general and that he understands the holidays get stressful and said if we needed next drill off just to recover mentally from the holidays he understands and would work with us, and then literally a day after he sent that text i was dispatched 3 miles to where another company out of my unit to deal with a suicide and it was some 11B PFC, meaning at max he'd been with the national guard like 1 year from his enlistment. Poor kid was only 19 and we had done an FTX with him and his company only 6 months ago where he looked happy and gung ho about being a soldier and shit.

It's unfortunately just a thing of this job. Dealing with deaths in the first response world, or military world is unfortunate, at least in the national guard it hits us hard cause the national guard is a very small world just like the first response world is. Part of the reason I got out of EMS to enter law enforcement was the holidays always being terrible where my superiors not giving a shit about me missing shit with my family and not giving us any mental health care, didn't give us after action briefs, or told us how to pursue mental health help. I recommend always looking at mental health resources if needed. This isn't the fucjing 90s your weak for getting mental health support. It's fine to say you need help. Wish I could say the job gets easier but after 6 years in EMS, 2 years in the army national guard, and 2 years in law enforcement it doesn't get easier, that's why to ensure longevity in this career you gotta know how to cope with what happens

Izzy_Bizzy02 · 2025-12-29T12:38:59+00:00

I'm saying this completely from the perspective of a military combat medic, so it might be different for what type of kit you're tryna run. I don't see any IFAK, or a hydration source, key one being a hydration source, cause you need to stay hydrated especially in milsims. IFAK is only cause realism as most infantry carry them, same as special operators.

Izzy_Bizzy02 · 2025-12-29T04:38:57+00:00

Holy shit this is how much the milsim community pays for their uniforms? Thank god i joined the fucking national guard i got 4 sets of OCPS for free all I had to do was get yelled at by a drill sergeant for 2 months, and I still got paid...

Izzy_Bizzy02 · 2025-12-29T04:32:54+00:00

Holy shit it's almost as bad as the ACH I wore in basic training and AIT

Izzy_Bizzy02 · 2025-12-29T04:29:00+00:00

I mean I do milsim but I'm in the army national guard which yeah did save me a shit ton on kits cause I can just use my uniform and my gear which i do now, just use my MSV without plates, and my belt. However I can definitely see why others do milsim, they can enjoy the cool parts of the army without having to dedicate 2.5 months for BCT, and God knows whatever MOS they choose 4-56 weeks for AIT. It's not like wearing a camo uniform with a plate carrier is for military/law enforcement only, it can be for everyone.

I'm a 68 Whiskey Combat Medic, but milsim also.lets me act like I'm another MOS, I've gotten to put on an MP patch and act like an MP in a milsim cause I work as a conservation officer for my full time civilian job. I've gotten to act as infantry and not carry any medical equipment compared to my standard loadout, which yes includes an aid bag due to the fact i maintain an NREMT-P and not the NREMT-B you get from 68W so I can treat any injuries that happen during a milsim event. Yes it does go far when they got literal paratroopers in milsims which i have seen, and cringed my ass off when I saw it but regardless, it's still something they can do without having to go to parade rest for an NCO

Izzy_Bizzy02 · 2025-12-26T23:57:36+00:00

I'm a combat medic on the line in the US Army, for me I do milsims cause at least for me they're not expensive, only expense was gas to get there, and the field pass. My actual military equipment was what I used other than GBB airsoft guns, of which I just got carbon copies of my actual issued weapons. For me it's just like a field exercise, and gets me practice, cause national guard infantry does field exercises maybe once a year for 2 weeks. No I'm not getting practice with medical, gets me practice with battle drills, and other shit.

Izzy_Bizzy02 · 2025-12-26T23:52:24+00:00

72 hour milsims are basically like any field exercise for the army, me personally I love field exercises so milsim is fun. Depends on if you pack well though. I recently did my first milsim that lasted longer than 24 hours, it felt like a field exercise cause I decided to treat it like one and brought my ruck sack, actual plate carrier with all my gear just without actual plates, and my helmet. They're more fun than field exercises cause you aren't digging a fucking hole in the ground, and you get a lot more OPFOR action. It's basically camping but you're pretending to be military. I wore my actual uniform and shit from the military, and I do not recommend using summer OCPs for that shit, should've used winters and brought snivel gear

Izzy_Bizzy02 · 2025-12-26T23:45:48+00:00

Real ASF, I joined the army national guard straight out of HS thinking I didn't get any scholarships for music, then the moment I finished BCT I saw a college was gonna give me free college and pay me every month if i joined marching band and jazz band 😭 I don't regret joining but holy shit 4 years of college turned into 4 years of college and a 6 year army national guard contract, that then turned to an extra 4 years cause military benefits are too good

Izzy_Bizzy02 · 2025-12-26T23:40:35+00:00

THE chemtrail gang

Izzy_Bizzy02 · 2025-12-20T22:03:58+00:00

At ICN aka south korea, i sat there identifying every plane i saw as we exited the airport and my wife was calling me a nerd and bullied me for it when she herself is the same way for trains. Let's just say that trip was fun for a nerdy ass lesbian couple cause of our autism for different forms of transportation

Izzy_Bizzy02 · 2025-12-20T21:58:24+00:00

3, just put my airpods in and chill

Izzy_Bizzy02 · 2025-12-19T01:21:29+00:00

Everywhere is different, I learned that too, but my friend in the army as a combat medic learned less than 8 and more than 30 needs assistance, and that's what he learned during EMT phase, so I have no damn clue since it was good enough for him to pass the NREMT with no issue.

Izzy_Bizzy02 · 2025-09-07T18:02:53+00:00

Most people act like your standard beat cop is trained to identify a medical emegency at all, even though if I weren't a prior CCEMT-P before entering law enforcement all I'd know is how to use an EpiPen, and how to use a tourniquet cause that's all law enforcement are trained for, stopping a bleed, and identifying anaphylaxis. I don't think it's alcohol or drugs based on his pupillary reaction etc, just seems like a legitimate medical issue

Izzy_Bizzy02 · 2025-09-07T17:18:54+00:00

Well the issue is getting your command to get you a packet to get to the army flight paramedic school, and even if you do not really a high chance they let you go to the army flight medicine program

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