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<p>Throughout my career, I have been told, “jobs will find you.” Just let things play out, my mentors have insisted, and you will find your niche. As a millennial, this advice can strike fear straight through you. We are the “checklist” generation, and testing different waters can cause some trepidation. Still, I carried this advice with me as I left the Naval Health Clinic Cherry Point in April 2014. I ended up at a place I had not heard of before: Marine Corps Forces, Pacific (MARFORPAC) at Camp H. M. Smith, Hawaii. Moving from a small clinic in North Carolina to a component headquarters billet in the vast Pacific area of operations (AOR) was not the most ideal transition for a one-year lieutenant, but I was up for the challenge.<br>A few weeks into the new job, I found myself packing my bags and working my first health theater security cooperation job in the Philippines. It was then that I had my first experience with Global Health Engagement (GHE).
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<br>Subjects: Navy Medicine Live blog; military medicine; humanitarian assistance; Philippine Islands</div>
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U.S. Navy. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery</div>
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