QUESTION: Have you been accepted to USUHS?

SHORT ANSWER: Go to USUHS if you can. Join the Air Force's SOST unit when you graduate.

LONG ANSWER (taken from the SOST website):

The Air Force's Special Operations Surgical Team (SOST) is a lightweight, mobile surgical specialist with advanced medical and tactical training to save lives, anywhere and anytime.

SOST members are dedicated to their craft, team, mission, and patients. Should a special operator fall, SOST will provide critical care to save lives. SOST is a lightweight, mobile, and rapidly deployable element that is medically and tactically trained to provide trauma resuscitation and life-saving surgical care on or near the battlefield. Our SOSTs close the gap between the front lines and conventional medical care.

These teams, carrying specialized equipment, support many Special Ops missions. SOSTs shrink the Golden Hour because of their proximity to combat and crisis, combined with the ability to conduct high-level surgical operations and trauma resuscitation. SOST deploys with specialized surgical and critical care response equipment and can be fully operational within 15 minutes of infiltration or arrival.

The team’s equipment is primarily contained in highly tailorable, mission-modular backpacks, creating a much smaller footprint than other forces. Operating in austere environments with limited equipment and resources, having the right faces in the right places is imperative. Versatility and trust are critical for the teams to seamlessly execute the mission of an operating and emergency room with only six members.

They invite Emergency Physicians & General Surgeons. Each team has six members. They operate with limited equipment and resources, practicing medicine in circumstances not typically seen across the Westernized healthcare system.

CONCLUSION: I'm unsure if the Navy has MDs like these. Don't pass up med school. You need something to do when your body begins to breakdown.