"In the future U.S. Army could use unmanned aerial..." Topic

… or ground vehicles to recover injured soldiers.

"In the near future, U.S. army could use Army-operated unmanned aerial or ground vehicle as medical unit to save live on the battlefield and to recover injured soldiers. In the near future, however, it may no longer be another Soldier, who comes running to his side. Instead, it might be an Army-operated unmanned aerial or ground vehicle, said Maj. Gen. Steve Jones, commander of the Army Medical Department Center and School and chief of the Medical Corps.

"We have lost medics throughout the years because they have the courage to go forward and rescue their comrades under fire," Jones said. "With the newer technology, with the robotic vehicles we are using even today to examine and to detonate IEDs [improvised explosive devices], those same vehicles can go forward and retrieve casualties."

Jones spoke at an Association of the U.S. Army-sponsored medical conference near the Pentagon, Sept. 22…"

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Armand

The Medic or "Doc" does far more then retrive casualties..
what good does it do for the robot to move you off the Battlefield if you bleed out or die of shock in the process.
Medics stabalise the wounded so that they can be evacuated..this is a waste of Money…

Maybe the robot… can protect the doctor… in the near future?? (smile)

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Armand