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Improved First Aid Kit

In her March 2007 statement before the House Armed Services Committee, Maj. Gen. Gale S. Pollock, thenacting surgeon general of the U.S. Army and chief of the Army Nurse Corps, described the improved first aid kit (IFAK) as "the first major improvement in individual soldier care in the past 50 years," adding, "Today every soldier carries a first-aid kit that provides intervention for the leading causes of death on the battlefield."

Developed in response to the tactical combat casualty care doctrine, the IFAK is designed to increase an individual servicemember's capabilities to provide self-aid/buddy aid and provides interventions for two leading causes of death on the battlefield-severe ...

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