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What about Army.

"Aren't Ready for Marines Yet!"

Maj.b00bz wrote:Take out the shock paddles, give them a portable stretcher: This allows them to take a critically wounded patient out of the firing line and patch them. The patient can only be “healed” halfway.

I know this is still gamey but shock paddles that heal 100% from dead is not?

Marines shout “Corpsman!” the same as way Army shouts, “Medic!” You can also say Doc, which is the general catch all term for Navy medical corpsmen. For example, “Hey Doc, it hurts when I pee, you got anything for that?”

You can yell out "Doc!" when you need help but yelling "Corpsman!" is more accurate. I assume PR will take rectify that when they first get to the 100,000 other things that are more pressing.

Take out the shock paddles... hmmm... yeah, take them out and replace them with the pulp fiction adrenalin syringe... animate its administration like John Travolta's sternum busting pericardial injection....



Anyways, the chances of finding a soldier (I am not in the military, so I am truly hypothesizing, but using my experiences as a civi paramedic) in ventricular fibrillation after penetrating trauma is pretty darn low (maybe 1-4%). Survival depends on fast transport to a surgical suite. Trauma is a surgical disease; it belongs in the OR (as the trauma surgeons say) so the use of field defibrillators is highly doubtful or benificial. But for gameplay it would be the only truely "one shot" intervention that would be benificial.

the other possible intervention that has as much in-game drama as defibrillating would be simular to the Travolta needle stab; or better known as Thoracentesis -the needle decompression of the chest to release compressesd air from the chest....

this would be a WAY TOOO COOL AND ORGINAL OPTION FOR REALITY.... The Medic/corpsman would swing the syringe and with a loud THUD! and if it worked the wounded patient would literally GASP! for air and a huge rush of pressurized gas would rush out of the chest through the needle.... Fun eh..? So the medic could try to defib, if it didnt work try a decompression (kind like the engineer who has an option to use slugs or buckshot)



Secondly in the heal situation, it would be cool if the medic bag was relplaced with a intravenous solution/or blood products. As the wounded health improves the intravenous bag decreases in volume. This woul be a rapid healing option and could be only used on one person at a time. The use of the medic bag would be a slower multi-patient method to heal people.

anyways, just dreaming and having fun...

The medic works well now!

P_MED