'Honor Graduate' in the United States for a Navy Raider

(To Marina Militare)
04/06/19

Not only experienced divers, rock climbers, paratroopers or snipers, the Incursori of the Navy in recent years have also acquired the competence of being able to rescue their colleagues, during operations outside the area, through a hard path that allows them to acquire the Combat Medic qualification .

Also in this particular sector it is possible to affirm that the men of the Comsubin Incursori Operating Group (GOI) have confirmed brilliant operational skills, which have allowed them to achieve exceptional results in the field of training, at the United States Army Medical Department Center & School located in Fort Sam Houston, in the state of Texas.

In fact, during the last course, a company made up of 257 Americans, 1 South Korean and 1 sub-chief of the Navy, saw the latter arrive first overall, winning the Honor Graduate which represents one of the most important awards that is awarded by the overseas military schools.

This course, which allows to obtain the US ARMY Combat Medic Specialist qualification, lasts 120 days and is divided into three distinct phases in which both the theoretical aspects of human anatomy and the procedural aspects related to the execution of the triage are addressed. for the stabilization of the injured in the civil field (acquiring the qualification to work on American ambulances as EMT - Emergency Medical Technician) and in the purely military one, which provides for dedicated protocols and intervention methods.

The final exercise, lasting two weeks, saw the 259 participants put into practice what they had acquired during the course, in a continuous day and night activities that followed one another without stopping, and saw the young patented raider emerge among all just 2 years ago thanks to the competition for Volunteers in Fixed Station of 1 year (VFP1).

This success, in addition to representing the achievement of an important personal goal, is above all a confirmation of the excellence and quality of the training process of the Comsubin Incursori School, the result of the great experience of the GOI operators, the Special Forces of the Navy.