Marines Practice Battlefield Medicine on Live Pigs
The L Times sets the scene: "Two enlisted Marines are kneeling on the ground, quickly stuffing gauze into a gaping wound in a pig's belly to stop the bleeding An officer, just inches from its snout, monitors its breathing and keeps the pig's thick tongue from blocking the airway At the other end of the 150-pound swine, a Marine corporal has inserted a thermometer into its anus".
The L.A. Times sets the scene:
“Two enlisted Marines are kneeling on the ground, quickly stuffing gauze into a gaping wound in a pig’s belly to stop the bleeding. Another is doing a ‘blood sweep’ to find other wounds. An officer, just inches from its snout, monitors its breathing and keeps the pig’s thick tongue from blocking the airway. At the other end of the 150-pound swine, a Marine corporal has inserted a thermometer into its anus.”
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