Other Memories For a while, I worked at TMC#2, which is now SGT David Bleak TMC. It is in the Basic Training area of Fort Sill. When I worked there, it was located at the top of the hill across from someone's motorpool. I beleive we were in Building 6002 on Edwards Street just after turning off Berry Street. If you were looking at the building from the front, then TMC#2 occupied the left third of the building. The clinic NCOIC was SSG Gerald Heath.
Some of the medics that worked there were: SPC Angel Arce (male), SPC Charles Pickwell, PFC Zoraida Turnipseed. SPC Leah Garza was one of our Patient Admin clerks along with SGT Rose (?) Washington. We had 3 Physicians Assistants: Ms. Donna MIlligan, Mr. Ruben, and Mr. Mike Swetman. They were Warrent Officers when I started working there, but at some point the Army changed them to commissioned officers and I don't recall what theri ranks became.
We had a military physician, CPT Charles Ryan. pretty sure he was the OIC and a civilian physician whose name I don't recall. CPT Ryan got out of the Army and became Dr. Elizabeth Ryan and the last time I saw her, she was working at the Family Practice clinic at the hospital (Reynolds Army Community Hospital).
We had to be at work at 0500 because we were the TMC for the Basic and OSUT trainees. The clinic doors closed at 1400, but that didn't mean that was when we left. We did not leave until the last patient was seen and since I was pharmacy, I was always one of the last people to leave.
I remember one year, myself and a few of the medics pranked Mr. Ruben for April Fools Day. He always drank his coffee black and would leave it at the front counter so I dropped a pyridium tablet in it which then caused him to pee orange. We also took a bunch of condoms and attached them to his car anywhere we could. And, the final thing I did was to soak his chair with water. He knew we were out to get him so he was opening all drawers very carefully and even touched the seat of his chair and found out it was wet. Well, as the day progressed he forgot that his chair was wet and sat down. It was very funny because then he was walking around with the ass of his BDUs all wet and still had to see patients.
My pharmacy was an old arm's room, which was perfect because it had a safe in it. There had not been a pharmacy tech working there previously and they were limited to prepacked medicine that they got from the Outpatient Pharmacy at the hospital. So, to help reduce the amount of lost training time for the trainees, I was sent out there to run a full fledged pharmacy that way a larger variety of medications, including controlled substances, could be maintained there and the trainees did not have to loose a day of training when they needed something other than prepacked medications. I was also responsible for maintaining the medications for the 8 Battalion Aid Stations (BAS) that were manned by our medics every morning. Before the medics would go out each day, they came to see me to pick up their restock orders. Again, this facilitated with cutting down the amount of time the trainees lost by treating simple colds, bumps, and bruises at the BAS so they could get back to training.
