Early Medical Warrior Fears and Response
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Early Medical Warrior Fears and Response
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Instagram post of Steven McCullen delivering PPE.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-LjZd-njOV/
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Jacksonville, North Carolina
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McCullen, Steven
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2020-03-25
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Personal reflection:
By March 25th, the potential impact of the pandemic were coming into focus. This Instagram
post I made reflects the atmosphere of fear that was prevalent when my front line adult son asked
for help.
I’m a combat veteran. Facing his own premature mortality, amplified by a given a lack of PPE,
my son asked “How did you act courageously when you really want to run...?”
I said “Courage is not the absence of fear; we call that insanity. Courage is the management of
fear...”
This question prompted my proposition to compensate these White Smocked Warriors to the
extent of and fiscally analogous with our uniformed military warriors.
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Instagram post text:
This is me driving a shipment of critical PPE to a bio-warrior working at a major Raleigh metro
hospital. They are now looking UP at the tsunami… I dressed out to MOPP Level 4 (vets know) to
land this gear on my son’s lawn and chat with him at a distance. These critical items were just
business supplies and hurricane repair gear a month ago. Thousands of single use gloves, and a
few dozen construction grade N95 masks. Throw in a few cans of Lysol, and we’re rollin! Does
anyone have the President’s ear on this Instagram machine? Its a War, Right? And these are our
Warriors, right? Then provide retroactive combat pay for medical personnel and applicable first
responders. To those medical professionals who fall during this pandemic, award survivor’s benefits
to equal that of a US military casualty. Grant them GI Bill Educational benefits, based on level of
exposure. Make it transferable to offspring. Provide each with a medal, perhaps a small but
meaningful pin to be worn on the lapel of these career professionals who stand between us and the
abyss. So that those who may someday be their students, can look to this as a sign of the courage
and selflessness so universally displayed during this surreal waking nightmare. gunnymax Gunnery
Sergeant, US Marine Corps (Ret) PS: What button do I press to make this go viral? #cornavirus
#trump #nofilter
A post shared by Steve (@gunnymax) on Mar 25, 2020 at 7:43pm PDT
