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CHENEY: Success stories are really common in physical therapy. I love just seeing people get back to doing what they do. Like our counterparts on the flight line, they maintain the planes we maintain humans. My name is captain Scott Cheney; I'm a physical therapist and the physical therapy clinic at joint base Elmendorf Richardson. As a physical therapist, to be successful you have to care. You have to love what you do and love what the people you serve do. as a civilian therapist your job is to make money, we don't have those financial restrictions and need to see people a certain number of times to make a budget. If you like just sitting in the clinic and seeing patients all day active-duty Air Force is not for you. We have tons of equipment in our gym we have multiple tables and equipment lifting equipment running equipment I think the equipment is not necessarily as important as our hands and our eyes. Getting our hands on patients is incredibly rewarding when they walk in here and we can do certain things and they can walk out without a limp. As physical therapists in the Air Force we have the opportunity to get outside the walls of this Medical Group. We love treating patients and we love going to them as well. You're surrounded by really great leaders that have proven themselves over many years to get their experiences and glean things from them as well. We serve the people of this country and it's an honor to be part of something bigger than yourself. If you’re training to be a physical therapist and you're interested in getting out and experiencing lots of different things, the United states Air Force is for you.