Originally posted by LoVeMeLoVeMenOt:
Heh, always get a kick seeing this pic ... taken when my coy was
arrowed to be the stars in a Army commercial, all the way back in
1999 ... I'm old!! 
andywalker, MyNickisZ and all others posted to SMM ... don't
despair ... a CMO posting initially seems really uncool but trust
me on this ... it'll grow on you and you'll be glad for it. Unlike
most vocations, you will also pick up a skill set that you can use
in the real world.
I can understand that Medics in the SAF have an image problem ...
who's to blame people for having such negative perceptions? Most
first impressions are of lazy fat-bastard medics during BMT. That
a lot of Platoon Medics are unfit and unmotivated leads to
stereotyping like MunnaBhai_MBBS's. 12qwaszx's medic ... now that's
what I call a medic.
Your mission if you choose to accept it is to reverse these
impressions and glorify the name of CMOs in the SAF. 
Some pointers and pitfalls to avoid:
The best compliment I ever got was from a rifleman in my platoon.
He signed on to be a CMO. 
