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We lost a good soldier in Honduras back in 1986 with stab wounds including a major one to the neck.
He expired on the way to the nearest hospital by ground evac, despite the best efforts of several good 18Ds. When we got to the hospital, the Docs said that the only thing more we could have done for him was transfusions and a cut down on the neck to close off the bleeders. We did not bring the IV kit due to the nature of our mission, and the medics were not qualified to be doing vascular surgery on the head and neck. I was very proud of what they accomplished with what we had.
I counted 13 empty 500ml and 1000ml IV bags on the ground the next morning. Next deployment, we brought the transfusion kit, and learned not to count on air MEDEVAC.
This thread brings back memories, and is a good lesson learned. RIP, Tim.
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
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