Monday, May 10, 2010

Corpsman!

Where the Navy is on the front line.
... Thursday, 6 May 2010. I had just returned from the gym. It was about 1330 when I walked into the FST building expecting to see what I normally see at that time of day, a few folks sitting in the ICU area reading, bullshitting or on the computers. There was no one there, which was odd, but I could hear some voices in the ATLS area (where our trauma patients enter our facility), so I realized we must have received a patient. What I didn’t realize was that I was about to be involved in the care of a patient with the most horrific and devastating injuries our team may ever see. A young American, a civilian contractor, working as a security guard was involved in an IED blast. He was the backseat passenger in a vehicle similar to a Toyota Land Cruiser – NOT the armored MRAP vehicle...
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5 comments:

SCOTTtheBADGER said...

God keep and bless these Sailors, as they save the lives of others.

AW1 Tim said...

Damn,

   What a good story. God Bless them all.

Nemo said...

... and not a word about diversity, yet look at the pic. I see post-Boomer America!!!

John said...

Even they cannot save them all.  But, God bless them for trying, and doing their best.  We can ask for nothing more, and can never forget their efforts on every patient, from the mundane to the traumatic, to the unsavable.

Thanks, docs everywhere.

ShawnP said...

This is what should be on Navy advertising.