Worthy of note.

Well I am back from EFMB, I got a no go on the land nav so I plan on going again in 2011 when it comes to Fort Richardson. But before I start talking about someone before anything else.

I would like to introduce to you then PV2 Philip Canafax a medic for the 1st Armored Division 1st Infantry Division. I found out about him from his Sgt Romano(sp?) his immediate supervisor.

I would talk about the fact that when Canafax arrived at the unit there was not enough time to train him as he would have liked. So he gave him three medical books to study in the two weeks before they where going to Iraq. Every time he saw Canafax he would demand him to show the books and prove that he was actually reading them.

Also he drove a point to never let anyone go without medical treatment. The results of his actions should be proof enough that he took it to heart. Another medic that was there said that they had to restrain him because he wanted to drive the injured to the base even though he was also wounded.

EDIT
Philip Canafax : “I’d say restrain was a strong word, strongly convince maybe.”

So after December 2008, he was at a WTB unit for about six months recovering, during that time Sgt Romano said that he was getting worried about him getting too thin. He even thought about breaking him out of WTU. But he found out that he was working at the hospital and was being well fed. He said that Canafax was loving life and just recently purchased a Harley-Davidson bike.

So I promised Sgt Romano that I would write about him when I got a chance.

I will write about how the EFMB went shortly.

EDIT

I wrote to him and got a reply

Cool, I haven’t talked to Sgt Romano for a bit. I ended up being in the WTU at BAMC for a year unfortunately but now I have returned to full duty and work at the hospital full time. No Harley for me though, people drive too crazy in San Antonio, rather not temp fate another time.

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