"guard to my brother": the military medical service of the guard. Legendary Katyusha

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Treatment of the wounded begins on the battlefield. As already mentioned above, first medical aid is provided by the company's health instructor, as well as in the order of self-help and mutual assistance.

The timing of first aid often decides the fate of the wounded. This primarily applies to those who have bleeding from the wound. That is why the training of military personnel in the provision of self-help and mutual assistance is the most important task of the medical service.

A sanitary instructor during a battle must, disguised, approach the wounded, cover him from enemy fire and immediately provide first aid to the wounded. The medical equipment of the sanitary instructor, completed in special bags, makes it possible to provide such assistance. For self-help and mutual assistance, all soldiers and officers are provided with individual dressing bags and first aid kits.

On the battlefield, it is possible to carry out the following medical measures:
1) temporary stop of external bleeding
2) dressing the wound and the burn surface,
3) immobilization of the damaged area
4) injection of an analgesic solution using a syringe tube,
5) oral administration of a tablet preparation of antibiotics,
6) fight against asphyxia.

The first step is to stop the bleeding. In case of severe external bleeding from the wounds of the limbs, press the blood vessel above the wound with your finger, then apply a tourniquet. Pressing a vessel with a finger is such a method of temporarily stopping bleeding, which can be carried out most quickly in self-help and mutual assistance. For a sanitary instructor, the possibility of using this method on the battlefield is very rarely created. It is necessary that all military personnel know how to use this method of stopping bleeding.

Stopping small external bleeding from wounds of the extremities and bleeding from wounds in other areas of the body is possible by applying a pressure bandage. Temporary stopping of bleeding by forced flexion of the limb does not always lead to the goal and is impossible with bone fractures.

It should be borne in mind that when assisting the wounded under enemy fire at night, even well-trained medical instructors will not be able to determine the nature of bleeding by the type of damaged vessel (arterial, venous, capillary). The need to apply a tourniquet to the wounded on the battlefield is determined by the intensity of bleeding.
At the same time, attention is drawn to the degree of wetting of clothing with blood (at night to the touch), the rate of bleeding from the wound and the degree of bleeding of the wounded. The experience of the Great Patriotic War showed that when using such signs of bleeding, hemostatic tourniquets were applied almost exclusively for arterial and arterio-venous bleeding, and only in a small number for venous bleeding.

Errors in the application of a tourniquet can be of two kinds: its addition in the absence of sufficient evidence and the rejection of the tourniquet if there is an unconditional need. The first mistake leads to unjustified ischemia of the limb, creates conditions for the development of a wound infection. Refusal to apply a tourniquet with ongoing arterial or arterio-venous bleeding is dangerous for the life of the wounded.

Clarification of indications for the application of a tourniquet and the need for its further stay on the limb is carried out at the death and regimental medical stations.

The applied tourniquet should be clearly visible, it should not be bandaged or covered with clothing. Be sure to note the time of application of the tourniquet in a note and put it under the tourniquet. The wounded, who have been put on a tourniquet, are the first to be removed from the battlefield.

The imposition of an aseptic bandage prevents secondary microbial contamination of the wound. Depending on the size of the wound, it is closed either with an individual dressing bag or with sterile dressings available in the bags of the sanitary instructors of the company. Before applying a bandage, the injury site is exposed. To do this, clothes in the wound area have to live with cotton-gauze pads of the dressing, without violating their sterility, and close the wound with it.

The protective bandage is also a hemostatic agent for venous and capillary bleeding. It can be pressing, but you can not turn it into a tourniquet.

In case of chest injuries with open pneumothorax, it is necessary to apply a hermetic aseptic bandage.
To cover extensive burns, it is very convenient to use contour dressings that are designed to be applied to a specific area of ​​the body (face, back, hand, etc.). They are prepared from sterile gauze in advance, during the inter-battle period. Contour dressings allow you to close an extensive burn in a short time and with the least consumption of dressings.

In order to prevent wound infection already on the battlefield, all the wounded and burned should be given antibiotics. To do this, there are tablets in the sanitary instructor's bag.

Transport immobilization should be carried out with the following injuries:
1) bone fractures,
2) joint injuries,
3) extensive damage to the soft tissues of the limbs,
4) injuries of the main blood vessels and nerves of the extremities,
5) thermal damage to the limbs.

Immobilization creates a resting position for the damaged area, prevents secondary tissue damage by bone fragments, prevents the spread of wound infection and prevents secondary bleeding.

In a combat situation, the possibilities for transport immobilization are rather limited. Of the standard means of immobilization in the bags of sanitary instructors, there are only scarves. It is recommended to use the so-called improvised means: sticks, boards, plywood, fighter's weapons, etc. In cases where improvised immobilization means are not at hand, it is not possible to look for them on the battlefield. However, this does not mean that immobilization of damaged areas should be abandoned.

Creation of rest for the upper limbs is possible by applying a scarf or bandaging the hand to the body (Fig. 1). Immobilization of the lower limb will be achieved if the injured leg is bandaged to the healthy limb (Fig. 2). Immobilization of the pelvis and spine bones is performed on a stretcher, on which a solid bedding of boards or ladder tires is laid.

In case of damage to the pelvic bones, the lower limbs of the wounded person must be bent at the joints, tie the knees with a bandage or scarf, and put a rolled overcoat under them. In case of damage to the head during the transportation of the wounded, it is not so much the immobilization of the head that is required, but depreciation to prevent gross concussions of the brain. The wounded in the head should be evacuated by placing an overcoat or any soft lining on his head.

Rice. 1. Immobilization of the upper limb (bandaging to the body)

Rice. 2. Immobilization of the lower limb without spikes.

On the battlefield, the medical instructor concentrates the seriously wounded in the nearest places of shelter (“nests of the wounded”) and marks their location with clearly visible signs in order to facilitate the subsequent search for the orderlies from the unit for collecting and evacuating the wounded. In this work, the sanitary instructor is assisted by the lightly wounded.

A fragile girl pulled thousands of soldiers from the battlefield. Many fighters openly admitted that they could not have survived the horrors that fell to her lot: they simply would not have had the courage. And Ekaterina Mikhailova always went ahead. the site recalls the exploits of a fragile Leningrad girl, who today, December 22, turned 90 years old.

Katyusha went ashore

The heroic name of Ekaterina Mikhailova (Demina) was familiar to every Soviet person. 20 years after the end of the war, she was wanted all over the country.

The paratroopers wrote letters to her in newspapers and on television, asking everyone who knew at least something about the foreman of the marine battalion Ekaterina Mikhailova to tell her where she was. It turned out that Katya got married, changed her last name and began working at a secret factory in Elektrostal. In 1964, she was finally found.

It was to her that the fighters dedicated the famous song about "Katyusha", although initially the authors put a different meaning into the poems. Stories about the heroic deeds of the girl went all over the front. The medals that Catherine received during the war years speak of her merits. Mikhailova - Hero of the Soviet Union, awarded the Order of Lenin, two Orders of the Red Banner, Orders of the Patriotic War of the 1st and 2nd degrees, medals "Gold Star", "For Courage", "For the Capture of Budapest", "For the Capture of Vienna", "For the liberation of Belgrade", "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War."

Irreplaceable person

She was born on December 22, 1925 in Leningrad and lost her parents early. Her father, a Red Army soldier, died, and her mother died of typhoid fever. Therefore, the girl was brought up in an orphanage. By the beginning of the war, she was less than 15 years old. She came under the first bombing at the very beginning of the war in the Smolensk region, when the train in which she was traveling to her older brother in the Brest Fortress was fired upon by German aircraft. The train was bombed, many civilians were killed - mostly the wives of the military and their children.

On December 22, 2015, Ekaterina Demina turned 90 years old. Photo: AiF-Petersburg / Maria Sokolova.

For several days, the girl traveled to Smolensk on foot. Many did not reach their own then, people were shot in the back by the Germans passing by on motorcycles. 15-year-old Katya Mikhailova survived by a miracle. In Smolensk, she found a recruiting office and confidently approached the military commissar. In order to get to the front, she added two years to her age.

Uncle, uncle, send me to the front, - Ekaterina Illarionovna recalls. - He came closer and said: “Girl, how old are you? We do not take children to the front!”

Katya was a fragile girl, she looked about ten years old. In an orphanage, you don’t get too excited. As a result, Ekaterina got to the front by accident. On the outskirts of Smolensk, she nailed to the retreating part and asked to be with them. It soon turned out that the girl is an indispensable person in the war. After all, she took nursing courses and knew how to provide first aid. In conditions of severe losses, these qualities were worth their weight in gold.

under fire from the fascists

A few days later, the legendary battle of Yelnya took place, where Katyusha showed her fearless character. The fighting became more and more fierce. In the battle near Gzhatsk, Katya was seriously wounded. Doctors collected her leg, broken in three places, literally piece by piece. By car, the girl was taken to the station, from where thousands of wounded soldiers were sent to hospitals in the Urals in a train. In the Sverdlovsk hospital, Catherine's condition was assessed as critical, every day she felt worse. The wound was infected, the temperature rose to 42.5 degrees. Katya was saved by the nurse, aunt Nyusha, who was coming out wounded.

A month later, Mikhailova had already begun to take the first steps. After rehabilitation in Baku, she again came to the military commissariat and demanded to be sent to the front. Paramedic Ekaterina Mikhailova was assigned to the Krasnaya Moskva military ambulance ship, which transported soldiers wounded near Stalingrad to Central Asia.

On this ship, the girl spent the entire 1942 year, caring for wounded soldiers, often right under the fire of German aircraft, which, at low level flight, machine-gunned the ambulance ship. Ekaterina learned to shoot, she knew military equipment well, so she was eager for a real battle. A battalion of volunteer sailors was just being formed in Baku. At first they did not want to take her: there is no place for women in the navy! But something in the gaze of the brave Katyusha attracted the commander. He was not mistaken, later she carried hundreds of wounded sailors on herself, saving the fighters from inevitable death.

In the heat of battle

Forcing the Kerch Strait became the main strategic task set by the Soviet command. Our troops suffered huge losses, but the attacks did not stop. Katya was in the thick of the fighting.

During the landing operation to capture Temryuk, Mikhailova was shell-shocked, but managed to help 17 wounded soldiers, whom she carried to the rear.

During the capture of Kerch, Katyusha saved 85 wounded soldiers and officers, carried 13 seriously wounded to the rear.

On August 22, 1944, when crossing the Dniester estuary, Ekaterina Mikhailova was one of the first to reach the shore, provided first aid to seventeen seriously wounded sailors, suppressed the fire of a heavy machine gun, threw grenades at a bunker and destroyed more than ten Nazis.

On December 4, 1944, the senior medical officer of the consolidated company of the coastal escort detachment was wounded. During the operation to capture the fortress of Ilok in Yugoslavia, Katya continued to provide medical assistance to the soldiers and, saving their lives, destroyed 5 Nazis from a machine gun. Wounded, weakened from blood loss and pneumonia, almost in a hopeless condition, Mikhailova was transferred to the hospital.

As far as Ekaterina was known, the fact that her injury was announced on the radio, saying that the legendary Katyusha needed donated blood, speaks. Hundreds of soldiers came to the hospital to help the girl. Then she was presented to the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. After recovery, the heroic Leningrad woman returned to service and met the victory in Vienna.

Just think: when Katya performed feats, she was not even 20 years old! After the war, she returned to Leningrad and entered the Mechnikov Institute. Then she left for Elektrostal, where she married veteran Viktor Demin and changed her surname.

None of the new acquaintances even suspected that this fragile woman was a hero of the Great Patriotic War! In 1964, the sailors began to look for their favorite nurse, threw a cry throughout the Soviet Union. And found!

Ekaterina Illarionovna lives in Moscow and celebrates her 90th birthday today! The site joins the numerous congratulations and wishes the legendary Katyusha good health and many more years of life!

The epic novel by Leo Tolstoy is a rather instructive work. It reveals true and false values, unmasks hypocrites and shows unnoticed virtue, reveals the nature of each hero who appears before the reader both in happiness and in sorrow. This is an extremely truthful book that makes us delve deeper into the essence of social relationships and understand how important it is to turn our gaze inwards. Therefore, such moral categories as indifference and responsiveness are presented in War and Peace most fully, and we can find many useful arguments there for the final essay.

1. Princess Mary has always been a sympathetic and kind girl, although people did not always reciprocate her feelings. For example, her harsh and rude father underestimated and humiliated her daughter in every possible way. She, however, treated him with touching concern. She reacted humbly to the insults of the head of the family, although her self-esteem suffered significantly because of them. Marya is sure that she is not a beauty, and, judging by the words of her father, there is no mind in her. However, the heroine did not withdraw into herself and did not harbor evil, but continued to come to the aid of all those in need with kindness and tenderness. It was she who raised her brother's child and sheltered the Rostovs. Even her relentless parent, before his death, asked her for forgiveness for his antics, as he realized how devoted and sympathetic his daughter was. Tolstoy put these qualities in women above beauty, and he was right.
2. Indifference throughout the novel did not tire of showing Helen Kuragina. She went over her heads to her goals and did not consider the feelings of other people. For example, she didn’t care what Pierre feels when looking at her betrayals. She deceived him and married in order to get his money and arrange her idle life luxuriously. With the same indifference, she changed lovers, because they were just a mirror in which she saw her attractiveness. Satiated and spoiled, she found entertainment by playing with the fate of Natasha Rostova. It was Helen who lured her into the arms of her dishonest brother and actually became the culprit of her shame, betraying friendship. However, the disregard for others backfired on her in full, because in difficult times no one came to her aid.
3. Responsiveness was a hallmark of Natasha Rostova, who has always been a sensitive and devoted friend, a wonderful daughter and a merciful girl. For example, Pierre Bezukhov was very fond of her company, because the heroine always supported him with advice, sympathy and pity. Throughout the story, she kindly treats Sonya, comforting the poor orphan and giving her hope. She also treats her parents with attention and participation, not allowing them to lose heart. Natasha showed phenomenal strength of mind when she gave reins to the wounded soldiers and eased their suffering, despite the objections of her mother. Andrey Bolkonsky needed her responsiveness especially strongly. The heroine looked after him when he was dying, and was able to lighten his soul before his death, breathe into her calmness and peace, which the prince lacked so much in the war. For her virtue, she was rewarded with a happy marriage.
4. Nikolai Rostov showed shameful indifference to the fate of his relatives, getting into debt and putting his family in a difficult situation. In fact, his frivolity became the reason for the ruin of the Rostovs. He knew how hard life was for his family, but he squandered almost the last money to maintain his status in the service. In addition, his indifference to Sonya, who was so devotedly waiting for him, is unpleasantly surprising. At first he shows sympathy for the girl, then becomes cold with her, and already frankly declares that he will not be against her marriage. Selfishness is characteristic of this hero, and life teaches a selfish lesson when he is forced to admit that because of him the family was on the verge of a local economic crisis. Then the humiliating prospect of a marriage of convenience arises before him, and only a timely insight gives him a chance to arrange his fate with dignity and help his relatives. This example demonstrates the fact that people can change for the better and overcome indifference in themselves.
5. Mikhail Kutuzov in the novel "War and Peace" shows responsiveness to the soldiers and protects their lives, unlike the same Napoleon. The general is ready to endure the ridicule of the nobility and the wrath of the emperor, only to save the army from unnecessary losses. The hero teaches this difficult science to the ambitious Prince Andrei, but he did not immediately understand her wisdom, like most young people. They did not yet know how much blood is shed in a war inspired by ambition. This unstoppable element of violence and death could be restrained only by the person who feels the tragedy of every family that has lost its breadwinner, feels the grief of the country and people. Such, no doubt, was General Kutuzov, who was not indifferent to every fighter and believed that it was a simple peasant guy who lifted victory on his shoulders, and not military leaders and monarchs. This attitude of the commander led the Russian army to success.
6. Indifference on a national scale appears before the reader when he sees Napoleon. This emperor was obsessed with his importance, his ambitions, so he did not think about the price at which he gets victories. He drove the soldiers forward, not feeling their fatigue and despondency in foreign lands, where one cold can drive you crazy. Moving towards Moscow, forgetting about caution, the commander lost sight of the fact that in the event of a retreat, his soldiers would have nothing to eat, because the Smolensk road was burned and devastated. In pursuit of glory, he dropped responsibility for the lives of his subjects - this is the main reason why his attack was doomed to failure. Kutuzov knew this and took advantage of the enemy's ambition, for whom momentary success was more important than the army - the capture of Moscow. But the French governor paid for his indifference: he lost, lost a significant part of the army and returned home with nothing.
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I swear today that I will provide all necessary assistance to every wounded and sick,
regardless of whether he is seriously injured or lightly wounded, or is an enemy,
because every person is a person

I vow to heal the bodies and souls of the wounded and sick
Keep a secret, trust and respect,
give all your knowledge, initiative
and love for humanity

I swear to be always "Guard to my brother" - whether in battle,
during the evacuation of the wounded and in the hospital ward

I swear that the words will forever be engraved in my heart
commandments of self-sacrifice:
"NEVER LEAVE A WOUNDED ON THE BATTLE FIELD!"
The oath of military doctors of the Israel Defense Forces

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"Guard to my brother": IDF Medical Service

In Israel, unlike other countries, there are no stationary military hospitals. The military medical service of the IDF is fully integrated with the country's healthcare system, and its purpose is to provide first aid to the wounded on the battlefield and in military medical units, followed by the fastest possible evacuation by air and vehicles to hospitals in the interior of the country.

The interaction of military and civilian medical services is honed by regular exercises and training. The Israeli model of organization of the military medical service has shown its high efficiency in the course of numerous wars and is an example for the armies of many countries of the world.

Emblem of the IDF Medical Troops
"And the Lord said to Moses, 'Make a brass serpent and raise it up on a pillar in the midst of the camp.
Raise it so that everyone can see it, and when people look at it,
they will immediately be healed” (Numbers 21:1-9).

How to become a military medic
The military medical service of the IDF was created in 1948 on the basis of the medical units of the Haganah. The first commander of the Medical Corps was Colonel Chaim Shiba, who during the 2nd World War served as a military doctor in the British army and then headed the medical service of the Haganah.

Already at that time, the main structures of the Medical Corps were formed: headquarters, departments in military districts, medical units in military units and formations, the Military Institute for Medical Research and the training center for medical troops were opened.

Today, three main categories of military personnel of the medical troops can be distinguished in the military: these are hoshmi (sanitary instructors), paramedics (military paramedics) and military doctors.
Hoshim are conscripts. Hospital education includes ATLS (Advanced Trauma Life Support) and PHTLS (PreHospital Trauma Life Support) courses. Hoshmi operate in platoon combat formations and in addition to the usual fighter equipment, they are equipped with first aid equipment and a folding stretcher. In companies and battalions there are senior hoshims (hopel and hoged, respectively), who are responsible for hoshims in their units

Paramedics are reenlisted warrant officers or reservists who provide medical care in companies, evacuation centers and field hospitals. They are trained at the Magen David Adom (Red Shield of David - Ambulance Service) courses, as well as at the Medical Troops Training Center. The training of paramedics includes intensive courses for EMS (Emergency medical services), ATLS and PHTLS.

They become military doctors after 7 years of study at medical faculties of universities. As a rule, after graduation, future military doctors will have to take Ashlama Helit - a 16-week military medical training course, which studies EMS, ATLS, PHTLS, CTLS (combat trauma life support) and the organization of the military medical service. Military doctors of combat units also undergo an intensive training course for infantry officers. Military doctors of special forces and reconnaissance and sabotage units are trained as soldiers of such units.
Military doctors begin their service in the troops with the position of a battalion doctor.

Graduates of medical universities give a subscription for a 5-year term of service in the army, after which the contract with the army can be extended or the military physician goes into the reserve. Every year doctors-reservists are drafted into the army for 1 month. In addition, in the event of the outbreak of hostilities, medical reservists can be urgently mobilized to the military units to which they are assigned.

How the military medical service of the IDF is organized
The Israeli army has accumulated vast experience in organizing military medical service during hostilities. Depending on the severity of the wound, medical care is provided with the subsequent evacuation of the wounded to rear hospitals or to medical units that have more opportunities to provide care to the wounded.

In the infantry battalion, under the command of the battalion doctor, there is a medical platoon, consisting of three departments: search and evacuation of the wounded, identification of the dead - together with the military rabbinate, and the battalion station for the reception of the wounded (abbreviated in Hebrew - TAAGAD). TAAGADA personnel provide emergency assistance, filter the wounded according to the severity of the injury and prepare them for evacuation.

The interior of the tank bulance

The medical platoon of the infantry battalion for the evacuation of the wounded and the transportation of personnel and equipment includes armored vehicles "Zeev", a car "Hammer", 3 armored personnel carriers equipped for transporting the wounded. In tank battalions, tank bulances equipped at the Merkava tank bases are also used to transport the wounded.
On the march, the evacuation officer controls the convoy of the medical platoon; upon arrival, the senior battalion hovesh is responsible for deploying the battalion first-aid post. When receiving the wounded, the control of the medical platoon passes to the battalion doctor.

TAAGAD usually turns around a few hundred meters from the front line. Often the reception of the wounded is under fire. The wounded arrive either on foot, or they are delivered by motor transport or on a stretcher by platoon hoves.

The battalion doctor conducts the reception of the wounded. Khovesh works with him, who registers the wounded who have arrived. Since it is supposed to bring the wounded with personal weapons, it is the duty of the hovesh to also unload the weapons. The military doctor determines the type and severity of the injury and gives instructions for the provision of medical care.

It is important to note that all paramedics and those who are in TAAGAD do not have the right to contact the doctor directly so as not to distract him from performing his duties. They report all information about the condition of the wounded to the battalion hovesh, who then reports to the doctor.
Usually, during the course of hostilities, another military doctor is seconded to the TAAGAD battalion.

After providing first aid in the battalion TAAGAD, the wounded, depending on the complexity of the injury, are evacuated as quickly as possible to regimental, brigade or divisional evacuation centers and from there to hospitals. However, evacuation to hospitals can also be carried out directly from the battalion TAAGAD using armored vehicles or helicopters.

During the operation in Lebanon in 2006, Air Force UH-60 Black Hawk (Yanshuf) helicopters performed about 120 evacuation flights, about half of them to enemy territory, where the evacuation took place under enemy fire. In these sorties, about 360 victims were evacuated. The evacuation of the wounded by air from the battlefield to the hospital lasted an average of about 3.5 hours. For one flight, an average of 4.5 soldiers were evacuated. It should be noted that not a single wounded soldier died during the air evacuation.

Wounded in Lebanon, Major Tomer Buadana was taken by helicopter to a hospital in Haifa. 2006

A medical company is deployed at the regiment (brigade) level. The divisions have a medical battalion, on the basis of which a field hospital can be deployed, the equipment of which allows complex surgical operations to be carried out. The medical battalion has a surgical company in which complex operations are performed by experienced surgeons.
However, recently there has been a replacement of surgical mouths with intensive care companies. Instead of a surgical company, teams of emergency surgical care are being created, consisting of a surgeon and an anesthesiologist, equipped with the necessary equipment. On a special vehicle, such a brigade can be immediately sent to the place where there is a need to save the life of a wounded soldier.

The medical battalion also has a psychological service, including a psychologist officer and social workers. Their purpose is to remove the "combat reactive state" from the wounded and from the fighters who received mental trauma during the battle. Such assistance, provided in a timely manner, makes it possible to restore the readiness for battle among the injured fighters.

It should be noted that the structure of the military medical service of the IDF responds very flexibly to the changing conditions of modern warfare. So, in recent years, the command of the Medical Corps has changed the level of use of military doctors. If in the recent past the presence of military doctors was limited to the level of the battalion TAAGAD, today it is becoming common to second military doctors during combat operations directly to combat units. The military doctor goes into battle with the soldiers. In this case, the chances of rescuing the wounded on the battlefield are noticeably increased, but the losses of military doctors also increase.

About the IDF doctors

The military doctor captain of the reserve Igor Rotshtein was urgently mobilized on July 24, 2006. He was assigned to the 13th Battalion of the Givati ​​Infantry Brigade, with which he entered Lebanon. Captain I. Rotshtein was an experienced military doctor - for 5 years he served as a battalion doctor in the Southern Military District, took part in hostilities. After demobilization in 2004, he worked as a surgeon at the Poriya Hospital in Tiberias.

In memory of military doctor Captain Igor Rotshtein

On the night of August 3-4, 2006, near the village of Markabe in southern Lebanon, Captain I. Rotshtein died in battle, saving the life of a wounded soldier: a shell that exploded ahead wounded a soldier. Captain I. Rothstein hurried to the place of injury ... and the next shell covered them both.
For his feat of self-sacrifice, Captain I. Rotshtein was posthumously awarded the Order “For Distinction”

A doctor from Netanya, captain of the reserve Aleksey Kalganov was twice awarded with distinctions for his heroism in saving the lives of wounded soldiers. The IDF press service said: "He demonstrated dedication in carrying out a combat mission, showed personal example and professionalism in the battles at the village of Aita ash-Shaab on August 5, 2006 and in the battles at Jbeil Abu Twil on August 13, 2006. Kalganov showed dedication, courage and coolness."

Military doctor captain Alexei Kalganov

Captain A. Kalganov received his first award for saving the life of a serviceman who was seriously wounded in Beit Lehem during the "Defensive Wall" operation in the spring of 2002. . He told the Haaretz newspaper:
“We covered our commandos who started a fight with militants in a Palestinian refugee camp. Four soldiers were seriously wounded. One was hit in the mouth by a bullet. I looked - all the airways were torn apart. I thought that he had died, but the pulse was still felt. He quickly inserted a tube into his throat, pumped out the blood from his lungs, and we evacuated him along with other wounded. In truth, I had no doubt that he was not a tenant, and he not only survived, but almost fully recovered, unlike the other soldiers that we evacuated with him that day. Everything was decided in a matter of seconds. He was just lucky that there was not just a doctor nearby, but a surgeon.”

The military doctor captain Kalganov was wounded on the last day of the Lebanese war, August 13. “Hezbollah fighters fired laser-guided anti-tank missiles at our soldiers. One of them hit the house where part of the unit was located: one was killed, two were seriously wounded. Kalganov ran there. One soldier was wounded in the head - he behaved very restlessly, the second did not show signs of life - a large fragment hit him right in the chest. The doctor rushed to him, wanted to put drains in order to resuscitate, and at that moment another rocket hit the shelter. It was a direct hit.

The officer who helped the doctor to save the seriously wounded was killed on the spot. And the soldier who stood next to him also died. If the projectile was high-explosive, no one would have survived. But the militants fired an anti-tank missile: it pierces the tank's armor and is not intended for fragmentation of the enemy. However, at that moment the doctor could not know this. He was simply blinded by the flash of the explosion, and he realized that he had died: after all, if a rocket hit you, you cannot stay alive.

But then he suddenly came to his senses and immediately began to feel his arms and legs, trying to understand what was torn off and what was intact. There was no pain. In a state of concussion, you do not feel anything. When the doctor realized that the wound was not severe, shrapnel, he tried to get to his feet. There were dead and wounded all around. Having given the order to quickly bandage the wounded and leave, the doctor tried to find the pulse of the guy he was helping before the rocket fell: he was already dead.”

Military doctor Captain Marina Kaminskaya during the operation in Lebanon was the head of the medical service of the 52nd battalion of the 401st armored brigade. As part of her battalion, she entered Lebanon on the first day of the war and took part in the battles for the settlements of Qanatra, Maroun-ar-Rash and the city of Bint Jubail.

Military doctor captain Marina Kaminskaya.

Captain Kaminskaya fought on a tank bulance. Tank Bulance is a conventional Merkava tank converted into a mobile medical station and equipped with additional weapons and medical equipment. During the battle, the bulance tank is used as an "ambulance", for first aid and evacuation of the wounded.

On her tank bulance, Captain Kaminskaya was in the thick of the fighting on July 24, 2006 for the city of Bint Jbeil, the "capital" of Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.
Tankers of the 52nd battalion participated in the battle for Bint Jbeil To evacuate the wounded tankers and infantrymen from the battlefield, the command sent a tank bulance of Captain Kaminskaya. Tank Bulance was covered by two conventional tanks. One of the cover tanks accompanied the Bulance tank directly, and the second controlled the situation on the nearest approaches.

In the midst of the battle, wounded fighters from the Golani infantry brigade began to enter the Bulance tank. Among them was the commander of the elite special forces battalion "Egoz", Lieutenant Colonel Ariel Gino, who was seriously injured - a bullet from an enemy sniper hit him in the face. Captain Kaminskaya, right on the battlefield, gave him first aid, which saved his life and took the wounded on her tank bulance to the helipad, from where the wounded were taken by helicopters to the hospital in Haifa.

During this battle, a tank was hit, covering the tank-bulance of Captain M. Kaminskaya. Of the 4 crew members of the wrecked tank, one was killed - the platoon commander, Lieutenant Lotan Slavin, two tankers were slightly wounded.
Moving to help the crew of a wrecked tank, the tank of the commander of the 52nd tank battalion, Lieutenant Colonel Guy Kabili, was blown up by a land mine containing approximately 300 kg of explosives. Of the 7 people in the tank - crew members and officers of the battalion headquarters, one was killed - gunner Sergeant Kobi Smilga, the rest were injured.
All the wounded, despite the shelling of the enemy, received medical assistance, they were successfully evacuated.

After the evacuation of the wounded, Captain Marina Kaminskaya again returned to the battle formations of her battalion. In total, during the fighting, military doctor Captain Marina Kaminskaya assisted more than 25 wounded soldiers.
For her feat, Captain M. Kaminskaya was awarded the Badge of Distinction of the Commander of the Armored Forces.

During Operation Cast Lead in January 2009. the award for courage was received by the military doctor Major Pavel Kataev. Major P. Kataev is a regular military man, he has been serving as a military doctor since 1996, he took part in many military operations. Currently, Major P. Kataev serves as the chief physician of the District Military Medical Center in Jerusalem.
During the operation “Cast Lead”, Major P. Kataev was seconded as a second doctor to the 13th battalion of the Golani brigade.

Military doctor Major Pavel Kataev

Major P. Kataev says in an interview with Channel Seven:
“That night we were in the building next to the house that was hit by two of our tank shells by mistake. Naturally, as soon as the radio reported a lot of casualties, we rushed there and arrived before the dust from the explosion had settled. Picture was this: all the commanders were wounded, there was no one to command the soldiers, the soldiers were shooting in all directions from all windows, and miraculously did not hit us. The hardest thing in the first minutes was to command the soldiers and provide medical assistance at the same time. groans, screams, severed limbs, shooting. The first thing I did was to order a cease fire, carefully lower all the wounded down and take up positions in cover, guarding the building and not firing without reason. Among the wounded were the Golani brigade commander and the commander of the 13th battalion brigade to which I was assigned.

All this happened in the course of perhaps no more than a minute, but it seemed like an eternity.

Then the deputy battalion commander arrived and took command. He organized the evacuation of the wounded, bringing in tanks and armored personnel carriers and several vehicles.

There were more than 20 victims, of which three were killed, whom we could no longer help, 8 were seriously wounded, among them Ben Spitzer, who had both his hands torn off, and several more soldiers and officers. We immediately began doing surgical and resuscitation procedures to save their lives. Beni had the hardest time: when they finished his resuscitation, it turned out that there were no armored personnel carriers and tanks left that evacuated the rest of the wounded, and it was decided to take a nearby jeep and evacuate Beni on it. But the jeep got stuck on the road in the mud, there were just four of us, and we ran on foot with a stretcher, guided by the terrain, the shortest way to the border.

When we crossed the border and handed over the last wounded man, Beni, the first thing I did was contacted the district doctor of the Southern District, reported to him on the condition of the wounded, specifying what kind of specialists - for example, microsurgeons, etc. - urgently need to be prepared in hospitals to receive the wounded, since every minute can be decisive.

As soon as I was allowed to go home after the operation, I first of all went to the hospital, went to the intensive care unit to Beni, saw that his hands were sewn on (unfortunately, only one of them took root, the second had to be amputated), lifted the sheet and saw that the legs are in place, and breathed a sigh of relief.”

Since childhood, we have heard about the atrocities of the German invaders, in particular, about executions and ill-treatment of Soviet prisoners of war. And here we must admit that yes, such episodes took place in the war, but rather as exceptions or a response to the actions of the partisans and the cruelty on the part of Soviet soldiers towards the Germans who were captured. But what you definitely won’t see on TV or in history books is the facts about the humane attitude of German soldiers towards captured Red Army soldiers. Well, it is not customary for us to give the enemy a human appearance, because the more terrible the enemy, the more glory and honor will go to his winners. And in the rays of this glory, their own crimes against humanity fade. We, in turn, invite you to familiarize yourself with the material, which proves that German soldiers and doctors provided medical assistance to prisoners and civilians of the occupied territory of the USSR and sent captured Soviet medical personnel to prisoner of war camps, where their work was in demand. Although, of course, there are those who will say that the photos are staged, and in general, all this is Goebbels propaganda. We will advise them to continue to learn history from Soviet and Russian films about the Great Patriotic War.

Soldiers of the SS division "Das Reich" provide medical assistance to a wounded Red Army soldier. Kursk. 1943

Among the vineyards, under the merciless scorching sun, lay many wounded Russians. Deprived of the opportunity to quench their thirst, they awaited death in the open. It became necessary for German medical personnel to try to rescue them, and Russian doctors and nurses were brought in from the POW camps to help comb the hills for wounded Russian soldiers. Russian doctors had to make a lot of efforts to convince the slightly wounded patients to go to the medical centers. Sometimes it was necessary to resort to the help of stakes pulled out of the ground in the vineyards to force the wounded to move in the direction of the first-aid posts. (c) Biderman Gottlob - In mortal combat. Memoirs of an anti-tank crew commander. 1941-1945.

Medics of the 260th Infantry Division of the Wehrmacht provide assistance to captured wounded Red Army soldiers. District of the village of Romanishchi, Gomel region.

The field hospital is busy. Without hesitation, I immediately join. While we are operating, Ivans are coming to the infirmary in a continuous succession. Having surrendered their weapons, they surrender themselves. Apparently, a rumor had spread among their ranks that we did not harm prisoners of war. In a few hours, our infirmary serves over a hundred prisoners of war. (c) Hans Killian - In the shadow of victories. German surgeon on the eastern front 1941-1943.

The Germans provide first aid to a Soviet colonel from the 5th Guards Tank Army. Kursk, July 1943

And I ask the head physician to immediately send this ferocious lady (a captured Soviet paramedic - ed.) to a prisoner of war camp. Russian doctors are urgently needed there. (c) Hans Killian - In the shadow of victories. German surgeon on the eastern front 1941–1943.

Two Luftwaffe officers are bandaging the hand of a wounded captured Red Army soldier. 1941

There were periods of multi-day Russian attacks. There were dead and wounded on both sides. We tried to get ours out every evening. We also took Russian wounded, if any, into captivity. On the second or third day at night, we heard someone moaning in Russian in no man's land: "mama, mama." I crawled out with a detachment to look for this wounded man. It was suspiciously quiet, but we understood that the Russians would also crawl out after him. We found him. This soldier was wounded in the elbow by an explosive bullet. Only the Russians had such bullets, although they were banned. We also used them if we captured them from the Russians. My soldiers began to help him, and I moved forward and watched the Russian side. Five meters away, I saw Russians, also about a squad. We opened fire, and the Russians threw a grenade at us. The Russians retreated, we also retreated, taking the wounded. We took him to the dressing station. There he was operated on and sent further, probably to Staraya Russa. In our country, the wounded were not sent immediately to a hospital in Germany, but at least through three hospitals along the way, and each one was better, higher level than the previous one. In the first, near the front line, there was only primary processing, rough, further better. (c) Extract from an interview with Klaus Alexander Dirshka.

A German provides medical assistance to a Soviet prisoner.

After the capture of Sevastopol, there were hundreds of thousands of Russian wounded who needed help. And then my friend, a military doctor, managed to get permission to take captured Russian doctors from the POW camp, and they treated the wounded and the population. German doctors have done more than Russians! They saved many lives. And it was completely different when the Russians entered here, in Germany. They didn't do anything, they didn't save anyone. There has never been a rape from the German side, as in East Prussia! You definitely heard something about it - there the German civilian population, the peasants, were killed, and the women were raped, and everyone was killed. This caused a terrible revulsion in Germany and greatly increased the will to resist. Young people, 16-17 year old schoolchildren were called in to stop this violence from the east. It's certainly the thing that, like a big bell, awakened the nation's self-preservation instinct, these unpleasant things that happened there. It's the same in Katyn, the Russians denied it for years, they said the Germans did it. There was a lot of dirt! (c) Extract from interview with Dreffs Johannes

An SS man assists a soldier of the Red Army.

In Apolinovka, north of Dnepropetrovsk, the local Russian population was treated by our Dutch doctor, SS Hauptsturmführer, completely free of charge. (c) Excerpt from an interview with Jan Münch.

A German military doctor examines a sick child. Oryol Region. 1942

Medics from the SS division "Totenkopf" provide assistance to sick Soviet children who were brought by their mothers to a medical center opened by the Germans in the village. USSR. 1941

A German soldier is bandaging a wounded Russian girl. 1941

End of 1943 Wehrmacht orderlies take care of Russian refugees fleeing the Red Army.

Hero of the Soviet Union, Major Yakov Ivanovich Antonov from the 25th IAP in German captivity, surrounded by German pilots, after receiving medical assistance.

A medic and pilots of a Luftwaffe fighter squadron assist a downed Soviet pilot.

Medics of the 5th SS division "Viking" provide assistance to a wounded Red Army soldier.

A German soldier is bandaging a Red Army soldier who was taken prisoner near the Titovka station in the Murmansk region.

A German infantryman helps a wounded Red Army soldier.

German soldiers help a wounded enemy. Stalingrad.

SS soldiers at the wounded Soviet pilot of the U-2 aircraft, shot down on the Kursk Bulge.

The orderly of the mountain rangers examines the wound of a captured Red Army soldier.