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Originally Posted by c/Commander I'm sure it wasn't that easy. Combat is different from training, despite our best efforts to the contrary. There are a million reasons why an improvised tourniquet may not have worked; and without having been there, you can't call that into question.
It sounds like they were, perhaps, transiting in a convoy to some location, probably not expecting to run into trouble (first mistake). The surgeon was probably not carrying any field medical supplies, as that's usually left to enlisted medics. |
Agreed.
BUT...
Our young friend does have a very valid point: The doctor himself said that the death was a result of no available tourniquet, and that's a load of crap. Even in Basic Training, every single soldier out there is taught the basic tenets of rendering emergency medical, and that does include a tourniquet. Like he said, they were wearing shirts and pants, both completely sufficient as a tourniquet. This doctor is most likely exaggadurating the situation to sell his idea.
Just my opinion, of course. Like you said, we weren't there. Monday morning quarterbacking isn't going to change the fact that we lost yet another soldier. But saying that no tourniquet was available is a bunch of loose-lipped and eccentric nonsense.