A Medic in Combat

October 26, 2019 00:29:15
A Medic in Combat
The Spear
A Medic in Combat

Oct 26 2019 | 00:29:15

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Show Notes

This episode of The Spear features our first ever conversation with a US Army medic. On Oct. 3, 2009, Combat Outpost Keating was attacked by three hundred enemy fighters. Half of the fifty-seven US soldiers there would be wounded by the time the fighting ended. Master Sgt. Shane Courville was a medic at the COP, and he describes what it's like to be a combat medic in the middle of one of the most intense battles of the war in Afghanistan.

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