Medical
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Technology Provides Ability to Save Lives Through Telesurgery
FORT BRAGG, NC – It’s 3 a.m. and a physician assistant deployed to a remote location in Africa is sound…
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Special Operations Surgical Team Doctor to Receive Jackson Foundation Award
HURLBURT FIELD, FL (24th SOW) – Four hundred fourteen trauma evaluations, 141 gunshot wounds, 270 blast injuries, 102 damage-control resuscitations,…
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Special Operations Medics Refine Tactical Combat Casualty Care
FT CARSON, CO – Special operations medics are among the best trained and most proficient in the world. But, to…
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Ranger Whole Blood Program Wins an Army’s Greatest Innovation Award
FT Benning, GA – The 75th Ranger Regiment’s Ranger O Low Titer (ROLO) Whole Blood Program was recognized by the…
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Rangers Become Army’s Best Medics
FORT SAM HOUSTON, TX – With only a week’s notice, Sgt. Derick Bosley found out that he would be competing…
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Through-and-Through Gunshot Wound to the Chest (Contains Graphic Content)
The following case study is of an Afghan civilian woman who was medically evacuated to a Forward Surgical Team in…
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The Grisly Effects of a High-Velocity Gunshot Wound to the Leg (Contains Graphic Images)
This injury occurred on a combined U.S. and Australian special operations mission in the mountains of southern Afghanistan a few…
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An AK47 Bullet Through the Neck Couldn’t Stop Him! (Contains Graphic Images)
The following case study is of a friend of mine (written with his permission) who was shot through the neck…
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Why I’d Rather Be Shot With an AK47 Than an M4 (Contains Graphic Images)
Admittedly I’d rather not be shot with either, but if I had to choose, I’d take a round from the…
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MARSOC Corpsman Awarded Silver Star Medal
CAMP LEJEUNE, NC – Petty Officer 2nd Class Alejandro Salabarria, a corpsman with 2nd Marine Raider Battalion, Marine Raider Regiment,…
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