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Injured Ukrainian Picked up At Mobile Casualty Collection Point
Published 2 years ago
Footage taken from the helmet camera of a Ukrainian Soldier working at a mobile ground medevac station shows how quickly ground medevacs are being conducted in Ukraine.
If you're an American service member who has fought in the GWoT, chances are you've always been one radio call away from having a Blackhawk swoop in and pick up your wounded. In Ukraine, that option is not available, as the air space is heavily contested on all fronts by Russian air power. As a result, we're seeing the Ukrainians bring back an older style of ground medevacs in their current on-going conflict with Russia, and since neither side can achieve total air dominance, you can bet that the Russians are operating in a similar fashion.
First Sergeants and Company Gunnery Sergeants who's job it is to handle medevacs at the company level should be watching this footage and taking notes. A future war against a near-peer adversary could look a lot like this, with the nearest medevac station being a high-back humvee or MRAP that's an hour or more away. Corpsman and Medics should also be watching this, and training to conduct TCCC while in the back of a moving vehicle.
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