Care Under Fire

Today’s episode of Care Under Fire has a different take on prehospital medical care through the eyes of former police officer, Brett Stevens. Brett’s diverse career has seen him work in the tactical response unit, and as a private security operator as well as a military medic in a variety of locations from Kings Cross to the US and SE Asia. Brett’s also authored several books including Rescue Paramedics, Real Cops, A Hard Place, The Rise and Fall of Street Gangs & Real Cops USA. We discuss the merge of tactical policing with paramedicine and some of the most memorable jobs in his career.

Today I chat with Dr Tony Robins, Tony is a GP and medical administrator whose expansive career has included service in the Australian Navy, deployment to Somalia and work everywhere from rural and remote Australia to PNG and Antarctica. Tony reflects on the incredible humanitarian legacy left by 1RAR in Baidoa, the threat on the ground in Mogadishu one year on from the Blackhawk Down incident,the clinical care he provided on AME missions and what it was like coming home.

Today on Care Under Fire I chat with Rich Sherman, Rich is a former US Navy Intelligence Officer, Gulf War Veteran and is the author and photographer of “Never Home – remembering the military heroes who never returned”.

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Today on Care Under Fire I catch up with Bahaa Alasady. Bahaa was born in Iraq and worked as a coalition interpreter during the ISIS uprising. His story highlights the vital role of the interpreter in medical, training and partner force missions and the violent realities of living in Baghdad. Bahaa has since migrated to Australia and is studying nursing.

Today on Care Under Fire I catch up with Roneel Chandra, Chands has had an extensive military nursing career spanning 22 years and has served with the Army, Special Operations and the Navy. He shares some wisdom for new ADF nurses as he recounts his experiences including being in a Blackhawk crash landing on an AME mission in Afghanistan, to providing humanitarian aid in Fiji and the Mallacoota bushfire rescue.

Today I chat with Jack Dear, current ACT paramedic who recently deployed with the NGO, Frontline Medics to assist with the evacuation and treatment of civilian casualties in Ukraine. Jack discusses his early career as an Army Bushmaster crew commander and how his deployment to Afghanistan left him feeling underprepared in managing trauma casualties. Jack later sought further education in South Africa as a remote area medical technician and returned to Afghanistan as a contract security officer at the Australian Embassy in Kabul before committing to paramedicine.

Today I chat with Doctor Howard Roby, CSM. Howard is a specialist in Anaesthesia and Intensive care and after gaining aeromedical retrieval skill in Australia joined the RAAF reserve as part of the Military Critical Care Air Transport Service (MCAT). Howard recounts some of the critically ill patients he retrieved over the subsequent 15 years he worked on call for MCAT, from military traumatic injuries out of the Middle East to civilian casualties from the White Island Volcano eruption in NZ. We also discuss the innovation in clinical equipment and training that has led to better patient outcomes in war and austere environments.