Corpsmen learn to stay alive, save lives

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Seaman Apprentice Arnold Nunez drags a practice dummy to safety during Naval Expeditionary Medical Training Institute-required Tactical Combat Casualty Care training at Ikego Housing Area, Japan.


Corpsmen learn to stay alive, save lives
By Chris Fowler, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Friday, February 1, 2008

YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — Seaman Apprentice Arnold Nunez stood on an old anchor, struggling to see through a haze of smoke and fire.

He looked nervous.

“I just don’t want to freeze up when I get out there,” Nunez said Wednesday over the sounds of gunfire and explosions.

The sweat, smoke and fire were real. The guns, bodies and blood are training tools employed by the staff at Yokosuka Naval Hospital’s Tactical Combat Casualty Care course to expose hospital corpsmen to a realistic tactical urban combat environment.

TCCC is part of a Navywide requirement by the Naval Expeditionary Medical Training Institute for all fleet hospital personnel deploying in support of the global war on terror.


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