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CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan – Twenty-seven Afghan National Army soldiers completed an eight-week medical course during a graduation ceremony at the Joint Security Academy Southwest, here Feb. 3.
During the two-month course the students learned a range of skills that will allow them to be effective combat medics in the future.
“They learned everything from combat patrols, how to provide medical aid, evacuate casualties, and administer IVs and medicines,” said Petty Officer 2nd Class John Noble, 27, from Redlands, Calif., a hospital corpsman at JSAS and the lead instructor for the medical course. “They also learned how to do their basic assessments, trauma assessments, and how to stop bleeding.”
Noble noted that many of the soldiers were operating as combat medics before the course. He said it was just a matter of getting them certified in the proper techniques and skills required for them to become combat medics.
“This course taught us how to save our comrades in combat situations and how to help the wounded,” said Staff Sgt. Hamed Mohammed, from Herat province, an ANA soldier in the medical course.
The hospital corpsman has seen a vast improvement in the soldiers’ skills as combat medics since the begging of the course.
“Seeing the progression in the students from week one all the way until now, I would say the training is definitely effective,” said Noble. “I definitely think they have the basic foundation to be combat medics.”
According to Noble, the course is designed for the JSAS instructors to act as mentors for ANA soldiers so they can teach the skills they learned. He said a student from his course has been selected to come back as an instructor for a future medical course.
“I wanted to become a medic because it gives me the skills to be able to help my friends in combat situations,” said Mohammed. “With the training I received I now have the skills to help them.”
| Date Taken: | 02.04.2011 |
| Date Posted: | 02.04.2011 09:12 |
| Story ID: | 64795 |
| Location: | CAMP LEATHERNECK, AF |
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