Nurse recruiter just called..military base in Hawaii looking for nurses

[rainbow4321]

Hmmm..interesting. Travel nurse company just left me a voice mail. Saying that they are looking for civilian nurses who want a 6 month long travel assignment on a Hawaiian military base. Had me wondering what exactly is going to be happening in the next 6 months that they are needing to fill their staff w/ civilian nurses?

[Squatch]

1. Military hospitals are staffed with military and civilian personnel.

Nothing out the ordinary.

[rainbow4321]

3. From what I have read online from military hospital watchers..

and workers is that changes at military hospitals are usually the first possible clue that something is about to happen..they either expand, try to empty out (to make room for expected large amount of injured) or expand their staff. Word comes down from those in the know that something is about to happen military-wise that will be producing a surge of casualities.

Tinfoil hat, perhaps, but I wanted to throw the info out there, just in case.

[LostinVA]

2. They would get wounded from bases in Japan

If they wanted more nurses for that. So, it would be Southeast Asia, I guess.

They may also just need nurses. Hmmm....

[dflprincess]

7. I told you all that if a timeline for leaving Iraq was set

all of Southeast Asia would fall to the Communists! :evilgrin:

[Ilsa]

12. See my post down below. They alreadya re getting Iraq

war vets normally stationed in Japan sent to Hawaii for health problems after their tour in Iraq is done.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Could be bait-and-switch.

You sign up thinking you'll be assigned to Hawaii and find yourself instead in Haditha, Iraq, or start in Hawaii and transferred elsewhere.

[Hekate]

5. If you know anyone who's interested in going, check cost of living first

For a 6-month stint it should be lovely. It's a beautiful place.

If you're interested in current info you could ask some of our DUers over in the Hawaii forum.

Hekate

[Horse with no Name]

9. The nice thing about travel assignments is

that the company picks up the housing tab.
That makes it a very attractive offer.

[Hekate]

13. Shoot, a person could go anywhere if that's the case! What fun! nt

[neuvocat]

6. Nurses in general are always in demand.

I met someone who left UCSD hospital to go to the Naval hospital in Balboa (San Diego).

[Chimichurri]

8. One signs up for Hawaii and ends up in Iraq.

Look no further then the integrity of the Commander-In-Chief.

[Horse with no Name]

10. You really have to wonder about this

My guess is that they are deploying their military nurses to the Middeast and need to fill those absences.

[Ilsa]

11. Hey rainbow, a old friend said on her blog that her husband

is being treated for cancer of the testicles at the base medical center in Hawaii. He was stationed in Japan, but was sent to Iraq, I'm not sure for how long. Four guys in his group all came home to Japan with testicualr cancer. What are he odds? Oh, they are Air Force. Maybe there are war vets getting their treatment there instead of Walter Reed or Bethesda or BAMC (San Antonio).