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 Soldiers train lifesavers at Patriot exercise By Jennifer Caprioli, USAG Fort Huachuca
 FORT HUACHUCA, Ariz., - Two active duty  Soldiers from Fort Huachuca were recently requested to assist the Air National  Guard with annual combat lifesaver training. In May, Chief Master Sgt. Julie Eddings, health systems  specialist for the Oregon Air National Guard, contacted her sister, Spc. Jean  Stivers, an Army medic with Company A, 309th Military Intelligence Battalion  based here, and asked her if the battalion could spare any of their three  combat medics to assist with training for an upcoming Patriot 10 exercise. Capt. Christina Bowser, Company A commander, sent Sgt.  Russell Moss, the company's combat medic, and Sgt. Gary Durham, a chaplain's  assistant, who has combat lifesaver's training. "For Air National Guard to cross over and ask active  Army to give them support and assistance or training is highly unheard of and  very rare," Bowser explained. "Usually they might ask their Army  National Guard unit in the area, but that's because of how they're putting this  together; they want the people who use it [the training] the most to be the  trainers and observer controllers." Moss and Durham are training with an element of the 181st  Medical Group from the Indiana Air National Guard, along with the 142nd Medical  Group from the Oregon Air National Guard at Volk Field Combat Readiness  Training Center in Wisconsin. On July 9, Moss and Durham flew to Oregon, joined the  142nd and flew to Wisconsin, where they met up with the 181st. "You have a joint and international flavor in this  mission," Bowser explained, noting Moss and Durham are teaching the combat  lifesavers course to Soldiers, nurses, and Dutch and Canadian soldiers, medics  and physicians. "It gives them (Moss and Durham) training and an  opportunity to do something they never had the chance to do in their military  career," Bowser said, adding, that it also gives them a wealth of  contacts, such as people in their own career field with whom they can exchange  ideas, as well as learn techniques and procedures they're doing across the  board. "Each service does something a little bit different;  they don't teach and train the same," Bowser added.
Moss noted everyone in the Army is required to be CLS  qualified. He describes his role as a combat medic as "me teaching people  how to help me." Basically if Moss "goes down," he has Soldiers  who can treat him, and if he has five casualties, he also has helping hands. Moss's job as a company medic is to train privates, who  recently graduated from Advanced Individual Training. One aspect he teaches them is to avoid having tunnel  vision. For example, they may have a patient who has a gunshot wound, but they  shouldn't be focused on that wound until they make sure there's no other  hemorrhaging on the patient's body. He teaches Soldiers to prioritize injuries,  which is also known as triage. "Triage in combat is critical because it's not like  being in an ER (emergency room)," he noted, adding different procedures  are taken in a combat zone than would be taken in the civilian world. For example, the last thing a civilian paramedic would do  is put on is a tourniquet because it's considered a last resort. Moss explained that most of the time when a tourniquet is  used, there's a good chance the patient is going to lose the limb. "In combat we teach [them] to put the tourniquet on  first and get them [the wounded] en route, and if we need to take the  tourniquet off we'll take it off," he explained, adding, "we want to  get that on first to stop the bleeding," he said, noting, "From those  who could have been saved, the number-one reason that people die is from  bleeding out." Moss explained one the benefits of teaching CLS to nurses  and doctors is to teach them if they're not in a hospital where supplies are  abundant, they can still treat a patient quickly and efficiently. "They go so in-depth in their treating, but we're  not worried about that, because the longer we're on the ground, the more in  danger we are. The faster we can treat them and get them to higher care, the  [safer] everyone else is going to be," he explained. "What we teach  is 'missions first.' So if we're under attack, then that is their objective." Moss noted that being downrange as a combat medic is not  the same as being a paramedic or emergency medical technician in the U.S.,  where they arrive on the scene, put the patient on a stretcher, load them in an  ambulance, and leave. "[The medics] have to be able to treat on the scene  because they could be under fire and can't get [the patient] out right  away," Bowser added. "My job as a medic is to treat and go," Moss  explained, "so [we] treat the life-threatening injuries and get them to  those physicians and doctors. Our main purpose is to get them treated before we  can go." Moss anticipates a challenge when teaching students of  different knowledge levels. He said he will explain from the beginning that he  doesn't want to insult anyone's intelligence, but he's there to teach the  standard. "I will teach [them] how to treat on the ground," he  explains. "They may know more than the standard or less, but that's not  for me to dictate." The medics in the 309th MI Bn. are responsible for  supporting the battalion during events such as field training exercises,  changes of command and responsibilities, and brigade runs. "It's a wonderful training opportunity for these  guys," Bowser said, noting, "They're active duty medics, and what  better way to train other medics than to do a cross-service training with  another unit. Regardless if they're Air National Guard, the fact is that they  will benefit immensely from the training." She added that for the Soldiers  to be able to train in this instance is almost unheard of. Moss and Durham will return to Fort Huachuca July 31.  Moss said he hopes this opportunity to work with a variety of students has been  beneficial to his job by helping with his training skills.
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