WWI
Name at least one type of personal protective equipment (PPE) used in WWI.
What are gas masks, trench helmets, puttees, chain eye screens, and/or body armor? "Gauze mask" is acceptable if also mentions Spanish Flu.
This interwar policy allowed Hitler to violate the Treaty of Versailles in order to avoid another war.
What is appeasement?
Frostbite, trench foot, numbness, nerve pain, and tingling are associated with exposure to this during service in Korea.
What is extreme cold/cold exposure?
This was the "defining mechanism of injury during Operations Iraqi and Enduring Freedom."
What are IEDs?
Define "presumptive condition."
What is a disease or condition that the VA automatically assumes is service-related based on the location and date of service?
This chemical warfare agent used in WWI is a vesicant.
What is mustard gas?
This mass-produced, easily-disabled, and highly flammable machine often stalled in water.
What is the M4 Sherman tank?
What is infectious disease (TB, dysentery)?
These are the two primary issues with military body armor used in the Gulf War and Post-9/11 conflicts.
What are super heavy & restricts movement?
This is the most common veteran disability.
What is hearing loss?
This was the primary cause of death in WWI
What is artillery?
What is the flamethrower?
This technology burns at exceptionally high temperatures and is difficult to extinguish, making it infamous and controversial.
What is napalm?
Even though the US first started studying it in 1993, it took until 2005 for the DOD to mandate training for all service members on this critical technology.
What are tourniquets?
Gulf War Syndrome is most likely caused by exposure to this.
What is sarin gas?
Name at least three of the WWI medical improvements we discussed
What are chlorine antiseptic solution, typhoid & tetanus vaccines, Thomas splint, blood transfusions, Sanitary Corps, mobile x-rays, ambulances, plastic surgery, and/or prosthetics?
Acute: Burns, blast injuries, Radiation sickness, A-bomb disease
Chronic: Cancer/leukemia, radiation sickness (chronic), birth/developmental defects, PTSD
Korea & Vietnam were the first wars where pilots were able to be rescued behind enemy lines before capture, largely due to this technology.
What are helicopters?
This military organization assists with planning, promotes performance improvement, and maintains a trauma patient registry across all DOD branches.
What is the Joint Trauma System (JTS)?
Approximately 3.5 million troops were exposed to these during service, which have been linked to several respiratory diseases and cancers.
What are burn pits?
Name all four of the main chemical warfare agents used in WWI
What are tear gas, Chlorine gas, mustard gas, and phosgene gas?
Name and describe all five types of explosion injuries.
Primary (blast force), secondary (shrapnel/projectiles), tertiary (thrown against solid object), quaternary (burns & "misc"), quinary (HazMat/CBRN additives)
Camouflaged bamboo spike booby traps, often coated with poison or feces to promote infection.
What are punji sticks?
Name at least 5 of the 10 TCCC-AC components.
Massive hemorrhage, Airway, Respiration, Circulation, Head injury/hypothermia, Casualty movement, Medications, Splinting, Burns, Documentation
Name at least three trends/changes in US veteran population demographics.
Increasing women veterans, increasing minority veterans, decreasing age, decreasing population overall, mostly Gulf War veterans, decreasing unemployment, decreasing homelessness, increased diversity overall