Navy Medics Get Prepared for Combat—With Tour of Duty in Chicago

WSJ ^ | 14 Mar 2018 | Shibani Mahtani

[DUMBGRUNT]

CHICAGO— Konrad Poplawski, a 22-year old Navy hospital corpsman, is about to be deployed as a battlefield medic with the 2nd Marine Division, which has served in deadly battlegrounds in Iraq and Afghanistan.

But first, he is making a pit stop at Cook County’s Stroger Hospital, which the Navy says is among few places here in the U.S. that provide experience treating the types of wounds they will inevitably see on the battlefield... ...The 14-bed unit treats over 6,000 trauma patients yearly, many of them with penetrating, life-threatening wounds akin to those on the battlefield.... “Corpsmen are not routinely exposed to trauma or critically injured patients during their first assignments,” said Defense Department spokeswoman Maj. Carla Gleason. This “realistic, hands-on trauma training will allow them to hone their skills and increase their readiness.”.. The experience “has prepared me to deal with worse things out in the field,” he said. “I’ll be the only one out there, so I’ll have to learn from this.”

[TallahasseeConservative]

We got some of that at BAMC during 91B school in the early 90’s. The cadre would send us over to BAMC, when the Mexican gang bangers would go to war in San Antonio.

[Gay State Conservative]

Kings County in NYC would be another great place for them to train.

[PIF]

where you lie on a gurney in a hallway.
—
pushed aside
pushed into a corner
pushed into an alcove
forgotten
bled out.

Walter Reid, 1970