Posted on Jun 22, 2021
Training Oversights Could Leave Military Medics Unprepared for Combat, Report Finds
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Much respect to the Docs of all branches, our Corpsmen were first rate imo.
Training is one thing, but it’s practice and theory how do they get seasoned? Do they intern at a local hospital working the ER on a weekend? The time to train for battlefield trauma is stateside and supervised and not in the middle of your first firefight. Always wondered how they truly trained for actual combat, as obviously experience is an issue. An internship in any city hospital would do it, traumas from car crashes, GSW every day and 20 times over on a weekend.
Training is one thing, but it’s practice and theory how do they get seasoned? Do they intern at a local hospital working the ER on a weekend? The time to train for battlefield trauma is stateside and supervised and not in the middle of your first firefight. Always wondered how they truly trained for actual combat, as obviously experience is an issue. An internship in any city hospital would do it, traumas from car crashes, GSW every day and 20 times over on a weekend.
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SPC Richard DiCristi
Back in the 1980's and 90's, I know the Army had Doctors doing time in NYC city hospitals due to the level of traumas, especially GSWs, that they had coming through. NYC had 2200+ murders in 1990, so plenty of people getting shot up to practice on, plus the usual damage people suffer.
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