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If someone's injured, man, I'm not going to cut him open out there.

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I can only do what we can consider damage control

resuscitation. You're listening to War College, a weekly podcast that brings you the stories from behind the front lines.

Here are your hosts, Matthew Galt and Jason Field.

War has changed, and Battlefield medicine is still catching up.

Upwards of 25% of deaths in Vietnam were preventable with the right pre-hospital care.

Unfortunately, not much has changed during the early years of the wars of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Andrew Fisher is a highly decorated physician assistant in the U.S. Army.

As a PA for the 75th Ranger Regiment, he saw combat firsthand in Afghanistan and knows better than most

what bullets and bombs can do to the human body. He's here with us today to talk about battlefield

medicine and the little understood importance of the

turnicate. Andrew, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you gentlemen, happy to be

here. So first off I want to ask, were you drawn to battlefield medicine or do you think it kind of picked you? to I certainly didn't initially envision myself heading down this path.

I had enlisted in the early 90s as an infantryman and was then assigned to the 75th Ranger Regiment once I passed the selection process.

And by chance, I just happened to be sent to an EMT course and it was there.

I kind of found my desire to work in medicines.

So I feel like it kind of came to me versus me kind of seeking it out.

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