BOB:  I went to quite a few training, I went to Barrow and Anchorage.  They gave me about 14 weeks of training, and not -- not the whole time.  I mean, not one -- not one time.  Couple weeks or three weeks was my last one in Anchorage.
 
And in Fairbanks, it was -- Anchorage was the last one I went to.  And I -- I learned lots because -- I mean, about -- about people, human body.  Of course, I know myself, I mean, what I have.  You know.  Just a few things I got -- I had to learn. 

And, you know, being a health aide, being hunter at the same time, I think when you're out hunting, you -- you know about caribou, learn a lot of things about caribou. 

You look at it different ways.  Animal have body, and human body, they work kind of the same.  I mean, you know.  Blood circulation and other things might not be the same on a liver and heart maybe, but there's a lot of veins and other things on animal, you learn a lot of things from that. 

MARLA:  Right.  So from butchering an animal, then you look on the inside of their body.

BOB:  Yeah.

MARLA:  And you get a sense of -- --

BOB:  Yeah. 

MARLA:  -- a human body? 

BOB:  Yeah.  It's just, you know, built different.  Blood circulation is the same or, you know.  Learn lots. 

MARLA:  Yeah. 

BOB:  And I collected a lot of samples for wildlife and some, I collected a lot of samples for radiation.  That's when they had a lot of radiation in -- in -- in animals. 

MARLA:  Who were you collecting samples for? 

BOB:  I collected samples for Fish and Game in Fairbanks, Bob Rausch, Bob Stevenson, and Park Service in Anchorage.  And Bob Rausch.
 
MARLA:  What did they learn from those -- from what you -- what you found?  Do you know? 

BOB:  Well, I learned a lot of things about what the caribou, other animals have, you know, the kind of sickness they get from -- from there to there.  Like caribou, sickness from animal waste, you know. 

I work with Fish and Game a little bit.