Buddy Aid is a term used in the

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to describe

first aid First aid is the first and immediate assistance given to any person with a medical emergency, with care provided to preserve life, prevent the condition from worsening, or to promote recovery until medical services arrive. First aid is gener ...

delivered by fellow troopers on the battlefield. It is basic first aid only, such as dressing wounds, stemming blood loss, splinting fractures, and possibly responding to nerve agents. The Iranian Military also utilizes the system. Urgent medical care can be vital for personnel in conflicts and wars, and many countries have similar practices.

United States

Buddy Aid is a first-aid procedure for non-medical service members to help save other service personnel's lives. Medical personnel will instead use Enhanced First-Aid, which common personnel is not authorized to utilize. According to the US Defense Publication TC 4-02.1, Buddy Aid is only basic first-aid medical practice along with responding to

nerve agents Nerve agents, sometimes also called nerve gases, are a class of organic chemicals that disrupt the mechanisms by which nerves transfer messages to organs. The disruption is caused by the blocking of acetylcholinesterase (AChE), an enzyme that ...

. According to LTC Slattery, service members should be trained to deal with dressing wounds, mitigating hemorrhages via tourniquets, adding splints to fractures, the movement, and care of injured personnel and maintaining the breathing of unresponsive troops.

Iran

The

Iranian military The Iranian Armed Forces, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran Armed Forces, are the combined military forces of Iran, comprising the Islamic Republic of Iran Army (''Artesh''), the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (''Sepah'') and the Poli ...

implemented Buddy Aid in its forces , the goal of this is to ensure quick and rapid medical care to downed service personnel. They originally tested personnel via a written test and a hands-on test, to ensure that service members were competent when it came to saving other troops' lives.

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