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Troops look at the North American Rescue’s TOMManikin at Modern Day Marine in Quantico, Va. Navy corpsmen could be called on to manage hurt Marines for days on the future battlefield. (Gina Harkins/Military.com)
Corpsmen May Need Skills to Keep Patients Alive Well Past 'Golden Hour' in Future Fights

Officials with North American Rescue, which creates the lifelike TOMManikin, are pushing new tools for training medics.

World War II-era recruitment posters for the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps. (United States Government Printing Office via UNT Digital Library)
WWII Cadet Nurses Could Become Honorary Veterans

Legislative proposals would grant them discharges and an honorary title, but not full veterans' benefits.

U.S. Army  flight medic SSG Rahkeem Francis of the Queens borough of New York City with Dustoff Task Force Shadow of the 101st Combat Aviation Brigade prepares to receive wounded Marines aboard his MEDEVAC helicopter September 25, 2010 near Marja, Afghanistan (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Retired Military Surgeons General to Congress: Intervene on Medical Billets

"As former Army, Navy, and Air Force surgeons general, we strongly assert the need for Congress to table these cuts."

Army Medical Research and Materiel Command is testing commercially-available headsets like this one to connect a medic with a surgeon in the rear area. (Matthew Cox/Military.com)
Army Medical Researchers Want Head-Up Displays for Combat Medics

The effort is designed to use augmented reality to guide a medic to perform advanced procedures.

The White House announced that Staff Sgt. Ronald J. Shurer II will receive the Medal of Honor for going above and beyond the call of duty April 6, 2008, while in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom. (Courtesy photo from Ronald J. Shurer II)
Green Beret Medic 'Deserves' Medal of Honor, Team Members Say

"Ron slapped me across the face and said 'wake up, you are not going to die today.' And I knew ... I was going to make it."

The Office of Naval Research has developed the Far-Forward Blood Storage Container, a rugged, climate-controlled box that weighs about 42 pounds and keeps blood fresh for up to three days. The first prototypes will be delivered to the Marine Corps later this year. (Gina Harkins/Military.com)
Troops' Lives Could Be Saved by Blood Boxes That Fit in Humvees, Drones

New storage containers that can keep blood fresh for up to three days could change battlefield medicine.

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