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Something to protest about

Postby xd ED on Wed Mar 14, 2018 5:32 pm

Navy Medics Train for Battlefield Conditions in in Crime-Infested Chicago - Newsmax.com

Chicago's gun violence problem is so serious the Navy is now training its medics in a hospital there for them to gain experience dealing with battlefield-like injuries.

According to The Wall Street Journal, John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital in the west side of Chicago is hosting medics who will soon be deployed overseas. The hospital and its level 1 trauma center see a massive amount of patients with firearms wounds — 30 percent of the hospital's total patients, compared to the national average of 4.2 percent.

"The experience here can't be replicated elsewhere, unless you have a major land invasion," Stroger Hospital's Dr. Faran Bokhari told the Journal.

Defense Department spokeswoman Maj. Carla Gleason told the news outlet the training program is essential for medics preparing to be deployed.
"Corpsmen are not routinely exposed to trauma or critically injured patients during their first assignments," Gleason said. This "realistic, hands-on trauma training will allow them to hone their skills and increase their readiness."...
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Re: Something to protest about

Postby Rip Van Winkle on Wed Mar 14, 2018 6:59 pm

It would seem to me, if you want to train medics, you'd want them with EMS. By the time most GS victims get to the hospital, they've been stabilized past the point most medics would see a GSW on the battlefield.
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Re: Something to protest about

Postby hammAR on Wed Mar 14, 2018 8:23 pm

Rip Van Winkle wrote:It would seem to me, if you want to train medics, you'd want them with EMS. By the time most GS victims get to the hospital, they've been stabilized past the point most medics would see a GSW on the battlefield.

That's why the Corpsmen ride with the EMS crews..................... :P
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Re: Something to protest about

Postby Holland&Holland on Wed Mar 14, 2018 8:58 pm

I thought guns were not allowed in Chicago?
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Re: Something to protest about

Postby LarryFlew on Thu Mar 15, 2018 1:20 pm

Holland&Holland wrote:I thought guns were not allowed in Chicago?


The NAVY must not have been told about the no guns.
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Re: Something to protest about

Postby Ghost on Thu Mar 15, 2018 1:26 pm

Holland&Holland wrote:I thought guns were not allowed in Chicago?

Only for the good guys

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Re: Something to protest about

Postby LarryFlew on Fri Mar 16, 2018 1:02 pm

So that just means they forgot to tell those lawlesx they can't have things that are against the law. So they just need to get that message out, maybe flyers to gang members?????
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Re: Something to protest about

Postby Holland&Holland on Fri Mar 16, 2018 3:10 pm

LarryFlew wrote:So that just means they forgot to tell those lawlesx they can't have things that are against the law. So they just need to get that message out, maybe flyers to gang members?????


Probably need to post in on Instachat, or Tweb, or face page, or what ever the latest craze is.
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Re: Something to protest about

Postby xd ED on Fri Mar 16, 2018 4:59 pm

Holland&Holland wrote:
LarryFlew wrote:So that just means they forgot to tell those lawlesx they can't have things that are against the law. So they just need to get that message out, maybe flyers to gang members?????


Probably need to post in on Instachat, or Tweb, or face page, or what ever the latest craze is.


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Re: Something to protest about

Postby Holland&Holland on Fri Mar 16, 2018 7:20 pm

xd ED wrote:
Holland&Holland wrote:
LarryFlew wrote:So that just means they forgot to tell those lawlesx they can't have things that are against the law. So they just need to get that message out, maybe flyers to gang members?????


Probably need to post in on Instachat, or Tweb, or face page, or what ever the latest craze is.


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Sorry

Try again. You need to post that in 15 languages, Brail, and American sing language to be valid.
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Re: Something to protest about

Postby xd ED on Fri Mar 16, 2018 8:53 pm

Holland&Holland wrote:
xd ED wrote:
Holland&Holland wrote:
Probably need to post in on Instachat, or Tweb, or face page, or what ever the latest craze is.


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Sorry

Try again. You need to post that in 15 languages, Brail, and American sing language to be valid.


I'll work on it.

You bring up something I became curious about.
In our all inclusive world of diversity, has there ever been a 'posted' sign, (as in the regulation MN sign) ever printed in any language other than Ingiriiska?
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Re: Something to protest about

Postby Holland&Holland on Fri Mar 16, 2018 11:03 pm

I have clients that have purchased them in English with Spanish under the English.

Luckily I can't read either. I blame the public school system.
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Re: Something to protest about

Postby LarryFlew on Sat Mar 17, 2018 1:14 am

And that's how we go from Navy to ER to gangs to school shootings.....................
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Re: Something to protest about

Postby Holland&Holland on Sat Mar 17, 2018 9:34 am

LarryFlew wrote:And that's how we go from Navy to ER to gangs to school shootings.....................


Yup!
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