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Spc. Cameron Johnson, medic with the 216th Military Police Company, removes taser prongs during taser training, June 24, 2025, at Camp Robinson.
Being shot by a taser is safe for healthy adults, explained Johnson, “We do a good job prescreening every Soldier [for medical issues] before we do the training. My biggest concern with the tasing is; if the taser prongs hit somewhere like in sensitive tissue, the butt or the spine, that hurts a lot more.”
From Johnson's experience most Soldiers recover from the taser shock in about three to five seconds, but he added they keep an AED machine, an automated external defibrillator, on hand in case a person has an arrhythmia, or irregular heartbeat, due to the taser shock.
“Depending on where you get tased,” said Johnson about full recovery. “It can take a few days because your body's going to be sore. [The taser] is interrupting natural electrical impulses that your brain is sending to your body, and you're sending a load in there. And so, those muscles are contracting and retracting, doing all kinds of funky stuff. Depending on what muscles are targeted; they can be sore.”
Johnson described removing the taser prongs as his main concern because if the prongs are not pulled straight out, carefully, they can tear tissue and cause a larger wound that takes longer to heal.
Johnson said he became a medic because he wanted to make sure Soldiers were being safe during training. “Tasing, it's fun just to see it happen, but, I like helping people. So my primary thing I like from it is just making sure they're all right.”
(Arkansas Army National Guard photo by 1st Sgt. Jim Heuston)
| Date Taken: | 06.23.2025 |
| Date Posted: | 07.01.2025 11:13 |
| Photo ID: | 9142263 |
| VIRIN: | 250624-Z-DR641-1001 |
| Resolution: | 2178x3048 |
| Size: | 3.27 MB |
| Location: | NORTH LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS, US |
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