Comments by "afcgeo" (@afcgeo882) on "Ryan McBeth"
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Okay, so I’m half Ukrainian, 1/4 Russian and 1/4 Belarussian, but born and raised in Russia (US citizen for over 30 years now and a US veteran).
Russia DOES have combat medics, but they are considerably fewer than in the West and generally aren’t found in combat units. They are mostly women and their job is to provide CASEVAC whenever possible. They have pretty rudimentary medical training, akin to Western EMTs. Their job is simply to evacuate to a rear field hospital.
As far as private hospitals… no. They first evacuate to field hospitals, which do exist. Then, once the patient is ambulatory, he may be moved to a rear hospital, usually a civilian (not private) facility, as military hospitals are only in Russia itself. This is kind of how the US military works too. The wounded are CASEVAC’d into a field hospital, where they are hopefully stabilized, and then flown out to a regional military hospital in Germany (Landstuhl) or Japan (Yokosuka, Okinawa) or Korea (Yongsan), and when well enough to make a long journey, flown back to a military or civilian hospital in the US.
The difference is that Russia has no aeromedical evacuation platforms. They can’t fly patients anywhere.
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