It’s an untold story. And the mainstream media isn’t telling it.
According to Mark Yost in the American Spectator there has been a remarkable improvement in the care of the wounded over previous US wars.
"Soldiers are walking on prostheses that wouldn't have lived before," said Lieutenant Colonel Clark Searle, an Army orthopedic surgeon who served in Iraq in 2003 with the 86th and 21st Combat Support Hospitals. "People are keeping limbs that ten years ago they would have lost."
It’s a story of teamwork and dedication, as you might expect, but it starts right on the battlefield with better training.
[T]he U.S. military has started giving basic first-aid instruction to as many soldiers as possible -- not just medics and corpsmen -- through a program called Combat Lifesavers.
The key to the program is the control of bleeding. Mostly they can get a wounded soldier to a hospital in 20 minutes, because “‘a major arterial bleed will cause you to die within five minutes,’ said Major Lisa Maxwell.”
[In] combat medicine [they] used to refer to "the golden hour" to describe the all-important initial care that a soldier receives after being wounded. Today, thanks to Combat Lifesavers and some of the new medical technology, the talk is about "the platinum five minutes."
The improvements go on from there. They can save limbs that used to be amputated as a matter of course, and the new prostheses are amazing. And, of course, the body armor is crucial as it prevents abdominal wounds that simply can’t be fixed in time before a soldier dies.
But it all comes down to teamwork, a “seamless chain” that starts with the Combat Lifesavers and goes on up the line.
Unfortunately, not everyone is helping. The lefties at Code Pink have
regularly gathered outside the gates at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in suburban Washington. The purpose? To heckle amputees going out for dinner and a movie.
It’s good to know that the rest of us support our troops.
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