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Foreword
SECTION 1 The 75 th Ranger Regiment has been continuously engaged in combat operations since the beginning of the Global War

on Terrorism. Since Oct 2001, the Regiment has remained the standard for prehospital care. Ranger medics continue to
be at the cutting edge of battlefield medicine driving changes to TCCC. Given the Ranger mission, life-threatening injuries
will still be encountered as we continue prosecuting our nation’s enemies.
Though we have lost too many Ranger brethren, executing the fundamentals of the unit’s casualty response and
medical programs has produced astounding results. Based on the principles that have evolved in the last two decades,
the 75 th Ranger Regiment standard of medical care is no deaths from preventable causes of combat death. This hallmark
is a direct result of the intense medical training and enabling capability of individual Rangers, Ranger leaders, and Ranger
medical personnel.
The success of Ranger medicine is the success of the 75 th Ranger Regiment. The Ranger First Responder, Advanced
Ranger First Responder, Ranger Medic, and Ranger leaders have made casualty scenarios into a battle drill. Survivability
does not depend solely on the Ranger Medic but on the effectiveness of the Ranger team to respond to a fallen comrade.
The chain of survival starts in training and allows for both success of the mission and care for the casualty.
“Mastery of the Basics” is and always has been a standard to live by within the 75 th Ranger Regiment. The mastery of
casualty response and medical skills at all levels has saved numerous Ranger lives. Rangers are continuously self-critical
and use every training or real casualty scenario to improve. The unit also looks for emerging technology and techniques
and swiftly adapts them to the combat environment.
The foundation of the unit’s medical programs remains based on the integrated tenets of Tactical Combat Casualty
Care (TCCC), innovative medical planning, and casualty response training for Ranger leaders, which, when employed
to their fullest, saves lives on the battlefield. Through the continuous evolution of our training and equipment programs,
the Regiment will always strive to be the tip-of-the-spear for developing the battlefield medicine standard of care for the
Infantry and Special Operations communities.
The 75 th Ranger Regiment and Ranger Medical Team will continue to hold true the Ranger Creed and the unit charters
and complete any mission placed before it.
I will never leave a fallen comrade…

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