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MAJ Andy Fisher Receives the
2018 Frank K. Butler TCCC Award
AJ Andy Fisher was presented with the 2018 Frank K.
Butler TCCC Award at the September meeting of the
MCommittee on TCCC in San Antonio.
MAJ Andy Fisher is the former Regimental PA for the 75th
Ranger Regiment. MAJ Fisher made multiple combat deploy-
ments with Ranger units and has been awarded 4 Bronze Stars
(one with a combat “V”) as well as the Purple Heart. MAJ
Fisher was named the US Army Physician Assistant of the Year
in 2010. He is now in his third year at Medical School at Texas
A&M. Despite the time demands of his medical studies, he
continues to be very active in multiple military medical training
activities. He also made time to serve as the CEO of the very
successful national Stop the Bleed Day, which was held this
past spring to promote civilian awareness of TCCC- developed
external hemorrhage control techniques.

MAJ Fisher is an outstanding innovator and writer, having au-
thored a number of well-received papers, including one on Tac-
tical Damage Control Resuscitation as practiced in the 75th
Ranger Regiment and another on far-forward REBOA. He is care and add REBOA to the list of lifesaving interventions
currently a collaborator in developing the proposed change to recommended by TCCC. His many contributions to combat
the TCCC Guidelines that would advocate for increased use medicine were recognized by his being named as the US Army
of prehospital whole blood resuscitation in battlefield trauma recipient of the 2018 Frank K. Butler TCCC Award.

MSG (Ret) Harold (Monty) Montgomery Receives NAEMT’s
Scott Frame Service Award

he Joint Trauma System and the CoTCCC would like to congratulate MSG
(Ret) Harold (Monty) Montgomery. MSG (Ret) Montgomery was awarded with
T NAEMT’s prestigious Scott Frame Service Award at the World Trauma Symposium
in Nashville on 30 October, 2018.
The award was presented by CoTCCC Chairman Dr Frank Butler, whose remarks follow.

“I’d also like to take this opportunity to thank the NAEMT for all that they have done
to help the US Military, especially our departed friend, Dr Norman McSwain, as well as
NAEMT President, Mr. Dennis Rowe, and NAEMT Executive Director, Ms. Pam Lane.

NAEMT has been a great partner in the Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) effort
for the last 20 years and has helped to save the lives of thousands of wounded US service-
men and women through their training courses.

One of the heroes of the NAEMT effort was the late Dr Scott Frame. Every year this
organization presents an award in his memory to an individual who has made truly out-
standing contributions to prehospital trauma care.

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