Emergency Medical Support Units to Critical Care Transport Teams in Iraq

Abstract

The imagery of warfare has never been so easily accessible to the public. The sights and sounds of war can be viewed almost instantaneously on the evening news or seen on the Internet. The shadow of war has been cast upon several generations in the United States, but perhaps never with such immediate processing. Some of my earliest recollections of war were seeing clips of the Vietnam War on the daily evening news. Those news clips showed soldiers in the jungles of a distant land, carrying machine guns and helping their injured buddies. The news brought the grittiness of war into our living rooms. The carnage of war was tempered; however, the average citizen could recognize the destruction of battle.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA519185

Entities

People

  • Ma Ang
  • Sean T. Collins

Organizations

  • University of Massachusetts Medical School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Hospitals
  • Military Medicine
  • Patient Care
  • Personnel Management
  • Physicians
  • Therapy
  • United States
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Trauma or Military Medicine