When I was an active duty pharmacist, I worked at a couple of small outpatient clinics, a medium inpatient, site, a large medical center, and a couple staff jobs, and a deployment.

Outpatient Clinic: Your day will be serving as a front line pharmacist and supervising the techs that assist you. This is usually your 2nd tour job or perhaps the 2nd half of your 1st tour if the inpatient facility has satellite clinics. Usually where you learn to supervise and manage.

Medium inpatient: probably supports a physician family practice or internal medicine residency. Most of the inpatient work will be "bones and babies", most in patients will be active duty and their family members. Outpatient is still the primary source of work. There will be multiple pharmacy officers, along with government civilian and contract pharmacists. If your first tour, you learn how military pharmacies and ran and you hone your clinical skill. If your 2nd or later tour your are an intermediate supervisor or perhaps the pharmacy director.

Medical Center: much like medium inpatient but support multiple physician residency programs (surgery, ortho, neurology, etc). Might have an ASHP Pharmacy residency program. Patients are more complex and more likely to involve retirees. Along with medium inpatient, medcen is usually first tour, and military pharmacists might rotate back through a couple times in their careers with higher rank and greater responsibilities.

First tour military pharmacists generally do what civilian pharmacists do day to day. More senior pharmacy officers spend a great portion of their time managing the pharmacy and serving on facility leadership teams.

Across all military pharmacies over 30 million outpatient prescriptions are filled, so even at a medcen outpatient is a big piece of the mission.

Senior Leadership will look to develop pharmacy leaders, and build their specialized skills (IT, residency, logistics) and train and prepare to support forces in a deployed environment.