I may be able to answer any questions you may have. And if you have fun challenges I’ll participate if I see them. It keeps the mind sharp.

I wish I had challenges

Wish I could practice

Next generation combat medic on facebook posts a bunch of good stuff.

So does NAR

Quizzes?

Situation stuff?

Read the question, think it through, then look at the comments and compare. See where you went wrong and right.

medical AAR’s essentially

Situation stuff. NAR does too, I don’t follow them but I occasionally run across others who repost their stuff or share it.

I loved using NGCM’s stuff when I was active and getting everyone’s inputs before we read the comments. It was really insightful, especially when someone thinks out of the box and comes up with great solutions. Keeps the mind sharp.

As great as TC3 is when it comes to saving lives, it can be quite lackluster whenever you have any sort of medical knowledge. Very simple, very effective at keeping the patient alive. But not always the best option for the trained personnel.

I’m not trained, although I know a bit.

Doctrine is a fall back if you can’t come up with anything better.

That’s one of my favorite phrases, and it’s fairly universal

I suppose that’s true.

Also when you have people who are too used to operating within certain doctrine it can be a hinderance at some point.

I’m gonna be honest I probably do need training but I don’t know where to get it.

Take a local stop the bleed to start

Nowhere to take that to my knowledge

I’m sure there’s one in St. Louis occasionally

Maybe

Asked a friend of mine if I could stick him with an IV and got

FUCK NO

Lol

I’ve had black out drunk dudes push saline on me to sober us up

Imma find one of my friends to stick

Don’t worry

<a:peepoGiggles:650343252934918164> glad I know how to do that already

CLS qualed marines are better at IVs/blood draw than nurses who call themselves heroes

Legit

I’ve heard stories

Nurses missing like 13 times

Seems like that's far too common

Yeah. Most people suck at their job, nurses aren’t an exception

Okay, I’m going to be honest, the emt-b is a joke. But it’s a start.

My buddy found a two week course, and I did a six week course at fort Sam Houston and that was crazy enough. Look for a minimum eight weeks, but it’s a start.

A nice foundation for understanding medical guidelines, and a start, albeit it a weak one, towards saving lives.

I have contact with an 18D so that’s a start eh?

No, there’s a massive difference. 18D are amazing resources, truly. But you need hands on training.

That’s true.