Open Blog Post

This week for my open blog post I want to talk about veterinarians in the military. Yeah, I was thinking at first like what in the hell do they do in there? Well, they actually do a lot of work and have many responsibilities. Veterinarians are typically only used in the army today. Their duties include food safety, military animal welfare and disease control.
Food safety pretty much speaks for itself, they inspect the rations and make sure no hostile forces have contaminated them, because that would be the easiest way to render the troops immobile. The food in the army is inspected more closely and must meet stricter criteria to pass inspection.
The army uses a variety of animals, such as dogs that are used to sniff out bombs, narcotics, and mines. Horses are used in  celebratory displays and such. Most branches even have mascots such as falcons or small dogs and cats. The army veterinarian's job is to keep all these animals healthy and happy.
Disease control would be carried out in a manner such as to make sure that when aircrafts come back into the U.S they aren't carrying too much soil or anything that could allow foeign insects or bacteria to invade and destroy domestic crops.
Also, to be a vet in the army means you are eligible for a scholarship, (I forget the name) that will pay for all your tuition, which could end up being almost 150,000 after 4 years of vet school, they pay for your books, they give you money each month to spend plus on top of that you still get army salary while in school. All in exchange for your time in the service.