bilwis

I watch COPS now and then and, while the episodes are of course cut to make them more suspenseful, I wonder how much you worry about "coming home in the evening". Do you really feel that your life is on the line every day?

Also, how much of your work is paperwork? From what I experienced with the Bundeswehr so far, they seem hellbent on drowning you in forms. I wonder wheter the police is as bad?

I'm unfamiliar with the Canadian MEDEVAC procedures, but I know that with the USMC, the personnel onboard the (air) ambulances are "only" corpsmen. I serve in the German military, and we have an emergency physician/medical officer on all MEDEVAC vehicles and in every patrol (at least with ISAF). I'm glad we do, but I can understand that we were never deployed in high intensity operations as the CAF or USMC were, and that in such operations it may be unwise to risk such "high value personnel" and that maybe, they can't do much more than a good medic could.

How is this handled in the Canadian military and what are your thought on this? Do you think an emergency physician would be a good addition or do you feel that well trained medical NCO's can do just as well?