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FORT BRAGG, N.C. - Soldiers of the 1st Theater Sustainment Command spent the week of April 15 learning the skills necessary to help save their life or the life of a comrade on the battlefield from the point of injury until combat medics are able to take over.
The Combat Life Saver Course is a one-week course that was initiated in 1986. However, due to an increase in violence in Iraq and Afghanistan though out the past 10 years leadership Army wide has increased the number of soldiers that participate in the training. The Army now requires 20 percent of each unit’s personnel to be CLS certified.
The major focus of the course include: controlling hemorrhages, proper use and application of a tourniquet, lung collapse and airway blockage, care for head and spinal injuries, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, first aid for bleeding, shock, fractures, nerve agent injuries and transportation of casualties among several other skill sets.
The course starts out with class room instruction, then leads into hands on practice and ends with, simulated battlefield scenarios, which including life-like explosions, gun fire, and stressor to test their speed and accuracy in treating the wounded.
Learning these crucial skills and being able to successfully treat wounds can mean the difference between life and death on the battle field prior to receiving care from a combat medic.
| Date Taken: | 04.25.2013 |
| Date Posted: | 04.30.2013 14:42 |
| Story ID: | 106090 |
| Location: | FORT BRAGG, NC, US |
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