Making It Through a Deployment

[@marioag23]

Thank you ! I needed to hear this today 🙏🙏🙏

[@beckyumphrey2626]

Awesome video. I am hoping your O-4 is pinned.on now. You surely deserve it. TOTAL PROFESSIONAL!!!!!

[@marioag23]

I’ve been following your channel for a while now and I recently finished navy Boot Camp and am currently in my first week of Corpsman A School. Could you tell me how corpsman deployments are since you were a corpsman before becoming a nurse ? My goal is to be a corpsman and than get my bsn to be a navy nurse, I’m a reservist by the way. Thank you in advance for any tips you could give me 🙏

[@itsestelarojas4713]

Hello and thank you for watching my videos! Congratulations on finishing bootcamp! Deployments for Corpsman are pretty much the same as I described in my videos because nurses and Corpsmen deploy together.

[@marioag23]

@@itsestelarojas4713 thank you ma’am I’m very proud to have taken this route. I’m 37 so I was at a disadvantage from the majority of my shipmates but I managed to get through it. I have big goals that I want to accomplish so I’m not letting something like my age stop me from going forward and succeeding in the Navy, your videos inspire me.

[@dreamchaser7371]

How many times have you been deployed as a nurse in the navy?

[@itsestelarojas4713]

As a nurse, once. But, there are a lot of temporary additional duties (TADs) I have been on, too numerous to count that I have needed to travel to different states and countries.

[@corylemons7242]

Ur gorgeous 🥰🥰

[@alexk3377]

Hello Estela! Can I join Navy nurse corps if I have two citizenships. Or do I have to renounce the non-American citizenship?

[@itsestelarojas4713]

I’m pretty sure as long as you have an American citizenship you are good. The best person to talk to about these types of administrative issues is a Navy detailer.

[@sweetigra185]

Aren't there some deployment places that you can take your family with you ??

[@itsestelarojas4713]

No. You cannot take your family on any deployments. There are overseas duty stations where your family can go with you though.

[@isaacmartinez9661]

Are their prescription medications that disqualify you from becoming a navy nurse

[@itsestelarojas4713]

I’m not sure. That is something the medical provider at MEPS will let you know.

[@kidleek297]

Wait you can get service while deployed?

[@itsestelarojas4713]

Yes. Just depends on where you’re at.

[@Adore_chaa]

Hi I’ve been watching your videos for a while I feel like I contacted you already but I have question im gonna be graduating high school n April and I was thinking about enlisting and going straight into the navy to be a navy corpsman but I have a opportunity to go into college to get my bachelor’s degree so I wanted to know which one i should do should I go after high school or get my bachelor degree first

[@itsestelarojas4713]

Girl, go get your bachelors degree!

[@Adore_chaa]

@@itsestelarojas4713 loll okayyy thank youuu

[@thetruthsayer8347]

@@Adore_chaa yup, get your Bachelors. The military will always be there if you really want to serve. There’s also the ROTC program if you want to serve while going to school.

[@SimplyyJaszmine]

Hello Ma’m , I’m currently in the navy reserves and I’m applying for the nurse corp candidate program and I’m currently trying to get my package together. If possible, would you be interested in conducting my officer interview ?

[@itsestelarojas4713]

Hi! Yes of course. DM me on Facebook or Instagram.

[@nickkundrat9757]

Are you with a med battalion? I’m currently stationed at NMRTC San Diego looking for an operational deployment

[@itsestelarojas4713]

Yes I am, I am currently at 1st Medical Battalion.

[@nickkundrat9757]

@@itsestelarojas4713 thank you that’s my goal! I just got my 1910 hopefully gonna get my 1945 before I go get an operational billet

[@itsestelarojas4713]

@@nickkundrat9757 It shouldn’t be that difficult to get 1st Med out of San Diego. Lots of nurses do that.