Heather Harmon was technically a dependa but arguably did more to serve her country than anybody in uniform.

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I’m not saying Heather Harmon was as important to the morale of the GWOT generation as the USO, but I’m not not saying it either

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Building and applying a medical infrastructure designed to preserve combat power forward - i.e., focused on returning WIA to the line, because replacements can't arrive fast enough - requires an entirely different philosophy of purpose. And a materially different calculus of risk.

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Had a similar thought yesterday in an unrelated context - essentially, "what is the purpose of military medical capability." In GWOT it was human centered - a luxury we could afford because the casualties were relatively few and the ability to regenerate combat power relatively easy.

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About 10 years ago I was part of a DIV level training exercise where one of the tasks was mass casualty triage and mortuary affairs. The S3 NCO I talked to at the TOC said it was preparing for, direct quote from a salty MSG, “when the Russians delete a grid square.”

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