Getting to know me

          So, let me get things started with this blog post by introducing myself a little. My name is Cody and I am currently enrolled in English 101 for my general education credits toward my associates degree in Paramedicine. I am not very good at writing, but I will attempt to keep everyone entertained, informed, and up to date on my life and the line of work I do. With that being said, let me give you a short background on myself.

          When I graduated from high school I was lucky enough to receive a football scholarship to Baker University in Baldwin City, Kansas. The summer before my freshman year I injured my knee playing American Legion Baseball and it did not heal right, and I ended dropping out of class. The next six months or so I did absolutely nothing, except, cause trouble and get into it. I realized right then I needed to do something with my life and joined the United States Marine Corps. The next eight years were spent traveling all over the world to include Iraq and Kuwait a couple of times. When I was honorably discharged from the Marines in February of 2012 I decided I was going to start Private Security Contracting. I did all of my civilian training, becoming a Certified Special Operations Specialist, this is just a fancy title for Private Security Specialist in high risk areas, and a Tactical Emergency Medical Services (T.E.M.S) first responder. I instantly fell in love with the tactical medical side of my line of work. In August of 2012 I began working for a private security company called United Marine Security (UMS) as a Tactical Reaction Team Leader/Team Medic. As I kept getting more and more involved with tactical medicine, I became consumed in it.  With what little time I had between rotations on the oil tankers, off the eastern coast of Africa ,I became a Nationally Registered Emergency Medical Technician Basic. Finally, I decided it was all or nothing to become a Tactical Paramedic - Certified, so I quit deploying and began going down this long road. I went through my Advanced Emergency Medical Technician course and started working for a hospital based ambulance service. In the last six months I have become a Tactical Emergency Casualty Care Instructor, and am in the process to get my National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians certification as a Tactical Combat Casualty Care Instructor. I will began the last part of my paramedic certification in August of 2015, and after that get my Law Enforcement Licensure. Its a very long process, and exhausting, but I have the strong mind and will power to do so.

          I am married to a beautiful women, Tessa, and we have 3 lovely girls. Hadlee and Mcynlee are twin 21 month olds, and Ava is 9. So you can imagine I don't have much time to do homework between work, family, and trying to keep up on all my skills on the tactical/civilian side of EMS. There are a lot of late nights and early morning doing class work after my shift.

Until next time.
Cody