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By Spc. Grant Okubo
4th Bridage Combat Team, 10th Mountian Division
FORWARD OPERATING BASE RUSTAMIYAH, Iraq — In continuing efforts to increase proficiency, self-sufficiency and survivability of Iraqi security forces, National Police Transition Team Soldiers conducted a Combat Life Savers Course for Iraqi national police officers Feb. 25-27 at Combat Outpost 799.
NPTT Soldiers for 2nd Battalion, 4th Brigade, 1st National Police Division, who are attached to 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light), Multi-National Division – Baghdad, conducted the course for policemen from the IP's 2nd Bn., 4th Bde.
The CLS course encompassed teaching NPs self aid and buddy aid, including administering an IV, proper procedures in treating a penetrating wound and tourniquet application. The training also covered basic pharmacology, added Sgt. Nelson Rodriquez, a medic with 2-4-1 NPTT, who calls San Juan, Puerto Rico, home.
As a CLS instructor, Rodriquez said he connected and engaged with NPs to more effectively convey the CLS curriculum, despite language barriers.
"I try to keep it simple," said Rodriquez.
Indeed, his strategy paid handsome dividends among the NPs.
"We have a lot of things to learn, and I think it will be a benefit for us," said Salman Midji, NP officer. "We need this course."
Upon successfully completing the course, Midji said he plans to share what he learned with fellow NPs. The two most important lessons he learned was stopping bleeding and applying a tourniquet.
Once NPs conceptualize the necessity of having skills, they will realize how the medical aspect of their job affects the overall success of their missions, said Rodriquez. They will more fully understand the importance of what the NPTT is teaching them in the CLS class.
Rodriquez finds himself falling back on his prior medical experience and training as a nurse in Puerto Rico, and he uses that as a tool training NPs here in Iraq.
"I find satisfaction ... teaching them what I know and trying to make them teach their people...how to perform these steps. This seems kind of simple sometimes, but it's the simple stuff that could actually save your life," said Rodriquez. "Something as simple as putting on a tourniquet to stop bleeding could actually save somebody's life. I take a lot of satisfaction in what I do, and I like that I am passing down what I know so they can also pass down what they know."
| Date Taken: | 03.05.2008 |
| Date Posted: | 03.06.2008 10:54 |
| Story ID: | 17058 |
| Location: | RUSTAMIYAH, IQ |
| Web Views: | 183 |
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