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Special Operations Training Detachment, within the denied and semi permissive environments.
Lessons Learned From a force protection stand-point, CATs should in-
JRTC, 19-06N, 6-19 April clude surveillance detection, a baseline understanding of
ASO (Level 1/2), and other Anti-Terror/Force Protection
From p 2: Survivability training to their PMT cycle.

Due to the overt nature of Civil Affairs, Civil Affairs Contact USASOC Lessons Learned:
teams rarely have the training that allows them to move USASOC.Lessons.Learned@socom.mil/
and communicate with a low signature or in a clandes- USASOC.Lessons.Learned@socom.smil.mil
tine manner. This puts them at a disadvantage when
placed in these situations. Although instances of oper- JRTC/NTC Past AARs
ating in the denied environment are rare, Civil Affairs Contact JRTC/NTC for Past AARs
forces need to have an baseline understanding of these
tactics and techniques to improve their survivability

Why Are Bleeding Trauma Patients Still Dying? The Danger of Emerging Viruses
Karim Brohi1, Russell L. Gruen, and John B. Holcomb CRISIS IN THE RED ZONE
The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak
“Despite improved haemorrhage control, many patients
still die, and often not from exsanguination but later in in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come
their clinical course, through mechanisms which are not By Richard Preston
yet fully understood.”
Told in detail as befitting a thriller,
Read the complete editorial at Intensive Care Med the author’s important points are
(2019) 45:709–711 the risks of emerging diseases and
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-019-05560-x that the global medical system is not
equipped to handle them.
CDC Travel Health Notices For the PBS interview, please go to https://www.pbs.org
The CDC provides travel notices regarding infectious /newshour/show/a-year-after-outbreak-ebola-has-killed
diseases and a specific measles (rubeola) travel advisory -hundreds-in-the-drc
webpage. Currently, there is an outbreak of rubella in
Japan. Travelers to Japan should ensure they are vacci-
nated against rubella with the MMR (measles, mumps,
and rubella) vaccine before travel.

Please see https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notices and
https://www.cdc.gov/measles/plan-for-travel.html?
CDC_AA_refVal=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc
.gov%2Fmeasles%2Ftravelers.html

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