Woman, 79, fell while hiking. A stranger carried her for hours on his back.

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54. Bravo usaf-vet

Well said, and a humongous thank you for your service in the Medical Corps..........

A friend, who recently passed was a Trauma Surgeon in a Mash Unit in Korea, just like the Mash TV setting.

He said we were perfectly trained, along with everyone else there, and everything was so perfectly orchestrated, we accomplished outcomes far beyond expectations on a daily basis.....

In 1994? I was a State Certified EMS instructor, as well as an active duty professional firefighter.
In August, we had the largest Mass Casualty Incident in U.S. history, bordering Denver. There were 400,000 people, at our high altitude, with no water to drink, and a temp of 90+ degrees, who just had made the walk from Downtown Denver to Cherry Creek Reservoir which was 10 miles....... Due to the magnificent implementation of organization preparing for just such an incident, The entire EMS community, in a 50 mile Radius dropped everything and came running.........we started in excess of 20,000 IV's on Saturday, from noon to midnight.......Countless individuals, those in the worst shape, were transported to ER's across the Denver Metro Area.

Unknown to me at the time, the U.S. Gov't has stashes of Medical supplies, around the country they don't talk about.
WITHIN AN HOUR, there were two semis backing up at the incident, loaded with nothing but angio's, Macrodrip IV kits, and bags of IV solutions.......

With all the cuts in FEMA, Disaster preparedness, Medical personnel, etc etc etc....these past two decades, it is a miracle if anything even works at this point.......