US Army Combat Medic is one of the toughest jobs in the military, and here’s why. A combat medic plays a unique role in the Army. In addition to being experts in battlefield medicine, they must also ...

Modern peer combat has blown apart the myth of protected combat medical units. On the battlefields of Ukraine, scores of medical personnel, shielded in theory by both international law and historic ...

NAPLES, Italy — The Army is testing the ability of its combat medics to keep critically injured soldiers alive on the future battlefield, where they no longer will be able to rely on quick medical ...

Combat medics have long served in one of the most demanding roles on the battlefield. While often working under the same dangerous conditions as the soldiers around them, their primary mission was ...

RICHMOND, Ky. (LEX 18) — A former Army combat medic and Eastern Kentucky University alum is impacting the level of care provided by paramedics with an intubation tool he designed. He returned to ...

Charles Shay, a D-Day veteran who now calls Normandy home, was recognized by Army leadership during a recent bedside ceremony not far from the beach he stormed over 80 years ago. Shay, who served as a ...