Navy Medics Get Prepared for Combat—With Tour of Duty in Chicago
15th March 2018
Yeah, I know, paywall — but just the parts you can see are important.
Konrad Poplawski, a 22-year old Navy hospital corpsman, is about to be deployed as a battlefield medic with the 2nd Marine Division, which has served in deadly battlegrounds in Iraq and Afghanistan.
But first, he is making a pit stop at Cook County’s Stroger Hospital, which the Navy says is among few places here in the U.S. that provide experience treating the types of wounds he will inevitably see on the battlefield.
We have a city whose hospitals are effectively treating ‘combat’ wounds — and what do you see in The Press? Nada.