Greg Hadfield:  

a and then salmon first far out in the Pacific by Midway Island, then up to Alaska for my last two years. I went into the military looking for a college fund, and after ten long years of school intermixed with military duty, I became a physician assistant. I've worked emergency medicine, occupational health, family practice, dermatology, and addiction medicine. I now teaching an operational medicine course to special ops troops in the military with two doctors and another physician assistant. We travel from military base to base training soldiers how to perform life-saving skills while under fire. All of us come from special operations, so it is easy to relate to the problems they will encounter on the battlefield. The course culminates in these soldiers practicing their skills on anesthetized pigs with wounds inflicted on them such as amputations, gun-shot wounds, and massive bleeding. I know, sounds inhumane, but I can tell you it saves lives of our troops- I personally took this course ten years ago and saved a life because of it. I have to say if there is a problem here, I would cite the fact that pork products are way more dangerous to alot more pig's health than this course. So, I travel to the SEALS, the Rangers, the Green Berets, Delta Force, etc... around fifteen days of the month, and am off another fifteen to twenty days a month in between courses. I love what I do, and will probably continue for a few more years before I go back to seeing patients. It is one thing to teach, but my diagnostic skills will probably get rusty if I don't go back in a couple of years. Military I spent four years in the Army Airborne Rangers up in Seattle, then moved back to the south bay to join the Air Force Pararescue unit at Moffett Field. After thirteen years there, I moved over to the Special Forces (Green Berets) unit in Redwood City and retired after twenty years of active and national guiard duty. I've participated in combat actions in Panama, Iraq nine different times, Bosnia and Kosovo, along with civilian contracting in Iraq as security specialist who provided medical duties as a physician assistant when needed. Currently I teach medicine to special ops troops (SEALS, Rangers, Green Berets, Delta, etc...) for a living, so am still pretty much immersed in the military community.