Former medics find themselves on bottom rung in civilian field

[The Patriot]

Former medics find themselves on bottom rung in civilian field

05-05-2015 02:49 PM

In four deployments as an Army combat medic to some of the most dangerous corners of Iraq and Afghanistan, Joe Carney had seen the worst of war — bullet wounds, severed limbs, shrapnel. He saved lives amid bombs and gunfire, his emergency room often a patch of dirt in the desert or a rocky mountainside. None of that mattered when he left the Army three years ago.


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