Sipsey Street Irregulars: Inside the Special Operations Combat Medic Course

Monday, January 25, 2016

Inside the Special Operations Combat Medic Course

The major bleeds never change. Nor do the sequences for each of them. If you understand how to identify and treat each of the six major bleeds in CTM you’ll be set up for success. But remember, if TPA was “a kick in the balls”, then CTM as the same instructor put it, is: “a battle-ax to the balls”… (again, pardon my French…). It’s excellent training. I can honestly say I’ve never done anything so challenging as CTM. When you understand it and get it right it’s a good feeling.

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Chiu ChunLing said...: I'm going to go ahead and say something very cold and heartless.

Most "emergency response" medical care beyond basic first aid is worthless if you cannot reach a functioning modern hospital for additional treatment within a pretty short time-frame.

There are emergency response skills that are considerably more advanced than ordinary first aid for which subsequent hospitalization is recommended but not required for survival. Having those skills is far from useless...as long as you are able to make the decision in the event.

But in a real SHTF scenario, you are going to experience a LOT of problems where the correct answer is 'palliative care only'.

Of course, palliative care is best administered by someone who would have been able to do anything else that could have been done. So it's important to be able to do anything that could make a difference, because it's not very comforting to get palliative care from someone who wouldn't have been able to do anything else anyway.

Of course, nothing I can say is quite as cold as, "If however you want to get the best out of the experience, try to get selected to go to Flint, Michigan." Because "it has one of the highest rates of penetrating trauma per capita in the United States." Cue exciting details of the kind of experience you'll get from a clinical rotation there...and some heart-warming ones as well, so that kinda balances out.

I don't know any similarly heartwarming anecdotes to offset the cold realities of SHTF. Sorry.; January 26, 2016 at 4:59 PM

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I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

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And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

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