
Rolling Chairs to Evacuate Casualties
- Posted by Mike Shertz MD/18D
- Categories Casualty Movement, Improvised
🕖 Reading Time, 1 minutes
It’s challenging to creatively free think under stress. Plan on using chairs to evacuate casualties. With rolling chairs, you can really move out. See more improvised techniques in our articles archive.
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