During Damage Control Refresher Training, we used to go to Guantnamo Bay Cuba

[maxrandb]

Part of workups in prep for deployment, we would sail our sorry asses down to GITMO.

For a few weeks, we "exercised" the ship's Damage Control and survivability. We worked in Main Space Fire response, CBR Attack response and Flooding Control.

We also conducted Mass Casualty Drills. Multiple people would be outfitted with realistic fake wounds. I'm talking fractures with bones sticking out, amputations with fake blood spurting everywhere, sucking chests wounds, bloody intestines hanging out of stomachs and every manor of burns. It was really good, and effective. Some of these were Hollywood level examples of terrible wounds.

Sailors assigned to act as injured would scream, flail about, spurt fake blood, all while fake smoke swirled around and alarms and explosions went off all over the ship. It was chaos. Coming upon an injured Shipmate, everyone from Captain to Stew-Burner was expected to administer emergency care from tourniquets, to damp packing intestines, to plastic wrapping chest wounds. It was:

1. Stop the bleeding
2. Restore breathing
3. Treat for shock

My niece was just telling me that they conduct a similar drill.

Mine was in the event the Russians or another enemy hit my ship with a missile or a bomb.

My niece is a TEACHER!!!!

[pecosbob]

1. ...

[underpants]

2. I saw the head of the Health Dept in Parkland Fla

He said that after that he realized they needed tourniquet kits with sucking chest wound plastic treatments. Every vehicle now them. His kid has one in his backpack and he’s taught the kid how to use it.

That’s sounds like some intense training. I was in the Army, we didn’t have to worry about sinking. Stew-burner, I’d never heard that.

[maxrandb]

3. It was a term of endearment for our cooks