The fact that I did will I think explain the question a bit better. It was really an accident of circumstance. I got there on a francophone rotation. I'm French Canadian. I'm an ex-infantry officer. For the five years immediately prior to my deployment, I had been the doctor for our SWAT team, or tactical unit, of our police department. A lot of my infantry reflexes had come back. I could shoot straight, I could move tactically—I was an unusual mix as a doctor. When there was a gap in the coverage at one of the FOBs that is normally covered by a senior medic, what's called a physician assistant, they asked me to take that place. Again, a big part of the reason for that was precisely because I was francophone. A lot of francophone senior medics will serve on anglophone rotations because they speak English; the converse is not true. It was harder for the francophone rotations to fill all those spots.
On April 29th, 2013. See this statement in context.