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a team first had soldiers is conducting

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medical training for the fire chiefs

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and officers from each district in

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Baghdad . They received no medical

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training under the former regime .

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These men will go back to their

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firehouses and share this knowledge

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with their subordinates with medical

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training . The Iraqi firemen can assist

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casualties and saved many lives .

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They're learning skills like patient

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evaluation and the pulmonary

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resuscitation without ever having this

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kind of training in the past . How well

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are they picking it up there ? Actually

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grasping this stuff pretty well real

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fast . I'm impressed . The first part

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that we did actually yesterday was

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starting I . V . S . And damaging .

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They caught on really quick . They

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really did very well . Today we went

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over Cpr and called on to that very

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fast as well . I'm very proud of them .

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This training is more advanced than

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basic first aid . The Iraqis are

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learning both one and two man Cpr how

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to use a portable hard to cook a later

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regime and administering an I . V . To

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have life giving fluid to patients .

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But the training is only effective if

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they have the equipment to go with it ,

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the cab is providing each man with a

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combat lifesaver bag for them to put

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their skills into action . They had

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very little equipment when coalition

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forces arrived and now under the

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multinational force we're slowly

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getting them more equipment but you

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have to understand Baghdad currently

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only has about 25 to 30% of what they

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should have . So we're still going a

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long way to go from the International

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District of Baghdad on specialist jimmy

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with 122nd mobile public affairs

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compassion .