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CAMP BUEHRING, Kuwait – Three “Devil brigade” Soldiers put their combat life-saving skills to use when they provided medical care to an injured Soldier July 31 at Camp Buehring.
Spc. Patricia Naipaul, a wheel-vehicle mechanic with Company B, 101st Brigade Support Battalion, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, and a native of Brooklyn, New York, stopped by the room of Spc. Sarah Fields also a mechanic with Company B 101st BSB, and found her unconscious on the floor.
Naipaul said she saw Fields leaving the dining facility with a to-go plate, and decided to stop by her room 30 minutes later to check on her.
“I checked to make sure she was breathing and then ran for help,” Naipaul said. “I stopped two warrant officers for help.”
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Robert Morris a personal recovery officer and native of Pittsburg, Kansas, and Chief Warrant Officer 2 Jeff Burkholder an unmanned aerial operation officer and native of Atlanta, both with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st ABCT, 1st Inf. Div., said Naipaul ran up to them frantically requesting help for another Soldier.
Morris said when they opened the door they saw Fields lying face down on the floor unconscious.
The group gently rolled her on to her back and noticed she was dry heaving and foaming at the mouth.
“I cleared her mouth and checked to see if she had a pulse and she did but was unconscious,” Morris said. “Mr. Burkholder handed me some water and I doused it on the Soldier's face and set her up a little bit.”
Within several minutes the Soldier opened her eyes, they tried to get her to drink some water. She was unable to swallow and began dry heaving and passed out again.
“My first thought was the Soldier was suffering from a heat-related injury, because her skin was clammy and cold in the face,” Morris said.
Burkholder ran to the company area to call 911.
“I tried several times, but couldn’t get through,” Burkholder said. “Capt. Meghan Brown, the brigade’s legal officer let him use her cell phone to call 911.”
We were informed the Voice Over Internet Protocol phones that are located throughout the brigade, do not allow access to the 911 emergency systems on base.
VoIP phones are phones that plugged into the your computer and uses digital technology to transmit phones calls via the internet.
Morris said within seven minutes after making the call the emergency medical services along with the brigade’s chaplain arrived and took over caring for the Soldier.
“It was a little overwhelming at first, but it felt good to be able to provide medical care,” Burkholder said.
The incident brought to light a failure in the VoIP phone system and is being resolved, which will help future Soldiers in emergency situations.
“We have distributed the direct emergency numbers throughout the brigade,” Morris said. “I am happy we found this out before something tragic happened and could have cost the life of one of our Soldiers.”
| Date Taken: | 07.31.2014 |
| Date Posted: | 08.08.2014 07:17 |
| Story ID: | 138692 |
| Location: | KW |
| Hometown: | BROOKLYN, NY, US |
| Hometown: | PITTSBURG, KY, US |
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