[cookcounty]

I hear you on most of what you raised, but disagree on:..

" In many cases (in the medical field for instance) reservists may have better skills than their active duty counterparts (reserve doctors may see seriously ill or injured people every day, while an active duty doc, will perhaps see a healthier segment of the population). "

My experience in the Medical Corps was the opposite. The Army provides complete medical care for its gazillions of personnel (it's the largest medical services operation in the USA). The civilian medicial community spends 75% of its efforts on geriatric events. Yes, soldiers are young and healthy, that's why a much higher percentage of the care in the Medical Corps has to do with injury and trauma, rather than Alzheimers and cancer.

[91B]

I don't know. What you say could be true and maybe I am biased because the docs I have worked woth are largely ER docs. In any event I meant no disrespect to regualr Army docs.