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17 Saipan reserve soldiers complete lifesaver course
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Posted on Dec 18 2008
Seventeen Saipan U.S. Army Reserve soldiers of Detachment 1, 302nd Quartermaster Company, graduated from the Army Combat Lifesaver Course on Sunday, Dec. 14, with Specialist Tiffany Palacios Tudela emerging as the course honor graduate.
The training, held at the Saipan U.S. Army Reserve Center, was conducted by the Guam-based 4960th Multifunctional Training Brigade, with SSgt. John C. Borja, and Sgt. Matthew Angoco serving as instructors.
The course consisted of approximately 34 hours of instruction and practical application, conducted on Friday, Dec 12, Saturday, Dec 13, and Sunday, Dec 14.
The course included the following subjects:
-Treatment of penetrating chest trauma
-Decompression of a tension pneumothoraz (a sucking chest wound)
-Initiating a saline lock and intravenous infusion
-Performance of tactical combat casualty care
-Controlling bleeding
-Initiation of a field medical card
-Evacuation of casualties
-Evaluating a casualty
All phases included practical exercises, where the soldiers were required to demonstrate techniques learned. All agreed that the most challenging exercise they faced was the requirement to successfully insert an IV (intravenous) needle into a classmate’s vein, install a catheter on that vein, and then attach a saline lock, and IV drip to the catheter.
Besides Tudela, the other graduates of the course were:
-Private First Class Aloysius K. Atalig
-Specialist Mollie N. Atinison
-Sergeant Jonas M. Barcinas
-Private Michael Richer Berbes
-Specialist Alvin Jesse Y. Borja
-Specialist Rosa Jean Camacho
-Specialist Shuai Chen
-Sergeant Elden Dela Cruz
-Private First Class Roland Dowai
-Private first Class Jordan Jucutan
-Specialist George T. Lieto
-Chief Warrant Officer Ronald H. Mandell
-Specialist Charles Nicholas
-Specialist Jack Anthony L. Pangelinan
-Specialist Ricardo Segotier Quichocho
-Private First Class Noel E. Santos (PR)
