New method for treating combat wounds being vetted at Fort Benning
By Franklin FisherDecember 9, 2019
2 / 2 Show Caption + Inside Fort Benning's Medical Simulation Training Center on Bass Road Dec. 4, medics and other experts from across the armed services practice treating "junctional" wounds, those at points where limbs connect to the human torso. The medics were part of a group of about 40 service member and civilians who gathered at Fort Benning to do a close review of a new curriculum that will be used to teach service members a type of battlefield first aid that the U.S. military calls Tier 2 Tactical Combat Casualty Care. The Pentagon plans to make Tier 2 TCCC the new standard for all services. It will replace what is known as Combat Lifesaver training, which has been in use for some years. A final draft of the curriculum is to be delivered to the Department of Defense Dec. 31. (Photo Credit: Markeith Horace) VIEW ORIGINAL
FORT BENNING, Ga. -- A new, standardized way of training combat troops of all services in how to give first aid to wounded service members has undergone intensive vetting here by experts, and a final draft will be delivered to the Department of Defense at the end of this month, officials said Dec. 9.
Upon adoption by the Pentagon, the curriculum, known as Tier 2 Tactical Combat Casualty Care, would become the one official set of methods taught to certain service members in non-medical jobs, especially those close to combat, who might well be the only ones available to keep the wounded alive until they can get to a hospital, officials here said. Which service members will be given Tier 2 training will be at the discretion of the individual services.
https://www.army.mil/article/230778/new_method_for_treating_combat_wounds_being_vetted_at_fort_benning
