Airmen most likely to faint under the needle
Staff report
Posted : Monday Nov 3, 2008 14:33:45 EST
Feeling woozy after your latest round of immunization shots? Then you’re probably a male airman.
Ten years of records showed that 2,612 service members passed out cold — and fell down — after a nurse slowly inserted a thin half-inch of steel into their biceps or buttocks.
Data from the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center shows that the rate of airmen who fell out was twice that of soldiers and sailors — Marines fall in between — and that twice as many men as women were among the fainthearted. The overall numbers also are rising; today’s service members are 2½ times more likely to faint from getting a shot than they were in 1998.
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Airmen most likely to faint under the needle
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308Mike
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Airmen most likely to faint under the needle
Linkarooni - WTF is happening to our service members, coming from a nation of wussies?
POLITICIANS & DIAPERS NEED TO BE CHANGED OFTEN AND FOR THE SAME REASON
A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.
I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad
A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.
I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad
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Wrenchbender1
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I went to get blood drawn for a PHA and got to see a Tsgt bounce her head off of a desk. I guess I'm an asshole for laughing. 
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.
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Jered
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The Chair Force.
The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.
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First Shirt
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That's Chairborne Professionals, to you!Jered wrote:The Chair Force.
Sigh. We were just starting to get some manly points back because of the PJs and CCs in the sandboxes, and this crap comes out. Dammit!
Although I remember in a basic training shot line, the guys on either side of me passed out, and I had to try and catch both of them. The TI thought it was pretty funny.
But there ain't many troubles that a man caint fix, with seven hundred dollars and a thirty ought six."
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Jered
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Chairborne ranger, chairborne ranger how have you been?
The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.
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Jericho941
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Didn't see anyone faint at MEPS, but I was one of, like, 4 Air Force applicants there. The blood test was interesting. The night before, the hotel fire alarm had gone off, and I wound up missing breakfast. So I was tired and dehydrated when it was time to get stuck.
Well, first they had trouble finding a vein in my arm, and then once they got it, it collapsed. So they got my other arm instead.
I got some funny looks from the other applicants, walking around with cotton stuck to each elbow.
Well, first they had trouble finding a vein in my arm, and then once they got it, it collapsed. So they got my other arm instead.
I got some funny looks from the other applicants, walking around with cotton stuck to each elbow.