First response to our most likely threat

There’s a tourniquet and a Warrior Skills: Skill Level 1 book on the table. The book is a manual of common Soldier tasks with step-by-step instructions. A red tab marks figure 081-COM-0048-1: Combat application tourniquet.

Maj. Bridget Flannery opens with statistics of the more than 60,000 U.S. service members killed and wounded in combat since September 11, 2001. The most common catalyst? Improvised explosive devices, or IEDs.