Posted on Mar 10, 2017
The military kills 8,500 pigs and goats every year for medical training. A new bill would end...
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If you want the first live procedure the medic or corpsman caring for you in combat to be on one of your friends, under universally difficult circumstances, do nothing. The battle cry of the non-combatants will dictate the quality of the predeployment training designed to save your son and daughter's life. This is a fine example of the clueless 99.99% percent deciding what's needed where the bullet hits the bone.
For me, I say this to my Congressional representatives. Save my life, even if it costs more money. Train to save my life, even if a goat dies under anesthesia in the process. Let me train your finest sons and daughters who serve in our Armed Forces as realistically as possible so that WHEN, not IF we are deployed, fewer will die. If you have rendered care in a foreign land while wearing the flag of our nation, you would kill this bill...and the goat that saved your child's life.
For me, I say this to my Congressional representatives. Save my life, even if it costs more money. Train to save my life, even if a goat dies under anesthesia in the process. Let me train your finest sons and daughters who serve in our Armed Forces as realistically as possible so that WHEN, not IF we are deployed, fewer will die. If you have rendered care in a foreign land while wearing the flag of our nation, you would kill this bill...and the goat that saved your child's life.
The military kills 8,500 pigs and goats every year for medical training. A new bill would end...
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65D: Physician Assistant
68W: Healthcare Specialist (Combat Medic)
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Medicine 65D: Physician Assistant 68W: Healthcare Specialist (Combat Medic) Training Political Correctness
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The PETA people could offer to stand in for the goats and pigs I suppose.
Typical. People refusing to accept the absolute necessity to save the lives of soldiers And provide the best possible training to our young medics. These labs are absolutely essential to initial and periodic proficiency.
Typical. People refusing to accept the absolute necessity to save the lives of soldiers And provide the best possible training to our young medics. These labs are absolutely essential to initial and periodic proficiency.
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The old adage "There is no substitute for the real thing" applies here. According to current battlefield medical doctrine the majority of preventable deaths on the battlefield occur due to uncontrolled bleeding. Every person out there (Liberal, Conservative, or politically ambivalent) would be outraged if their son or daughter in the military died because the medic was unable to adequately control bleeding that could obviously be controlled with good training. This is that good training!!!
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There are only a small group of individuals that do not understand how important live tissue training is. And to those groups I have no respect for their opposition to the training that is responsible for saving lives on the battlefield.
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