Travis Air Force Base

Where are you at in your career? What part of the country are you in? Tell us a little about your marital status, et cetera.

So I'm a second year resident at Travis Air Force Base, family medicine.

I'm in, so that's in California.

We're about 60 minutes from Sacramento and 60 minutes from San Francisco.

At least it's a better rate than California, right? It definitely is.

Okay.

Well, I rotated at Travis Air Force Base as an MS4.

No way.

Uh-huh.

"Why, why, why is there a special mission B1 being tasked out of Travis Air Force Base?"

Yeah.

"Hmm? You wanna tell us?" This isn't funny, people.

I didn't think about that.

I played golf with him at the Travis Air Force Base because-

I, I liked him for a while.

Me and him bumped heads one time and I was just like-

Okay.

He's out there, he's out there at Travis Air Force Base and-

Cool

... we, we went out to visit him.

So that was helpful for me going to school.

After I graduated from school, I changed from being a flight nurse to being staff, um, and adjunct professor at Travis Air Force Base for a couple of years where I deployed with them.

And following that deployment, I was assigned to, um, what's called air staff, where senior-ranking officers in the medical field work in one big building and harass each other and work on policy, something that I didn't feel that I would be very comfortable or successful at, but it turned out to be very opportunistic for our profession.

It's funny how difficult anesthesia is, but there are things more difficult.

And going straight into the Philippines was...

Pretty exotic, getting flown over there, leaving Bremerton to Seattle, to San Francisco, to Travis Air Force Base, to Hawaii, to Guam, and then on to Clark Air Force Base, where we're wearing our Navy whites.

And then we have to get on a bus trip with camouflage gear.

to go to Subic Bay because they didn't tell us, but they were picking people off as we would drive through the jungles, getting over to Subic Bay.

I was in a general hospital in Vietnam.

El Paso, Texas at William Beaumont General Hospital, and we received a lot of people from the field, and within three or four days, they were in our hospital.

They went to Guam, Japan, Hawaii, then to Travis Air Force Base, and then went to Walter Reed, Fitzsimmons, in Denver, William Beaumont General Hospital in El Paso, Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, and Tripler in Hawaii.

And I don't remember the number, the one in Seattle, but there was five major general hospitals that they put the troops, the shot up people and things that, and I was in one of those hospitals.