1 / 8Show Caption +Hide Caption –Sergeant 1st Class Ron Laugand takes to the litter portraying an injured Soldier for the aid and litter team (Photo Credit: Lt. Col. Zebadiah Miller)VIEW ORIGINAL2 / 8Show Caption +Hide Caption –Medical Instructor at the Kabul medical facility gives instruction to the USACE Afghanistan Kabul Project Delivery Team members. (Photo Credit: Lt. Col. Zebadiah Miller)VIEW ORIGINAL3 / 8Show Caption +Hide Caption –USACE Resident Engineer Carlos Estrella puts down his engineering pen for medical device to get some hands on experience. (Photo Credit: Lt. Col. Zebadiah Miller)VIEW ORIGINAL4 / 8Show Caption +Hide Caption –Trying to find a pulse on one of the medical team members is USACE Construction Control Representative Theresa Marcil during recent medical training. (Photo Credit: Lt. Col. Zebadiah Miller)VIEW ORIGINAL5 / 8Show Caption +Hide Caption –Army Medical staff demonstrate how to look for signs of trauma from all sides of the patient. (Photo Credit: Cheryl A. Moore)VIEW ORIGINAL6 / 8Show Caption +Hide Caption –Megan Whalen, USACE Afghanistan Project Manager practices putting a medical device into the Army medics nose. (Photo Credit: Cheryl A. Moore)VIEW ORIGINAL7 / 8Show Caption +Hide Caption –Jeff Veselka practices taking care of a simulated simple wound on Michael Curtis during trauma medical training at USACE Afghanistan District. (Photo Credit: Cheryl A. Moore)VIEW ORIGINAL8 / 8Show Caption +Hide Caption –The Medical team borrow USACE Lt. Col. Dave Kaulfers to show how a patient is put onto the litter for medical aid. (Photo Credit: Cheryl A. Moore)VIEW ORIGINAL
The Afghanistan District is conducting trauma medical training at all of its project delivery platforms to enable personnel the ability to perform life saving measures that will sustain a casualty until medical professionals arrive.
The tasks being trained are designed to stop hemorrhaging, open an airway, control bleeding, and maintain circulation. District members also received instruction in performing duties on a member of an aid and litter team.
"We coordinated this training with various medical treatment facilities throughout the theater," said USACE Afghanistan District Senior Enlisted Advisor, Sgt. Maj. Anthony Powers. He said that medical training was sought to supplement the training provided to each new deployed member at the Conus Replacement Center at Fort Bliss, TX.
The Districts goal is to have all USACE Afghanistan District personnel, military, civilian, and contractors trained in lifesaving techniques so that if any District member were to ever witness a casualty producing event, they could provide immediate casualty aid.
"We all recognize the hazards of working in a contingency environment," said Powers, and cherish the lives of our team, the coalition, and our partners."
Training took place simultaneously at the District. While the Bagram Programs, Project and Management Delivery team received hands on training, the Kabul Project Delivery Platform members teamed up with Combat Medics who conducted medical training with instruction and hands on training which covered the use of the components of the Individual First Aid Kit (IFAK) and basic principles of Care under Fire.
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