PMK
09-10-2009, 01:12
Gentlemen,
I have heard of the Rangers using a civilian trained EMT in each squad to off set the Ranger Life Saver trained soldiers. They would also assist the Ranger medic from what ive read. My question is how do these soldiers get stocked with equipment? Who handles their con-eds? Do they receive additional training in preventative med, trauma and IV access? If this has been answered please feel free to give me the atomic wedgie and send me away but my reason is im a civilian EMT among other things and serve in a National Guard Infantry unit. I bring my own bag of tricks to the field and usually the medics come to me for supplies and assistance. With rumors abound I may be on the move soon and would like to prepare as much as possible to ensure should something go down im prepared and able to bring our guys to either you all or the bright lights and cold steel guys in the forum.
Much thanks
PMK
“One day you will take a fork in the road, and you’re going to have to make a decision about which direction you want to go. If you go one way, you can be somebody. You will have to make your compromises and … turn your back on your friends, but you will be a member of the club, and you will get promoted and get good assignments. Or you can go the other way, and you can do something, something for your country and for your Air Force and for yourself. … You may not get promoted, and you may not get good assignments, and you certainly will not be a favorite of your superiors, but you won’t have to compromise yourself. … In life there is often a roll call. That’s when you have to make a decision: to be or to do.”
-Col. John Boyd
I have heard of the Rangers using a civilian trained EMT in each squad to off set the Ranger Life Saver trained soldiers. They would also assist the Ranger medic from what ive read. My question is how do these soldiers get stocked with equipment? Who handles their con-eds? Do they receive additional training in preventative med, trauma and IV access? If this has been answered please feel free to give me the atomic wedgie and send me away but my reason is im a civilian EMT among other things and serve in a National Guard Infantry unit. I bring my own bag of tricks to the field and usually the medics come to me for supplies and assistance. With rumors abound I may be on the move soon and would like to prepare as much as possible to ensure should something go down im prepared and able to bring our guys to either you all or the bright lights and cold steel guys in the forum.
Much thanks
PMK
“One day you will take a fork in the road, and you’re going to have to make a decision about which direction you want to go. If you go one way, you can be somebody. You will have to make your compromises and … turn your back on your friends, but you will be a member of the club, and you will get promoted and get good assignments. Or you can go the other way, and you can do something, something for your country and for your Air Force and for yourself. … You may not get promoted, and you may not get good assignments, and you certainly will not be a favorite of your superiors, but you won’t have to compromise yourself. … In life there is often a roll call. That’s when you have to make a decision: to be or to do.”
-Col. John Boyd