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BAGHDAD — Air Force and Army personnel from United States Forces-Iraq, deputy commanding general-Advising and Training Health Affairs, work together to train participants on how to save lives in combat.
Air Force Master Sgt. Krystal Marks and Army Sgt. Donell Hughes teach a hands-on Combat Lifesaver course that draws students from both military and civilian organizations. While their primary mission in Iraq is to train and equip the Iraqi security forces medical healthcare systems, their experience and knowledge is used to teach and give hands on training to others that are deployed in theatre.
"We are all in this together—no service goes to war alone; the way combat has evolved we have to be able to talk to each other and convey the same ideas," said Marks, USF-I DCG A&T Health Affairs Senior Enlisted Medical advisor, who is deployed from Pope Air Force Base, N.C. "If everyone is taught the same way to save people, then it brings us together."
Combat Lifesaver training is a three-day, hands-on course that teaches participants how to apply tourniquets, stop bleeding and overall stabilize the injured until they can be cared for by professionals.
"With anything we do in the military, you have to put your hands on it and you have to do it," said Marine Capt. Randall Smith, 7th Communications Battalion, Government of Iraq plans and policy advisor, who is a student in the course and is deployed from Okinawa, Japan. "If you have done it before, you don't have to think about it," said Smith, native of Atlanta.
| Date Taken: | 01.07.2010 |
| Date Posted: | 01.07.2010 03:01 |
| Story ID: | 43514 |
| Location: | BAGHDAD, IQ |
| Web Views: | 270 |
| Downloads: | 237 |
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