While the U.S. Defense Department is taking bold steps to embrace the latest technology in nearly every operational specialty, it might be the simplicity of a kitchen sponge that saves hundreds of lives every year.
The new battlefield gadget is called X-STAT, and it uses a novel twist on simple science, offering a different way to treat deep gun shot wounds that have plagued military medics for years.
Phi Beta Iota: DoD knows how to spend money on contractors and technology. It sucks at thinking and dealing with humans and it is particularly reprehensible in consistly violationg the post-casualty expectations of its loyal citizen-soliders and their families.
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