The folks at ABC News send us the latest in their “Second Tour” series about veterans working to help veterans and the military. In this episode, they highlight former special forces medic John Steinbaugh and his work in battlefield medical innovation;
Steinbaugh spent 20 years in the Army as a Special Forces medic and had several deployments and rotations to Iraq and Afghanistan in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom.
Four years before his retirement, he was approached by the Army to work on a project to speed up the process of saving wounded soldiers. They needed an expert in research and development in the Special Operations Command.
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While Steinbaugh was working in the Army, his predecessor started a project for hemorrhage control with RevMedx, a company based in Oregon that creates medical products designed specifically for combat medics and civilian first responders focused on controlling hemorrhages in pre-hospital settings. He took over the project and when he retired from the Army in 2012 he went to work with them.
He is is now the liaison between the military and RevMedx. “I make sure that the products we are designing stay on track to make sure the medic in combat gets exactly what he wants in the battlefield,” he said.
This guy just keeps giving.
Love reading stories like this!! Way to continue to the mission Doc!
Maybe I’m a bit jaded, but for some reason I thought this story would take a turn that he was a fake. Good to know there are real guys like this doing what they can to take care of troops in the field.
Simply fantastic.
These are the TAH stories I live for. Great man, great service and still giving.
I’ve become acquainted with John through watching junior hockey. He is as genuine in real life as his shown in the story.