FEATURES
as road accidents, falls and acute medical cases such as appendicitis.
An explosion that injured a number of Afghan civilians included children. They were all cared for by ground medics, lifted and treated by MERT and United States call signs and handed over at the hospital where they received ongoing care.
The MERT receive letters of thanks. One received from a recovering wounded Servicemen said how highly he thought of the care he received on the ground, from the MERT and his continuing specialist hospital treatment. This brave soldier has now been flown back to the UK and is making a remarkable recovery.
In summary, the MERT is a team. We work continuously on and off deployment in our respective medical capacities. The level of skill we have achieved in trauma resuscitation is extremely high.
FS Tony Kyle, on his second tour as part of the MERT crew, said, “Every tour with the MERT brings its own challenges, but this is balanced by the fact the job is incredibly rewarding. It’s an absolutely fantastic job and it’s a pleasure
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to work with such teams, something that you will never get in any job in any walk of life back in the UK. That said, there are stresses and every day we go through a mixture of
emotions; sometimes you feel like crying and sometimes you feel like laughing and it’s the team approach and the guys that help you get through every single day.”
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