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Check out this excerpt from “Never Quit” by Jimmy Settle, former Pararescueman. Chapter 9 Operation Green Feet For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to jump out of an airplane. It was the parachute on the PJ logo that initially caught my eye. The para in “pararescue” puts parachuting right in the […]
In 2010, Jimmy Settle (a US Air Force Pararescueman or PJ) was on a dangerous rescue mission in Afghanistan when an AK-47 round hit the bottom of his helicopter, striking him in the head. Even after being shot in the head, his PJ medical training kicked in and he started providing self-aid. He has had several near death […]
The following is an excerpt from “Bones One Zero,” the memoir of Army combat medic Reuben Ryan. THE TOUGHEST MAN “Bones One Zero, this is Bones OPS,” It was our Operations SGT at FOB Taji, SGT Graham. “Bones One Zero,” CW3 Bottolene replied as our Blackhawk headed back south from Balad after completing an Urgent […]
I’ve recently returned from Peru with the non-profit foundation, Team 5. Team 5 Foundation is comprised of Special Operations medical practitioners, survival experts and civilian ultra-athletes. The five person team ventures to the most extreme, overlooked and remote locations in the world to provide medical assistance. While the primary mission of Team 5 is humanitarian […]
The bullet lodged high in his upper thigh, likely severing a femoral artery, a location where a normal tourniquet would have little effect. By inflating one of the junctional tourniquet’s bladders over the wound, medics stemmed the blood loss, and he ultimately survived.
One of the Pararescuemen describes his skill set as being a “mixture of being a paramedic, a firefighter, a rescue diver, mixed with a mountain rescue specialist.”
The story of Green Beret Gary Michael Rose’s heroism is an epic of classified warfare and a stinging media scandal, but it might soon end with a Medal of Honor. In 1970, Rose was the lone medic for a company of Special Forces soldiers and indigenous Vietnamese fighters during a risky, four-day assault deep into […]
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“It helps mentally prepare them for what they may see on the battlefield,” she said.
That could save precious seconds of hesitation when time may be the dearest commodity.
An Army Ranger, shot twice – another wound, passed through his body, leaving a lung on the verge of collapse. Two of his teammates received lesser injuries. Ranger Campbell’s team had rendezvoused with an Afghan Special Operations unit in eastern Afghanistan’s Paktika province. The combined forces then moved on to the objective of a high-value target, […]
Maybe one of these stories will provide the inspiration for America’s next generation of combat medics and corpsman.
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