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Into the War Theater

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FBI personnel preparing for assignments in Iraq and Afghanistan took their seats at rows of long tables inside a no-frills training facility.

Students practice applying tourniquets.

Administering CPR and tending to other serious breathing issues can be critical on the battlefield.

Paul Vecchio, a retired Army Special Forces combat medic, along with others from the Medical College of Georgia, provided instruction on tactical combat casualty care.

The class spent most of their time outside, repeating a variety of drills to hone their new skills.

Some skills were practiced on 185-pound, full-sized dummies. Often, the dummies were dragged from attack scenarios to safety before teams could assess and treat their injuries.

Instructors were seldom without squirt bottles filled with fake blood. If a tourniquet was not put on a dummy correctly, instructors would continue squirting blood around the wound until the correct care was given—only then would the “bleeding” stop.

Students participate in a mass casualty exercise.

Students prepare a "casualty" for evacuation during an exercise.

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