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I was a Medical Materiel (yes, that is spelled correctly) specialist during my 28-year AF career. The thing I liked was it was the different sections and jobs. Our job was to purchase, receive, store, issue, inventory the medical, nonmedical, and pharmaceutical supplies and equipment to Air Force hospitals and clinics. In addition, we built, maintained, and deployed air transportable field hospitals (think M*A*S*H) and clinics. It was also our job to interact with just about every flight on the base by providing first aid kit support, coordinate with aerospace ground equipment for generator support for the field hospitals and clinics, base supply, base contracting, base finance, etc.. One day I could be ordering supplies and the next day I'd be outside operating a 10K forklift positioning air craft pallets so we could set up our field hospital for an exercise. I could be issuing controlled substances (narcotics) to the pharmacy, inventorying medical equipment throughout the hospital/clinic, determining what our stock levels for each item in our warehouse should be, or running our computer processing for an end-of-the-day reconciliation and distributing computer printouts to their users.

I've been retired for 20 years and I while I enjoyed my work I don't miss it.