Medic Encounter

We went to the library today. Its a small town cozy affair with people who know you and friendly new faces. We met a man who served in Afghanistan- was a medic for 14 years; a battlefield medic! He came home and cannot use all his experience to help in a VA hospital or for the local rescue squad. What is the matter with this picture? A highly trained military person cannot do what he's trained to do because he doesn't have a degree from a civillian college? That is criminal! What do we expect for these folks to do? It would be so simple to legislate accrediation or at least let them test out of a given professional degree. How dare we, as a collective, not grant them their proper due? The government ought to be ashamed of themselves!