Skills You Might Need
BY Herschel Smith
8 years, 6 months ago
Debris hut shelter.
Friction fire.
Field medicine. Matthew gives us an interesting run down of what he learned. My son Daniel went through a combat lifesaver course in the Marine Corps where they used live pigs, shot them in select places, and had to do things like find and clamp arteries to prevent bleed-out, all the while laying down suppressive fire. I’m not too worried about what PETA has to say about this. They know it happens, just like when doctors use pigs in medical school because of the anatomical similarity. The pigs are sedated.
At any rate, Daniel told me out of all the training he received in the Marines, room clearing, CQB, field markmanship, sniper school, etc., the medical training was the best he had.
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On June 20, 2016 at 5:23 am, Lina Inverse said:
Indeed, in my very limited experience (eyesight kept me out of joining for real), the military is very serious about medical training. While they obviously couldn’t arrange live pigs for us, my ’70s JROTC (high school) medical teaching, which started with films and ended with a volunteer simulating 1-2 serious trauma injuries was by far the most useful of any that I’ve ever received, including the genetic public school unit or Boy Scouts (before they decided to become “relevant” to urban kids). If I’m ever faced with such a situation, I’ll be a lot better prepared because of it.