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Renji, LCPL
Squad specialty story: Medic
Story: First aid

Renji woke up to the sound of his datapad beeping. He sat up and looked at the clock. It said that it was currently 0600 hours. So much for sleeping in today. He got up and began to search his room for his datapad. After about half an hour of searching he finally found it under a stack of research papers that he had been reading the previous night. He saw that he had a new message. He saw the title was Medic Training. He opened the file and began to read it. It said Good morning trooper. Your request to begin medic training has been processed and has accepted. You are to report to room 720 for your training. You are required to be there at 0800 hours. Dismissed. He got up from the chair he had been sitting on and looked around. Well, he thought to himself, This helps me. I had nothing to do today so this can kill the day. He went and took a shower and put on a clean uniform. He looked over at the clock and saw that he still had an hour until class. Good, I still have time to go and eat breakfast before class.

After an uneventful breakfast Renji stood out in the hall in front of room 720. He opened the door and stepped inside the class. The first thing he noticed was that he was not the first one there. He also noticed that there were people with ranks higher then his own present as well. He chose a desk closer to the front and walked over to it. As he sat down he noticed that there was was a duffel bag on the desk, along with all the other desks, most likely containing medical equipment. As he was about to open the duffel to examine the contents he heard th door open. He turned and saw a stark looking man standing in the door way. He wore a clean and well pressed uniform and he had a determined look on his face. His hair was grey and thinning and he had it slicked back. It was cut short like most military officials. He had an air around him that made Renji feel as though the man had seen many battles.

"Welcome to the beginning of Medic training class," the man said. "I am Sergeant Dyne and I will be your instructor through out your medic training career. I shall warn you now, this field of expertise can be very gruesome at points in time. You will be the determining factors of whether or not people live or die in battle. Those of you who feel as though they cannot live with peoples possible deaths or have weak stomachs leave now, you have been warned." He waited as some people got up and left. "As for the rest of you who feel up to it you may begin to examine the med kits on your desks."

Renji opened the duffel on his desk and began to look through it. The first thing he saw was a small bacta tank. Inside of it was various material like gauze, sterile eye pads, sterile gauze pads, and some burn dressing. They next thing he saw was a various assortment of bandages like slings, knuckle bandages, elastic bandages, adhesive elastic roller bandages and triangular bandages. He then began to shift through the various tools. He saw that the kit contained adhesive tape, trauma shears, a lighter, a syringe, gloves, a CPR mask, a flashlight, bacta patches, sterile eye wash, swabs, a blanket, alcohol rub, a small defibrillator, a thermometer and a penlight. The last thing he found was a various assortment of medicines in a smaller side pocket. There was antiseptics, Benzalkonium chloride, alcohol pads, antibiotic ointments, painkillers, burn gel, quick clot and a variety of headache pills.

"Now that you all have seen your new kits lets go over the three P's of first aid. Preserve Life, Prevent Further Injury and Promote recovery. These three things are a medics most important guide lines to go by. After that comes the ABC's of the medic. A stands for airway. You need to make sure that none of the victims airways are blocked. To do this you need to preform the head tilt- chin lift procedure which is done by tilting the victim’s head upward. This will open any and all blocked airways. The second step is B for breathing. You must check if the victim is breathing. If they are breathing normally then you can skip this step and go on to C but if they are breathing irregularly or minimally then you need to do one thing. Can any one tell me what it is?"

One of the students raised their hand. "Is it CPR sir?"

"Yes CPR it is also referred to as the kiss of life. There are two ways of doing this the first being to place the CPR mask onto the victim's mouth. This is a much simpler and ease way. The next way is to sealing your and the victim’s mouths together and breathing out deeply forcing air into the lungs. The final thing is C or circulation. This can easily be checked by doing a simple pulse test. If their pulse is irregular or nonexistent then you start up the defibrillator and zap the victim once or twice to get their pulse back to a normal state."

"Our last topic of discussion are how to heal and mend a blaster wound, how to dress a bleeding wound and how to sling a broken bone. Let us start off with the blaster wounds. The first thing you do is apply rubbing alcohol to it and wiping it down so the wound can be cleaned. You then apply burn ointment to the wound to reduce pain. The final step is to apply a clean adhesive bandage to start the healing process. Next is how to dress a bleeding wound. If the cut was caused by a melee weapon then there will be dirt or some other form of infect-ant in the cut so you start by cleansing the wound with rubbing alcohol. you then take a swab and wipe away the blood so the cut can be visible. If the bleeding persists then you must rub some quick clot to the area. The last step is to apply gauze to the cut then adhesive tape to keep the gauze in place and add elastic roller bandages for extra protection. The final topic of this portion is how to mend a broken bone. The quickest and usually most effective way is to place the victim in a bacto tank. The one in your kit however, is to small to fit a fully grown human so you must make a splint. The most effective way to make a splint for an arm is by wrapping an elastic bandage around the limb and place a triangular bandage on it so it will hold the broken bone in place. If how ever you are trying to mend a broken leg then you must either make a crutch or keep it as firm as possible."

"That is it for todays lecture. You are allowed to keep those med-kits. I recommend studying them because tomorrow there will be a two part exam. The first part will be written and it will deal with what I discussed today. The second part will be practical dealing with the treatment of either a broken limb or a blaster wound. You may begin as soon as you get in here. Dismissed." He stood up and left the class.

Renji stood up and packed up his med-kit and left for his room. He stayed up most of the night examining the kit and reviewing his notes. He walked into the class the next day and sat down in the same spot as he had the previous day. There was a packet of papers with a various assortment of different questions. He began and he realised that he was easily flying through the questions. He finished in an hour and went up to Sergeant Dyne and handed him the exam.

"Good job," he said. "Now if you will follow me I will start you on the next portion of the exam." He lead Renji out of the class and into the hall. He lead him into a small room with a man sitting on a bench. "This man has broken arm. I want you to mend it with the supplies in this kit while I grade your exam." He handed Renji a med-kit like the one yesterday. Renji took out the materials he needed. He then found the exact point what point in the man's arm was broken. He began to wrap his arm with an elastic bandage and placed a triangular bandage on it.

"I am done sir," he said.

"Good so am I," responded Sergeant Dyne. He handed Renji his exam as he went to examine the man's arm. Renji smiled as he saw that he got a perfect score. "Good job. You got two perfect scores. You passed."

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Passed, certainly the best first spec story I have read, so you are off on a great start.  Good job with going over the essentials, just try to minimize some of the dialogs and try to have your character do/think the concepts a little bit more.  Not much, just a little.  As I said, great job with the story, and good luck with the next one.