The AIG, New Years - 2021
"Once a PJ, Always a PJ"
"Please share with your network so everyone is signed up for the AIG, we are stronger in numbers"
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The New Year is here and so are Reservations
Make your Room reservations Now,
before they are all gone.
There will be no Over-Flo Hotel
Reunion dates are Set...
Tucson AZ, Marriott JW Starr Pass Resort
a true report, rooms normally at $300-$500,
Special $96++ rate for Pararescue 2021!!
October 27th-30th, 2021
31st being a Travel day home
Room Reservations and Reunion Registration will begin early January 2021
Sponsors can e-mail us now to reserve your spot.
bill.watson@pjassociation.com
USE THIS LINK TO RESERVE YOUR ROOM NOW
or Pararescue 2021 when calling in
There has been a Block of rooms set aside for our Great event. We will begin registration in late Jan 2021 and we will post all the information you will need to the PJA website, Facebook page and the AIG. All you need now is to mark your dates.... We have a great events scheduled, just waiting on the hotel to finalize a few events associated with pricing. With 3 Units in AZ
at Davis-Monthan the 68th FTU, 306th and the 48th RQS, This will make for a great competition and the gathering of hundreds of PJ's and CRO's.
Let's show all those other Associations how we Role. Rodeo events will begin Monday the 25th if you want to come in early, rooms will be allowed the negotiated Per-diem rate of $96 + Taxes...
If you know of any businesses that would like to sponsor this great event and Competition please email; bill.watson@pjassociation.com
PJ Reunion
events are being finalized with the hotel
October 27th / Wed - Registration , Ice Break and Opening Ceremony
Hospitality room events
*Other events and Competitions TBD
Oct 28 / Thur - Registration, Events with the Rodeo, and More
Oct 29 / Events and Rodeo Awards Presentation,
Possible Halloween Costume event...
Oct 30 / Events and PJA Banquet
Oct 31st, Travel day home
PJ Rodeo
October 24th - 29th, 2021
It takes a lot of work to put these events on so please help, We are always in need of
volunteers to pull this off and will need many for each day. Chris Tellsworth will be the POC and Chair for the Reunion and Rodeo in Tucson, Ctellsworth80@gmail.com
Coming in early, let us know, volunteer and share the word.
Golf day
Motor cycle ride event
Poker Tournament and more...
Mystery events...
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Training gets used in the Field, Hooyah guys
PJs downrange from the 103rd RQS (Team NY), along with 101RQS aircrew, were covering CSAR when they were scrambled to respond to five casualties injured by a VBIED. The most critical casualty was picked up by the trail bird and loaded with another litter bound patient. The lead medic, SrA Brian Gravano assessed him. Five tourniquets were found on 4 injured limbs, there was upper chest trauma, and there were impaled
objects including one in the right neck. The PJ determined he was in shock with an intact airway.
In the absence of access to the extremities and sternum, he placed an IO device in the iliac crest and successfully transfused a unit of whole blood bringing the casualty alive to a Surgeon.
In light of the multiple casualties, the Surgeon needed the PJ to assist. The neck was explored and then the chest was opened to access the subclavian artery. The PJ played a critical role maintaining digital pressure on a lacerated subclavian artery while a shunt was placed.
For about the past 8 years we have been training iliac crest IO placement for potential triple and quadruple amputees.
To our knowledge, this is the first successful DOD pre-hospital blood transfusion in the iliac crest.
This is another great innovation by PJs.
Other medical contributions during OEF by PJs and Pararescue Flight Surgeons include:
• Video laryngoscopy for intubation during rotary wing medical operations.
• PJ response to a DOD survey leading the way to TCCC adoption of ketamine based on PJ experience.
• The use of 2 humeral head IOs inflight for optimizing shock resuscitation with blood; and the validation of benefit of humeral head IO placement in studies performed by PJs during cadaver lab training.
• The validation of the PJ created mnemonic device, MARCH PAWS, which has become a TCCC standard for tactical field care and TACEVAC based on data collected by then DM PJ, John Kosequat.
• Multiple publications on mission reports and original research published in the Journal of Special Operations Medicine and Military Medicine.
103rd Rescue Squadron Conducts Emergency Medical Training
WESTHAMPTON BEACH; NY - Pararescuemen and Combat Rescue Officers with the 103rd Rescue Squadron conducted emergency medical training at FS Gabreski ANG on February 27th, 2014. The training involved PJ's and CRO's rotating through various trauma and medical scenarios, replicating the types of injuries and illnesses often seen on the battlefield, or in rescue settings.
"The courses offered here are a requirement for paramedic and Pararescue recertification," Major Glyn Weir, a Combat Rescue Officer with the 103rd RQS said at the beginning of the training. "It's being put together by LtCol. Stephen Rush, M.D. , who has been appointed the USAF Pararescue Medical Director. "
PJ's and CRO's moved from one scenario to another, treating patients with simulated combat wounds and complex injuries. "We're slowing things down a bit," Major Weir explained. "We're training for perfection through repetition. No matter how stressful the situation may be when we are on the battlefield, treatment and diagnosis become automatic when it is ingrained. We are repeating it and reinforcing it so that it becomes muscle memory."
"The thing about this training," Doctor Rush later explained, "as opposed to what we do in a civilian paramedic course, is that it's operationally focused, but still meets the requirements of the National Registry for these men to have their full Paramedic Certification." Instead of using pure civilian motor vehicle accident protocols, the training concentrates on problems like blast trauma and gunshot wounds. By accomplishing this training "in house," the 103rd RQS was able to save a
significant amount of money that can later be applied to other types of training that complement the course. Keeping it local also allows the 103rd to take advantage of local facilities like North Shore LIJ, which has offered use of their Patient Safety Institute. "[North Shore LIJ has hundreds of thousands of dollars in equipment that we've been able to use," Doctor Rush continued. "We've had access to simulation rooms with the most sophisticated mannequins and two way mirrors and microphones,
as well as the cadaver lab, which is a surgical skills laboratory. PJ's can learn invasive battlefield procedures on human anatomy. We also benefit from their professional faculty interacting with and teaching the men. For example, that we have a real-world heart and thoracic surgeon actually showing the techniques to them, and watching the PJ's to make sure they're doing it right. The things that we do when we practice are the actual procedures and protocols that the PJ's execute in theater.
Most important, the first time they are doing these procedures is in a controlled environment with direct medical supervision, not on the battlefield with a young man or woman where he have [only] one opportunity to get it exactly right. So we know we're sending them into the worst circumstances to do the best job they can to save our soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines."
In addition to the 103rd Rescue Squadron's participation, Pararescuemen from the Field Training Unit in Arizona and a Flight Surgeon from the 38th Rescue Squadron at Moody Air Force Base took part. "[The PJ's from 38th RQS and Field Training Unit] will be bringing the training they receive here back to their units," Major Weir said. "They're getting a lot of hands on training from Doc Rush, who is really pushing to streamline the process and standardize medical care throughout the pararescue
community."
NASA Mission Continues
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Next Graduation March 2021
Special thanks to our sponsor that helped make the PJ / CRO Graduations and the Family day a great success. Without them, we could not pull this off. The families, Staff and Graduates say one of the best things they get in NM.
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Special Thanks to our Corporate Level Donors
Rod Alne and The Peak
ROCO
Individual donors:
Brian Hicks
Janet and Ray “CZ” Colon-Lopez
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Association Officers:
- President - Bill Watson
- Vice Pres. - John Pighini
- Treasurer - Ryan Beckmann
- Recorder - Scott Gearen
Association Board Member:
- Rod Alne
- Joe Topel
- L.D. Jeffries
- Steve West
Past Association Presidents:
- Roy Taylor
- Randy Galloway
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