Ragged Edge Solutions

02/14/2026

Get your submissions in!! First round reviews on Monday!

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02/06/2026

Dark+Woods | SOF Medicine

Dark+Woods is Ragged Edge Solutions’ flagship medical training program, focused on unit-level prolonged care in resource-limited, complex environments.

The course is built to stress clinical judgment, team integration, and leadership under conditions where evacuation is delayed, and systems are degraded. Instruction emphasizes deliberate decision-making, realistic consequences, and repeatable performance at the team level.

• More than a decade of continuous course development and refinement

• Senior SME cadre with deep operational and instructional experience

• Highly realistic, immersive training environments

• Scenarios informed by real-world operations and lessons learned

Now scheduling 2026 courses.
info@raggededgesolutions.com

01/26/2026

This past fall and winter marked an important step forward for combat casualty care in the Baltic region.

At the request of Frontline Medical Solutions, Ragged Edge Solutions developed and delivered multiple iterations of an original 3-day blood transfusion curriculum for the three Baltic nations, made possible through a grant awarded by the Baltic American Freedom Foundation. For more information about BAFF scholarships and programs, visit https://lnkd.in/eX8ege4J

The course focused on Tactical Combat Casualty Care principles from point of injury through walking blood bank operations and emergency fresh whole blood transfusion in combat settings—an area of urgent need. While there have been some limited walking blood bank initiatives on deployments and in training, a standardized, Baltic-wide, emergency combat fresh whole blood transfusion policy framework remains a critical gap this training aimed to help address. This program was designed to help jumpstart that effort by building shared knowledge, confidence, and clinical competence.

In October, Ragged Edge Solutions instructors traveled to Lithuania for the first three course iterations. The final two courses were completed this month in Tartu, Estonia. Across all five iterations, 105 students, a mixed cohort of military medics, physicians, nurses, and first responders from conventional units, completed the training.

We are especially grateful that the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Lithuania is currently in the process of accrediting the course, reinforcing its long-term value and sustainability.

This effort would not have been possible without:

Our dedicated instructors: Artur, Arthur, Vaida, Ovidijus, Tim B., Tim H., Jamie, and Paul

Our engaged and highly professional students

Our host nations and partner institutions

And BAFF’s continued investment in strengthening regional resilience and security

Thank you to everyone who contributed their time, expertise, and trust. The impact of this work will extend well beyond the classroom.

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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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10/29/2025

10/23/2025

It’s been a busy couple of months and we’ve been slacking on socials…but we’ve been getting after it!

08/07/2025

Now Registering: Austere Emergency Care (AEC) – UNC Chapel Hill | Dec 1–4, 2025

We’re heading back to Chapel Hill this December with one of our most in-demand civilian courses — Austere Emergency Care (AEC) — a 4-day, hands-on training event designed to prepare medical providers for when everything goes wrong and help isn’t coming.

Whether you’re a paramedic, flight medic, rural EMS provider, hospital based provider , AEC pushes you out of the classroom and into realistic, high-stress scenarios that test not just your medical skills, but your ability to lead, adapt, and survive in resource-limited environments.

This isn’t your typical CE wilderness med course. You’ll spend time learning proven techniques from subject matter experts with years of real-world experience, participate in immersive team-based exercises, and finish with a full-scale medical scenario that ties it all together.

FAWM credit eligible.
Hosted with the Carolina Medic Program and taught by instructors from Specialized Medical Standards and Ragged Edge Solutions, this is the gold standard in civilian austere medicine training.

Seats are limited. If you plan to attend, now’s the time to lock in your spot.

📍 Location: UNC Chapel Hill
📅 Dates: December 1–4, 2025
📧 Questions? info@raggededgesolutions.com

06/06/2025

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05/20/2025

Hit the link in bio to buy a shirt. Or use that money for something “useful”, like socks. But we don’t sell socks, so buy a shirt.

05/07/2025

"Friends and neighbors, please be aware that Ragged Edge Solutions will be conducting military training operations in the vicinity of Lucky Spade Ranch, LLC Thursday, 8 May, 2025, from 4am to 6pm . Please be aware of low-flying aircraft and several planned blast simulations between the hours of 6am - 5pm Thursday. We do not anticipate that these blast simulations will disturb the local area, but we apologize in advance for any noise and inconvenience this may cause. Thank you! "

05/01/2025

Ragged Edge Solutions (RES) is honored to support the Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC) as a designated data collection site contributing to the Autodoc Project.

RES provides high-fidelity, hyper-realistic medical simulation environments that enable advanced research in autonomous casualty care and validating emerging technologies under operationally relevant conditions.

RES is shaping the future of battlefield medicine through training, education, and research

🔗 Learn more about the Autodoc Project at www.tatrc.org or www.raggededgesolutions.com

04/22/2025

At long last! The PFC Field Handbook is here! The analogue peripheral brain you need. Written and compiled by , Jamie Riesberg , .l and copy editing by Emma Mitchell , this has been 2 years in the making!

Specialized Medical Standards joined with Breakaway Media with a sponsorship from Ragged Edge Solutions to get this to print. Get your copy at Special Operations Medical Association (SOMA) meeting in NC next month!