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PUBLISHER
Michelle DuGuay Landers, MBA, BSN, RN
Lt Col (Ret)

Greetings JSOM Subscribers, NEW Breakaway Media Publications
We hope everyone is enjoying this intriguing historical account
he Journal of Special Operations Medicine, now in its of TCCC—from how it started, to how it developed and grew,
24th year of publication, is the Official Journal of the and many captivating stories that impacted the decisions that
TSpecial Operations Medical Association. It is the only led to where it is today. Tell Them Yourself—It’s Not Your Day
peer-reviewed, PubMed-indexed medical journal for Uncon- to Die is written by CAPT (Ret) Frank Butler, COL (Ret) Kevin
ventional, Operational, Tactical Casualty Care, and Austere O’Connor, and Jeff Butler, available on our Online Store at
Medicine. Our primary focus is on the Special Operations, https://jsom.us/TTY and on Amazon.
tactical, and emergency medical personnel working in remote
Michelle D. Landers, Lt Col (Ret)
environments. Our articles respond to the needs of the first This publication is an extraordinary read. It’s the true account
responders, medics, PAs, physicians, and other medical profes- of how a small group of world-class trauma experts joined
sionals operating in these environments. forces with America’s best combat medics to rewrite the battle-
field medicine rule book and then sell these revolutionary new
The articles that we publish must meet strict guidelines for concepts to a disbelieving medical world. This is the definitive
academic rigor. We have developed the Submission Criteria record of how TCCC came to be and how these protocols for-
and Guidelines document on our website as a guide for poten- ever changed the way care is provided to those wounded in
tial authors to follow. This will be your guide to manuscript combat, written by the men who fought for the change.
preparation prior to submitting for review. You can find these
guidelines on our website under the Article Submission tab or In addition, we have updated the TCCC and K9 TCCC sec-
can be viewed at https://jsom.us/SubGuide. tions of the Advanced Tactical Paramedic Protocols Handbook
in the Revised 11th Edition and the 2024 Standard Medical
Operating Guidelines (SMOG).
SOMSA 2024 Update

(PHOTO LEFT) The JSOM staff with
authors of Tell Them Yourself—It’s
Not Your Day to Die. LEFT TO
RIGHT: Sophia Leishman, Breakaway
Media marketing; CAPT (Ret) Frank
Butler, author; Lt Col (Ret) Michelle
Landers, publisher; COL (Ret) Kevin
O’Connor, author; and MSgt (Ret)
Scott Graverson, CIO.

(PHOTO ABOVE) The JSOM booth at SOMSA 24.
LEFT TO RIGHT: Dr. Scott Graverson, CIO, and
Lt Col (Ret) Michelle Landers, publisher.

(PHOTOS LEFT) Tell Them Yourself—It’s Not
Your Day to Die authors CAPT (Ret) Frank
Butler and COL (Ret) Kevin O’Connor during
the premier book signing at SOMSA.

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