Yesterday we had a combat life saving class. It was a few hour long and involved many gory, graphic videos of different types of injuries. Most of them came from: www.sendmeyourinjury.com or something like that. I was definitely dizzy throughout the presentation and fortunately our projector has old bulbs so the screen is hard to see. They said the point was to desensitize you to graphic events so that if you have to deal with the real thing, you won't freak out. The guy next to me almost passed out so maybe they're right.
The interesting thing is that I think they had a picture of my broken hand from MCT. I seem to recall them taking a picture of it to "use for training." During the "fractures" section, a hand popped up with a twisted pinkie and I was like, "Hey! I think that's mine!" Ah, memories.
Anyway, I think we have our prac app on combat life saving next week where we can try out some of the high tech gear like Combat Gauze and quick clot and then we will have our test during FEX 1.
Today is our first STEX, or Sand Table Exercise. Basically, we have to brief a combat order around a giant table of sand that has been shaped to look like the terrain on a map. It should be fun.
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