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Pigs Teach Military First Aid

Doomed pigs used to teach first aid

As the blood began to surge from a femoral artery, Lance Cpl. Chad Pham dug his hand into the gaping wound to stanch the flow. Fellow Marines were doing the same all around him, trying desperately to keep their pig patients from bleeding out and dying on stretchers in the dusty clearing of a Valley Center avocado grove. Ref. Source 8

Aid Military Teach Pigs

I think this is good training for the military. The use of pigs is a good way to train medics for real war time injuries. The fact that a pig is pretty close to us in DNA this way makes the medic think on their feet.