Recent content by VikramT

Captain MJ, I've been looking up some army doctors and one of the guys I found went to a regular medical college, then applied for an HPSP grant, then after the long path through medicine, went on two deployments to Kosovo and Iraq as a vascular surgeon. So what I've kind of derived from this is...

If I'm not selected for USUHS straight out of USNA, what are the odds of going to a good civilian med school like Baylor or something and getting an HPSP grant. Question: if I get an HPSP grant would I still be able to do a military residency?

im cool with that.... so what I'm hearing is that if I want to serve/deploy as a surgeon then going to one of the armed forces colleges for undergraduate isn't the best for me. If not, what should I do instead, do ROTC at a civilian college and then apply to USUHS or for a HPSP grant? Long as I...

Gotcha, well I'm still cool with that.

Do TMO's deploy?

So I can tell them I want to be a vascular surgeon for a specific branch and they can stick me with becoming an orthopedic surgeon for the coast guard? Yikes, if that's what you mean that honestly scares me. What are the odds of something like that happening?

The military certainly provides a lot of opportunities to help the oppressed but the military is not oppressed and the military would be your first constituency Haha didn't mean to imply the military were oppressed, I meant to say I wanted to treat people who are being oppressed. Maybe some...

Are you an American citizen? Usna has that as a requirement for entry Yes! Parents are immigrants from India but I'm born and raised in Washington.

Alright guys. I'm writing this message because I need some advice and even with extensive research I'm still confused on a lot of things I see on Internet forums and navy recruiting sites because I have no military personnel in my family who can explain things to me. I'm Indian and I'm the only...