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Viewing cable 07BOGOTA2290, MILGROUP BOGOTA (1) -- HELPING SOLDIERS SAVE LIVES

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
07BOGOTA2290 2007-04-09 19:54 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Bogota
VZCZCXYZ0000
RR RUEHWEB

DE RUEHBO #2290/01 0991954
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 091954Z APR 07
FM AMEMBASSY BOGOTA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 3947
INFO RUEHCV/AMEMBASSY CARACAS 8864
RUEHLP/AMEMBASSY LA PAZ APR LIMA 4928
RUEHZP/AMEMBASSY PANAMA 0161
RUEHQT/AMEMBASSY QUITO 5561
RUEAIIA/CIA WASHDC
RUEKJCS/SECDEF WASHDC
RUEKJCS/SECDEF WASHDC//USDP ADMIN/CHAIRS//
RUETIAA/CSG SOUTHCOM MIAMI FL
UNCLAS BOGOTA 002290 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PREL PGOV PTER MARR CO
SUBJECT: MILGROUP BOGOTA (1) -- HELPING SOLDIERS SAVE LIVES 
 
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Summary 
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1. (U)  The Combat Life Saver (CLS) course is one of a broad 
range of hands-on training programs provided by the U.S. 
military to the Colombian Army (COLAR).  CLS gives medics and 
field soldiers essential skills to stabilize wounded soldiers 
on the battlefield until they can be evacuated.  Several 
episodes of combat, accident, and illness already testify to 
the benefits of CLS in saving soldiers' lives; over the long 
term it will help the COLAR reduce mortality, improve 
battlefield morale, and increase combat effectiveness.  End 
Summary. 
 
2. (U)  This is the first in a series of cables profiling 
activities of the U.S. Military Group in Colombia.  Its 
missions (Army, Navy, Air Force, Logistic, and Air Component 
Coordination Element) provide material assistance in 
equipment and cooperation to the respective service arms of 
the COLMIL.  Its Planning and Assistance Training Teams 
(PATTs) are units of two or three U.S. military personnel 
co-located with the Colombian Military, providing field 
training in combat skills and advisory guidance to commanders 
and staff. 
 
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Soldiers as First Responders 
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3. (U)  The Combat Life Saver course was developed to 
increase battlefield survival rates for Colombian soldiers 
wounded in combat.  Due to limited mobility and on-site 
medical personnel, soldiers in combat must be stabilized 
where they are wounded for prolonged periods until they can 
be evacuated and treated.  Historically soldiers have not 
been well trained in evaluating a patient, checking vital 
signs, treating for shock, or stopping bleeding.  They have 
not had proper materials for splinting fractures and 
bandaging wounds.  Many wounded soldiers arrived at 
dispensaries with trash bags or bloody towels on dirty 
wounds, or with poorly made field splints.  With CLS 
training, targeted especially to the counter-guerrilla 
battalions who undertake most offensive combat, soldiers can 
now be the first line of treatment for wounded personnel. 
 
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Fundamentals of Tactical Medicine 
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4. (U)  The CLS course teaches COLAR combat medics and aidmen 
the basic principles of tactical medicine throughout all 
phases of a combat mission.  Its three main subject areas are 
care under fire, tactical field care, and combat casualty 
evacuation care.  These include hemorrhage control, airway 
management, the treatment of gunshot and shrapnel wounds, 
intravenous fluid resuscitation, triage, and air / ground 
evacuation.  Combat medics are also taught health protection 
measures and limited primary care skills.  Training 
culminates with a field exercise in which they must 
demonstrate both individual and team level medical skills. 
To date PATTs have given CLS training to 572 COLAR personnel, 
who can now care for trauma patients on the battlefield and 
thereby increase the combat effectiveness of their units. 
 
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Saving Lives -- in Combat, Accidents, and Illness 
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5. (U)  Since its launch last year, the PATTs' Combat Life 
Saver course has already earned its name in saving lives -- 
not just in combat but also in cases of accidents and 
ordinary illnesses which have historically depleted the 
COLAR's fighting strength: 
 
- In one brigade, CLS training and supplies directly saved 
the lives of more than 20 soldiers wounded in combat or by 
land mines in the last four months.  Doctors at headquarters 
say battlefield stabilization care has improved dramatically, 
with patients now arriving at the hospital with cleanly 
bandaged wounds and proper splints. 
 
- When a grenade was accidentally shot into a mess tent, 
killing two soldiers and wounding 24, a physician arrived on 
the scene to find soldiers already administrating first aid 
to the casualties.  The doctor said the soldiers' CLS skills 
were the key factor in the survival of the 24. 
 
- 16 women and children wounded by a detonation of ordinance 
were treated by soldiers for massive trauma, open abdominal 
wounds, and fractures similar to those simulated in their CLS 
trauma module. 
 
- In the midst of a CLS session, medics in training assisted 
in treatment and evacuation of three soldiers with multiple 
gunshot wounds.  The students were credited with the rescue 
of the most severely wounded soldier. 
 
- Preventative medicine procedures have been extremely 
beneficial in keeping units up to strength.  Previously many 
soldiers were unfit for combat due to ordinary illnesses like 
fever, diarrhea, infected cuts, or stomach viruses.  Medics 
were not equipped with basic medication, nor did they have 
the knowledge to treat minor daily ailments.  Since the 
training, the number of sick soldiers has fallen drastically 
while returns to duty have risen. 
 
Drucker