12/05/2025
CLS is not enough for SOF. The training of non-medics to a higher degree of medical proficiency is an untapped resource to quickly and drastically increase team organic medical capability and capacity. There is no comparison when watching a small SOF team with competent non-medics versus one without... Treatments are more timely, MASCALs are less chaotic, and, when(if?) a Medic/Corpsman is present, they can oversee multiple patients as their non-medic teammates perform many of the functions normally required by a Medic. This gives them space to think and manage. When a team Medic is injured and there is no junior medic, we have seen non-medic, Special Operations Austere Medical Technicians (SO+AMT) step up and provide live saving interventions in real world combat and non-combat situations.
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