Shock Trauma Platoon Extends Golden Hour For Marines
Navy Lieutenant Tony A. Wade (left), an STP trauma nurse and Jacksonville, N.C., native, bandages a wounded Marine as fellow Marines of Company F, TF 2/7, remove him from the Mobile Trauma Bay after...
View ArticleNew First-Aid Products Could Save Lives
Two new first-aid products being sent into the combat theater could save more Soldiers’ lives, Army medical officials said at a Pentagon news conference on Oct. 15, 2008. Test results from the U.S....
View ArticleOur Best: Hollywood Medic
Elizabeth Chacon is a Northridge, Calif. native, and medical specialist attached to the 1038th Horizontal Construction Company, 1st Squadron, 152nd Cavalry Regiment, 1st Sustainment Brigade; and the...
View ArticleMarines aid hot chicks in mountain rescue
Lance Cpls. Justis Beauregard (far left), a combat correspondent with Marine Wing Headquarters Squadron 3, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, and Josh Rucker (far right), a reproduction specialist with...
View ArticleUS Search and Rescue Teams Depart for Japan
One of six Virginia Task Force 1 dogs being deployed on search and rescue efforts in Japan. At the request of the Government of Japan, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has deployed...
View ArticleAir Mobility Command Delivers Search Teams
Loaders from the 89th Aerial Port Squadron move to a C-17 Globemaster III to unload rescue equipment bound for Japan on March 12, 2011, at Joint Base Andrews, Md. Air transportation Airmen from the...
View ArticleNational Guard Assists At Traffic Accident
Spc. Jaron Johs, of Bismarck, N.D., who serves with the North Dakota National Guard's 191st Military Police Company, directs civilian traffic around the scene of an accident on Highway 2, June 27....
View ArticleOur Best: Spc. Kathy Hysong
Spc. Kathy Hysong, a Baker City, Ore., native, and a medic with 15th Brigade Support Battalion, 2nd Advise and Assist Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, U.S. Division – North, manually provides oxygen to...
View ArticleGuardsman acts heroically at Indiana State Fair tragedy
Senior Medic, Master Sgt. James Stranahan, of Shelburn, Ind., 53rd Civil Support Team, was in the third row stands when the stage collapsed at the Indiana State Fair, Aug. 13, in Indianapolis. He...
View ArticleUpstate Mother’s Day Celebration Sickens 150
An annual Mother’s Day event at a Buddhist monastery in rural Putnam County, NY, was interrupted yesterday afternoon as participants began suffering gastrointestinal symptoms like vomiting and...
View ArticleSpecial tactics officer saves NC woman
Maj. Francis Damon Friedman, the director of operations at the 21st Special Tactics Squadron, Pope Field, N.C., smashed the cab window to gain access to the driver of this Toyota Tundra Jan. 29, 2013,...
View ArticleWhen to visit the Emergency Department
Ambulances wait outside the Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center Emergency Department as soldiers enter the facility. (Photo by Kim Zamarripa, CRDAMC Public Affairs) DVIDS By Brandy Gill CRDAMC Public...
View ArticleND Guardsman helped save life in Devils Lake
Maj. Mark McEvers, of Devils Lake, N.D.DVIDS A North Dakota National Guard soldier says his military training helped him know what to do when he witnessed a man collapse in Devils Lake recently. Maj....
View ArticleCalifornia Air National Guard Conducts Rescue off Coast of Mexico
Eric and Charlotte Kaufman are on board the 36-foot Rebel Heart with their two daughters, Cora, 3, and Lyra, 1. Photo from the family website. Click on the photo for more on the family. A story of...
View ArticleMedical Mindset Hampers US Ebola Efforts
Medical personnel mask up at Ebola center in Liberia operated by SIM and Samaritan’s Purse. SIM photo Western medical practice has to redevelop the sense of alarm that there should be when faced with...
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