Any one stationed in Korea?

I am stationed in Korea and have been here for 2 years. I can say for sure I have been able to do more than some of my peers located stateside. We do not have ADDP overseas so anything that needs to be done has to be done by active duty. Also, there are not specialists at each post here so the bread and butter OS, endo and pros is there for the taking. That being said, some places are hours (4+) from the nearest active duty military specialist so you don't want to get in over your head and then have to tell the patient they need to get on a bus to have someone fix your handywork. I did a 1-year aegd so my OICs have let me do whatever I wanted, those who have not done a residency have a shorter leash BUT if you can prove you can do things safely they will let you do more. Each post is different and how busy your clinic is will be determined by the unit that is there and how big that unit is. If you are at a place with a brigade or similarly large unit, you will be more busy with operative/OS/endo, and sick call will be insanely busy (10+ patients). If you are at a place that is smaller, you may have 0-2 people on sick call and not be booked out 4 weeks.

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Any one stationed in Korea?