Iraq Experience of an Medical Officer

Trinity Rhien
Platoons like this one are a middle link in a sophisticated system to treat the sick, injured or wounded. Traveling in a small convoy of Humvees, the units can be moved close to the action.
Along with battalion aid stations and resuscitation units, called Forward Resuscitating Surgical Suites, the platoons are steppingstones for the wounded on their way to Navy surgical companies - small field hospitals dozens of miles farther back - and large hospital complexes in Kuwait and offshore, aboard the Navy hospital ship Comfort.
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