{"id":340757,"date":"2024-12-26T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=340757"},"modified":"2024-12-28T08:59:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T08:59:24","slug":"instructors-staff-train-to-become-combat-lifesavers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=340757","title":{"rendered":"Instructors, Staff Train to Become Combat Lifesavers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n U.S. Army National Guard Soldiers with the 166th Regiment – Regional Training Institute completed a Combat Lifesaver course at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania, Dec. 16-20, 2024. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. 1st Class Shane Smith)
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FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. – Sixteen U.S. Army National Guard Soldiers with the 166th Regiment – Regional Training Institute, completed a Combat Lifesaver course instructed by the RTI’s Medical Battalion Training Site Dec. 16-20.<\/p>\n

The 40-hour course covers medical field care. A CLS-trained Soldier is capable of providing advanced first aid and lifesaving techniques in combat situations.<\/p>\n

“We cover everything that happens from the point of injury until a casualty is evacuated and transported to the next level of medical care,” said Sgt. Joshua Nassau, an MBTS combat medic specialist and CLS course instructor.<\/p>\n

During the course, students trained on head injuries, hypothermia treatment, pain management and antibiotics, splinting and applying tourniquets to wounds, calling in a 9-line medical evacuation, various patient reports and documentation, and more.<\/p>\n

This course was unique in that all instructors and students were 166th Regiment RTI staff members.<\/p>\n

“It’s been a great week of camaraderie-building,” said Sgt. 1st Class Wellington Brown. “Since we’re all with the RTI, we’re able to bond and develop together while having a good time while getting some great training.”<\/p>\n

What’s the value in the RTI conducting a CLS course for its own instructors and staff?<\/p>\n

“If something happens to one of these instructors’ students in the field, having this training allows them to respond immediately and provide the needed medical care until a medic arrives,” Nassau said.<\/p>\n

This makes sense, considering CLS-trained Soldiers are not intended to replace medical personnel outright. But their training can help slow the decline of a wounded Soldier’s condition until medical help arrives, and then a CLS can provide further assistance to that medic and the patient.<\/p>\n

“It’s a very hands-on course, which is good for retaining all the knowledge we’ve learned,” said Brown. “I see a lot of value in the course and would recommend it to others.”<\/p>\n

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U.S. Army National Guard Soldiers with the 166th Regiment – Regional Training Institute completed a Combat Lifesaver course at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania, Dec. 16-20, 2024. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. 1st Class Shane Smith) (Photo Credit: Sgt. 1st Class Shane Smith) VIEW ORIGINAL FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. – Sixteen U.S. Army National […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340759,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=340757"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340760,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340757\/revisions\/340760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/340759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=340757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=340757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=340757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}