Posted on 08/08/2009 8:47:46 AM PDT by missycocopuffs
As the blood began to surge from a femoral artery, Lance Cpl. Chad Pham dug his hand into the gaping wound to stanch the flow.
Fellow Marines were doing the same all around him, trying desperately to keep their pig patients from bleeding out and dying on stretchers in the dusty clearing of a Valley Center avocado grove.
Working as though the pigs were comrades who had just taken a blast from a roadside bomb, the members of Camp Pendleton's 1st ANGLICO unit realized a tourniquet would do no good on this kind of wound, inflicted by a scalpel. Instead, they packed the holes with gauze and leaned hard on the arteries.
“This was a guy that was standing next to you five minutes ago,” an instructor barked. “Make it work!”
As the training progressed, the sounds of battle blared through a loudspeaker and the pigs were shot with 12-gauge shotguns and rounds from a 7.62mm rifle, causing more grotesque injuries.
Though it has received little publicity, the training has become standard on numerous U.S. military bases and off-site locations across the country during the eighth year of war in the Middle East. It is intended to prepare front-line troops and corpsmen for the gore and pressure they will encounter treating wounds on the battlefield.
Military officials and Marines who have received the “live tissue” training maintain that nothing else could prepare them as well for battle.
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I hate when reporters don't look into the sources of their information...Ms. Davis needs to dig a little further. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) is an animal rights front group, funded in part by PETA, and whose membership is approximately 96% non-physicians. The group advocates vegan eating.
The American Medical Association (AMA), which is comprised of, ya know, actual medical doctors, has called PCRM a “fringe organization” that uses “unethical tactics” and is “interested in perverting medical science.”
I believe that this kind of training saves lives on the battlefield. Good work, marines!
Save the pig or have bacon?
I can haz BACON cheeseburger?!
Yeah. Agenda reporting.
Context? Facts? Those are meaningless distractions from the story.
As Hearst reportedly told an employee he’d sent to Cuba: “You provide the pictures and I’ll provide the war.”
Glad to hear so many of our trops are getting good training.
Waaaay back in the day, folks I worked with fought to be allowed to attend ‘goat school’ same super good deal medical training and you also got to learn how gut, skin and clean a goat for BBQ.
Good for the Army, and (fill the blank) on the PETA types.
Well, the real message is pigs are worth more than soldiers.
Have I mentioned lately just how much I loathe the left?
That was my first thought. One happy pig or BLT's all round. What's to lose?
I like yer idea. Honor the fallen pigs who gave their lives to their country!
***I believe that this kind of training saves lives on the battlefield. Good work, marines! ***
But-but just a few years ago the MSM was saying that the Military surgeons were getting their battlefield training in the major hospitals in the US because of all the woulds caused by those evil assault rifles on the street!
And we can believe the MSM, can’t we?
Sarc/off.
Sometimes I wonder if it’s ‘agenda reporting’ or just plain reporter laziness...or maybe journalism training doesn’t stress fact and source checking anymore?!
woulds = wounds.
Proofread,
Proofread.
Proofread!
Even in the days of Watergate and the Pentagon papers, the New York Times would not have produced an error-filled obituary for Walter Cronkite. If ever there is irony, there it is! Perhaps the old reporters were biased, but they could spell, use correct grammar, and knew the English language. The only radio personality these days who is proficient with English rhetoric is Rush Limbaugh!
Thought ya’ll might want to see how signsonsandiego is picking a fight with saving lives. Comments following the article are mixed. Just for the record, mechanical simulations can’t match live for this kind of teaching, IMHO.
(But I also want save Missy the trouble of “all ya’ll” telling her that m at the front of Marines should be a capital : )
God bless our Marines.
And no one blamed GWB?Jeez, you people are slipping
LOL!
Some of the ‘hell-house” sims at 29 Palms now use Marines who have lost their limbs in combat action. They sim out Marines who have had their arms or legs blown off and then have cosmetic injuries (including spurting blood), yell and raise all kinds of ruckus to scare and prepare our Marines for the worst case scenarios. They may not be on the front lines, but those Marines are STILL saving lives.
I sort of feel sorry for the poor onkers. But can see the value in real time emergency procedures along these lines.
That's awesome. And probably really good therapy to see the bros in action, see the emotion, working like mad dogs to save their lives.
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