Posted on Jan 13, 2014
Should the Combat Life Savers (CLS) Course be standard across all branches?
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Do you think all services should have one unified CLS course and also should we make improvements to the courses we have now as far as army personnel ?
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We should have a standard CLS course for all branches. We all deploy to the same areas, and have the same risks. If anything, we should make it more advanced
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I think that's a great idea considering everything is moving towards JOINT bases/Commands, and etc.
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Sure, send everyone through the same school and save the $$$ wasted on redundancy... They could do the same for other schools that aren't unique to the branch of service. For example, basic electronics is basic electronics, no matter where you go. Perhaps I'm biased, because I went through and taught at Navy Schools, but Naval Technical Training does a pretty decent job overall in vocational training for young Sailors and Marines. And dare I say, it would be a step up for the Army, which used comics for some of its training... : /
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Capt Jeff S.
The Marine Corps also has a good PME (Professional Military Education) program for its officers and enlisted, with recommended reading and correspondence courses. I believe the Navy had correspondence courses as well, but I am not aware of anything available to the other brances of service that was quite up to the level of the MCI (Marine Corps Institute), where the courses added points and factored into promotions in the manner that they did for the Marines. The courses ran from Math for Marines (which was about as basic as it gets LOL) all the way up through Amphibious Warfare School.
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CLS HAS changed drastically since 2004. It is now the Warrior First Responder Course, or some version of X First Responder, etc. It focuses on the TC3 concepts and has an approved POI consistent with current lessons learned. Yes i agree it should be standardized across the board with all services. The combat doesnt change, nor does the bodies response to trauma, based on the branch you serve.
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