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To reduce the number of fatalities during these critical first few minutes, emergency medicine can now be provided deep inside enemy territory. All soldiers on operation have basic first aid training. At least one in four soldiers is an military team medic. They have advanced first aid training and carry additional medical equipment including products to stem excessive bleeding. If the injury is serious, a Medical Emergency Response Team (MERT) is sent urgently. This is a Chinook carrying highly specialist medical personnel, consisting of a consultant, an emergency nurse and two paramedics. In Afghanistan, the MERT is equipped to deliver life-saving care onboard the helicopter on the way to the field hospital. Based on two years of figures, the average time between injury on the battlefield and arrival in a hospital bed is under 50 minutes. |
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I can't imagine how things were back when you served. Must have been difficult when comrades fell and had to be left. |
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Well hang on a minute- there are plenty of armies and situations where getting left behind is still reality. Light infantry operating in the bush is very much unchanged and just as isolated, and in an ambush its back to the last RV or die. Taking one or two wounded would be all a section or det could possibly manage.
Only a nation supremely more powerful then the one its facing can expect to hang onto even its dead which is undeniably a sentimental luxury. |
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