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25 February

Brazilian Bank Robbery: Lethality of penetrating neck wounds

  • Posted by Mike Shertz
  • Categories (M) Massive Hemorrhage, More

🕖 Reading Time, 4 minutes This video of an attempted bank robbery in Brazil shows that some injuries are just too rapidly fatal to intervene on. Based on Vietnam data, fatal penetrating neck wounds result from about 1/3 transection of …

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16 February

Battlefield Recovery

  • Posted by Mike Shertz
  • Categories Equipment, More

🕖 Reading Time, 3 minutes The primary historic mission of US Army Special Forces is Unconventional Warfare. A 12-person Special Forces team infiltrates into an occupied nation at war to raise and train a guerrilla army to fight for the …

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09 February

Counterfeit tourniquets are a serious problem

  • Posted by Mike Shertz
  • Categories (M) Massive Hemorrhage, Equipment

🕖 Reading/viewing Time, 6 minutes They may look like legitimate commercial versions but are not made to the same quality standard. Know your gear. In this excerpt from our online class learn about the problem – want more? Get the …

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08 February

Chemical Weapons “wash in” effect

  • Posted by Mike Shertz
  • Categories Tactical CBRN

Individuals or casualties exposed to chemical warfare agents are best decontaminated by a procedure that absorbs, removes, and neutralizes the agent. Reactive Skin Decontamination Lotion (RSDL) impregnated sponges are well studied and used by US DOD for this purpose.  In …

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A WWI poster about trench foot showing. a soldier keeping his feet clean and dry
01 February

Infectious diseases associated with life in the trenches

  • Posted by Mike Shertz
  • Categories More

🕖 Reading Time, 3 minutes As we approach the second year of the war in Ukraine, it can be helpful to refamiliarize ourselves with some infectious disease processes prevalent in trench warfare. All of these infections occur because of the …

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A historic photo showing a WWI Chlorine Gas Attack with plumes of gas wafting over the battlefield
01 December

A Short Primer on the Evolution and Tragic Results of Chemical Agents during WWI

  • Posted by Mike Shertz
  • Categories Tactical CBRN

🕖 Reading Time, 5 minutes WWI saw the greatest advancement and experimentation of chemical weapons the world has seen. Irritating agents (teargas) were the first chemical warfare agents used during World War I. Used by the French in August 1914, …

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