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Yes, first you go to healthcare specialist school, which is commonly called combat medic. That school is about 4 months long. After that, you go to M6 school to get certified as an LPN. That school is about a year long. It is possible to get assigned to a line unit in the role of a combat medic, but 99.5% of the time M6's are assigned to hospital units and work in hospitals or clinics. You have to maintain your LPN certs and your medic certs the entire time you are in or you can be re-classed, no matter what type of unit you are assigned to. LPN's work under nurses. They are commonly called a "butt wiper," because one of the main things you do is change bandages and make sure bed-ridden patients are clean and hygenic. If you want to be a full RN, you can work on that later through the Army by applying to the AECP (college program to commission enlisted Soldiers as nurses with BSN's)

Not anymore. Now 68WM6 is called 68C, which is an LPN nurse. You will not go through combat medic school (whiskey school). You will go to basic and right after start 68C training, which is in the clasrom and in the hospital in F. Sam Houston TX, BAMC.