User blog comment:Griever0311/Ask A Marine Part Deux/@comment-1260687-20100317205720

@Clavix2: My bad, dude. If someone's wounded, the priority is still to engage and destroy the enemy; as long as you're being shot at, and the area's not secure, you can't do anything to treat a man's wounds. In a perfect world, the injured man pulls himself to cover, and immediately begins treating himself as best he can, and get his rifle back into the fight. He'll be assisted my another Marine or a Corpsman (Navy guys who act as medics for us, because we don't have medics), and depending on the severity of the wound and the operational tempo, the squad leader will request a casevac. This may be in the form of a highback HMMWV or an MTVR serving as an ad-hoc ambulance and escorted by a QRF team, or (if the wounds sustained require RIGHT GODDAMN NOW attention) he may be airlifted out, though airborne casevac can be denied if the area's too hot, if environmental conditions are keeping birds on the ground, or if it is determined that a ground casevac would be faster. In the event of a mass casualty incident, heavy reinforcements are dispatched in the form of multiple QRF teams, and any armor or gunships in the area are often diverted to support the stricken unit as the casualties are triaged, stabilized, and loaded up. And yes, I have.

@Brothertim: Yeah, the .50's got a nice, skull-fucking *BOOM*